JPS63292452A - Auto-changer for disk cartridge - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To increase the recording capacity of a disk player by constituting the titled auto-changer so that plural disk cartridges can be handled as one block by a cartridge case being freely attachable and detachable to and from a changer adaptor. CONSTITUTION:When a command signal for replacing a cartridge is outputted to a changer adaptor 2, for instance, a disk cartridge 15 of the lowest stage passes through a cartridge inserting port 9 to a position of a one-point chain line and supplied automatically to the inside of a disk player 1 from the direction as indicated with an arrow (a), by a cartridge driving device of the changer adaptor 2. Subsequently, the disk cartridge 15 which is supplied to the inside of the disk player 1 is brought to auto-loading and a floppy disk is brought to loading onto a disk table 17. Subsequently, after recording and reproduction, the cartridge is brought to auto-reject to a position of the one-point chain line, and thereafter, passes through the inserting port 9 by the cartridge driving device and discharged automatically to the lowest stage of a cartridge case 10.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a disc cartridge that automatically supplies and ejects disc cartridges one by one to a disc player that records and plays back discs in the disc cartridge. It concerns autochangers.

[Summary of the invention]

This invention relates to a disc cartridge autochanger, which includes a cartridge case in which a plurality of disc cartridges are inserted through a front opening and stored vertically, and a changer that sequentially supplies and ejects the disc cartridges in the cartridge case to and from a disc player. By configuring the cartridge case to be detachably attached to the front of the changer adapter, multiple disk cartridges can be handled as one block, and the cartridge case can be removed from the changer adapter. At times, the cartridge case can be used as a sealed storage case for a plurality of disk cartridges.

[Conventional technology]

Conventional disc cartridge autochangers, which automatically feed and eject disc cartridges one by one to a disc player that records and plays the discs inside the disc cartridge, usually handle disc cartridges one by one. Met.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

Therefore, the conventional disc cartridge autochanger cannot handle a plurality of disc cartridges as one block, which poses a problem as a backup area for increasing the recording capacity of existing disc players.

This invention was made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and it is possible to store a plurality of disc cartridges by using a cartridge case that is detachable from a changer adapter that sequentially supplies and ejects disc cartridges to and from a disc player. To provide a disk cartridge autochanger that can be handled as a single block, and in addition, when the cartridge case is removed from a changer adapter, the cartridge case can be used as a sealed storage case for multiple disk cartridges. It is something to do.

[Means for solving problems]

The disc cartridge autochanger according to the present invention records the disc in the disc cartridge,
A disc player for playback, a changer adapter for automatically supplying and ejecting disc cartridges one by one to the disc player, and a plurality of disc cartridges inserted through a front opening and stored vertically, and mounted on the front surface of the changer adapter. a removably attached cartridge case, configured such that a plurality of disc cartridges in the cartridge case are sequentially supplied to and ejected from the disc player by the changer adapter, and the cartridge case is connected to the changer adapter. When the cartridge case is removed from the cartridge case, the front opening of the cartridge case is sealed with a lid, thereby forming the cartridge case into a sealed storage case.

[Effect]

According to the disc cartridge autochanger of the present invention, a plurality of disc cartridges can be simultaneously attached to and removed from the changer adapter by means of the cartridge case, so that the plurality of disc cartridges can be handled as one block by the cartridge case. Moreover, when the cartridge case is removed from the changer adapter, the front opening of the cartridge case is sealed with a lid, and the cartridge case can be used as a sealed storage case for a plurality of disk cartridges.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

This embodiment is applied to an autochanger for a thin floppy disk cartridge (hereinafter simply referred to as a disk cartridge) that houses a floppy disk.

First, the entire autochanger will be explained with reference to FIGS. 5 to 7B.

The disc player 1 is preferably of an auto-loading and auto-eject (however, auto-eject is always required) type, and the front surface 1 of the disc player 1 is
A changer adapter 2 is detachably attached to the rear surface 2b of the changer adapter 2a. The detachable mounting structure 3 of this changer adapter 2 is, for example, a method in which a pair of left and right connecting pins 4 are inserted into a pair of left and right pin insertion holes 5, and a terminal board 6 such as a printed circuit board is inserted. By inserting it into the connector 7, it is also electrically connected. By installing this changer adapter 2,
Cartridge insertion slot 8 on the front side la of the disc player 1
The cartridge insertion port 9 of the changer adapter 2 is connected to. A cartridge case 1O is detachably attached to the front surface 2a of the changer adapter 2 from the front opening 11 side thereof. The removable mounting structure 12 of the cartridge case 10 is such that, for example, a pair of left and right bottles or the like to be connected 13 is connected to a pair of left and right connecting parts 14 such as recesses. For example, four to five disk cartridges 15 are housed in the cartridge case 10, arranged vertically.
One end 15a of the front opening 11 is projected from the front opening 11.

The changer adapter 2 is controlled by, for example, a CPU that controls the disc player 1.

When a command signal for cartridge replacement is issued to the changer adapter 2, the cartridge drive device of the changer adapter 2 (a device in which a pair of left and right side rollers 21 and a pair of upper and lower surface rollers 22 are simultaneously rotated by a motor) For example, the lowest disk cartridge 15 in the cartridge case 10 shown by the solid line in FIG. 7A is automatically fed from the direction of arrow a into the disk player 1 through the cartridge insertion opening 8.9 to the position shown by the dashed-dotted line. be done. The disc cartridge 15 supplied into the disc player 1 is the seventh A.
As shown by the two-dot chain line in the figure, it is automatically loaded,
The floppy disk in the disk cartridge 15 is loaded onto a disk table 17 which is rotationally driven by a spindle motor 16. After this, the floppy disk is rotated by the disk table 17, and desired recording and reproduction are performed by the magnetic head. After this recording and playback, the disk cartridge 15 is auto-ejected to the position indicated by the dashed line in FIG.
through the arrow a to the lowest level inside the cartridge case 10.
It is automatically ejected in the direction . In addition, after this, changer adapter 2's cartridge case drive bag! (A pair of left and right upper and lower sliders 23 having a pair of left and right connecting portions 14
The cartridge case 10 is automatically lowered by one step in the direction of the arrow shown in FIG. 2
The disc cartridge 15 of the third stage is automatically supplied into the disc player l in the same manner as described above. In this way, the disc cartridges 15 in the cartridge case IO are automatically supplied and ejected one by one to the disc player 1 starting from the lowest one, but the cartridge case IO has one point as shown in FIG. 7A. After being lowered to the lowered position shown by the chain line, the cartridge case driving device of the changer adapter 2 raises the cartridge case IO back up in the direction of arrow b' to the raised position shown by the solid line in FIG. 7A.

By the way, as shown in FIG. 5, the cartridge case IO removed from the changer adapter 2 can be used as it is as a storage case for four to five disk cartridges 15.

Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 7B, if only the cartridge case 10 is removed from the changer adapter 4 while the changer adapter 4 remains attached to the disc player 1, one disc cartridge 15 can be inserted into the cartridge insertion slot 9 of the changer adapter 2. It can be supplied from the direction of arrow a by manual operation. However, to eject the disk cartridge 15 at this time, it is necessary to press the eject button 18 provided on the changer adapter 2, as shown in FIG. Further, at this time, manual insertion of the disk cartridge 15 may be detected by the photosensor 19 provided in the changer adapter 2, and the disk cartridge may be automatically supplied by driven insertion.

Next, as shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, the cartridge case 1
The details of 0 will be explained.

As shown in FIG. 1, the cartridge case 10 is made of synthetic resin, for example, and its front end 10
A front opening 11 and a connected portion 13 are provided in a.

Further, a lid 125 for sealing the front opening 11 is provided, and this lid 25 is also made of synthetic resin, for example. This lid 25 is attached to the front end 1 of the cartridge case IO.
It is configured to be selectively fitted and locked between the rear end portion 10b and the rear end portion 10b.

When using this cartridge case 10, first,
As shown in FIG. 1, a plurality of disk cartridges 15
from the front opening 11 into the cartridge case 10 by arrow C.
Insert from any direction and store side by side. At this time, one end portion 15a of the plurality of disk cartridges 15 is projected out of the front opening 11 as shown in the figure.

Next, as shown in FIG. 2, with the lI25 fitted and locked to the outer periphery of the rear end 10b of the cartridge case lO and the front opening 11 opened, the cartridge case lO
the front end 10a of the changer adapter 2
It is detachably attached as described above. By this attachment, I[25 is fitted and locked to the end of the cartridge case 1O on the opposite side from the changer adapter 2.

In this state, as described above, the disk cartridge 15 is automatically supplied and ejected from the disk player 1, that is, the auto change operation is performed.During this auto change operation, the I25 is Since the lid 25 is held at the rear end 10b of the cartridge case 10, there is no problem of losing the lid 25.

Next, as described above, when the cartridge case IO is removed from the changer adapter 2, the lid 25 is attached to the cartridge case 10 as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4.
The front opening 11 is sealed by the I25. As a result, the inside of the cartridge case 10 can be completely sealed, and the cartridge case 10 can be used as a sealed storage case for a plurality of disk cartridges 15, thereby protecting the plurality of disk cartridges 15 from dust and the like. can be stored and stored very effectively.

Next, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, a plurality of upper and lower partition plates 26 are provided on both sides of the cartridge case 10 in the direction of arrow C from the front opening 11. The plurality of disk cartridges 15 inserted into the partition plate 26 are inserted and housed between these partition plates 26. On one side of the cartridge case 10, a plurality of elastic locking means 27 such as leaf springs or rubber are attached between the plurality of partition plates 26.
A plurality of elastic locking means 27 are configured to be elastically pressed from the direction of arrow d in FIG.

As a result, the plurality of disk cartridges 15 housed in the cartridge case 10 are held by the plurality of elastic locking means 2.
7, the cartridge can be locked (for example, locked by frictional force) in the cartridge case 10.

Therefore, from the front end 10a of the cartridge case 10
When removing the cartridge case 25 and attaching the cartridge case 10 to the changer adapter 2 as described above, the cartridge case lO is opened in its front opening 1.
Even if the disk cartridges 15 in the cartridge case 10 are accidentally tilted so that the disk cartridges 1 face downward, the plurality of disk cartridges 15 in the cartridge case 10 can be removed from the case 10 through the front opening 11.
Inconveniences such as accidental slipping in the direction of force indicated by arrow C' in the figure can be prevented. As a result, the cartridge case 10 for the changer adapter 2
can be easily attached and detached.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments, and various effective changes can be made based on the technical idea of the invention.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the disc cartridge autochanger of the present invention, multiple disc cartridges can be handled as one block by the cartridge case that is detachably attached to the changer adapter. It is very effective as a bank-up machine for increasing Moreover, when the cartridge case is removed from the changer adapter, the front opening of the cartridge case can be sealed with a lid and the cartridge case can be used as a sealed storage case for multiple disc cartridges. can be stored and stored extremely effectively while protecting it from dust and the like.

Furthermore, as shown in the example, if the cartridge case is configured so that when the cartridge case is attached to the changer adapter, the lid is fitted and locked to the end on the opposite side of the changer case, then the cartridge case can be attached to the changer adapter. It is possible to prevent the inconvenience of losing the lid while using the lid.

Further, as shown in the embodiment, if a plurality of disk cartridges inserted into the cartridge case through the front opening and stored therein are configured to be locked in the cartridge case by the elastic locking means, the lid can be closed. This prevents the inconvenience of multiple disc cartridges inside the cartridge case accidentally slipping out of the case from the front opening when removing the cartridge case and attaching it to the changer adapter. The cartridge case can be easily attached and detached from the cartridge case.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention.
The figure is a perspective view showing the cartridge case, Figure 2 is a perspective view showing the locking of the lid of the cartridge case, Figure 3 is a sectional view showing the cartridge case in a sealed state, and Figure 4 is the same as in Figure 3. 5 is an exploded perspective view of the entire autochanger, 6 is a plan view of the entire autochanger, 7A is a partially cutaway side view of the entire autochanger, and 7B is a cartridge. FIG. 3 is a partially cutaway side view with the case removed. In addition, in the symbols used in the drawings, 1--・------------ Disk player 2--- Changer adapter 2a--・-・−・Front 10・−・−・・・・・・・・・・・・・Cartridge case 10a −−−−−−・・−・−・−・Front end 10b−・・・・－・・・・・・－・・・Rear end part 11...
・・・−・・・・・・～・−・・=Front opening 15・・・−
・−・−・・−・・−・−Disk cartridge 25
・・・・・・・・・−・・Lid 27−・−・−・・
-・-・−・−・− It is an elastic locking means.

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) A disc player that records and plays discs in a disc cartridge, a changer adapter that automatically supplies and ejects disc cartridges one by one to this disc player, and a plurality of disc cartridges inserted through the front opening. Stored vertically,
a cartridge case detachably attached to the front surface of the changer adapter, the plurality of disc cartridges in the cartridge case are configured to be sequentially supplied to and ejected from the disc player by the changer adapter; The disk cartridge autochanger is characterized in that when the cartridge case is removed from the changer adapter, the front opening of the cartridge case is sealed with a lid to configure the cartridge case as a sealed storage case. (2) When the cartridge case is detachably attached to the changer adapter, the lid is configured to fit and lock onto the end of the cartridge case opposite to the changer adapter. An autochanger for disk cartridges according to claim 1. (3) An elastic locking means is provided for locking the plurality of disk cartridges inserted into the cartridge case through the front opening and stored therein. The disk cartridge autochanger described in item 1.