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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 09, 1997
Keitaro Yamashita, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomihiro Nakagawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Sakae Imaizumi, Saitama, JP;
Keisuke Tejima, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A disc cartridge having a disc-shaped recording medium, such as an optical disc or a magneto-optical disc, rotatably housed within a main cartridge body. The disc cartridge has a main cartridge body made up of an upper cartridge half and a lower cartridge half, and a disc-shaped recording medium rotatably accommodated within the main cartridge body. A recording and/or reproducing aperture is formed in at least one of major surfaces of the main cartridge body. A shutter is mounted for movement along a sidewall section of the main cartridge body between a position closing the aperture and a position closing the aperture. There is provided an inclined portion in the aperture inclined with respect to the inserting direction of the disc cartridge.