Mitsumi Electric Company Ltd.

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Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.

Mitsumi Electronic, Ltd

Kazuhiro Okazaki

Atsushi Nishio

Takashi Kawasaki

Katsuhiro Hori

Satoru Karahashi

Tsuguhide Sakata

Kaname Suwa

Tsutomu Shimada

Fumihiro Hosoya

A recording media unit is provided that includes a slot through which a recording media is inserted into and ejected out of the recording media unit, a recording media holder, movably attached inside the recording media unit, for supporting a recording media, and a recording media holding mechanism, connected to the recording media holder, having a spring member. The recording media holder that supports the recording media that has been moved to an intermediate position along a direction in which the recording media is inserted is moved by a spring force of the spring member to a position where the recording media is pulled inside the recording media unit or to a position where the recording media protrudes from the slot.

Recording media unit

Disclosed herein is a card adapter for electrically connecting electrical connecting portions of a card-shaped electronic device such as a CF card to contacts in a slot for a PC card provided in a personal computer. The card adapter includes a chassis , a pair of conducting plates provided on the upper and lower sides of the chassis , and a grounding member , and the like. The grounding member is used to provide an electrical path for electrically connecting a grounding contact portion of the CF card to a grounding part of the slot without using the conducting plates and it is formed into a single part. By using such a grounding member , the card adapter can directly connect the grounding contact portion of the CF card to the grounding part of the slot to accomplish stable and reliable grounding.

Card adapter

A recording media unit includes a slot through which a recording media is inserted into and ejected out of the recording media unit, a first shutter, attached to the recording media unit, that closes the slot in a state where the recording media is not accommodated in the recording media unit, and a second shutter, pivotably attached to the recording media unit, that closes the slot in a state where the recording media is accommodated in the recording media unit. The first shutter is configured to open in accordance with an insertion operation of the recording media in which the recording media pushes the first shutter, and the second shutter is configured to rotate about a pivot at one end of the second shutter in accordance with an ejection operation of the recording media in which the recording media pushes the second shutter.

A card adapter is provided which may connect/disconnect a card-shaped electronic device and has a chassis , a push member disposed in the chassis for pushing a CF card , an eject lever movably mounted with respect to the chassis , a link arm pivotably mounted on the chassis via a rotation axis , and the like. In the card adapter , one end of the link arm is linked with the push member via a first linking part , and the other end of the link arm is linked with the eject lever via a second linking part, whereby the movement of the eject lever is transmitted to the push member via the link arm . According to such a structure, the card adapter can reliably and easily connect and disconnect the CF card

Attaching device of recording medium

Disclosed herein is a card adapter which can reliably isolate a slot provided in a personal computer and a card-shaped electronic device from a user. The card adapter includes a chassis , a pair of conducting plates provided on the upper and lower sides of the chassis , and the like. The chassis includes a pair of arms L, R, and the tip portions of the arms L, R are provided with a pair of insulating grip portions L, R, respectively, for insulating the pair of conducting plates from a user. According to such a structure, the card adapter can prevent the possibility that static electricity charged in the body of a user is discharged to the slot or to the card-shaped electronic device connected to the card adapter through conductive parts such as the conducting plates and the like so that electronic circuits provided in the card-shaped electronic device or in the slot are broken or damaged.

Electrical connector for memory card

Electrical connector for a memory card

A miniature connector has an inner insulated body, which supports a plurality of contact conductors which contact conductors on a companion connector, the inner insulating body being surrounded on the outside by a shield case, and an outer surface of a connection cord side end of the shield case is covered by an external insulated mold, adjacent contact conductor housing holes, in which connection ends of the contact conductors are placed, have differing depths, a connecting part cover, formed in unitary manner with the inner insulated body preventing a connection cord core wire, which is soldered onto each of the connection ends, from popping out of its corresponding contact conductor housing hole.

Miniature connector

A flexibly mounted miniature circuit board moves slightly within an electrical connector preventing electrical failure when subjected to improper forces. The miniature circuit board is electrically connected to an inner connector. The inner connector has a plurality of electrical connectors for connecting to external contacts. The miniature circuit board and inner connector are surrounded by an electrically insulating resin case. The inner connector is rigidly mounted to the insulating case. The miniature circuit board is soldered to the inner connector.

Electrical connector for flexibly attaching circuit board

A T-shaped groove is cut out from a section of a guide wall of a memory card connector. The groove also defines an interior T-shaped portion. The bar portion of the interior T-shaped portion is bent back 180 degrees so that it extends over the groove from which it was cut out. The bar portion of the interior T-shaped portion makes contact with the edges of the groove preventing the interior T-shaped portion from moving through the groove. The interior T-shaped portion also has an arcuate portion that resiliently holds a memory card in place. The memory card connector also includes a connection part and at least one other guide wall arraigned to from a U-shaped slot for holding a memory card.

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Ibaraki, Japan

Kazuhiro Okazaki