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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:
Sep. 22, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 19, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369 772 ;
Abstract
A recording and reproducing apparatus using high density recording disk, such as optical disk. The recording and reproducing device of this invention can accommodated both disk and disk cartridges of a plurality of differing sizes. Because this invention can accommodate both disk and disk cartridges, a single device that can both record and reproduce information to or from a high density disk is achieved.