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Storage device preferably for several compact discs

US5931295A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 30, 1997
Grant dateAug 3, 1999
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Expiry dateDec 30, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B23/0236
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A storage device for compact disks has a housing provided with guide a unit, a slider member guided by the guide a unit and adapted to accommodate a compact disk, spring a unit urging the slider member into a removal position projecting out of the housing, a latching arrangement holding the slider member against a force of the spring a unit in a position pushed into the housing, an unlatching button for unlatching the latching arrangement, the latching arrangement having a bending bar with one end fixedly attached and another end which is free, the bending bar having at a distance from the fixedly attached end, a catching lug, a catching surface in which the catching lug is in engagement when the slider member is in the pushed-in position, the bending bar having the unlatching button at the free end so that on actuation of the unlatching button the bending bar is bent resiliently so that the catching lug comes free of the catching surface.

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