JPH056603A - Assembled-type cartridge containing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To input and discharge a large amount of cartridges with a small containing capacity. CONSTITUTION:A main chassis 1 is provided. A stocker part 2 is provided on the main chassis 1 and contains a plurality of cartridges 200 containing magnetic tapes. A cartridge inputting and discharging region 2A for an operator is provided at one end part of the stocker part 2. A cartridge carrying-out and-in part 2B for a hand part 100 is provided at the other end part of the stocker part 2. In the main chassis 1, a cartridge inputting and moving mechanism 3A for moving the cartridges 200 in the cartridge inputting and discharging region 2A into the cartridge carrying-out and -in region 2B, which can be accessed with the hand part 100, and a cartridge discharging and moving mechanism 3B for moving the cartridges 200 in the cartridge carrying-out and -in region 2B into the cartridge inputting and discharging region 2A, which can be accessed by the operator are provided.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a collective-type cartridge storage device, and more particularly to a collective-type cartridge storage device provided with a magnetic tape built-in transfer mechanism and a discharge transfer mechanism.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional cartridge loading / unloading mechanism, as shown in FIG. 6, a hole is formed in an operator side of a cell block 32 accommodating the cartridge 16, and the cartridge 16 is loaded / unloaded through the hole to be mounted on the cell block 32. Is guided by a shutter guide 33 fixed to the shutter motor gear 35 via a shutter rack gear 34.
It has a shutter 36 that prevents the cartridge 16 from dropping inside the device when the cartridge is loaded.

[0003]

This conventional cartridge loading / unloading mechanism requires a space for two cartridges in order to load / unload one cartridge. For this reason, in order to insert and discharge a large number of cartridges at one time, a larger occupied area for accommodating the cartridges is required, and there is a disadvantage that the entire apparatus becomes large.

[0004]

It is an object of the present invention to improve the disadvantages of the prior art and, more particularly, to provide a collective type cartridge storage device capable of sequentially loading and unloading a large number of cartridges with a relatively small storage volume. That
To that end.

[0005]

According to the present invention, there is provided a main chassis, and a stocker portion provided on the main chassis for accommodating a plurality of cartridges having a built-in magnetic tape. A cartridge loading / unloading area for the operator is provided at one end of the stocker section, and a cartridge loading / unloading area for the hand section is provided at the other end of the stocker section. A cartridge loading / transporting mechanism for transporting the cartridges to the cartridge loading / unloading area accessible by the hand, a cartridge ejection / transporting mechanism for transferring the cartridges in the cartridge loading / unloading area to the cartridge loading / unloading area accessible by the operator, and the like. The composition is adopted. This aims to achieve the above-mentioned object.

[0006]

In the stocker section on the main chassis, first, the cartridges are sequentially placed by the operator in the operator cartridge loading / unloading area at one end thereof. The cartridge placed by the operator is guided by a predetermined guide on the main chassis and transferred to the other end of the main chassis accessible by the hand by the cartridge loading / transfer mechanism. On the other hand, the cartridge placed in the hand access position, that is, the cartridge loading / unloading region for the hand on the main chassis by the hand unit is transferred to the operator access position, that is, the operator loading / unloading region on the main chassis by the cartridge discharge / transfer mechanism. Then, it is given an access as an ejection operation by the operator and ejected to the outside.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. Here, FIG. 1 is a front view showing a cartridge access state by the hand portion. Further, FIG. 2 shows a front view in a cartridge access state by an operator. Further, FIG. 3 is a left side view of FIG. 1, and FIG. 4 is a plan view of FIG. Further, FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing a state during the ejection operation of the cartridge. In these figures, reference numeral 1 indicates a box-shaped main chassis in which the left and right side surfaces of FIG. 1 are opened. The main chassis 1 has a stocker section 2 for accommodating a plurality of cartridges 200 having a built-in magnetic tape at the upper end thereof. This stocker section 2
A cartridge loading / unloading area 2A for the operator is provided at one end of the cartridge and a cartridge loading / unloading area 2B for the hand 100 is provided at the other end of the stocker section 2. The main chassis 1 is further provided with a cartridge loading / transporting mechanism 3A for transporting the cartridge 200 in the cartridge loading / unloading area 2A to a cartridge loading / unloading area 2B accessible by the hand unit 100, and an operator accessing the cartridge in the cartridge loading / unloading area 2B. It is equipped with a cartridge discharge / transfer mechanism 3B for transferring to a possible cartridge input / discharge area 2A. The cartridge loading / transporting mechanism 3A pushes the guide groove 11 formed on the side wall of the main chassis 1 and the cartridge 200 along the guide groove 11 from one end of the stocker portion 2 to the other end of the stocker portion 2. A lever 9 and a feed base 4 that applies a transfer force to the push lever 9 are provided. The feed base 4 has a function of releasing the push lever 9 from the cartridge 200 as needed in the vicinity of one end of the stocker unit 2.

The cartridge loading / transporting mechanism 3A further includes a push arm 12 rotatably supported on the feed base 4 via a roller guide 10, and a roller guide provided on the push arm 12 and engaged with the roller guide 10. A groove 13 and an arm spring 14 fixed to the feed base 4 at one end and to the push arm 12 at the other end and constantly pressing the push arm 12 toward the cartridge 200 are provided. Further, the feed base 4 is provided with an arm stopper 15 that contacts one end of the push arm 12 during movement and rotates the push arm 12 against the arm spring 14, and the function of the arm stopper 15 causes the feed base 4 to move straight. The movement is converted into a vertical movement of the push lever 9 or a horizontal movement in the horizontal direction.

The cartridge loading / transporting mechanism 3A is
A ball nut 5A fixed on the feed base 4 (see FIG. 4) and a ball screw 5B engaged with the ball nut 5A and rotatably supported on the main chassis 1 (see FIG. 3).
A ball screw gear 6 fixed to one end of the ball screw 5B, and a motor gear 7 and a feed motor 8 that engage with the ball screw gear 6. When the cartridge 200 pressed by the hand portion 100 is stopped by the push lever 9, it is stopped by gravity by the action of the motor gear 7 and the feed motor 8.

At the access position by the hand unit 100,
A pull-out claw 25 as a locking member that engages with the cartridge 200 is provided as needed. This pull-out claw 25 corresponds to the main chassis 1 described above.
Is engaged with a guide roller 26 guided by the guide groove 11. The pull-out claw 25 includes two pinion gears 27A that are rotatably supported and rotate as a pair.
And a rack gear 27B that engages with the pinion gear 27A and prevents the pullout claw 25 from rotating.

Further, a put sensor 23 for individually detecting the cartridges 200 inserted by the operator is provided on the guide rail for transferring the cartridges, and the hand unit 100 is arranged in the order of insertion by the operator based on the output of the put sensor 23. The cartridge 200 can be selected. Further, the cartridge loading / transferring mechanism 3A has a stopper link 20 having one end rotatably supported by a guide rail and the other end having a stopper shaft 19 attached thereto. The stopper link 20 drives the stopper link 20 as needed. The cartridge at the access position is equipped with the solenoid 21 and the stopper shaft 19 of the stopper link 20 is inserted between the cartridge 200 at the operator's access position and the cartridge at the back thereof in the operator cartridge loading / unloading region 2A. Is equipped with a function of preventing a shift to the back by an operator's access operation.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described. First, the feed base 4, which is supported by the guide shaft 52 fixed on the main chassis 1 so as to freely reciprocate along the guide shaft 52, has the ball screw 5B and the feed base 4 which are rotatably supported on the main chassis 1. It is driven by a feed motor 8 via a ball nut 5A fixed on the top and a ball screw gear 6 and a motor gear 7 fixed on the ball screw 5B. A roller guide 1 rotatably supported on a push lever 9
0 moves along the guide groove 11 on the main chassis 1 and is connected to the feed base 4 via the roller guide groove 13 on the push arm 12 rotatably supported on the feed base 4.

A force is applied to the push arm 12 by the arm spring 14 in the direction of raising the push lever 9. Feed base 4 from the state of FIG. 1 to A
By driving in the direction, one end of the push arm 12 comes into contact with the arm stopper 15 fixed on the main chassis 1, the push arm 12 rotates, and the roller guide groove 1
The push lever 9 is lowered through the roller 3 and the roller guide 10, and the state shown in FIG. 2 is obtained. The cartridge 16 placed in the operator access position is guided by the lower guide plate 17 and the upper guide plate 18 (see FIG. 3) fixed on the main chassis 1 and moved to the hand access position 2B by the push lever 9.

A stopper link 20 having one end rotatably supported by an upper guide plate 18 and a stopper shaft 19 attached to the other end has one end rotatably coupled to the stopper link 20 and the other end a stopper solenoid 21. Driven by a stopper solenoid 21 via a rotatably coupled pull link 22, which allows the operator to access the operator access position 2
The cartridge 16 is prevented from being inserted into the back side of A.

The put sensor 23 installed on the upper guide plate 18 individually detects the presence or absence of the cartridge 16 placed at the operator access position. The get sensor 24 installed on the hand side of the upper guide plate 19 individually detects the cartridge 16 placed at the hand access position.

A guide roller 26 rotatably supported on a pull-out claw 25 placed on the hand access side of the main chassis 1 is guided along a guide groove 11 on the main chassis 1 to rotate on the pull-out claw 25. It engages with a pinion gear 27A that is freely supported and rotates as a pair, rotation is prevented by a rack gear 27B fixed on the lower guide plate 17, and by pulling out the pull-out claw 25, it is conveyed to the hand access position by the push lever 9. The cartridge 16 can be taken out.

In FIG. 5, the pull lever 28 guided by the guide groove 11 provided on the main chassis 1 and the roller guide 10 supported on the pull lever 28.
Is a guide shaft 2 fixed on the main chassis 1.
By the pull roller guide groove 30 provided on the pull slider 29 that linearly moves along the pull slider 29.
When the hand is accessed, the pull slider 29 moves in the horizontal and vertical directions along the guide groove 11 so as not to interfere with the hand access and prevent the hand access from moving to the hand access position. The cartridge 16 placed by is transported to the operator access position.

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention,
By placing a plurality of cartridges in the hand access direction and transporting them with a lever to a position that can be accessed by the hand or operator, a mechanism for loading and ejecting a large number of cartridges can be provided without reducing the number of cartridges stored in the cartridge storage case. It becomes possible to attach, and by detecting the order in which the cartridges are placed with the set sensor placed on the operator access side, it is possible to load a large number of cartridges without impairing the order in which the operator puts them in. It is possible to provide an unprecedented excellent collective cartridge storage device in which the cartridge can be easily taken out by the pull-out claw.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view when a hand unit is accessed according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view showing an embodiment of the present invention when accessed by an operator.

FIG. 3 is a left side view of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of FIG.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a state during a discharging operation of the cartridge.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 main chassis 2 Guide shaft 2A cartridge loading / unloading area 2B cartridge loading / unloading area 3A cartridge loading transfer mechanism 3B cartridge discharge transfer mechanism 4 feed base 5A ball nut 5B ball screw 6 ball screw gears 7 motor gear 8 feed motor 9 push lever 10 Roller guide 11 Guide groove 12 push arm 13 Roller guide groove 14 Arm spring 15 Arm stopper 17 Lower guide plate 18 Upper guide plate 19 Stopper shaft 20 Stopper link 21 Stopper solenoid 22 pull link 23 Put sensor 24 Get Sensor 25 pull-out claw 26 Guide roller 27A pinion gear 28 Pull lever 29 Pull slider 30 Pull roller guide groove 100 hand section 200 cartridges

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A main chassis, and a stocker portion provided on the main chassis for accommodating a plurality of cartridges having a built-in magnetic tape. One end of the stocker portion has a cartridge loading / unloading area for an operator. A cartridge carry-in / carry-in area for the hand section is provided at the other end of the stocker section, and a cartridge loading for transferring the cartridge in the cartridge loading / unloading area to the cartridge loading / unloading area accessible by the hand section is provided on the main chassis. A collective cartridge storage device comprising: a transfer mechanism; and a cartridge discharge transfer mechanism that transfers a cartridge in the cartridge carry-in / carry-out area to a cartridge input / discharge area accessible by the operator. 2. The cartridge loading / transporting mechanism transports the cartridge from one end of the stocker portion to the other end of the stocker portion along a guide groove formed in the main chassis and the guide groove. A lever,
The push lever is provided with a feed base for urging a transfer force, and the feed base has a function of releasing the push lever from the cartridge when necessary near one end of the stocker portion. The collective cartridge storage device according to claim 1, wherein: 3. A push arm in which the cartridge loading / transporting mechanism is rotatably supported by the feed base via a roller guide, and a roller guide groove provided on the push arm and engaged with the roller guide. ,
An arm spring fixed to the feed base at one end and to the push arm at the other end to constantly push the push arm toward the cartridge side. By providing an arm stopper for rotating the push arm, the linear movement of the feed base is converted into a vertical movement or a horizontal movement of the push lever by the function of the arm stopper. The collective cartridge storage device according to claim 2, which is characterized. 4. The cartridge loading / transporting mechanism, a ball nut fixed on the feed base, a ball screw engaged with the ball nut and rotatably supported on the main chassis, and one end portion of the ball screw. A ball screw gear fixedly mounted on the motor, and a motor gear and a feed motor engaging with the ball screw gear. When the cartridge pressed by the hand portion is stopped by the push lever, the cartridge is stopped by the action of the motor gear and the feed motor without weighting. 4. The collective cartridge storage device according to claim 2, wherein the collective cartridge storage device is configured as described above. 5. A pull-out claw for rotatably supporting a guide roller guided by a guide groove of the main chassis, and engaging with a cartridge at an access position by the hand part as needed. The collective cartridge storage device according to claim 2, 3 or 4, further comprising: 6. The cartridge loading / transporting mechanism includes two pinion gears that are rotatably supported by the pull-out claw and rotate in a pair, and a rack gear that engages with the pinion gear and prevents rotation of the pull-out claw. The collective cartridge storage device according to claim 5, further comprising: 7. The cartridge loading / transporting mechanism includes a put sensor installed on the guide rail for transporting the cartridge to individually detect a cartridge loaded by an operator, and the hand unit is operated based on the output of the put sensor. 2. The cartridges can be selected in the order of insertion by the operator.
The collective cartridge storage device according to 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6. 8. The cartridge loading / transporting mechanism has a stopper link having one end rotatably supported by the guide rail and a stopper shaft attached to the other end, and drives the stopper link as necessary. The cartridge at the access position is equipped with a stopper solenoid, and the stopper shaft of the stopper link is inserted between the cartridge at the operator's access position and the cartridge at the back of the cartridge insertion / ejection area for the operator so that the cartridge at the access position is operated by the operator. 8. The collective cartridge storage device according to claim 7, further comprising a function of preventing a shift to the back due to the access operation of.