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Patent No.:

US 7823173 B1

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Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2010

Filed:

Feb. 09, 2006
Applicants:

Hans-juergen Coufal, San Jose, CA (US);

Kirby G. Dahman, Seattle, WA (US);

Glen A. Jaquette, Tucson, AZ (US);

Mark A. Taylor, Tucson, AZ (US);

Inventors:

Hans-Juergen Coufal, San Jose, CA (US);

Kirby G. Dahman, Seattle, WA (US);

Glen A. Jaquette, Tucson, AZ (US);

Mark A. Taylor, Tucson, AZ (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 15/68 (2006.01); G11B 21/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An automated data storage library employing a media accessor, an optical disk drive and a removable disk media. The media accessor includes a cartridge shell gripper. The optical disk drive includes a tape cartridge slot. The removable disk media includes a tape cartridge shell having a structural configuration operable to be physically engaged by the cartridge shell gripper and operable to be physically inserted into the tape cartridge slot by the cartridge shell gripper. The removable disk media further includes one or more optical disks disposed within the tape cartridge shell. A recording surface of each optical disk is extractable, partially or entirely, from the tape cartridge shell by the optical disk drive for writing data onto the optical disk and/or reading data from the optical disk.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Coufal, Hans-Juergen. (2010). Removable disk media including holographic optical disk stacked in a tape cartridge shell (U.S. Patent No. 7823173). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/7823173

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