Nec Embedded Products, Ltd.

Nec Personal Products, Ltd.

Tadashi Kosugi

Takeshi Suzuki

Manabu Tsuchiya

Toshimitsu Kawasaki

A cell () includes a cartridge lock () at its opening for securing a data cartridge () in the cell by locking. A picker mechanism () includes a picker arm () and an ejection release part () for releasing locking realized by the cartridge lock (). When the data cartridge () is to be inserted into the cell (), the cartridge lock () is caused to retract as far as a position at which locking is released by a tapered surface () that is provided on the data cartridge (); and when the data cartridge () is to be ejected from the cell (), cartridge lock () is released by the ejection release part () at the same time that picker arm () engages engagement hole ().

Library device including a tapered shape insertion release part, method of taking out data cartridge, and method of receiving the data cartridge

The magazine includes a rail installed on its bottom surface approximately parallel to an insertion/extraction direction, the rail including a plurality of stepped portions formed at a side surface thereof. A device body includes: a lock lever installed rotatably within the same plane as the bottom surface of the magazine, the lock lever including one portion located in a space below the magazine and another portion located beside the magazine; a spring which urges in a direction in which the rail is installed so that a portion of the lock lever located in a space below the magazine is engaged with the stepped portion; and an accessor which moves beside the magazine along the insertion/extraction direction. The lock lever engaged with each stepped portion is released in such a way that the accessor rotates the lock lever in an opposite direction to an urging direction of the spring.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tadashi Kosugi