U.S. Philips Corporation

Peter J Doodson

Norbert C Vollmann

Stefanus F Joosten

Anton Stoger

Paul J Van Weele

Gunther Bernauer

A housing for holding a disc-shaped information carrier having a bottom section including a holding device, and a cover section which is hingeably connected to the bottom section. The bottom section is box-shaped and has transparent front, side and rear walls. The bottom section contains an insert sheet having portions which extend adjacent each of these transparent walls, including substantially the length of the side walls. Each of these portions may be provided with readable data relating to the information stored in the information carrier.

Housing with readable side walls for a disc-shaped information carrier

A housing for storing a disc-shaped information carrier, for example a DVD. The housing is provided with a bottom part (1) with a retaining device (7) for the information carrier and a lid part (3) which is connected with hinging possibility to the bottom part. Two corner hinges form the connection here, which corner hinges comprise two recessed hinge arms (30) of the hinge part and two matching recessed hinge walls (36). The lid part is provided with protection walls (42) which extend at the outside of the housing substantially parallel to the hinge arms so as to protect the hinge arms from external mechanical influences.

Housing for a disc-shaped information carrier

A holder for a rectangular cassette such as a magnetic-tape cassette comprises two parallel main walls and, three interconnecting transverse walls, and one short open side through which a cassette can be inserted into or removed from a cassette-receiving space defined by said walls. One of the main walls of the holder has a window which exposes a cassette main wall, provided with a label. The window of the holder is at least partly open, thereby enabling the cassette, when the holder is held in the palm of one hand, to be pushed out at least partly with a thumb, from which position the cassette can be loaded into a player/recorder by a loading mechanism.

Holder for a rectangular cassette

A cassette (1) includes a housing (3) with two parallel main walls (5, 7), of which one wall has a recessed portion (25). The recessed portion (25) accommodates an element (22) whose picture, or information carrying, side (23) is visible. The element (22) can be fitted int he recessed portion (25) in only one position owing to the provision of offcentered projections (33,35).

Cassette with a magnetic tape

A cassette (1) provided with magnetic tape (3) comprises a housing (9) with two main walls (11, 13) and a several transverse walls (15, 17, 19, 21). One of the main walls (13) is imperforate and is provided with a window (39) which can be opened and a label (37) interposed between the window (39) and the main wall (13). The window (39) is secured to the housing (9) by means of a tab (45) and projections (55, 57) and can be moved away temporarily from the label (9) to note data on the label (37).

Cassette for magnetic tape provided with window

A cassette (1) for a record carrier (10) is provided with a sliding cover (2) for covering at least one opening (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21) in the cassette housing (3), which cover has at least one plate-shaped flange (28) which extends parallel to a main wall (5) of the cassette housing (3), hold-down means (41) overlying its edge zone (31), which extends parallel to the direction of movement (22) of the sliding cover (2) and has a given length (L), in order to hold down the flange (28). Suitably, the hold-down means (41) comprise at least two hold-down members (50, 51) whose dimension (A) parallel to the direction of movement (22) of the sliding cover (2) is only a fraction of the length (L) of the edge zone (31) of the flange (28) of the sliding cover (2), over which edge zone said hold-down members engage.

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Peter J Doodson