An optical disk library system with a removable slot-in optical disk drive group

Abstract

The present invention discloses an optical disk library system with a movable suction optical drive group, comprising an optical disk library shell (1), in which a lifting platform (2) is slidably connected, the lifting platform (2) is provided with a horizontal slide rail (3) distributed along the length direction thereof, an optical drive mounting platform (4) is slidably connected to the horizontal slide rail (3), the optical drive mounting platform (4) is rotatably supported by a rotating mounting frame (5), three suction optical drives (6) distributed at equal intervals are installed in parallel on the rotating mounting frame (5), a gear ring (7) is provided outside the rotating mounting frame (5), a rotating motor (8) is provided on the optical drive mounting platform (4), the rotating motor (8) is capable of driving a driving tooth (9) meshing with the gear ring (7) to rotate, and a horizontal moving motor is also provided inside the optical drive mounting platform (4), and a gear located at a working end of the horizontal moving motor meshes with a horizontal rack (10) provided on the lifting platform (2).

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The invention relates to the field of optical storage, in particular to an optical disk library system with a movable suction-type optical disk drive group. Background Art

[0002] The data storage industry market urgently needs a new type of storage method that is safe, massive, efficient, and green. In recent years, optical storage has gained new vitality in the field of data storage with the application of new processes, new materials, and new technologies, and the optical disk library is an important optical storage device.

[0003] Traditional optical disk library products need to be equipped with multiple robotic devices in the process of storing and managing a large number of optical disks. Not only does it require a set of robotic devices to move the optical disk tray (or disk tray), but it also requires another set of robotic devices to separate the optical disks in the optical disk tray and transport them to the optical drive. The above complex actions can only be achieved by the coordinated actions of multiple robotic devices, but each robotic device may have deviations, which can easily lead to low accuracy of physical storage positions after accumulation. In addition, this traditional device also has problems such as slow response speed and easy failure. Therefore, a method or device that can solve the above problems is now needed. Summary of the invention

[0004] The present invention aims to solve the above-mentioned deficiencies in the prior art and proposes an optical disk library system with a movable suction optical drive group, which has a simple structure, ingenious design, reasonable layout, fast response speed, high movement accuracy, and relatively low cost and failure rate.

[0005] The technical solution of the present invention is: a CD library system with a movable suction optical drive group, including a CD library shell 1, characterized in that: a lifting platform 2 is slidably connected inside the CD library shell 1, and a horizontal slide rail 3 distributed along the length direction of the lifting platform 2 is provided on the lifting platform 2, and an optical drive mounting platform 4 is slidably connected on the horizontal slide rail 3, and a rotating mounting frame 5 is rotatably supported on the optical drive mounting platform 4, and three equally spaced suction optical drives 6 are installed in parallel on the rotating mounting frame 5, and a gear ring 7 is provided outside the rotating mounting frame 5, and a rotating motor 8 is provided on the optical drive mounting platform 4, and the rotating motor 8 can drive the driving teeth 9 meshing with the gear ring 7 to rotate, and a horizontal moving motor is also provided inside the optical drive mounting platform 4, and the gear located on the working end of the horizontal moving motor is meshed with a horizontal rack 10 provided on the lifting platform 2,

[0006] A lifting motor is provided at one end of the lifting platform 2, and a first lifting gear 11 is provided at the working end of the lifting motor, and the first lifting gear 11 is meshed with a first lifting rack 12 fixedly arranged on the outside of the optical disk library housing 1. Two lifting motors are symmetrically provided at the other end of the lifting platform 2, and second lifting gears 13 are provided at the working ends of the two lifting motors, respectively, and the second lifting gear 13 is meshed with a second lifting rack 14 fixedly arranged on the outside of the optical disk library housing 1. A lifting guide groove 15 is also provided on the optical disk library housing 1, and a guide pin shaft 16 slidably connected in the lifting guide groove 15 is provided on the lifting platform 2.

[0007] The optical disc library system also includes two sets of optical disc magazine groups 17, which are symmetrically distributed on both sides of the optical disc library shell 1. Each set of optical disc magazine groups 17 is composed of multiple optical disc magazine layers evenly distributed in the longitudinal direction, and each optical disc magazine layer includes multiple pop-up optical disc magazines 18 distributed at equal intervals.

[0008] Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the following advantages:

[0009] The optical disk library system with a movable suction optical drive group in this structural form has a simple structure, ingenious design, and reasonable layout. It designs a special structure optical disk library system to solve the problems existing in the traditional method of multiple manipulators cooperating to realize the transportation of optical disks between the optical disk box and the optical drive. The optical drives in the system use multiple suction optical drives, and these optical drives can also move accurately in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction, and can also rotate, so that the optical drives can move to each optical disk box in the multi-layer optical disk box layer. In other words, this optical disk library system fundamentally changes the traditional method of transporting optical disks to optical disk drives by manipulators. It adopts the active movement of optical drives to realize the new method of transmitting optical disks between the optical disk box and the optical drive. Compared with the traditional structure, its structure is simpler, the action response speed is faster, the action is accurate, and the work efficiency is high; and its manufacturing process is simple and the manufacturing cost is low. Therefore, it can be said that it has many advantages and is particularly suitable for promotion and application in this field, and its market prospects are very broad. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0010] Figure 1 2 is a top view of an embodiment of the present invention.

[0011] Figure 2 It is a front view of an embodiment of the present invention.

[0012] Figure 3 2 is a rear view of an embodiment of the present invention.

[0013] Figure 4 It is a structural schematic diagram of the optical drive installation platform part in an embodiment of the present invention.

[0014] Figure 5 It is a schematic structural diagram of the lifting platform part in an embodiment of the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0015] The specific implementation of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Figures 1 to 5 As shown: a CD library system with a movable suction optical drive group, including a CD library shell 1, a lifting platform 2 is slidably connected in the CD library shell 1, the lifting platform 2 is provided with a horizontal slide rail 3 distributed along its length direction, the horizontal slide rail 3 is slidably connected with an optical drive mounting platform 4, the optical drive mounting platform 4 is rotatably supported by a rotating mounting frame 5, and three equally spaced suction optical drives 6 are installed in parallel on the rotating mounting frame 5, a gear ring 7 is arranged outside the rotating mounting frame 5, and a rotating motor 8 is arranged on the optical drive mounting platform 4, the rotating motor 8 can drive the driving teeth 9 meshing with the gear ring 7 to rotate, and a horizontal moving motor is also arranged in the optical drive mounting platform 4, and the gear located on the working end of the horizontal moving motor is meshed with a horizontal rack 10 arranged on the lifting platform 2,

[0016] A lifting motor is provided at one end of the lifting platform 2, and a first lifting gear 11 is provided at the working end of the lifting motor, and the first lifting gear 11 is meshed with a first lifting rack 12 fixedly arranged on the outside of the optical disk library housing 1. Two lifting motors are symmetrically provided at the other end of the lifting platform 2, and second lifting gears 13 are provided at the working ends of the two lifting motors, respectively, and the second lifting gear 13 is meshed with a second lifting rack 14 fixedly arranged on the outside of the optical disk library housing 1. A lifting guide groove 15 is also provided on the optical disk library housing 1, and a guide pin shaft 16 slidably connected in the lifting guide groove 15 is provided on the lifting platform 2.

[0017] The optical disc library system also includes two sets of optical disc magazine groups 17, which are symmetrically distributed on both sides of the optical disc library shell 1. Each set of optical disc magazine groups 17 is composed of multiple optical disc magazine layers evenly distributed in the longitudinal direction, and each optical disc magazine layer includes multiple pop-up optical disc magazines 18 distributed at equal intervals.

[0018] The working process of the optical disk library system with a movable slot-loading optical drive group of the embodiment of the present invention is as follows: when a certain optical disk in a certain ejection optical disk magazine 18 needs to be taken, the control system first controls the lifting platform 2 to move longitudinally according to the specific position of the target optical disk, and drives the slot-loading optical disk drive 6 to move to a suitable horizontal height, and then the optical disk drive mounting table 4 moves horizontally, and drives the slot-loading optical disk drive 6 to move to the target optical disk magazine. If the target optical disk magazine is in the opposite direction, the rotating mounting frame 5 will also drive the slot-loading optical disk drive 6 to rotate, and finally make the entrance of the slot-loading optical disk drive 6 correspond to the position of the target optical disk; after the slot-loading optical disk drive 6 moves to the right position, the ejection optical disk magazine 18 ejects the target optical disk, and the slot-loading optical disk drive 6 sucks the target optical disk and performs read / write operations;

[0019] After the read / write operation is completed, the drive mechanism will drive the slot-in optical drive 6 that has previously performed the read / write operation to move to the initial position of the optical disc to be read / written, and the slot-in optical drive 6 will spit out the optical disc, and under the action of the optical disc pickup mechanism, the optical disc will be sent to the pop-up optical disc box 18 for storage. The optical disc pickup mechanism here is the existing technology. In actual work, a set of optical disc pickup mechanisms can be set at the entrance of each slot-in optical drive 6 to realize the transportation of the optical disc after the read / write operation.

[0020] The slot-in optical drive 6 can move in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction, and can also rotate under the action of the rotating mounting frame 5. The combination of the above three actions can realize movement in three-dimensional space;

[0021] When the lifting platform 2 needs to move longitudinally, the control system controls all the lifting motors to move synchronously at the same time, and the first lifting gear 11 and the two second lifting gears 13 rotate at the same time, thereby driving the lifting platform 2 to move longitudinally relative to the optical disk library housing 1. During this process, the guide pin shaft 16 slides back and forth in the lifting guide groove 15, playing a guiding and limiting role.

[0022] When the optical drive mounting platform 4 needs to move in the horizontal direction, the control system controls the horizontal moving motor to work, and the gear on the working end thereof rotates, thereby driving the optical drive mounting platform 4 to make reciprocating linear motion along the horizontal slide rail 3.

[0023] When the slot-load optical drive 6 needs to rotate, the control system controls the rotating motor 8 to drive the driving gear 9 to rotate, thereby driving the ring gear 7 and the rotating mounting frame 5 connected to the ring gear 7 to rotate, so that the three slot-load optical drives 6 installed on the rotating mounting frame 5 will rotate 180°.

Claims

1. An optical disk library system with a removable slot-loading optical drive group, comprising an optical disk library housing (1), characterized in that: A lifting platform (2) is slidably connected inside the optical disk library shell (1), and a horizontal slide rail (3) is arranged on the lifting platform (2) and is distributed along its length direction. An optical drive mounting platform (4) is slidably connected to the horizontal slide rail (3). A rotating mounting frame (5) is rotatably supported on the optical drive mounting platform (4), and three equally spaced suction optical drives (6) are installed in parallel on the rotating mounting frame (5). A gear ring (7) is arranged outside the rotating mounting frame (5), and a rotating motor (8) is arranged on the optical drive mounting platform (4). The rotating motor (8) can drive a driving tooth (9) meshing with the gear ring (7) to rotate. A horizontal moving motor is also arranged inside the optical drive mounting platform (4), and a gear located on the working end of the horizontal moving motor meshes with a horizontal rack (10) arranged on the lifting platform (2). A lifting motor is provided at one end of the lifting platform (2), and a first lifting gear (11) is provided at the working end of the lifting motor. The first lifting gear (11) meshes with a first lifting rack (12) fixedly arranged on the outside of the optical disk library housing (1). Two lifting motors are symmetrically provided at the other end of the lifting platform (2). The working ends of the two lifting motors are respectively provided with second lifting gears (13). The second lifting gears (13) mesh with a second lifting rack (14) fixedly arranged on the outside of the optical disk library housing (1). A lifting guide groove (15) is also provided on the optical disk library housing (1). A guide pin shaft (16) slidably connected to the lifting guide groove (15) is provided on the lifting platform (2). The optical disk library system further comprises two sets of optical disk magazine groups (17), which are symmetrically distributed on both sides of the optical disk library housing (1), and each set of optical disk magazine groups (17) is composed of a plurality of optical disk magazine layers evenly distributed in the longitudinal direction, and each optical disk magazine layer comprises a plurality of pop-up optical disk magazines (18) evenly distributed.

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