Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – Record transport with head stationary during transducing – Tape record
Patent
1989-09-12
1991-06-18
Wolff, John H.
Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval
Record transport with head stationary during transducing
Tape record
360 93, G11B 5008
Patent
active
050253344
ABSTRACT:
A tape transport fits within the five and one-quarter inch form factor and has motor driven mechanisms for automatically loading a DC600-type cartridge endwise therein. The transport includes a frame dimensioned to fit within the form factor, and a front panel extending across a forward transvere end of the frame. The front panel has a slot dimensioned so that the cartridge can be endwise inserted through the slot onto a tray movably supported within the frame. A read/write head is mounted to the frame adjacent the tray for reciprocating the head along an axis perpendicular to a base plate of the cartridge. A capstan drive motor is also mounted to the frame adjacent the tray so that a capstan drive roller connected to its shaft can drive a belt capstan roller of the cartridge. Guides associated with the tray permit the same to be moved by a motor driven gear box to automatically carry the cartridge rearwardly and then laterally into engagement with the read/write head and the capstan drive roller. A door opener partially opens the tape access door of the cartridge as the cartridge moves rearwardly so that when the cartridge is thereafter moved laterally the head can engage the tape.
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Pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/342,985 Filed Apr. 25, 1989 Naming Jagmohan S. Kukreja and Kurt A. Buckland and Entitled "Stationary Head Tape Drive".
Guy Jon S.
Perona Mark
Woller Tom C.
Cipher Data Products, Inc.
Evans Jefferson
Wolff John H.
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