Patent ID: 7560806

Claim:
A memory card, comprising: a package in the form of a thin plate having a first end and a second end, the package made of an insulating material and configured to be inserted into and removed from a slot of an external apparatus; a plurality of contacts provided on said package near the first end and configured to transmit a signal to and from the external apparatus; said contacts being juxtaposed in a direction perpendicular to a loading/unloading direction, in which said memory card is loaded into or unloaded from the external apparatus, in a region of a flat face, which is one of faces of said package in a thickness wise direction, except locations on the opposite sides in the direction perpendicular to the loading/unloading direction; a pair of side labels adhered to the locations on the opposite sides of the upper face of said package so that an edge of each of the side labels is coplanar with a side edge of the package and the pair of side labels extend along an entire length of the package in the loading/unloading direction; and a connection label adhered to a middle portion of the upper face of said package spaced apart from said contacts and the second end, the connection label positioned higher than the contacts and extending in the direction perpendicular to the loading/unloading direction to connect said side labels on the opposite sides to each other.