Supports: cabinet structure – For storing audio or visual recording medium – Disk or parallelepiped shape
Patent
1994-03-18
1995-05-16
Chen, Jose V.
Supports: cabinet structure
For storing audio or visual recording medium
Disk or parallelepiped shape
312 931, 312 97, 312 99, 312236, 221 6, 221 76, 360 92, A47B 8106
Patent
active
054154715
ABSTRACT:
An improved carousel-type magnetic tape library system including a pivotable cartridge-receiving door for facilitating the insertion and removal of cartridges into the system and a cylindrical magazine carried by a turntable rotatably mounted to a turntable plate secured to a base casting. The turntable includes a sprocket wheel that is engaged by a drive belt or chain connected to a stepper motor affixed to the base plate. Affixed to the sprocket is a shutter plate having a plurality of notches in its perimeter for detection by an optical-indexing sensor. The apparatus also includes a carousel-indexing sensor and a cartridge-in-carousel and cartridge-orientation sensor. Disposed within the central cavity of the carousel magazine unoccupied by cartridges is a cartridge-onloading/offloading mechanism which is rotatably mounted concentric with the carousel turntable. Disposed on a side of the carousel opposite the door is a dual tape drive assembly including modular tape drive units mounted to the base plate. The apparatus further includes a power supply, an associated electronic subsystem, and a cooling fan.
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Chen José V.
Hamrick Claude A. S.
Storage Technology Corporation
White Rodney B.
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