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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2014
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood City, CA (US);
Joseph Paul Manes, Arvada, CO (US);
Daniel James Plutt, Superior, CO (US);
Timothy Craig Ostwald, Boulder, CO (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
Utilities (e.g., systems, apparatuses, methods) that reduce robotic assembly contention in media element storage libraries by translating (e.g., displacing) a robot arm of a first robotic assembly mounted over a first storage array of a storage library away from a central reference plane as the robot arm is being pivoted into a first position adjacent the first storage array to allow a robot arm of a second robotic assembly to slide or otherwise move past the robot arm of the first robotic assembly, even when the robot arms of the first and second robot arms are disposed at the same height (e.g., along a z-axis) within the storage library. For instance, a pivot member of the robot arm may be mounted on a carriage that is configured to translate between the first and second storage arrays in response to the pivot member being pivoted about a pivot axis.