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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2000
Kazusato Tagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroki Ogata, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An external storage device connected to an entertainment system for storing game information is provided. Even if there are plural types of entertainment systems, and the correspondence between the types of entertainment systems and the kind of the external storage device cannot be grasped, the external storage device can be readily connected to the entertainment system without any trouble. The external storage device connected to the entertainment system to receive information from the entertainment system and store the information therein has a portion to-be-mounted to engage with a receiving portion of the entertainment system for electrical connection with the entertainment system. The portion to-be-mounted has a shape preventing itself from engaging with the receiving portion of a predetermined particular type of entertainment system out of the entertainment systems in systematized series, for preventing a connection with the predetermined particular type of the entertainment system.