Fujitsu Corporation

Noriaki Matsuzaki

Takahiro Asahara

Hiroshi Shimada

Kiyotaka Tanaka

Katsufumi Ohnaka

Hideyuki Tanaka

Sawao Iwatani

Hiroki Ohashi

Sachiko Terai

Shigeru Honmura

Yasushi Kisimoto

Fumikazu Fujimoto

Kenichi Matsumoto

Hideaki Hasegawa

Keiko Usunaga

Soichi Takeuchi

Hidetomo Kamon

Naoya Yamamura

Miyuki Yokogawa

Yoshiyuki Hashimoto

When information on a device such as a server, storage, and an FC switch constituting a SNA system is input, these devices are displayed and arranged properly on a screen (S, S). When information on a physical path is input by a designer by using this display screen, a virtual SAN system in which the devices are connected by a fiber channel is displayed on the screen (S). Furthermore, when information on an access path is input by the designer by using the construction image, the access path is additionally displayed on the construction image of the virtual SAN system (S). Since the construction image of the virtual SAN system is displayed on the screen, the designer can easily create a design drawing while visually checking the SAN system. This can reduce the work load and time required for construction of the SAN system.

Apparatus for aiding construction of storage area network system and method therefor

The present invention relates to a library apparatus for accommodating different types of recording medium, such as magnetic tapes, in combination. By a method for reading markers, in which the type of the recording medium and its volume label are recorded, by moving a reader, and a construction for sorting and accommodating the different types of recording medium, the markers can be read at a high speed.

Library apparatus and method for reading markers on recording media therein

A library unit including a plurality of frames and a plurality of cell shelves, each of the cell shelves having a plurality of cells arranged in an X-Y plane. The plurality of cell shelves are located in at least one of the plurality of frames, at least one accessor having a picker portion, and a plurality of first reference flags, each of which having substantially the same X-axis coordinate are provided with each of the frames with a spacing in the Y-axis direction. According to the library unit, the plurality of first reference flags are detected by a sensor attached to the picker portion, and a relative inclination angle of the accessor with respect to the Y axis in the X-Y plane is calculated from a difference in position in the X-axis direction of plurality of reference flags in order to obtain a correction value in the X-axis direction for each cell.

Library unit for calculating inclination of an accessor to correct

The present invention provides a cartridge carrying system for performing carriage control so as to enable carriage of a cartridge even when a gap is made between arms and the cartridge. In particular, the cartridge carrying system includes: a cartridge holding mechanism having two arms, the cartridge holding mechanism grabbing a cartridge stored in a first predetermined position at one end of each of the two arms by turning the two arms around respective supporting points in directions opposed to each other; an arm turning mechanisms; a carrying mechanism for carrying the cartridge in such a manner that the cartridge is drawn into or from a space between the two arms; a carriage driving mechanism for driving the carrying mechanism; and a carriage completion monitoring mechanism for monitoring if the cartridge is carried to a second predetermined position, and the cartridge carrying system controlling so that the operation for carrying the cartridge to the second predetermined position is continued, when it is detected that the cartridge is not carried to the second predetermined position within a given time.

Cartridge carrying system and library system

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Kato, Japan

Noriaki Matsuzaki