Automated storage unit publisher
AssigneeRimage Corporation
InventorsDarren Allen Groth, Phillip Charles Salisbury, Andrew James Nelson
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Abstract
An automated storage unit publishing system may include a recording device for recording information on a storage unit memory chip; a bin plate with a storage unit bin and a casing bin; an assembling mechanism movably attached to the bin plate, the assembling deck comprising a shuttle for removing a selected sized casing from the casing bin and a recorded flash memory chip from the chip bin and assembling the two into a single unit using pressure; a printing device for printing marks, indications or decoration on the casing, and a gripping device for placing the finished unit in an output mechanism.
Claims19
A system, comprising
- a recording device for recording information on a memory chip;
- a bin platform containing raw material bins;
- an assembler subsystem movably attached to the bin platform, the assembler subsystem comprising a shuttle for removing a selected sized casing from a casing bin and the memory chip from a memory bin and assembling the two into a single unit by applying pressure;
- and
- a printing device for printing marks or indications on the casing.
A method, comprising
- recording information on a memory chip;
- providing a bin platform containing raw material bins;
- moving a shuttle for selecting a casing and the memory chip from the bin platform;
- assembling the casing and the memory chip into a single unit, wherein the single unit is a Universal Serial Bus storage unit including:
- the casing integrated with a Universal Serial Bus data interface;
- the memory chip;
- and
- a connector that couples the memory chip to the casing;
- and
- printing marks or indications on the casing.
A method, comprising
- recording information on a memory chip;
- providing a bin platform containing raw material bins;
- moving a shuttle for selecting a casing and the memory chip from the bin platform;
- assembling the casing and the memory chip into a single unit;
- printing marks or indications on the casing;
- and
- providing a gripping mechanism including arms configured to grip and move the single unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.