Appeal No. 2002-1860
Application No. 09/204,275
after final rejection filed January 23, 2001 and June 15, 2001 have
been approved for entry by the Examiner.
The claimed invention relates to a cartridge for receiving a
disc which includes an opening cover separably mounted to a rear
side of the cartridge. Further included in the cartridge case is a
sensor hole, which is opened and closed by a sensor lever, to sense
whether the disc has been withdrawn from the cartridge case. A
user can manipulate the opening and closing mechanism to prevent
the automatic application of a verification operation before
recording on the disc.
Claim 6 is illustrative of the invention and reads as follows:
6. A cartridge for receiving a disc, comprising:
a cartridge case to receive the disc;
an opening cover separably mounted to a side of the cartridge
case, to support the disc to be withdrawn/received from/into the
cartridge case;
at least one sensor hole to determine whether the disc has
been withdrawn from the cartridge case;
a sensor lever having an opening/closing member disposed at
the senor hole, to control opening/closing of the sensor hole in
accordance with states of the disc; and
a tension part extending over a side of the sensor lever and
in contact with an inner side surface of the cartridge case, to
provide a tension of a predetermined degree to the sensor lever,
and position the opening/closing member of the sensor lever toward
an open-position of the sensor hole when the opening cover is
opened.
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