Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – Record transport with head stationary during transducing – Tape record
Patent
1995-01-17
1996-04-16
Levy, Stuart S.
Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval
Record transport with head stationary during transducing
Tape record
369 36, 369178, 414276, 414932, 901 40, G11B 1568, G11B 1722, G11B 1704
Patent
active
055088597
ABSTRACT:
An automated storage library having the ability to store and manipulate data storage elements in three dimensions. Data storage elements such as tape cartridges are stored in storage compartments separated by low-friction downward sloping sliding planes each capable of holding a plurality of data storage elements. The automated storage library further includes a magnetic picker apparatus having two electromagnetic coils. In one embodiment, the two coils are energized simultaneously with the first coil used to reposition an L-shaped flipper. This flipper raises a roller gate positioned at one end of a storage compartment to release a stored data storage element. The second electromagnetic coil supplements the gravitational pull on the data storage element by attracting a steel strip on the face of the data storage element and an associated coil carriage retrieves the data storage element from the compartment.
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Hu Paul Y.
Lloyd Donald W.
Simkins James C.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Klimowicz William J.
Levy Stuart S.
Schecter Manny W.
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