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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2000
Brian P. Egan, Thornton, CO (US);
Robert E. Schneider, Erie, CO (US);
John F. Ellis, Louisville, CO (US);
Exabyte Corporation, Boulder, CO (US);
Abstract
A robotic cartridge picker ( ) for a cartridge library ( ) has picker fingers ( ) for selecting engaging and disengaging a media cartridge ( ), and an electronic device ( ) carried thereon. A ribbon cable ( ) supplies at least one of power and an electrical signal to the electronic device. The robotic picker is rotatably mounted on a mounting block ( ). The mounting block has a chamber ( ) wherein a portion of the ribbon cable is carried in a variable coiled configuration to accommodate rotation of the robot about an axis ( ). The variable coiled configuration facilitates the ribbon cable having a first degree of coiling when the picker robot rotates to a first position and a second degree of coiling when the picker robot rotates to a second position.