Patent ID: 8254053
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A cartridge carrying apparatus for carrying a cartridge, with traveling reciprocatory between a rack which houses aligned cartridges incorporating a storage medium and a storage playback device disposed near the rack, the cartridge carrying apparatus comprising: a cartridge housing container disposed to be capable of traveling between a position in front of the rack and a position in front of the storage playback device to be close to cartridge insertion/ejection openings of the rack and the storage playback device, and including an opening in a surface facing the rack and the storage playback device; two rotating bodies set outside a projection plane of the cartridge and disposed within the cartridge housing container along an inserting/ejecting direction for the cartridge, and having an interval between the rotating bodies; a circular body having substantial flexibility, wrapped around the rotating bodies; a projection rigidly fixed on a surface of the circular body to be engaged with a notch section formed in a front end portion of the cartridge which is to be ejected from the rack or the storage playback device by being fed to be moved toward an ejecting direction for the cartridge with respect to the circular body, while positioned on outer circumference of a rotating body closer to the cartridge insertion/ejection openings of the rack and the storage playback device with a position of a tip of the projection which is placed slightly outside a projection plane of the cartridge to be along a radial direction of the rotating body so as not to touch an end face of the cartridge as an initial position; a rotating body driving unit for driving rotation of at least one of the rotating bodies; and a container driving unit for transferring the cartridge housing container between the rack and the storage playback device.