Housing apparatus for housing housed object, housing method therefor, and library apparatus for housing recording medium
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorKenji Aoki
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Abstract
A housing apparatus includes a plurality of housing units to have housed objects housed therein, a carrying unit to include the plurality of the housing units arranged in a ring shape, the carrying unit carrying the housing units to a carriage position, and a transferring unit to be disposed facing a carriage destination of the housed objects with the carrying unit existing therebetween to transfer the housed object in the housing unit carried and positioned at the carriage position from the housing unit to the carriage destination or to transfer the housed object in the carriage destination from the carriage destination to the housing unit.
Claims15
A housing apparatus comprising:
- a housing chain that includes a plurality of housing units, the housing units housing housed objects, the housing units being arranged in a ring shape, adjacent housing units of the housing units being coupled rotatably;
- a carrying unit to rotate the housing chain, the carrying unit carrying the housing units to a carriage position;
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- a transferring unit to be disposed facing a carriage destination of the housed objects with the carrying unit existing therebetween to transfer the housed object in the housing unit carried and positioned at the carriage position from the housing unit to the carriage destination or to transfer the housed object in the carriage destination from the carriage destination to the housing unit,
- wherein a pin provided for one housing unit of the adjacent housing units is engaged with a coupling hole, the coupling hole being provided for another housing unit of the adjacent housing units, the coupling hole being for insertion of the pin, and
- the housing chain is formed by coupling the housing units with each other so that coupled sides of the housing units are arranged in an inside of a ring shape.
A housing method comprising:
- rotating a housing chain that includes a plurality of housing units, and carrying the housing units to a carriage position, the housing units housing housed objects, the housing units being arranged in a ring shape, adjacent housing units of the housing units being coupled rotatably;
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- transferring the housed object in the housing unit carried and positioned at the carriage position from the housing unit to a carriage destination or transferring the housed object in the carriage destination from the carriage destination to the housing unit,
- wherein a pin provided for one housing unit of the adjacent housing units is engaged with a coupling hole, the coupling hole being provided for another housing unit of the adjacent housing units, the coupling hole being for insertion of the pin, and
- the housing chain is formed by coupling the housing units with each other so that coupled sides of the housing units are arranged in an inside of a ring shape.
A library apparatus to store a plurality of recording mediums and have a carrying function for the recording mediums, comprising:
- a housing chain that includes a plurality of housing units, the housing units housing recording mediums, the housing units being arranged in a ring shape, adjacent housing units of the housing units being coupled rotatably;
- a carrying unit to rotate the housing chain, the carrying unit carrying the housing units to a carriage position;
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- a transferring unit to be disposed facing a carriage destination of the recording mediums with the carrying unit existing therebetween to transfer the recording medium in the housing unit carried and positioned at the carriage position from the housing unit to the carriage destination or to transfer the recording medium in the carriage destination from the carriage destination to the housing unit,
- wherein a pin provided for one housing unit of the adjacent housing units is engaged with a coupling hole, the coupling hole being provided for another housing unit of the adjacent housing units, the coupling hole being for insertion of the pin, and
- the housing chain is formed by coupling the housing units with each other so that coupled sides of the housing units are arranged in an inside of a ring shape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.