Patent ID: 7800860
Filing Date: 2010-09-21
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A device for storing data carriers, comprising a housing, with at least one magazine, which can be inserted into the housing and which can be removed from the housing, with receptacles arranged in the magazine, each of said receptacles being used for a data carrier and with a robot unit, which can move in the housing and can be positioned in front of the receptacles of the at least one magazine, in order to remove the data carriers out of the receptacles or to insert them into the receptacles, a changing device being arranged at the end of the at least one magazine, which changing device is accessible from the outer side of the housing when the magazine is inserted, in order to remove a data carrier from this changing device and/or to insert a data carrier into this changing device, wherein the data carriers are accommodated lying flat in the receptacles of the magazine and the changing device is designed as a drawer, which is mounted in the magazine with at least one receptacle and which, in the case of the inserted magazine, can be extended out of the magazine and the housing in a plane parallel to that of the receptacles into a change position in which data carriers can be removed from and/or inserted into the housing.