Patent ID: 6971117

Claim:
A disc cartridge comprising: a cartridge body including a disc storage portion, a chucking opening and a head opening, wherein the disc storage portion has a disc window and a bottom and stores a disc, having first and second sides, therein so that the disc is rotatable in the disc storage portion and that the first side of the disc is exposed inside the disc window; the chucking opening is formed on the bottom of the disc storage portion so as to get the disc chucked externally; and the head opening is also formed on the bottom of the disc storage portion so as to allow a head, which reads and/or writes a signal from/on the second side of the disc, to access the second side of the disc; first and second shutters, provided on the bottom of the disc storage portion, for exposing or covering the head opening; and a rotational member, which is provided over the first and second shutters inside the disc storage portion and which rotates as the first and second shutters are opened or closed, wherein the rotational member includes: a disc supporting portion, which contacts with an outer periphery of the second side of the disc while the first and second shutters are closed and thereby holds the disc thereon; and a notch, which is provided for the disc supporting portion so as to be located inside the head opening while the first and second shutters are opened, and wherein the disc storage portion includes a sidewall along an outer periphery of the bottom, and wherein the first and second shutters include disc holders for holding the disc thereon with the center of the disc offset from the center of the disc storage portion such that an outer side surface of the disc contacts with the sidewall of the disc storage portion at a position where the notch of the rotational member is located while the first and second shutters are closed, and wherein the inner circumference of a region, in which the disc supporting portion of the rotational member contacts with the second side of the disc, defines a circle that has its center offset from the center of the disc storage portion.