公开(公告)号：US07580220B1

公开(公告)日：2009-08-25

申请号：US11183620

申请日：2005-07-18

申请人： Roger H. Grow ,  Kenneth Lee Manes ,  Dan Plutt

发明人： Roger H. Grow ,  Kenneth Lee Manes ,  Dan Plutt

IPC分类号： G11B15/68 ,  G11B33/04

CPC分类号： G11B33/0438

摘要： A cartridge magazine is shown for placement in a robotic media library. The magazine body has two walls to guide a tape cartridge into a final stopping position. A prong extends into the cartridge from a first wall and an opening is formed in the second wall to permit a friction pad to contact an opposing side of the cartridge. The friction pad is mounted onto a lever that rotates upon a pivot outside a cartridge chamber on the magazine body. The lever is pushed by a spring to ordinarily extend the friction pad well into vacant cartridge chambers. An operator pad of the lever may extend out of the magazine body for engagement by an operator or by door pressures to retract the friction pad so that the cartridge becomes either disengaged, or slightly engaged with the friction pad.

摘要翻译： 显示一个墨盒杂志放置在机器人媒体库中。 杂志主体有两个墙壁，用于将磁带盒引导到最终的停止位置。 插脚从第一壁延伸到盒中，并且在第二壁中形成开口以允许摩擦垫接触盒的相对侧。 摩擦垫安装在杠杆上，该杆在盒体上的仓室外的枢轴上旋转。 杠杆被弹簧推动，以将摩擦垫通常延伸到空的盒室中。 杠杆的操作者垫可以延伸出盒体以使操作者接合或通过门的压力来缩回摩擦垫，使得墨盒脱离或与摩擦垫稍微接合。

公开(公告)号：US06643565B2

公开(公告)日：2003-11-04

申请号：US09997083

申请日：2001-11-27

申请人： Joseph Paul Manes ,  David Black ,  Dan Plutt ,  Kipley Tad Carpenter

发明人： Joseph Paul Manes ,  David Black ,  Dan Plutt ,  Kipley Tad Carpenter

IPC分类号： G05B1904

CPC分类号： G11B15/682 ,  G05B2219/37572 ,  G05B2219/39012 ,  G05B2219/39024 ,  G05B2219/45057 ,  G11B17/225

摘要： A calibration apparatus for use with a storage system for storing a plurality of objects in an array of object storage locations. In a preferred embodiment, the calibration apparatus includes a target affixed in a predetermined location to the storage system, an object retrieval mechanism, and an imaging system. The object retrieval mechanism is used for retrieving objects from the object storage locations and has a principal direction of movement which is perpendicular to a plane in which an exposed surface of each of the plurality of objects lie. The imaging system is attached to the object retrieval mechanism for imaging the target. The imaging system is positioned such that the direction from the target to the imaging system is parallel to the principal direction.

公开(公告)号：US07021883B1

公开(公告)日：2006-04-04

申请号：US10394074

申请日：2003-03-18

申请人： Dan Plutt ,  Don B. Wait

发明人： Dan Plutt ,  Don B. Wait

IPC分类号： B65G1/00

CPC分类号： G11B17/225 ,  G11B15/6825 ,  G11B15/6835

摘要： An invention for use with transporting media cartridges between a first storage library and a second storage library. The invention comprises at least two pass through ports connecting the first and second storage libraries for use in transporting media cartridges between the first and second storage libraries. The at least two pass through ports provide redundant operation of the multiple data storage library system to ensure media cartridge transportability between the first and second storage libraries in the event that one of the at least two pass through ports should become inactive.

摘要翻译： 一种用于在第一存储库和第二存储库之间传送介质盒的发明。 本发明包括连接第一和第二存储库的至少两个通过端口，用于在第一和第二存储库之间传送介质盒。 所述至少两个通过端口提供所述多数据存储库系统的冗余操作，以在所述至少两个通过端口中的一个应变得不活动的情况下确保所述第一和第二存储库之间的媒体盒传送能力。

公开(公告)号：US06438448B1

公开(公告)日：2002-08-20

申请号：US09499925

申请日：2000-02-08

申请人： Joseph Paul Manes ,  David Black ,  Dan Plutt

发明人： Joseph Paul Manes ,  David Black ,  Dan Plutt

IPC分类号： G06F700

CPC分类号： G11B15/682 ,  G05B2219/37572 ,  G05B2219/39012 ,  G05B2219/39024 ,  G05B2219/45057 ,  G11B17/225

摘要： A calibration apparatus for use with a storage system for storing a plurality of objects in an array of object storage locations. In a preferred embodiment, the calibration apparatus includes a target affixed in a predetermined location to the storage system, an object retrieval mechanism, and an imaging system. The object retrieval mechanism is used for retrieving objects from the object storage locations and has a principal direction of movement which is perpendicular to a plane in which an exposed surface of each of the plurality of objects lie. The imaging system is attached to the object retrieval mechanism for imaging the target. The imaging system is positioned such that the direction from the target to the imaging system is parallel to the principal direction.

摘要翻译： 一种用于存储系统的校准装置，用于将多个对象存储在对象存储位置的阵列中。 在优选实施例中，校准装置包括固定在存储系统的预定位置的目标，对象检索机构和成像系统。 对象检索机构用于从对象存储位置检索对象，并且具有垂直于多个对象中的每一个的暴露表面所在的平面的主要移动方向。 成像系统连接到物体检索机构，用于对目标进行成像。 成像系统被定位成使得从目标到成像系统的方向平行于主方向。