JPH03232604A - Magnetic cartridge tape container - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To shorten the working time of a robot by providing a partition boards having both the slant face near the bottom plate and the perpendicular face opposing to the slant face and by positioning the tapes between both faces in a magnetic cartridge tape container for which the computer controlled robot is used. CONSTITUTION:The tape 11 held by the chuck 17 of a tape handling robot is released at a position a little higher than the slant starting position A of a slant partition board 12 in relation to the shelf at the specified position. Then, the tape 11 drops and slides along the slant face B and is pushed toward a perpendicular partition 13. In addition, when the tape is brought into contact with the bottom plate 15 of a tape container 14, it abuts on the perpendicular partition board 13 and is stabilized. This constitution always keeps the tape position, at which the robot holds the tape to take it out, fixed and eliminates the need to hold it over again, which will shorten working time.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a tape storage box applied to an automatic storage for magnetic cartridge tapes for computers.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, magnetic cartridge tapes 2 are stored horizontally in a horizontal storage shelf 1.
The tape handling robot 3 determines the storage position. Therefore, the precision of the tape storage position depends on the precision of the robot's operation.

Note that 4 is a magnetic tape league and 5 is a tape insertion slot.

In addition, as shown in FIGS. 5 to 7, when the magnetic cartridge tape 2 is stored vertically, in order to correct variations in the storage position accuracy of the tape handling robot 3, when the tape 2 is taken out and used, , -dan tape 2
is placed in the positioning pocket 7 to ensure accurate gripping position of the tape.

Note that Japanese Patent Application No. 1-288643 has been filed for an "automated warehouse for cartridge tapes" with horizontal storage.

This invention includes a horizontal case that stores cartridge tapes in multiple rows and columns, a shelf that cantilever supports a shelf board on which a plurality of the horizontal cases are placed in a horizontal row, and a shelf that can move along the front surface of the nuclide. Furthermore, the present invention includes a robot having an arm that can rotate on the shelf board, and cartridge tapes are arranged also in the depth direction of the shelf to increase the storage capacity thereof.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

When storing magnetic cartridge tapes in the conventional vertical direction, the tape handling robot is required to take out the tape and put it into the positioning pocket, and then move to accurately position the tape to grip it. There are problems such as it takes a long time.

[Means to solve the problem]

Magnetic cartridge tapes have the same standards, and products from all manufacturers have the same external shape.

Further, as shown in FIG. 8, in the magnetic cartridge tape, one end of the lower part of the tape is chamfered due to the structure of the tape pull-out claw.

Therefore, in order to position the tape using the angle of inclination of the chamfered part at the bottom of the tape, an inclined surface corresponding to the chamfered part of the cartridge tape is provided near the bottom plate on one side of the inner partition of the storage box. Make the other side of the partition vertical.

[Effect]

When the tape handling robot stores the tape vertically in the storage box, the tape moves toward the partition side that does not have an inclined angle due to its own weight, so the storage position of the tape has no relation to the accuracy of the robot's storage position. will be accurate.

〔Example〕

Embodiments of the present invention will be explained with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

The tape 11 gripped by the chuck 17 of the tape handling robot 10 and transported to a predetermined position is transferred to the robot 1.
0, and is released from the chuck 17 at a position slightly higher than the inclination starting point position A of the inclined intermediate partition 12, and falls. When the tape 11 falls, the slope B of the partition 12
It is pushed toward the vertical partition 13 along the vertical axis, and comes into contact with the partition 13 at a position where it contacts the bottom plate 15 of the tape storage box 14.

All the plurality of tapes are arranged in the tape storage box 14 in contact with the partition 13 and are aligned accurately,
When the tape handling robot 10 takes out the tape 11 with the chuck 17, it can always grip the tape 11 at a predetermined position. Note that 16 is a magnetic tape reader.

〔Effect of the invention〕

The present invention provides a tape storage box that stores a plurality of magnetic cartridge tapes in a vertical direction using a tape handling robot equipped with a tape gripping chuck. By providing a partition having a partition and positioning the cartridge tape between the inclined surface and the vertical surface, the following effects can be obtained.

By arranging the magnetic tape cartridges accurately in the storage box, the position of the tape gripped by the robot to take it out is always the same, so the tape can be inserted into the tape regro without having to grip it again. Therefore, the operating time of the robot can be reduced.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention, (a) is a perspective view, (b)
) is a view taken along the line XX in Figure Ia). FIG. 2 is an overall view showing the shelf for the tape storage box and the tape handling robot, and the Y section in FIG. 2 is shown in FIG. 1(a). Figure 3 is a perspective view of the magnetic tape league, Figure 4 is an overall perspective view showing a conventional horizontal storage shelf and tape handling robot.
Fig. 5 is an explanatory diagram of the operation of a conventional vertical storage shelf tape handling robot, and Fig. 6 is an overall perspective view showing the conventional vertical storage shelf and tape handling robot. FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of the second part of FIG. 6, and FIG. 8 shows the external shape of the magnetic cartridge tape, with (a) being a front view and (1) being a side view. 8...Inner partition 11...Magnetic cartridge tape 12...Slanted inner partition 13...Vertical inner partition 14...Tape storage box 17...Tape gripping chuck Agent Patent attorney Shige Okamoto Bungai 1 person (a) Figure 1 Tomoe Figure 3 3FS5 leap and (a) Figure 6 Otsu) Figure (b)

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a tape storage box for vertically storing a plurality of magnetic cartridge tapes using a tape handling robot equipped with a tape gripping chuck, the tape storage box has an inclined surface near the bottom plate of the storage box and a vertical surface opposite to the inclined surface. A magnetic cartridge tape storage box characterized in that a partition is provided to position the cartridge tape between the inclined surface and the vertical surface.