Patent ID: 8213108
Filing Date: 2012-07-03
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A storage medium library device, comprising: magazines having a plurality of cells for housing cartridges each including a built-in storage medium; a storing/reproducing device which writes/reads data to/from the storage medium by mounting the cartridge; and a cartridge transporting device which transports the cartridge by reciprocating between each of the cells of the magazines and the storing/reproducing device, the library device including: a first magazine and a second magazine disposed respectively at both ends of a magazine providing area in its lateral-width direction in such a manner that respective cartridge loading/unloading faces having cartridge loading/unloading ports for each of the cells become substantially in parallel to each other; a movable magazine capable of freely moving in a direction orthogonal to the cartridge loading/unloading faces provided between the first magazine and the second magazine in such a manner that a cartridge loading/unloading face of the movable magazine becomes substantially in parallel to the cartridge loading/unloading faces of the first magazine and the second magazine; a magazine rearranging device for forming a longitudinal moving path between the movable magazine and one of the first magazine or the second magazine by moving the movable magazine to a direction orthogonal to the cartridge loading/unloading face of the movable magazine; a transporting-device lateral feeding device for setting position of the cartridge transporting device at an end part of the formed longitudinal moving path by moving the cartridge transporting device along a lateral moving path extended in parallel to the moving direction of the movable magazine at a position that does not interfere with a magazine moving area where the movable magazine moves; and a transporting-device longitudinal feeding device for moving the cartridge transporting device along the longitudinal moving path, wherein the storing/reproducing device is arranged at a position capable of passing and receiving the cartridge between the cartridge transporting device that is located on the lateral moving path.