US Patent 7356827 Disk cartridge

Patent 7356827 was granted and assigned to Sony on April, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent attributes

Current Assignee

Sony

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7356827

Date of Patent

April 8, 2008

Patent Application Number

10528669

Date Filed

July 23, 2004

Patent Primary Examiner

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William J Klimowicz

Patent abstract

A disc cartridge is provided. The disc cartridge includes an optical disc and a main cartridge body unit rotatably housing the optical disc. A lateral surface of the main cartridge body unit as an inserting end of the main cartridge body unit into the recording and/or reproducing apparatus is a semicircular arcuate section having the center of the optical disc accommodated in the main cartridge body unit as center. The direction of insertion of the main cartridge body unit into the recording and/or reproducing apparatus may be discriminated readily to achieve smooth loading.