Patent ID: 7555765

Claim:
A disk cartridge comprising: a cartridge case including an upper shell and a lower shell coupled thereto, the upper shell having an outer circumferential wall and an inner circumferential wall inside the outer circumferential wall, the lower shell having a first opening for at least one of recording and playback; an inner rotor rotatably disposed in the cartridge case to rotatably accommodate a disk, the inner rotor having a second opening corresponding to the first opening and an annular portion on the periphery of the inner rotor, the inner circumferential wall of the upper shell being disposed inside the annular portion, the inner rotor having a groove opposite a leading end of the inner circumferential wall inside the annular portion, the groove having a width larger than the thickness of the leading end of the inner circumferential wall wherein the inner rotor has a wall portion inside the annular portion, the groove being defined between the wall portion and the annular portion; and shutter members disposed between the inner rotor and the lower shell and rotatably attached to the inner rotor, the shutter members being opened to expose the disk accommodated in the inner rotor through the first and second openings when the inner rotor rotates so that the second opening cooperates with the first opening.