Magnetic tape device and magnetic tape maintenance method
AssigneeNEC Platforms, Ltd.
InventorKenichi Ojima
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Abstract
A magnetic tape device includes a magnetic tape as a storage medium; a travel unit that moves the magnetic tape along a travel route; a magnetic head that is arranged at the travel route and performs data reading and writing for the magnetic tape that moves on the travel route; and a lifter unit that is arranged at the travel route and contacts the magnetic tape which is stopped on the travel route, where the lifter unit is able to reciprocate in a direction that intersects the travel route so as to separate the magnetic tape from the magnetic head.
Claims4
A magnetic tape device comprising:
- a magnetic tape as a storage medium;
- a travel unit including a rotator supported rotatably around a first rotating shaft and a drive unit, wherein the travel unit moves the magnetic tape along a travel route according to rotation of the rotator by a driving force from the drive unit;
- a magnetic head that is arranged at the travel route and performs data reading and writing for the magnetic tape that moves on the travel route;
- and
- a lifter unit that is arranged at the travel route and contacts the magnetic tape which is stopped on the travel route, where the lifter unit is able to reciprocate in a direction that intersects the travel route so as to separate the magnetic tape from the magnetic head, wherein the lifter unit includes:
- the rotator;
- and
- a lifter unit main body, one end of the lifter unit main body contacting the rotator and being supported rotatably around a second rotating shaft while the other end contacts the magnetic tape,
- wherein the drive unit applies the driving force rotating the rotator and the rotator rotates the lifter unit main body.
A magnetic tape maintenance method by using a magnetic tape device that includes a magnetic tape as a storage medium, the magnetic tape maintenance method comprising:
- preparing a travel unit that includes a rotator supported rotatably around a first rotating shaft and a drive unit to move the magnetic tape along a travel route according to rotation of the rotator by a driving force from the drive unit;
- preparing a magnetic head that is arranged at the travel route to perform data reading and writing for the magnetic tape that moves on the travel route;
- preparing a lifter unit that is arranged at the travel route, the lifter unit including the rotator and a lifter unit main body, one end of the lifter unit main body contacting the rotator and being supported rotatably around a second rotating shaft while the other end contacts the magnetic tape,
- wherein the drive unit applies the driving force rotating the rotator and the rotator rotates the lifter unit main body,
- making the lifter unit contact the magnetic tape which is stopped on the travel route;
- and
- separating the magnetic tape from the magnetic head by reciprocating the lifter unit in a direction that intersects the travel route.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.