Patent ID: 7047546

Claim:
A disc cartridge comprising an upper shell, a center frame, and a lower shell superposed on and coupled to each other in a thickness direction, wherein a disc container space between said upper shell and said center frame rotatably contains a disc recording medium, a center frame opening and a lower shell opening for recording and/or reproducing are formed in the approximately same shape at overlapping positions of said center frame and said lower shell, respectively, to expose a part of a signal recording area of said contained disc recording medium across inner and outer peripheries in a disc radial direction and to the outside of said lower shell in a disc thickness direction, and a reinforcing member is integrally provided in said center frame to couple both sides of said center frame opening, in a position separate from a surface of said contained disc recording medium on a lower shell side to an upper shell side in the thickness direction, an arc-shaped disc outer peripheral wall is erectly formed in a surface of said center frame on an upper shell side, and said reinforcing member is formed in an arc shape so as to be continued from said disc outer peripheral wall, wherein a shutter for opening and closing said center frame opening and said lower shell opening is movably contained between said center frame and said lower shell along a plane opposed to said center frame and said lower shell, and said disc outer peripheral wall and said reinforcing member function as a guide for said shutter.