Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Iomega Corporation

Other

Kengo Oishi

Osamu Suzuki

Choji Komiyama

Kazuo Hiraguchi

Masato Mizuno

Tuyoshi Ono

Masayoshi Moriwaki

Shozo Onmori

Daisuke Takahashi

Shingo Katagiri

Shozo Ommori

Shinichi Kato

Kiyoo Morita

Masao Tsuruta

Goro Akashi

Yasushi Endo

Masaaki Suzuki

Seiji Kiuchi

Kunihira Seto

Akio Shinozaki

Tuneo Yoshida

Kenji Sega

Motohiko Yagi

Wataru Ueno

Seizi Odate

Motoki Takeuchi

Go Shirouzu

Kouji Kamiyama

Akira Inaba

Yasumasa Iyota

Akira Honjyoh

A recording disk cartridge includes a plurality of flexible recording disk media, a rotational member, and a cartridge case. The rotational member holds the recording disk media so that the recording disk media simultaneously rotate. The cartridge case provides a rotationally free housing for the recording disk media and the rotational member. The cartridge case has an opening to allow an end portion of the rotational member to be exposed to an outside of the cartridge case. The recording disk cartridge has an elastic member which provides a force to thrust the rotational member toward the opening.

Recording disk cartridge having a plurality of flexible recording disk media

A disk cartridge capable of smoothly opening/closing a head opening without enlarging a second shutter. In a disk cartridge, a disc-shaped disk medium is rotatably housed in a disk housing portion of a case, and a head opening through which a head of a drive device accesses a recording face is formed in the bottom plate of the case. The head opening is closed when an end of a first shutter, which is rotatable coaxially with the disk medium and an end of a second shutter swingable around an axis different from that of the first shutter come into contact with each other. Each of the contact ends of the first and second shutters includes an arc portion having the axis of turn of the second shutter as a center.

Apparatus for opening and closing a head opening, and disk cartridge using the same

Disclosed is a recording disk cartridge which improves its assembly and production capacities, as well as the flexibility of the design. The recording disk cartridge that has a cartridge case including flexible recording disk media in an integrally rotatable fashion, a lower plate forming a lower wall of the cartridge case, the lower wall being placed parallel to the recording disk media, one or more inner plates being fixed on the lower plate with being stacked and partitioning the recording disk media, and an upper plate being fixed on the inner plates and forming an upper wall of the cartridge case. Furthermore, the lower plate incorporates at least one of a shutter lock mechanism and a write protect switch mechanism. The shutter lock mechanism blocks a shutter from being opened, and the write protect switch mechanism prevents data from being erased accidentally from the recording disk media.

Recording disk cartridge (having a cartridge case) for storing a plurality of flexible recording media integrally and rotatably

A recording disk cartridge includes a plurality of flexible recording disk media integrally rotatably housed within a cartridge case. Each of the recording disk media is fixed to a center core which is stacked one on another through a spacer. The cartridge case includes: a lower plate for configuring a lower wall parallel to the plurality of the recording disk media; at least one inner plate that is stacked and fixed on the lower plate, and partitions the plurality of the recording disk media; and an upper plate that is stacked and fixed on the inner plate, and configures an upper wall of the cartridge case. Each spacer is provided with locking protrusions at upper and lower surfaces thereof, and each center core is provided with locking holes for engagement with the locking protrusions of adjacent spacers.

Multi-disk cartridge and disks with interlocking spacers for stacking

An optical disk is provided with a disk substrate having a recording layer formed on one surface of a substrate and a cover sheet applied over the recording layer; and a display sheet which is affixed to a surface of the disk substrate opposite to a surface covered with the cover sheet and which has substantially the same physical characteristic as that of the cover sheet. The display sheet and the cover sheet are substantially brought into coincidence with each other in terms a direction of heat contraction and a heat contraction rate.

Optical disk, thin plastic sheet, and method for affixing display sheet to disk substrate

A disc cartridge including a disc medium which is loaded into a drive device and into/from which information can be recorded/reproduced; a case that houses the disc medium rotatably; a disc opening from which the disc medium provided into the case can be taken out; and a disc taking-out history detecting portion that can be deformed recognizably and irreversibly according to an operation for firstly taking out the disc medium from the case, is provided to judge whether a disc medium is taken out of the case.

Disc cartridge having disc taking-out history detecting portion

A recording disk cartridge includes a plurality of flexible recording disk media integrally rotatably housed within a cartridge case including: a lower plate for configuring a lower wall; at least one inner plate partitioning the recording disk media; and an upper plate for configuring an upper wall, wherein the cartridge further comprises a center core provided for each recording disk medium, having a main body portion and a collar part widening in an outer diameter direction from the main body portion; each recording disk medium is affixed to the collar part of the respective center core; and each inner plate has a central opening configured to accommodate the main body portion of the center core and has a recess part along a lower rim of the central opening for preventing interference with the collar part of the center core disposed on a layer immediately below.

Recording disk cartridge

A recording disk cartridge is provided which includes a plurality of flexible recording disk media stacked inside a cartridge case so as to rotate integrally. The cartridge case includes a lower plate for constructing a lower wall parallel to the plurality of recording disk media, a plurality of inner plates which are stacked and fixed on the lower plate and partition the plurality of recording disk media, and an upper plate which is stacked and fixed on the plurality of inner plates and constructs an upper wall of the cartridge case. An opening is formed in a part of a side wall constructed of the lower plate, the plurality of inner plates, and the upper plate. The recording disk cartridge further includes a lower rotor and an upper rotor supported on inner sides of the lower plate and the upper plate respectively so as to rotate, and a shutter plate having a height corresponding to a height of the stacked recording disk media. The shutter plate is engaged with the upper rotor and the lower rotor so as to open and close the opening.

Disk cartridge including multiple flexible disks, plural partitioning plates, and a shutter

A disk cartridge is provided which, with a small number of parts, can reduce manufacturing costs and facilitate assembly. In particular, the disk cartridge can be assembled easily even if a disk medium is small-sized. Case members of a same configuration are superposed together so as to form a case. Shutter members of a same configuration are disposed so as to correspond to openings of the case members. A lock member and a spring member are provided in common for the two shutter members. The case members of the same configuration and the shutter members of the same configuration are used, and only one lock member and only one spring member are provided. Thus, a number of parts can be reduced, manufacturing costs can be reduced, and assembly can be facilitated.

Disk cartridge

A disk cartridge has a write protect portion for switching between a write-allowed state and a write-inhibited state. The write protect portion is equipped with two prisms having reflection faces different in reflectivity which are rotatably supported therein. In a drive device in which the disk cartridge is loaded, an amount of light, which is irradiated to the write protect portion and then reaches a photodetecting portion of the drive device, is varied by rotating a shaft. On the basis of the amount of the light reaching the photodetecting portion, the drive device judges whether the disk cartridge is in a write-inhibited state. According to the disk cartridge, dust-proof performance is not lost, and occurrence of mis-detection due to deformation of the disk cartridge can be prevented.

Cartridge housing a recording medium and drive device for recording medium

A magnetic disk cartridge capable of being loaded into a disk drive comprises a housing, and a magnetic disk, which is accommodated for rotation within the housing. The housing is provided with an opening, which allows a magnetic head of the disk drive to access a surface of the magnetic disk, and a shutter for opening and closing the opening. The housing has an outer peripheral shape composed of a circular arc, which is formed along a contour of the magnetic disk, and two straight lines, which are circumscribed with the circular arc formed along the contour of the magnetic disk and are normal to each other.

Magnetic disk cartridge with housing composed of circular ARC and straight lines normal to each other

In order to improve quality of recording/reproducing signals by preventing degradation of the quality of the recording/reproducing signals due to vibration transmitted from the exterior of a disk cartridge which contains a discoid medium, the disk cartridge performs the following: reference pins are inserted into reference pin insertion entrances and located on the lower side of a housing. These reference pins press the housing onto a reference plate, and the disk cartridge is placed in a recording/reproducing device. Vibration damping members are provided at portions in contact with the reference pins. These vibration damping members are rendered to absorb the vibration transmitted from the exterior of the cartridge through the reference pins. By preventing the discoid media from vibrating in the vicinity of an opening portion, the quality of the recording/reproducing signals are improved.

Disk cartridge having a housing with an aperture for holding a vibration damping member

A magnetic disk cartridge comprising a housing in which a magnetic disk is rotatably housed. The housing has upper and lower openings through which magnetic heads provided in a disk drive are positioned over both sides of the magnetic disk. The magnetic disk cartridge further comprises upper and lower shutters for exposing both sides of the magnetic disk through the upper and lower openings. The housing comprises a lower shell, and an upper shell which is fitted inside the lower shell from above. All components are assembled into the magnetic disk cartridge while being stacked within the lower shell.

Disk cartridge having upper shell fitted inside lower shell to enclose lower shutter with upper shutter outside upper shell

A disk recording medium of the present invention comprises an antimicrobial agent and an antifungal agent.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kengo Oishi