Fujitsu Corporation

Tsuyoshi Inokuchi

Kenji Nakajima

Kazuhiko Inoue

A stopper for stopping an ejected cartridge at a predetermined point before the cartridge leaves a drive unit. The stopper permits an accessor to insert the cartridge into the drive unit. In addition, in ejecting the cartridge from the drive unit, the stopper stops the cartridge before the cartridge obstructs movement of the accessor.

Accessor hand mechanism having grooves for opening and closing fingers

An optical disk library apparatus equipped with a function of automatically cleaning an optical head in a drive unit. This optical disk library apparatus comprises a cartridge entry/eject mechanism for entering an optical disk cartridge into the library apparatus and ejecting the optical disk cartridge from the library apparatus. Also included is a cell unit having a plurality of cells each for holding the optical disk cartridge therein, a drive unit having an optical head to record data on and/or to reproduce the same from the optical disk cartridge, and outputting a head cleaning request signal on the basis of information relative to soil of the optical head, and an accessor for carrying the optical disk cartridge among the cartridge entry/eject mechanism, the cell unit and the drive unit. The optical disk library apparatus further includes an accessor control means for controlling the accessor to carry a cleaning cartridge from the cell unit to the drive unit in response to a head cleaning request signal obtained from the drive unit. When a cleaning request signal is outputted, the optical head is automatically cleaned by the use of the cleaning cartridge carried by the accessor.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Tsuyoshi Inokuchi