Patent ID: 6964059
Filing Date: 2005-11-08
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A disc cartridge comprising: a disc recording medium in which a data signal is recorded; a cartridge body exhibiting a rectangular shape formed by mating and joining a pair of upper and lower halves at circumferential edges of which are formed rising circumferential walls which are mated to each other to constitute circumferential side walls and in which are formed walls forming a recording medium accommodating portion which are mated to each other at mating inner surfaces to constitute the recording medium accommodating portion in which said disc recording medium is accommodated; openings for recording and reproduction which are formed in upper and lower surfaces of said cartridge body over an area from the vicinity of the center of said cartridge body to a front side of said body; a shutter member which is provided with a shutter portion for opening or closing said opening and which is attached to said cartridge body so that it can move along a front surface of said cartridge body; recess portions for preventing erroneous loading formed on both sides of said cartridge body on the lower half from the front side to the middle toward the back side, wherein said recess portions are semicircular in shape; and a plurality of fusing portions for mating and fusing together the upper and lower halves at facing surfaces of said upper and lower halves, wherein each of said fusing portions is provided with a mating projection cylindrically formed at one of said upper and lower halves and a mating projection cylindrically formed at another of said upper and lower halves; wherein the mating projections formed at said another of said upper and lower halves include a flat annular end surface, and the mating projections formed at said one of said upper and lower halves include an annular end surface to be connected to said flat annular end surface and a projection which has a semicircular shape along a part of said annular end surface and which is formed on said annular end surface on said rising circumferential wall side to be fused together with said flat annular end surface to connect the upper and lower halves, wherein said mating projections including said semicircular shaped projections are provided at positions adjacent to where the rising circumferential walls and the walls forming said recording medium accommodating portion intersect and one of said fusing portions for mating and fusing said upper and lower halves is provided at a thin portion having a thickness less than that of said cartridge body formed by mating of said upper and lower halves at a front side of said opening formed in said cartridge body and at substantially a center of said cartridge body and another plurality of said mating projections including complete annular shaped projections are formed at one of said upper and lower halves at positions corresponding to the corners of the cartridge body.