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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 1986
Filed:
May. 07, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369291 ; 206312 ; 206444 ; 360133 ;
Abstract
A flexible disc cassette is provided with a shutter which is capable of opening/closing a head access hole and a pad insertion hole respectively formed in upper and lower halves thereof. A V-shaped torsion spring is used as the spring for biasing the shutter in the closed position. The lengths of the linear arm portions integrally formed with both sides of the coiled portion of the spring are approximately the same. Both tips of the arm portions are bent at approximately 90.degree. so as to form the L-shaped hooks which has the same length and which extend in the opposite directions along the height of the coiled portion. The L-shaped hooks are stopped by the shutter and the cassette case.