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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:
Oct. 19, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Brian Schick, San Diego, CA (US);
Shane Nowell, Riverdale, UT (US);
Assignee:
Iomega Corporation, Roy, UT (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360133 ;
Abstract
A disk cartridge has a rotary shutter, a flat nose portion, and a lever retraction area. The cartridge is adapted for use in a drive having a lever for opening a rotary shutter. The shutter lever grabs the lever and rotates it counter-clockwise. The cartridge has a flat nose portion to provide a shutter arm alignment surface during shutter opening in conjunction with the lever and a cut-out portion in the bottom of the cartridge to allow the lever to retract the shutter further into the cartridge.