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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:
Feb. 17, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2001
Scott Ryan Patterson, Manitou Springs, CO (US);
Paddy Eliot Collins, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Ryan Stuart Porter, Monument, CO (US);
Peter A. Johnson, Black Forest, CO (US);
Alexander Chan, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Kim M. Thomas, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Christopher Lee Felton, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
David Ray Berry, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Thua Nang Dai, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Dominic John Maglin, Pueblo, CO (US);
Theodore James Oade, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Gary Eugene Sadler, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Sam Wen, Superior, CO (US);
John C. Owens, Arvada, CO (US);
Quantum Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The tape cartridge transport magazine receives and stores tape cartridges in a horizontal orientation relative to the tape cartridge transport magazine to achieve a substantially smaller form factor. Once loaded into the magazine, the tape cartridges are shuffled in a vertical closed loop within the magazine so that any one of the tape cartridges can be positioned for selection by a cartridge picker. During shuffling within the magazine, individual tape cartridges are not flipped or reoriented, but remain properly oriented for selection by the cartridge picker. When used with a tape cartridge autoloader/library system as disclosed herein, a pair of interchangeable magazines can be utilized to store and provide tape cartridges for selection by a rotating cartridge picker.