Mount for recording media and recording media library apparatus using the mount
AssigneeHitachi Electronic Engineering Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroyuki Suzuki, Katsumasa Yokoyama, Satoshi Ogasawara
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Abstract
Tray supporting a recording medium is transferred horizontally to a designated destination component and stored in the destination component along with the recording medium. The tray has one end facing the destination component and this one end has a surface slanted with respect to a front wall surface of an entry/exit of the destination component. With the provision of such a slanted end surface, even when the tray being transferred comes into collision with the front wall, the tray is allowed to gradually slide along the wall surface into the destination component. As a consequence, the recording medium supported on the tray can be smoothly passed into the destination component.
Claims10
A mount for a recording medium, said mount being transferred at least in a predetermined horizontal transfer direction to be passed to a designated destination component in such a way that the recording medium supported on said mount is received, along with said mount, in place within the destination component,
- wherein said mount has one end surface oriented in the horizontal transfer direction and said one end surface is slanted in at least a center portion thereof with respect to a direction normal to the horizontal transfer direction and
- wherein the recording medium has a disk shape and said mount is in the form of a tray suitable for supporting thereon the recording medium.
A recording media library apparatus comprising:
- a mount for supporting thereon a recording medium having a disk shape, and mount in the form of a tray suitable for supporting thereon the recording medium and having at least one leading edge oriented in a predetermined horizontal transfer direction thereof, said one leading edge being slanted in at least a center portion thereof with respect to a direction normal to the horizontal transfer direction;
- a storage section that stores therein a plurality of said mounts each supporting the recording medium;
- a medium drive unit that reads and/or write data on the recording medium;
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- a transportation mechanism that carries said mount between said storage section and said medium drive unit and performs a predetermined handling operation to pass, in the horizontal transfer direction, said mount to or from said storage section or said medium drive unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.