CN114758677A

CN114758677A - Optical disk cartridge

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Publication number: CN114758677A
Application number: CN202210417207.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 龙金凤
Original assignee: Shenzhen Yunxuan Storage Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen Yunxuan Storage Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-04-20
Filing date: 2022-04-20
Publication date: 2022-07-15

Abstract

The invention provides a disk box, the side of which comprises a first matching surface and a second matching surface which are connected, when two adjacent disk boxes are matched through the respective first matching surfaces, the two adjacent disk boxes are arranged in a circular arc shape; when two adjacent disc cases are matched through the respective second matching surfaces, the two adjacent disc cases are linearly arranged. The optical disk box according to the invention can be used for an optical disk library with a rotating cage type structure and an optical disk library meeting a parallel type optical disk structure, thereby realizing the universality of the optical disk boxes of two types, and further realizing the off-line different-machine sharing of optical disks and data storage of the optical disk libraries with two types.

Description

Optical disk cartridge

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of storage equipment, in particular to a compact disc box.

Background

With the advent of the big data era, the optical disk library becomes the best choice for devices which can store big data with low consumption, green, safety and long time.

The structure of a mainstream optical disk library in the market is a rotating cage type, the rotating cage type structure is compact, the storage density is high, more optical disks can be stored, and the rotating cage type optical disk library is commonly used for a PB-level optical disk library for mass data storage; the conventional cage-type structure optical disk library in the market is generally composed of an integral circumferential cage, the optical disk box and the cage are integrated, and the optical disk box can not realize off-line storage and can not realize the sharing of the optical disk box by different machines. The conventional optical disc library with a parallel structure in the market is generally formed by stacking a plurality of square optical disc cartridges, can only be used for the optical disc library with a parallel structure, and has low storage density.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention provides a compact disc box, which aims to solve the technical problem of improving the adaptability and the use convenience of the compact disc box.

According to the optical disk box of the embodiment of the invention, the side surface of the optical disk box comprises a first matching surface and a second matching surface which are connected, when two adjacent optical disk boxes are matched through the respective first matching surfaces, the two adjacent optical disk boxes are arranged in a circular arc shape; when two adjacent disc cases are matched through the second matching surfaces, the two adjacent disc cases are linearly arranged.

The optical disk box according to the embodiment of the invention can be used for an optical disk library with a rotating cage type structure and an optical disk library meeting a parallel type optical disk structure, and realizes the universality of optical disk boxes of two types, thereby realizing the off-line different-machine sharing of optical disks and data storage of the optical disk libraries with two types.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, the magazine has an axisymmetric structure, and the magazine has two first mating surfaces symmetrically distributed and two second mating surfaces symmetrically distributed.

In some embodiments of the present invention, an inner side surface is connected between the two first matching surfaces, and the inner side surface is provided with a positioning groove matched with the positioning gear on the rack.

According to some embodiments of the invention, when two adjacent disc cases are matched through the respective first matching surfaces to form an arc arrangement, a gap is defined between the second matching surfaces of the two disc cases.

In some embodiments of the present invention, two adjacent disc cases are fixedly connected by a limiting block located in the opening portion and a fixing spring buckle matched with the two adjacent disc cases.

According to some embodiments of the invention, each magazine comprises a plurality of cassettes arranged one above the other, each cassette being adapted to hold a plurality of discs.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the casing of the optical disc cartridge defines a receiving cavity, and a plurality of the optical disc cartridges are stacked in the receiving cavity.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, a layer partition is disposed between two adjacent optical discs.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the inner wall of the accommodating cavity or the layer of partition board is provided with a guide rail, and the optical disc cartridge can be pulled out or pushed into the accommodating cavity through the guide rail.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the cartridge is provided with a protruding clamping portion.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a disk cartridge according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a partial sectional view of a disk cartridge according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a bottom view of a disc cartridge according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a circular arrangement of disc cases according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a linear arrangement of a disk magazine according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an optical disc library according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is an exploded view of a partial structure of an optical disc library according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Reference numerals

The optical disc library 100 is provided with a plurality of optical disc libraries,

the device comprises a frame 10, a base 101, a top plate 102, a central rotating shaft 110, a positioning toothed ring 111, a clapboard 120, a supporting column 130, a limiting block 131, a fixed spring buckle 140,

the disc cartridge 20, the disc cartridge 201, the layer separating plate 202, the guide rail 203, the holding portion 204, the first mating surface 210, the second mating surface 220, the inner side surface 230, the positioning groove 231, the opening portion 240,

a set of optical drive arrays 30, each having a plurality of optical drive arrays,

the drive assembly 40, the motor 410, the drive gear 420,

and a disk taking robot 50.

Detailed Description

To further explain the technical means and effects of the present invention adopted to achieve the intended purpose, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and preferred embodiments.

The description of the method flow in the present specification and the steps of the flow chart in the drawings of the present specification are not necessarily strictly performed by the step numbers, and the execution order of the method steps may be changed. Moreover, certain steps may be omitted, multiple steps may be combined into one step execution, and/or a step may be broken down into multiple step executions.

The first part of the present invention describes a disc cartridge 20 for a disc library according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, according to the disc magazine 20 of the present embodiment, the side surface of the disc magazine 20 includes a first mating surface 210 and a second mating surface 220 connected to each other. As shown in fig. 4, when two adjacent disc cases 20 are matched by the respective first matching surfaces 210, the two adjacent disc cases 20 are arranged in a circular arc shape; as shown in fig. 5, when two adjacent disc cases 20 are matched by the respective second matching surfaces 220, the two adjacent disc cases 20 are arranged in a straight line.

The optical disc cartridges 20 according to the embodiment of the present invention may be arranged in a circular shape or in a linear shape according to the requirement of the optical disc library 100, so as to be suitable for the rotating cage type optical disc library 100 and the parallel type optical disc library 100. Moreover, the magazine 20 is an independent detachable module, and can be easily detached from the optical disc library 100, so that off-line storage separated from the optical disc library 100 can be realized, and the magazine 20 can be conveniently transferred from one optical disc library to another optical disc library, thereby realizing the effect of sharing the magazine by different machines.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3, the magazine 20 has an axisymmetric structure, and the magazine 20 has two first mating surfaces 210 symmetrically distributed and two second mating surfaces 220 symmetrically distributed. Therefore, the processing and preparation of the optical disk cartridge 20 are facilitated, and the production cost of the optical disk cartridge 20 is reduced. Moreover, the fixing assembly of the adjacent two disk cartridges 20 is facilitated.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 and 3, an inner side surface 230 is connected between the two first engagement surfaces 210, the cross section of the disk tray 20 is a sector, and an included angle between the two first engagement surfaces 210 may be designed to be 36 °. Thus, 10 disc cases 20 can be arranged in a circle, and the arrangement effect is shown in fig. 4. It should be noted that the included angle between the two first mating surfaces 210 of the magazine 20 can be adjusted according to the requirement of the number of the magazines 20.

As shown in fig. 3 and 7, the inner side 230 is provided with a positioning slot 231 adapted to the positioning gear ring 111 of the rack 10. Thus, the disk cartridge 20 can be positioned and fixed by the engagement of the positioning ring gear 111 and the positioning groove 231. Moreover, when the central rotating shaft 110 of the rack 10 rotates, the optical disc cartridge 20 can be driven to rotate by the positioning ring gear 111, so as to facilitate taking and placing the optical disc in the optical disc cartridge 20.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 4, when two adjacent disc cases 20 are matched by the respective first matching surfaces 210 to form a circular arc arrangement, a gap portion 240 is defined between the second matching surfaces 220 of the two disc cases 20. It should be noted that the first mating surface 210 and the second mating surface 220 are not parallel and coincident planes, and when two adjacent disc cases 20 are matched to form an arc arrangement through the respective first mating surfaces 210, a gap 240 is defined between the second mating surfaces 220 of the two disc cases 20 on the same side.

Referring to fig. 7, a plurality of supporting pillars 130 are disposed on the chassis 10, one supporting pillar 130 is disposed between any two adjacent disk cartridges 20, and the supporting pillars 130 are located at the corresponding opening portions 240. The support column 130 is provided with a stop block 131 matched with the gap part 240. Thereby, positioning and arrangement of the disc cartridges 20 are facilitated, and assembly between adjacent disc cartridges 20 is facilitated.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 7, two adjacent disk cases 20 are fixedly connected by the limiting block 131 located in the opening 240 and the fixing spring fastener 140 engaged with the two adjacent disk cases 20. Therefore, the firmness and convenience of fixing the disk cassettes 20 and the rack 10 can be improved.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, each magazine 20 includes a plurality of magazines 201 arranged in a stack, and each magazine 201 is used for holding a plurality of optical discs. For example, each magazine 20 may be stacked with 10 tiers of cartridges 201, and each cartridge 201 may hold 10-100 discs. It is understood that the above-mentioned optical disc cases 201 and the number of optical discs contained in each optical disc case 201 are only illustrative for facilitating understanding of the solution of the present invention. In actual production, the corresponding number of cd boxes 201 and the number of cd boxes 201 holding cd can be designed and processed according to actual requirements.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the housing of the magazine 20 defines a receiving cavity, and a plurality of cartridges 201 are stacked in the receiving cavity. That is, the magazine 20 has a housing defining an accommodating cavity, and the magazine 201 and the optical disc in the magazine 201 can be well protected by the housing.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 2, a layer partition 202 is disposed between two adjacent optical discs 201, as shown in FIG. 2. Therefore, each CD box 201 can have an independent space, the protection effect of the CD is improved, and the storage and management of the CD are convenient.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 2, the inner wall of the receiving cavity or the layer partition 202 is provided with a guide 203 on the partition 120, and the optical disk cartridge 201 can be pulled out of or pushed into the receiving cavity through the guide 203. That is, the guide rail 203 may be provided on an inner wall of the accommodating chamber, for example, the guide rail 203 may be provided on an inner side wall of the accommodating chamber; it is also possible to arrange the guide rails 203 on the layer separators 202 of each layer. Therefore, the optical disk boxes 201 can be pulled out and pushed into the accommodating cavities conveniently, and the optical disks can be taken and placed conveniently.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in FIGS. 1-3, the optical disk case 201 is provided with a protruding clamping portion 204. Thereby, the disk cartridge 201 can be pulled out of or pushed into the housing chamber by the grip portion 204. For example, the optical disk cartridge 201 may be automatically pulled out or pushed in by the disk taking robot 50 on the chassis 10 engaging with the clamping portion 204, or may be manually pulled out or pushed into the accommodating chamber by the clamping portion 204.

The second part of the present invention describes an optical disc library 100 according to the present invention.

As shown in fig. 6, the optical disc library 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention includes: a frame 10, a plurality of disc cassettes 20, and a disc drive array set 30.

Wherein, the frame 10 is provided with a central rotating shaft 110;

the optical disc cartridges 20 are the above-mentioned optical disc cartridges 20, each optical disc cartridge 20 is detachably disposed on the rack 10, and a plurality of optical disc cartridges 20 are circularly arranged with the central shaft 110 as the central axis; the optical disc drive array set 30 is disposed on the chassis 10 and used for connecting to an electronic device to perform read/write operations on an optical disc. The electronic device may be a computer or other electronic device that can read and write an optical disc.

According to the optical disc library 100 of the embodiment of the present invention, the optical disc cartridge 20 is an independent detachable module, and can be conveniently and efficiently detached from the optical disc library 100, so that the off-line storage of the optical disc cartridge 20 separated from the optical disc library 100 can be realized, and the optical disc cartridge 20 can be conveniently transferred from one optical disc library 100 to another optical disc library 100, thereby realizing the effect of sharing the optical disc cartridge 20 by different devices.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 6, the optical disc library 100 further includes: the driving assembly 40, the driving assembly 40 is connected to the central spindle 110 to drive the central spindle 110 to rotate the plurality of cartridges 20. As shown in fig. 6, the driving assembly 40 may include a motor 410 and a driving gear 420, and the driving gear 420 is connected to a driving shaft of the motor 410 and is connected to the central rotation shaft 110. When the motor 410 is operated, the driving gear 420 is driven to rotate, so as to drive each of the cartridges 20 to rotate through the central rotating shaft 110, thereby facilitating the taking and placing of the optical disc.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 6, the optical disc library 100 further comprises: the disk taking robot 50 is movably disposed on the rack 10, and is used for taking the optical disk from the optical disk cartridge 20 and placing the optical disk in the optical disk drive array group 30, or used for taking the optical disk from the optical disk drive array group 30 and placing the optical disk in the optical disk cartridge 20.

It should be noted that the disk taking manipulator 50 can move in the vertical direction or the horizontal direction on the machine, when a disk needs to be taken from or placed in the disk magazine 20, the disk magazine 20 can be rotated to the corresponding position by the driving assembly 40, the position of the disk taking manipulator 50 is adjusted, the disk magazine 201 on the disk magazine 20 is pulled open by the disk taking manipulator 50, and the disk taking operation is performed by the disk taking manipulator 50.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 6 and 7, a plurality of positioning rings 111 are spaced apart from each other on the central spindle 110, and each of the disc cartridges 20 is provided with a positioning slot 231 adapted to the positioning ring 111. Therefore, the disk cartridge 20 can be positioned and assembled by the engagement of the retaining ring gear and the positioning slot 231, and when the driving assembly 40 drives the central shaft 110 to rotate, the disk cartridge 20 can be driven to rotate by the engagement of the retaining ring gear 111 and the positioning slot 231.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 6, a plurality of partition plates 120 are provided on the central rotating shaft 110 at intervals along the axial direction of the central rotating shaft 110. One or more layers of the disk magazine 20 may be placed on each of the partitions 120. By providing the partition 120, convenience and firmness of fixing and assembling the disk cartridge 20 can be improved.

According to some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 6 and 7, the rack 10 is provided with a plurality of supporting columns 130, and the plurality of supporting columns 130 are spaced along the circumferential direction of the central rotating shaft 110. In some embodiments of the present invention, the supporting column 130 is provided with a limiting block 131, and two adjacent disk cases 20 along the circumferential direction of the central rotating shaft 110 clamp the limiting block 131 and are fixed by the fixing spring fastener 140. Therefore, the fixing assembly of the disk cartridge 20 is facilitated, and the fixing firmness of the disk cartridge 20 can be improved.

The optical disc cartridge 20 and the optical disc library 100 according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings in an embodiment. It is to be understood that the following description is only exemplary and should not be taken as a specific limitation of the invention.

As shown in fig. 6, the optical disc library 100 includes: the optical disk drive comprises a frame 10, an optical disk box 20, an optical disk drive array group 30, a disk taking manipulator 50 and a driving assembly 40.

The frame 10 includes: the base 101, roof 102, be equipped with central pivot 110 between base 101 and the roof 102, the interval is equipped with many support columns 130 along the circumference direction of central pivot 110. The central rotating shaft 110 is provided with a plurality of spacers 120 and positioning rings 111 at intervals along the axial direction thereof.

The driving assembly 40 includes: a motor 410 and a drive gear 420. The entire rotating cage is formed by a plurality of off-line disc cassettes 20 arranged in a circumferential array around the central rotating shaft 110, so as to form a high-density three-dimensional optical disc library 100 capable of storing a plurality of optical discs.

The motor 410 drives the driving gear 420 to rotate, so that the destination off-line optical disc cartridge 20 can be flexibly and rapidly transferred to the front surface of the disc-retrieving robot 50. The disk-fetching robot 50 can move along the X-axis and the Z-axis, and can conveniently fetch any optical disk in the disk magazine 20, and then place the optical disk into the optical drive array group 30 to read and write data. The disk-fetching robot 50 can also conveniently and flexibly place the optical disk from the optical disk drive array group 30 into the optical disk box 201 of any optical disk box 20 of the optical disk library 100.

As shown in fig. 7, when assembling the disc cartridges 20, the disc cartridges 20 are inserted into the rack 10 along the edge of the limiting block 131, and are advanced by the positioning ring gear 111 installed on the central shaft 110 to fix the angle, and then the two adjacent disc cartridges 20 can be fixed by the fixing spring fastener 140.

The optical disc cartridge 20 may be formed by hardware processing, sheet metal stamping, and plastic assembly, or may be formed by injection molding with an integral plastic mold. As shown in fig. 1-3, the cross-sectional view of the optical disc cartridge 20 is substantially fan-shaped, the optical disc cartridge 20 includes a housing defining a containing cavity, 10 optical disc cartridges 201 are stacked in the containing cavity, a guide rail 203 is disposed on an inner wall of the containing cavity, and the optical disc cartridges 201 and the guide rail 203 are injection-molded parts.

The magazine 20 has a total height H of 236.3mm up to 236.7mm, a width W of 148mm and a length L of 238.5 mm. When assembling the disc cartridge 20, it is necessary to detect whether the matching between the disc cartridge 401 and the guide rail 203 is smooth, whether the layer partition 202 meets the requirement of flatness, and the warped article cannot be placed into the accommodating cavity. When screws are needed for fixing in assembly, the screws need to be symmetrically, crossly and symmetrically screwed.

As shown in FIG. 4, a plurality of disk cartridges 20 may closely enclose a circumference, and the plurality of disk cartridges 20 may form a rotating cage structure. As shown in FIG. 5, a plurality of magazines 20 may be arranged in a side-by-side configuration.

In summary, the optical disc cartridge 20 of the present invention can be used in both the optical disc library with the rotating cage structure and the optical disc library with the parallel optical disc structure, so as to implement the common use of the optical disc cartridges of two types, thereby implementing the off-line different-machine sharing of the optical discs and data storage of the optical disc libraries with two types.

While the invention has been described in connection with specific embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that it is intended by the appended drawings and description that the invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention.

Claims

1. A kind of CD box, characterized by, the side of the said CD box includes connecting the first mating surface and second mating surface, when two adjacent said CD boxes cooperate through the said first mating surface of each one, two adjacent said CD boxes are in the circular arc and arranged; when two adjacent disc cases are matched through the second matching surfaces, the two adjacent disc cases are linearly arranged.

2. The disc cartridge as claimed in claim 1, wherein the disc cartridge is an axisymmetric structure, the disc cartridge having two first mating faces symmetrically distributed and two second mating faces symmetrically distributed.

3. The disc cartridge as claimed in claim 2, wherein an inner surface is connected between the first mating surfaces, and the inner surface is provided with a positioning groove adapted to the positioning ring gear of the chassis.

4. The disc case as claimed in claim 1, wherein when two adjacent disc cases are matched to form a circular arc arrangement by the respective first mating surfaces, a gap is defined between the second mating surfaces of the two disc cases.

5. The disc cartridge as claimed in claim 4, wherein two adjacent disc cartridges are fixed by a stopper in the opening and a spring fastener engaged with the two adjacent disc cartridges.

6. The magazine as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein each magazine comprises a plurality of cassettes arranged one above the other, each cassette being adapted to hold a plurality of discs.

7. The disc cartridge as claimed in claim 6, wherein the housing defines a receiving chamber, and a plurality of the disc cartridges are stacked in the receiving chamber.

8. The disc cartridge as claimed in claim 7, wherein a layer separator is provided between two adjacent discs.

9. The disc cartridge as claimed in claim 8, wherein a guide rail is provided on an inner wall of the accommodating chamber or the layer partition, and the disc cartridge is drawn out or pushed into the accommodating chamber through the guide rail.

10. The disc cartridge as claimed in claim 6, wherein the disc cartridge is provided with a protruding clamping portion.