Abstract: A picker/placer is provided with the capability to handle multiple media types while also dealing with drives having various load profiles, all within the same data storage library. This is accomplished by providing the picker/placer with a picker assembly that has slider attached to the driving mechanism to allow lateral movement. Attached to the slider are a pair of picker fingers which are thus also compliant relative to the driving mechanisms of the picker/placer. This arrangement allows the picker fingers to deflect during advancement, whenever an interfering structure is encountered. Further, a compliant pusher assembly is included which provides over travel to deal with hard-stop loading drives, as well as auto-loading drives. Further, the floating picker fingers allows the picker assembly to work with various media types within the same library.

Abstract: A media magazine container utilizes a recirculating latch mechanism that makes minimal use of a solenoid and includes a safety door. The latch mechanism includes a contoured latch arm with a configured opening and a shoulder, a slider moving in a slider track and coupled to the latch arm, and a restoring device, such as a spring, for providing a counteractive force. The mechanism latches a magazine into the container by capturing magazine pins in the shoulder of the latch arm. The magazine can be easily unlatched by forcing the latch arm downward with an actuating device, causing the slider and configured opening to interact. As the magazine is extracted from the container, the slider and configured opening interact in such a manner that when the magazine is fully extracted the latch arm is back to the original position where it first received the magazine, and is ready to receive another. A safety door blocks passage to any objects entering the container other than a media magazine.

Abstract: A snap-on antenna and connector mounting assembly for a hand-held electronic device, such as a hand-held computer. The hand-held electronic device has a housing with a sidewall and a jack-receiving aperture therein, an antenna jack extending through the jack-receiving aperture, and a flexible bushing positioned in the jack-receiving aperture between the antenna jack and the sidewall. The bushing isolates the antenna jack from the sidewall, so the antenna jack is deflectable relative to the sidewall without being damaged. The snap-on antenna has a substantially rigid base having an interior area therein and having a housing-attachment portion with an aperture communicating with the interior area. A plug connector contained within the interior area has a jack-connecting portion positioned to removably receive the antenna jack such that the antenna can be snapped into and off of the hand-held electronic device between installed and removed positions, respectively.