Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tape cleaner drive arrangement for a tape library
- Patent Title (中): 用于磁带库的磁带清洁器驱动装置
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Application No.: US14207025Application Date: 2014-03-12
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Publication No.: US08976470B2Publication Date: 2015-03-10
- Inventor: Nathan Christopher Thompson , Matthew Thomas Starr
- Applicant: Spectra Logic Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CO Boulder
- Assignee: Spectra Logic Corporation
- Current Assignee: Spectra Logic Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Boulder
- Agent Kenneth Altshuler
- Main IPC: G11B15/68
- IPC: G11B15/68 ; G11B23/50
Abstract:
A tape cartridge library that is equipped with a cleaning device is described. The tape cartridge library essentially includes a plurality of tape cartridges each possessing recording tape media. A plurality of tape drives that read and write data to and from each of the tape cartridges. A tape cleaning drive incapable of transferring data to and from the recording tape media which is independent of the tape drives, the tape cleaning drive disposed entirely within the tape cartridge library. The tape cleaning drive automatically receives one of the tape cartridges and cleans its respective recording tape medium when a predetermined reason for cleaning the tape cartridge is justified.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140192433A1 TAPE CLEANER DRIVE ARRANGEMENT FOR A TAPE LIBRARY Public/Granted day:2014-07-10
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