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US 6,888,726 B2Granted
PC card case and PC card
AssigneesTDK Corporation, Honda Tsushin Kyogo Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakayuki Kasuya, Kazuhiro Homma, Hidenori Aizawa, Koichi Endo
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Abstract
An improved PC card case includes a casing body and a cover plate to cover the extended part of the casing body. The cover plate and the extended part are fastened together by non-unlatching, counter-hook latch means.
Claims19
A PC card case comprising:
- a casing body;
- a cover plate for covering a portion of said casing body;
- and
- a counter-hook latch mechanism for unreleasably fastening said cover plate to said casing body, said counter-hook latch mechanism being shaped and arranged so as to be entirely enclosed within said casing body and said cover plate when said cover plate is fastened to said casing body to thereby be inaccessible from an exterior of said PC card case, said counter-hook latch mechanism comprising a first hook fixed to said casing body and a second hook fixed to said cover plate, said first hook and said second hook being shaped and arranged so as to become engaged when moved toward each other in a direction parallel to a plane of said casing body.
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A PC card to be mounted and used in an information processing device, comprising:
- a card body including a metal shell;
- and
- a PC card case including:
- a casing body;
- a cover plate for covering a portion of said casing body;
- and
- a counter-hook latch mechanism for unreleasably fastening said cover plate to said casing body, said counter-hook latch mechanism being shaped and arranged so as to be entirely enclosed within said casing body and said cover plate when said cover plate is fastened to said casing body to thereby be inaccessible from an exterior of said PC card case, said counter-hook latch mechanism comprising a first hook fixed to said casing body and a second hook fixed to said cover plates said first hook and said second hook being shaped and arranged so as to become engaged when moved toward each other in a direction parallel to a plane of said casing body.
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A PC card case comprising:
- a casing body having a first hook;
- and
- a cover plate having a second hook for latching said first hook of said casing body so as to fasten said cover plate to said casing body, said first hook and said second hook being shaped and arranged so as to be entirely enclosed within said casing body and said cover plate when said cover plate is fastened to said casing body to thereby be inaccessible from an exterior of said PC card case, and shaped and arranged so as to become engaged when moved toward each other in a direction parallel to a plane of said casing body.
A PC card, comprising:
- a card body including a metal shell;
- and
- a PC card case including:
- a casing body having a first hook;
- and
- a cover plate having a second hook for latching said first hook of said casing body so as to fasten said cover plate to said casing body, said first hook and said second hook being shaped and arranged so as to be entirely enclosed within said casing body and said cover plate when said cover plate is fastened to said casing body to thereby be inaccessible from an exterior of said PC card case.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.