Patent ID: 6754167
Filing Date: 2004-06-22
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A disk cartridge comprising a flat rectangular parallelepipedal cartridge body 20, and a disk 21 serving as a signal recording medium and rotatably enclosed in the cartridge body 20, the cartridge body 20 being formed with a window 22 for exposing a signal bearing surface of the disk 21 and having a shutter 3 slidably mounted thereon for opening and closing the window 22, the disk cartridge being characterized in that the cartridge body 20 comprises opposite side walls 2b, 2c formed in parallel to the direction of insertion of the disk cartridge into a signal recording-reproduction device, and a front wall 2a facing toward the direction of insertion, the shutter 3 being slidable along one of the side walls, the front wall 2a being so shaped as to extend along the arc form of an outer periphery of the disk 21 and having a central portion formed in the closest proximity to the outer periphery of the disk 21 and opposite side portions formed as retracted toward a direction opposite to the direction of insertion, the cartridge body 20 having a first Positioning cavity 24 and a second positioning cavity 25 formed in a bottom surface thereof to be opposed to a cartridge support surface of the signal recording-reproduction device and located respectively at front and rear positions along the direction of insertion, the cartridge support surface being provided with two positioning pins fitable in the respective positioning cavities, the front first positioning cavity 24 having an opening in the front wall 2a and having a U-shaped inner peripheral surface extending from the opening in the opposite direction to the direction of insertion.