Patent ID: 8559130

Claim:
A disk library apparatus, comprising: at least one disk drive for accessing a storage disk; a magazine for housing a plurality of storage disks to be inserted into the at least one disk drive; a plurality of pallets each having a disk placing surface for placing a storage disk, which are arranged in the magazine so that pallets having different engaging claw shapes are adjacent to each other; and a picker for taking out a pallet selected from the plurality of pallets from the magazine, wherein: the picker includes at least one aim for taking out the selected pallet from the magazine in the taking-out of the selected pallet; and each of the at least one arm is, in the taking-out of the selected pallet, engaged with an engaging claw of the selected pallet and in a position shifted from an engaging position with an engaging claw of each pallet adjacent to the selected pallet when seen in a pallet arranging direction.