Patent ID: 7477479

Claim:
A bezel for a tape drive, comprising: a housing for engaging a front of a tape drive; an opening in the housing for receiving a tape cartridge; and a plurality of unique fiducials located on a front surface of the housing, each unique fiducial providing an alignment target for aligning a corresponding unique robotic assembly to insert or remove the tape cartridge through the opening in the housing, said plurality of unique fiducials comprising: a first unique fiducial for use with a first robotic assembly comprising a first fiducial support having a truncated pyramidal shape protruding from the front surface of the housing, the first fiducial support having a flat support surface, and a flat, generally rectangular, fiducial affixed to the flat support surface of the first fiducial support; a second unique fiducial for use with a second robotic assembly comprising a second fiducial support having a fiducial support having an L-shape protruding from the front surface of the housing, the second fiducial support supporting a second fiducial, the second fiducial comprising a horizontal fiducial element and a vertical fiducial element, the vertical fiducial element extending parallel to a right edge of the housing and the horizontal fiducial element extending parallel to a top edge of the housing; a third unique fiducial for use with a third robotic assembly comprising a reflective, generally rectangular element recessed from the front surface of the housing; and a unique removably mounted fourth fiducial for use with a fourth robotic assembly, the fourth fiducial comprising a generally rectangular structure having a front surface and a rear edge, the rear edge of the fourth fiducial configured to couple to a slot formed in the front surface of the housing for positioning the fourth fiducial on the housing, a reflective surface element fixed on the front surface of the fourth fiducial to provide an alignment target for sensing by a positioning sensor of the fourth robotic assembly; and a plurality of integrally formed legs extending from the front surface of the housing at a height greater than a height of each unique fiducial of the plurality of unique fiducials, such that if the housing of the bezel is in contact with a surface, the legs provide support for the tape drive without the plurality of fiducials contacting the surface, each leg extending an equal distance from the front surface of the housing.