Iomega Corporation

Douglas Mayne

Brian R Schick

Shane Nowell

Jonathon Guerra

A threader prevents misthreading of a flexible magnetic media when it is inserted into a disk drive. The threader is situated in the disk drive such that it has a height greater than a height of a lower half of a load ramp, upon which the disk driver's rotary actuator parks when it is not reading or writing to the disk. Preferably, the threader is a pliable piece of material that is ramp shaped.

Disk drive which prevents misthreading

A data storage system having a disk cartridge with a rotary inner shell to permit access to a medium is disclosed. The cartridge comprises a latch disposed on an edge of the cartridge for locking the cartridge in a closed position. A flexible lever in the data storage device is adapted to engage and unlock the latch during cartridge insertion. The lever having a spring portion flexes away from the cartridge as it is further inserted into the data storage device.

Side edge accessible disk cartridge shutter latch assembly

Removable computer disk cartridge

A disk cartridge has a passive shutter opening mechanism. The cartridge is adapted so that during insertion into a drive, the shutter is automatically opened. A projection is coupled to a shutter surface. The projection is sized so that it impinges on the front of the drive as the cartridge is inserted. This impingement causes the shutter to open and no levers are required to activate the shutter. The shutter also has a latch that operates to keep the shutter in the closed position. As the cartridge is inserted into the drive, the latch impinges on the drive opening causing the latch to release the shutter.

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Ogden, UT, United States of America

Douglas Mayne