Patent Issued for Library Apparatus

摘要

News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "There is known a library apparatus which is capable of storing plural information record media such as a magnetic tape in a housing thereof and which transfers those information record media by a robot to an information input-output apparatus such as a magnetic tape drive to input and output information. A bar code for identification is attached to the information record media. A bar code read device is provided with the robot. The robot reads the bar code of an information record medium placed at an information record medium transfer entrance by the bar code read device and transfers and stores the information record medium to a predetermined storage shelf. An optical bar code read device that uses an imaging device such as a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) is one example of a known bar code read device.