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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 ().