Patent ID: 6801815
Filing Date: 2004-10-05
Classification: G11C

Abstract:
An amusement system comprising:first and second mating electrical connectors; a cartridge configured to store sound data representative of sound and to produce electrical sound signals representative of sound, the cartridge including a housing, memory storing said sound data, a processing system for processing said sound data, programming executable by the processing system to produce said electrical sound signals from said sound data, and said first electrical connector; a player to receive electrical sound signals from the cartridge and to produce sound vibrations from the received sound signals, said player including said second electrical connector, a body defining a cavity with an opening communicating with the cavity and configured to releasably receive the cartridge so as to bring said first and said second electrical connectors in mating electrical contact with one another, the second electrical connector including a two-dimensional co-planar array of electrical contacts arranged in two in-line non-staggered rows and the player further including a transducer to produce the sound vibrations, and controls configured to trigger said cartridge so as to produce said electrical sound signals and to transmit those electrical sound signals to the transducer to produce sound vibrations, and said cartridge alone including a processing system, to the exclusion of a processing system in the player, to process the electrical sound signals received from the said cartridge smaller than said player so as to be adapted for sliding insertion into said player opening so as to enter said player cavity, with said player body guiding said cartridge housing for telescopic insertion and extraction with respect to said player.