US 7,458,519 B2Granted

Card tray

AssigneeSony Corporation

InventorsYoshitaka Aoki, Keiichi Tsutsui, Hirotaka Nishizawa, Takashi Totsuka

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Abstract

A card tray to be mounted to a memory card can make the memory card mountable in a card slot for memory cards conforming to standards different from those to which the memory card conforms. The card tray has a main body and a recessed mount section. The recessed mount section is formed such that the holder of a second memory card can be mounted to one of the major surfaces of the main body. A memory-card-mounted body is produced when the second memory card is mounted to the recessed mount section. The card tray is configured such that, when the first memory card is placed on the memory-card-mounted body with the left and right edges thereof aligned with each other, the contact pieces of the first memory card and the contact pieces of the second memory card have longitudinally overlapping parts and transversally overlapping parts as viewed from above.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A card tray and removable second memory card system, such that when the second memory card is mounted to the card tray, the combined card tray and second memory card is insertable in a same card slot as a first memory card, the system comprising:

the first memory card having a memory buried in a first rectangular plate-shaped section having length and width dimensions larger than a thickness dimension and a plurality of contact pieces arranged transversally in array at a first outer surface of the first rectangular plate-shaped section,
the second memory card having a memory buried in a second rectangular plate-shaped section smaller than the first rectangular plate-shaped section of the first memory card and a plurality of contact pieces arranged transversally in array at a first outer surface of the second rectangular plate-shaped section at a substantially same pitch as that of the contact pieces of the first memory card;
and the card tray comprising:
a main body;
and
an open and recessed mount section formed as part of the main body to which the second memory card is mounted;
wherein a memory-card-mounted body is formed by securing the second memory card to the recessed mount section of the card tray with the first outer surface of the second memory card facing opposite to the recessed mount section and constituting a portion of an outer surface of the memory-card-mounted body, and
wherein the thickness and the width of the memory-card-mounted body being substantially the same as the thickness and the width of the first memory card.

5 more elements

A card tray to which a second memory card can be mounted, the second memory card having a memory buried in a second rectangular plate-shaped section smaller than a first rectangular plate-shaped section of a first memory card and having a plurality of contact pieces arranged transversally in array on a first surface of the second rectangular plate-shaped section, the card tray comprising:

a main body;
and
an open and recessed mount section as part of the main body to which the second memory card is mounted, the open and recessed portion containing no functional electrical contacts for interfacing with the contacts formed on the first surface of the second memory card's second rectangular plate-shaped section;
wherein, when the second memory card is mounted to the card tray, the combined card tray and second memory card is insertable in a same card slot as a first memory card, the first memory card having a memory buried in the first rectangular plate-shaped section having length and width dimensions larger than a thickness dimension and a plurality of contact pieces arranged transversally in array on a first surface of the first rectangular plate-shaped section, and
wherein the contact pieces formed on the second memory card are formed at a substantially same pitch as that of the contact pieces of the first memory card.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/487,812Filed 17 Jul 2006
Priority: JP 2005-21596526 Jul 2005
Published: US 2007/0023530 A11 Feb 2007
Granted: 2 Dec 2008
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06K 19/077
With integrated circuit chips: constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier
G06K 19/07739
The record carrier consisting of two or more mechanically separable parts: comprising a first part capable of functioning as a record carrier on…
Y10S 439/945
Electrical connectors: adapter for pcb or cartridge
G06K
Graphical data reading