US 2002/0057519 A1 · Cartridge stop/compression pad for a tape cartridge picker

Abstract

The cartridge stop/compression pad includes a beveled portion and a planar portion that permits the cartridge stop/compression pad to serve a dual function of compression pad and cartridge stop. During retrieval of tape cartridges from a single cartridge interface, the planar portion of the compression pad is oriented such that a tape cartridge is stopped during manual insertion from the single cartridge interface in position for selection and retrieval by the cartridge picker. During retrieval of tape cartridges from all other locations, tape cartridges contact the beveled portion of the cartridge stop/compression pad causing the cartridge stop/compression pad to function as a compression pad and expand vertically upward to permit the cartridge to be fully received into the cavity of the cartridge picker.

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Dependent claims

A tape cartridge stop/compression pad for a tape cartridge picker, the cartridge stop compression pad comprising:

means for expanding when contacted by a tape cartridge to permit the tape cartridge to be fully received from a first location into a cavity of the cartridge picker;
and
means for stopping insertion of the tape cartridge from a second location, when contacted by the tape cartridge during the insertion, to prevent the tape cartridge from being fully received in the cavity of the cartridge picker.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

09/891,870Filed 22 Jun 2001

Priority

10 Nov 2000

Published

16 May 2002

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification3 codes

G11B 15/6835
With fixed magazines having fixed cassette storage cells, e.g. in racks: the cassettes being transferred to a fixed recorder or player using a…
G11B 15/6885
Automatic cassette changing arrangements; automatic tape changing arrangements: the cassettes being conveyed within a cassette storage location,…
G11B
Information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer

Family

Application09/710,645Continuation in part · filed 10 Nov 2000

Application09/860,773Continuation · filed 17 May 2001

Application09/860,773Continuation in part · filed 17 May 2001

Application09/891,870Continuation · filed 22 Jun 2001

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Cartridge stop/compression pad for a tape cartridge picker

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Cartridge stop/compression pad for a tape cartridge picker

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Abstract

Claims16