Fujitsu Corporation

Fujitsu Kiden, Ltd.

Osamu Omori

Kenichi Utsumi

Satoshi Kanbayashi

Takahisa Miyamoto

Yoshio Kotaki

Nobuhiko Motoyama

Yukio Katsuyama

Yuji Kato

Hiroaki Nishijo

Yutaka Sugai

Hidetaka Kaneko

Ichiro Tatsuda

Mamoru Haneda

Hitosi Saito

An external unit is externally attached to a storage-medium storage device. The external unit includes a verification unit that verifies whether a storage medium that is about to be inserted in a storage slot of the storage-medium storage device is legitimate, and an open/close unit that opens the storage slot so that the storage medium can be inserted in the storage slot only upon the verifying unit verifying that the storage medium is legitimate.

External unit for storage-medium storage device

A library apparatus having components permitting accurate and straightforward assembly. The library apparatus includes respective cell, drive, accessor and passage units, each having box shaped housings including a connection mechanism. A coupling couples the housings of the passage units with the other units. Other features of the library apparatus include a reference mark on the accessor unit which permits a transport mechanism in the passage unit to correct positional errors of the transport mechanism to other components.

Library apparatus and a method for assembly thereof

Growing community of inventors

Kawasaki, Japan

Osamu Omori