Head cleaner for tape drive apparatus
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorKengo Yamakawa
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Abstract
A tape drive apparatus enables cleaning of a read/write converter head when a tape cartridge is inserted or removed, without interfering with or moving the tape. The tape drive apparatus has a loading mechanism for transferring an inserted tape cartridge to a predetermined position in the apparatus, and a head cleaning unit that can move between a cleaning position in contact with the converter head and a withdrawn position isolated from the converter head. The head cleaning unit moves between the withdrawn position and the cleaning position in synchronization with the transfer operation of the loading mechanism, when there is not tape over the head. In this manner, the head cleaning operation does not interfere with or move the tape.
Claims5
A tape drive apparatus comprising:
- a loading mechanism for transferring an inserted tape cartridge to a predetermined position within the apparatus, and
- a head cleaning unit that moves between a cleaning position in contact with a converter head for reading the information from a data tape fed from the tape cartridge, and a withdrawn position isolated from said converter head, in synchronization with the transfer operation of the loading mechanism.
A tape drive apparatus comprising:
- a loading mechanism for transferring an inserted tape cartridge to the predetermined position within the apparatus;
- a head cleaning unit that can be moved between a cleaning position in contact with a converter head for reading information from data tape fed from the tape cartridge and a withdrawn position isolated from said converter head;
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- a transfer unit for transferring displacement of the head cleaning unit by changing said displacement between the cleaning position and the withdrawn position of said head cleaning unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.