Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include systems and methods for facilitating relatively simple installation and/or removal of magazines in context of modules of a data storage system. For example, it may be desirable to fill a magazine with data storage cartridges and to install the full magazine into the data storage system. Embodiments use staged structural features to sequentially guide and align the magazine into a desired position in a data storage system. The structural features are designed to facilitate relatively simple installation while providing sufficiently accurate and secure positioning.

Abstract: A disc changer includes: a disc cartridge having a case body in which a plurality of disc-shaped recording media are storable by being arrayed in the axial direction of the center axis, and an information input medium to which at least information relating to pitch between disc-shaped recording media and the number of stored disc-shaped recording media is input; a disc holder configured to hold the disc cartridge, a portion of which is moveable in the center axial direction of the disc-shaped recording media; and a movement mechanism including an encoder, configured to determine a stop position in the center axial direction of the disc holder based on information input to the information input medium.

Abstract: A recording disk cartridge includes a plurality of flexible recording disk media integrally rotatably housed within a cartridge case. Each of the recording disk media is fixed to a center core which is stacked one on another through a spacer. The cartridge case includes: a lower plate for configuring a lower wall parallel to the plurality of the recording disk media; at least one inner plate that is stacked and fixed on the lower plate, and partitions the plurality of the recording disk media; and an upper plate that is stacked and fixed on the inner plate, and configures an upper wall of the cartridge case. Each spacer is provided with locking protrusions at upper and lower surfaces thereof, and each center core is provided with locking holes for engagement with the locking protrusions of adjacent spacers.

Abstract: A disc cartridge provided with: a plurality of trays, each of which can place a disc; and a case where those trays can be taken in and out of an opening, wherein an operating unit is disposed in each of the trays, a guide rail is disposed in either one of the trays and the case in a direction in which the trays are taken in and out of the case, and a fitting unit is disposed in the other of the trays and the case so as to be fit in the guide rail in order to guide the trays along this guide rail, and when the trays are taken in and out of the case, they can be smoothly taken in and out in such a way that the trays are not caught by the case, and a disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus having such a disc cartridge.

Abstract: A disc cartridge provided with: a plurality of trays, each of which can place a disc; and a case where those trays can be taken in and out of an opening, wherein an operating unit is disposed in each of the trays, a guide rail is disposed in either one of the trays and the case in a direction in which the trays are taken in and out of the case, and a fitting unit is disposed in the other of the trays and the case so as to be fit in the guide rail in order to guide the trays along this guide rail, and when the trays are taken in and out of the case, they can be smoothly taken in and out in such a way that the trays are not caught by the case, and a disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus having such a disc cartridge.

Abstract: A disc cartridge provided with: a plurality of trays, each of which can place a disc; and a case where those trays can be taken in and out of an opening, wherein an operating unit is disposed in each of the trays, a guide rail is disposed in either one of the trays and the case in a direction in which the trays are taken in and out of the case, and a fitting unit is disposed in the other of the trays and the case so as to be fit in the guide rail in order to guide the trays along this guide rail, and when the trays are taken in and out of the case, they can be smoothly taken in and out in such a way that the trays are not caught by the case, and a disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus having such a disc cartridge.

Abstract: A disc cartridge provided with: a plurality of trays, each of which can place a disc; and a case where those trays can be taken in and out of an opening, wherein an operating unit is disposed in each of the trays, a guide rail is disposed in either one of the trays and the case in a direction in which the trays are taken in and out of the case, and a fitting unit is disposed in the other of the trays and the case so as to be fit in the guide rail in order to guide the trays along this guide rail, and when the trays are taken in and out of the case, they can be smoothly taken in and out in such a way that the trays are not caught by the case, and a disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus having such a disc cartridge.