JPH0312058A - Floppy disk housing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To efficiently perform the take-out on account of housing and retrieval by providing an information read part, an information display part, an information storage part, an information retrieval part, a medium inlet and outlet part, a medium housing part, an operation panel part and a control part for controlling the individual parts. CONSTITUTION:When a floppy disk is inserted into a medium inserting part (medium inlet and outlet part) 1, a bit of information of an index part is read out by the information read part 4-1 and displayed at the information display part 2. When a confirmation of the displayed information and a housing position of the floppy disk are instructed by the operation panel part 3 via the control part 4-4, the displayed information and the housing position of the floppy disk are stored in the information storage part 4-2, and the inserted floppy disk is housed in the medium housing part 5. At the time of taking out the floppy disk, it is taken out by specifying the housing position in the medium housing part 5 by the operation panel part 3, and the information of the index part of the floppy disk is taken out with retrieval by an instruction of the information retrieval part 4-3.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field] The present invention relates to a floppy disk storage device.

[Conventional technology]

On floppy disks used for business purposes, information such as the title of the written content and the position of the written content on the floppy disk is stored in an index section.

In the conventional floppy disk storage method, labels indicating the contents are attached to the floppy disks, and sets of about 10 floppy disks are grouped by business and purpose and stored in boxes. When performing detailed management, the index section stored on the floppy disk is printed out and saved as an attachment to the floppy disk, or the list is saved as a ledger.

Therefore, when checking or using the contents written on a floppy disk, the user takes out the corresponding floppy disk from the floppy disk label or from the floppy disk list.

In addition, index information from the attached label alone cannot be used.
If you cannot confirm the contents, insert the floppy disk into the computer's floppy disk drive, read the information written in the index section, or refer to the written contents directly to check the contents of the floppy disk. Checking and using it.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The conventional floppy disk storage method described above is a storage method whose main purpose is simply storage, and when searching or checking the contents, the label affixed to the floppy disk and the information in the index section are read and used. However, it has the disadvantage that it is not possible to efficiently obtain a corresponding floppy disk. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a floppy disk storage device that makes it easy to store and search by effectively utilizing the information in the index section such as the title of the content written on the floppy disk.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The floppy disk storage device of the present invention includes an information reading section that reads information in the index section of a floppy disk, an information display section that displays information on the index section of the floppy disk that has been read, and an information display section that reads information in the index section of the floppy disk. an information storage section that stores information in an index section of a stored floppy disk in a format that is easy to search; an information search section that searches a stored floppy disk based on the stored information in an index section of a floppy disk; A medium storage section that stores a plurality of floppy disks, an operation panel section that gives instructions to read and search information in the index section of the floppy disks, and a control section that controls each section. It is configured with

〔Example〕

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of the floppy disk storage device of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the floppy disk storage device of this embodiment includes a medium loading/unloading section 1 for loading and unloading floppy disks, and a display section for displaying index information of read floppy disks and search results for stored floppy disks. It comprises an information display section 2, an operation panel section 3 for issuing operation instructions and search instructions, a central control section 4 having an information reading section, an information storage section, an information search section, and a control section.

Next, the functions of the floppy disk storage device of this embodiment will be explained with reference to an operation example.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the relationship of each part when accommodating a floppy disk.

First, as shown in FIG. 2, when a floppy disk is inserted into the medium insertion section 1, the information reading section 4-1 reads the information in the index section of the floppy disk and displays it on the information display section 2.

Therefore, when confirmation of the displayed information and the storage position of the floppy disk are instructed through the control unit 4-4 on the operation panel unit 3, the displayed information and the storage position of the floppy disk are stored in the information storage unit 4-2. The inserted floppy disk is then stored in the medium storage section 5.

Note that there are two methods for storing floppy disks: a method of automatically detecting an empty position in a medium storage section, and a method of directly specifying a storage position.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the relationship of each part when taking out a floppy disk. When taking out the floppy disk, as shown in FIG. There is a method of extracting the corresponding floppy disk while searching for information in the index section of the floppy disk according to instructions from the information retrieval section 4-3.

Furthermore, in the latter case, there are two functions: a method of searching in the order of storage position and a method of searching in the order of information in the index section of the floppy disk.

Note that the information in the index section of the floppy disk taken out from the medium storage section 5 of the floppy disk storage device of this embodiment to the medium loading/unloading section 1 is immediately erased from the information storage section 4-2, and the information is stored in the medium storage section 5. The storage position will be empty.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, the floppy disk storage device of the present invention has the effect that the stored floppy disks can be retrieved and removed efficiently, and the necessary floppy disks can be obtained immediately.

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Claims (1)

[Claims] An information reading section that reads information in the index section of a floppy disk, an information display section that displays information on the index section of the read floppy disk, and an information storage that stores information on the index section of the read floppy disk in an easily searchable format. an information retrieval section that searches for stored floppy disks based on information in the stored index section of the floppy disk, a medium loading/unloading section for loading and unloading floppy disks, and a medium storage section for storing a plurality of floppy disks. What is claimed is: 1. A floppy disk storage device comprising: a floppy disk storage unit; an operation panel unit that issues instructions for reading and searching information in an index area of a floppy disk; and a control unit that controls each unit.