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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
John Ellis, Louisville, CO (US);
Assignee:
Exabye Corporation, Boulder, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/568 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/568 ;
Abstract
A cartridge picker uses only one picker drive motor ( ) to perform all of the following operations: [1] open and close gripper fingers ( ); (2) translate a cartridge ( ) in and out of a storage slot in a library (e.g., magazine or the like) or tape drive ( ); and [3] push the cartridge ( ) into the tape drive (below the flush plane of the drive bezel).