Disk library apparatus
AssigneeHitachi-LG Data Storage, Inc.
InventorNobuaki Sato
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Abstract
A disk library apparatus includes a magazine for housing a plurality of storage disks, a plurality of pallets each having a disk placing surface for placing a storage disk and which are arranged in the magazine so that pallets having different engaging claw shapes are adjacent to each other, and a picker for taking out a pallet selected from the plurality of pallets from the magazine. The picker includes at least one arm for taking out the selected pallet from the magazine in the taking-out of the selected pallet. Each of the at least one arm is, in the taking-out of the selected pallet, engaged with an engaging claw of the selected pallet and in a position shifted from an engaging position with an engaging claw of each pallet adjacent to the selected pallet when seen in a pallet arranging direction.
Claims10
A disk library apparatus, comprising:
- at least one disk drive for accessing a storage disk;
- a magazine for housing a plurality of storage disks to be inserted into the at least one disk drive;
- a plurality of pallets each having a disk placing surface for placing a storage disk, which are arranged in the magazine so that pallets having different engaging claw shapes are adjacent to each other;
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- a picker for taking out a pallet selected from the plurality of pallets from the magazine, wherein:
- the picker includes at least one aim for taking out the selected pallet from the magazine in the taking-out of the selected pallet;
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- each of the at least one arm is, in the taking-out of the selected pallet, engaged with an engaging claw of the selected pallet and in a position shifted from an engaging position with an engaging claw of each pallet adjacent to the selected pallet when seen in a pallet arranging direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.