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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:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Iomega Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/704 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/704 ;
Abstract
A disk drive motor ( ) for driving and rotating a recording medium (disk), a head ( ) for recording or playing back information to/from this disk, and a head drive mechanism for driving the head, are disposed inside a case body ( ) of the magnetic recording unit. A lid body ( ) to close the cartridge insertion slot ( ) is disposed the case body ( ) at a position facing the cartridge insertion slot ( ). When the lid body ( ) falls down the front side and the cartridge insertion slot ( ) is opened, the top face of the lid body ( ) becomes substantially on the same plane as the top face of the frame plate where the disk drive motor ( ) and the head ( ) drive mechanism are mounted.