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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:
Dec. 05, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1998
Hidenori Mori, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An optical disc device 60 prevents intrusion of foreign matter such as dust and dirt into a disc cartridge 1 that has a main cartridge body unit 4 for rotatably housing an optical disc 5, apertures 7, 8 for partially exposing a signal recording area of the optical disc 5 and a shutter member 9 movably mounted on the main cartridge body unit for closing the apertures 7, 8. The optical disc device also includes a loading mechanism 76 for loading the disc cartridge 1 across the inside and the outside of the main body portion of the device, a shutter actuating unit 154 for moving the shutter member 9 for opening the recording/reproducing apertures 7, 8 when the disc cartridge 1 is loaded on the recording/reproducing unit adapted for recording and/or reproducing information signals and an optical pickup device 143 for intruding into the disc housing via the recording/reproducing aperture when the shutter member 9 has opened the recording/reproducing aperture.
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