Patent ID: 6947289
Filing Date: 2005-09-20
Classification: G06K,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A memory card, comprising: a main body in which a recessed notch is formed at a side of its external flat shape, said side situated between a top surface and a bottom surface of said main body; a semiconductor memory in which data can be at least written, the semiconductor memory being mounted on a substrate contained inside the main body; a terminal provided in the main body for electrically connecting the semiconductor memory to an external device; and a write/nonwrite setting element having a manipulation portion, and slidably fitted in the main body at the recessed notch for setting a write/nonwrite state of the data in the semiconductor memory by selection of any of a first position, where a portion of the write/nonwrite setting element covers a portion of the recessed notch, and a second position, where the portion of the write/nonwrite setting element covers another portion of the recessed notch, a path extending through said notch from above said top surface to below said bottom surface, and a reentrant portion is formed between an edge of the recessed notch of the main body and the manipulation portion at each of the first position and the second position.