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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. 11, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2005
Yukihiro Inoue, Toon, JP;
Yukihiro Inoue, Toon, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A cassette library apparatus and a posture control method thereof are provided. A swing arm () is capable of chucking or releasing a cassette () by getting into a recessed part () of the cassette () and getting out of the recessed part () when a swing frame () swings up and down. The apparatus includes a swing mechanism () for swinging the swing frame () and the swing arm (), a stepping motor () for driving the swing mechanism (), a device () which detects the swing arm () being in a specific posture, and a device () which detects the posture of the swing arm () by counting a number of pulses supplied to the stepping motor () when the posture of the swing arm () is changed from the specific posture by drive of the stepping motor ().
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