Patent ID: 8505041

Claim:
A disk cartridge comprising: a case body configured to house a plurality of disk-shaped recording media in an inside thereof in a manner to arrange the disk-shaped recording media in an axial direction of a central axis, and that is joined or separated by making a first shell, the first shell including a base face that is parallel to a recording face of the disk-shaped recording media, in contact with or separate from a second shell, the second shell including a base plate that is parallel to the recording face of the disk-shaped recording media, in the axial direction; and a lock lever that is rotatably supported within a face orthogonal to the axial direction and locks the first shell and the second shell in a joining manner, in the inside of the case body; wherein: a disk inserting/ejecting slot into or from which the disk-shaped recording media are inserted or ejected is provided for the second shell, a supporting shaft, which serves as a rotation fulcrum of the lock lever, is provided to the case body, the lock lever includes a supported part that is supported by the supporting shaft, a lock part that is protruded from the supported part and locks the first shell and the second shell, and a lock-release part that is protruded from the supported part and pressed when unlocking the first shell and the second shell, the first shell is provided with an open/close panel that provides or denies disk access through the disk inserting/ejecting slot and includes an insertion hole into which a part of the lock-release part of the lock lever is inserted, an insertion protrusion part that is inserted into the insertion hole of the open/close panel in a state that the first shell and the second shell are locked protrudes from the lock-release part of the lock lever, and an end face of the insertion protrusion part is provided as an inclined face that is inclined to a direction in which the disk-shaped recording media are inserted into the disk inserting/ejecting slot.