Patent ID: 7458519
Filing Date: 2008-12-02
Classification: G06K,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A card tray and removable second memory card system, such that when the second memory card is mounted to the card tray, the combined card tray and second memory card is insertable in a same card slot as a first memory card, the system comprising: the first memory card having a memory buried in a first rectangular plate-shaped section having length and width dimensions larger than a thickness dimension and a plurality of contact pieces arranged transversally in array at a first outer surface of the first rectangular plate-shaped section, the second memory card having a memory buried in a second rectangular plate-shaped section smaller than the first rectangular plate-shaped section of the first memory card and a plurality of contact pieces arranged transversally in array at a first outer surface of the second rectangular plate-shaped section at a substantially same pitch as that of the contact pieces of the first memory card; and the card tray comprising: a main body; and an open and recessed mount section formed as part of the main body to which the second memory card is mounted; wherein a memory-card-mounted body is formed by securing the second memory card to the recessed mount section of the card tray with the first outer surface of the second memory card facing opposite to the recessed mount section and constituting a portion of an outer surface of the memory-card-mounted body, and wherein the thickness and the width of the memory-card-mounted body being substantially the same as the thickness and the width of the first memory card.