Dynamic information storage or retrieval – Information location or remote operator actuated control – Selective addressing of storage medium
Patent
1997-10-28
1999-08-17
Klimowicz, William J.
Dynamic information storage or retrieval
Information location or remote operator actuated control
Selective addressing of storage medium
369 36, 360 92, G11B 1722, G11B 1568
Patent
active
059403543
ABSTRACT:
In a library apparatus, plural recording media are received in respective, assigned slots in a tray movable between a closed position within a housing and, selectively, in a first mode to a fully opened position affording access to all of the slots and respective, assigned recording media therein and, in a second mode, to a mail slot access position affording access to a mail slot into which an individual recording medium is selectively inserted or removed. In an insertion operation of the second mode and with a recording medium present in the mail slot in the closed position of the tray, an accessor conveys the recording medium from the mail slot, designated as a source location, to a respective slot of the tray assigned to the recording medium and designated as a destination location thereof and, in an ejection operation of the mail slot mode, conveys the recording medium from the assigned slot of the tray designated as a source location to the mail slot, designated as a destination location. The controller, further, controls the accessor to convey a selected recording medium from the respective assigned slot in the tray to a driving unit for recording and reproducing operations on the specific recording medium and, thereafter, to return the specific recording medium to the assigned slot.
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Fujitsu Limited
Klimowicz William J.
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