公开(公告)号：US06717766B2

公开(公告)日：2004-04-06

申请号：US10141883

申请日：2002-05-10

申请人： Koujirou Hashimoto ,  Kenichi Utsumi ,  Yuji Kato ,  Kazuhiko Kawase ,  Satoshi Kanbayashi ,  Yasushi Goto

发明人： Koujirou Hashimoto ,  Kenichi Utsumi ,  Yuji Kato ,  Kazuhiko Kawase ,  Satoshi Kanbayashi ,  Yasushi Goto

IPC分类号： G11B1568

CPC分类号： G11B23/107 ,  G11B15/07 ,  G11B15/6835 ,  G11B17/225 ,  G11B23/042

摘要： Provides an automatic changer with excellent space efficiency, by reducing the size of a hand mechanism section that is mounted with a CCD. The automatic changer selects and holds one desired cartridge from among one of accommodation cells provided in a magazine, conveys this selected cartridge to a recording/reproducing apparatus, and reads a bar code label adhered to the side surface of the cartridge thereby to identify the cartridge. The automatic changer has the CCD that reads a bar code disposed in the inner part of a casing that movably accommodates a hand mechanism section for holding the cartridge. The automatic changer also has a condenser lens for focusing the image of the bar code on the CCD disposed at one part of the hand mechanism section. With this arrangement, the automatic changer moves the hand mechanism section to the front of the cartridge accommodated in the accommodation cell, and focuses the image of the bar code on the CCD. Then, the CCD identifies the contents of the cartridge.

摘要翻译： 通过减小安装有CCD的手动机构部分的尺寸，提供优异的空间效率的自动更换器。 自动更换器从设置在盒中的容纳单元之一中选择并保持一个期望的盒，将该选择的盒传送到记录/再现装置，并读取附着在盒的侧表面上的条形码标签，从而识别盒 。 自动更换器具有CCD，其读取设置在壳体内部的条形码，该条形码可移动地容纳用于保持盒的手机构部分。 自动变换器还具有用于将条形码图像聚焦在设置在手动机构部分的一部分的CCD上的聚光透镜。 通过这种方式，自动更换器将手机构部分移动到容纳在容纳单元中的盒的前部，并将条形码的图像聚焦在CCD上。 然后，CCD识别墨盒的内容。