Abstract: A library apparatus includes a housing having an opening, a cell unit including a plurality of cells for storing a storage medium, a drive unit for writing data into or reading data from the storage medium, a medium transportation unit for accessing each of the cells and the drive unit and for transporting the storage medium between the cells and between each of the cells and the drive unit, a cell unit driver for moving the cell unit in vertical direction, and a controller for driving the cell unit driver to move the cell unit through the opening to a position accessible by a medium transportation unit of another library apparatus stacked in vertical direction.

Abstract: A library apparatus includes a housing, an insertion and ejection mechanism that is provided in an opening formed in the housing and that is configured to insert and eject a magazine, the magazine being arranged to accommodate a cartridge that includes a storage medium, a drive mechanism configured to access the storage medium and a transporting mechanism configured to transport the cartridge to a predetermined position. The insertion and ejection mechanism includes a magazine receiving section having an engagement section configured to be engaged with a portion of the magazine, a guide rail configured to slidably support the magazine receiving section, and a wall member configured to move together with the magazine receiving section along the guide rail and to close the opening upon an ejection of the magazine from the insertion and ejection mechanism.

Abstract: A library apparatus includes a housing having an opening, a cell unit including a plurality of cells for storing a storage medium, a drive unit for writing data into or reading data from the storage medium, a medium transportation unit for accessing each of the cells and the drive unit and for transporting the storage medium between the cells and between each of the cells and the drive unit, a cell unit driver for moving the cell unit in vertical direction, and a controller for driving the cell unit driver to move the cell unit through the opening to a position accessible by a medium transportation unit of another library apparatus stacked in vertical direction.

Abstract: A library apparatus includes a housing, an insertion and ejection mechanism that is provided in an opening formed in the housing and that is configured to insert and eject a magazine, the magazine being arranged to accommodate a cartridge that includes a storage medium, a drive mechanism configured to access the storage medium and a transporting mechanism configured to transport the cartridge to a predetermined position. The insertion and ejection mechanism includes a magazine receiving section having an engagement section configured to be engaged with a portion of the magazine, a guide rail configured to slidably support the magazine receiving section, and a wall member configured to move together with the magazine receiving section along the guide rail and to close the opening upon an ejection of the magazine from the insertion and ejection mechanism.

Abstract: A magnetic tape apparatus for controlling a running of magnetic tape, and being able to control a cleaning medium to clean a magnetic head. The apparatus including a feed reel shaft and a take-up reel shaft respectively adapted to hold a feed reel and a take-up reel of the cleaning medium; a magnetic head; a control part controlling the feed reel shaft and the take-up reel shaft so as to reel the cleaning medium; and a cleaning section determining part determining a cleaning section on the cleaning medium that is used for a single cleaning step of the magnetic head. The control part controls the feed reel shaft and the take-up reel shaft to clean the magnetic head for the cleaning section by the cleaning medium.

Abstract: A library apparatus in which a plurality of cartridges can be charged or discharged at the same time, with a simple and compact configuration of a magazine load/unload portion, is disclosed. A plurality of cartridges each containing a storage medium are accommodated in a magazine. The cartridges are moved to a drive unit by a built-in accessor thereby to process the storage media. A charge/discharge mechanism for setting the magazine in the apparatus is configured of an outer door arranged on the front of a frame unit for establishing communication between the exterior and the interior of the apparatus and adapted to be opened/closed manually from outside, an inner door arranged on the back of the frame unit and opened/closed mechanically by the insert/discharge operation of the magazine, and a lock mechanism for the inner and outer doors arranged under the frame unit.

Abstract: In a magnetic tape apparatus for controlling a running of a magnetic tape to stop at a reference stop position, a control part controls the feed reel shaft and the take-up reel shaft to reel the magnetic tape and a stop position control part displaces a stop position of the magnetic tape from the reference position wherein the control part activates the stop position control part to displace the stop position when the control part stops running the magnetic tape.

Abstract: In a magnetic tape apparatus for controlling a running of a magnetic tape to stop at a reference stop position, a control part controls the feed reel shaft and the take-up reel shaft to reel the magnetic tape and a stop position control part displaces a stop position of the magnetic tape from the reference position wherein the control part activates the stop position control part to displace the stop position when the control part stops running the magnetic tape.

Abstract: In a case in which hydrobearings are used in the tape guides of a magnetic tape device, the guide surface for guiding a magnetic tape is formed by a plurality of circular arc surfaces. In accordance therewith, the contact surface area of a magnetic tape and tape guide becomes smaller, making it possible to prevent the sticking of a magnetic tape to tape guide.

Abstract: A library apparatus in which a plurality of cartridges can be charged or discharged at the same time, with a simple and compact configuration of a magazine load/unload portion, is disclosed. A plurality of cartridges each containing a storage medium are accommodated in a magazine. The cartridges are moved to a drive unit by a built-in accessor thereby to process the storage media. A charge/discharge mechanism for setting the magazine in the apparatus is configured of an outer door arranged on the front of a frame unit for establishing communication between the exterior and the interior of the apparatus and adapted to be opened/closed manually from outside, an inner door arranged on the back of the frame unit and opened/closed mechanically by the insert/discharge operation of the magazine, and a lock mechanism for the inner and outer doors arranged under the frame unit.

Abstract: A device for receiving a tape cartridge having a reel and a record tape winded around the reel where the record tape has a mounting unit attached to one end thereof includes an engaging unit which engages with the mounting unit, a threader arm which carries the engaging unit together with the mounting unit along a predetermined path to thread the record tape in the device during a threading operation and to unthread the record tape from the device during an unthreading operation, a reel motor which drives the reel of the tape cartridge, and a control unit which controls the reel motor to adjust tension in the record tape during the threading operation and the unthreading operation.

Abstract: In a case in which hydrobearings are used in the tape guides of a magnetic tape device, the guide surface for guiding a magnetic tape is formed by a plurality of circular arc surfaces. In accordance therewith, the contact surface area of a magnetic tape and tape guide becomes smaller, making it possible to prevent the sticking of a magnetic tape to tape guide.

Abstract: A magnetic tape apparatus for reading data from and writing data to a magnetic tape has a magnetic head for reading or writing the data, and first and second tape guides. The first tape guide has a first guide surface to guide the magnetic tape, and the first guide surface has a width that is narrower than the width of the magnetic tape. The second tape guide has a second guide surface to guide the magnetic tape, and the second guide surface has a width that is wider than the width of the magnetic tape. If the tape moves laterally against a flange on the first tape guide, the flange initially yields to the pressure of the tape. Then the flange presses against the magnetic tape to return the tape to a laterally aligned position along a tape path.

Abstract: A magnetic tape apparatus for reading data from and writing data to a magnetic tape has a magnetic head for reading or writing the data, and first and second tape guides. The first tape guide has a first guide surface to guide the magnetic tape, and the first guide surface has a width that is narrower than the width of the magnetic tape. The second tape guide has a second guide surface to guide the magnetic tape, and the second guide surface has a width that is wider than the width of the magnetic tape. If the tape moves laterally against a flange on the first tape guide, the flange initially yields to the pressure of the tape. Then the flange presses against the magnetic tape to return the tape to a laterally aligned position along a tape path.

Abstract: A magnetic tape device including a tape guide to guide a magnetic tape as the magnetic tape travels past a magnetic head to provide good contact between the magnetic tape and the magnetic head. The tape guide includes a roller guides, or roller guides and guide posts. The roller guide includes upper and lower flange units in sliding contact with the edges of the magnetic tape, and a roller unit between the upper and lower flange unit having the magnetic tape wrapped on an outer circumferential surface. The upper and lower flange units include concave portions disposed in an upper surface of the lower flange unit, and in a lower surface of the upper flange unit, to avoid sliding contact with the edge of the magnetic tape.