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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 04, 1998
Hermann Grobecker, Garbsen, DE;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A two-part housing, for holding a disc-shaped information carrier (15), for example a CD, has a bottom section (10), a cover section (11) connected to the bottom section via two corner hinges a (12, 13), and a clamping device (14, 14') for holding the information carrier (15). A simple fracture-proof hinge structure is provided in, that the cover section (11) comprises two hinge arms (18) whose free end portions (19) are bent through 180.degree. towards the cover section (11) and are resilient, the bottom section (10) has corner recesses (22) adapted to the hinge arms (18), and the free end portions (19) of the hinge arms (18), which end portions face one another, form in conjunction with rigid hinge walls (24) the corner hinges (12, 13).