Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – Record transport with head stationary during transducing – Tape record
Patent
1996-12-19
2000-12-26
Miller, Brian E.
Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval
Record transport with head stationary during transducing
Tape record
G11B 1568
Patent
active
06166877&
ABSTRACT:
A cassette auto changer system including a tape signal reading member and a selection member for selecting between a plurality of cassettes. The cassette auto changer includes a base console including a port for tape insertion or extraction operations and having a tape insert compartment. The base console has upper and lower guide rails. A drive console mounts the tape signal reading member and a cassette console mounts a plurality of compartments for storing the tape cassettes. A tape transfer member transports the tape cassettes selectively between the base console, the drive console and the cassette console. An electrically conductive rail is disposed proximate to the guide rails which is powered by enclosed electrical wiring circuitry. In addition, an unmagnetized cassette shuttle body of the tape transfer member is driven along the electrically conductive rail and is guided along the guide rails. Electrical current is input to the tape transfer member form the electrically conductive rail via the cassette shuttle body.
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Aikawa Koichi
Mokutani Takao
Noguchi Hideaki
Saiki Junichi
Tadokoro Keiji
Frommer William S.
Miller Brian E.
Ryan Matthew K.
Sony Corporation
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