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AUTOMATED DATA LIBRARY SYSTEM INCLUDING A FLAT PLANE MEMORY

  • US 3,872,445 A
  • Filed: 05/11/1973
  • Issued: 03/18/1975
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/11/1973
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An automated data library system including the storage of information in at least one central location and for retrieving the stored information in accordance with requests for particular stored information from a plurality of terminals, including first means including a plurality of terminals, a transmission medium connected to a central location of stored information, means connected to the terminals and the said medium for transmitting requests for particular stored information at the central location and receiving information from the central location in accordance with the requests, second means located at said central location for storing information at a plurality of fixed location in a stationary plane and with the area of the plane memory of a particular size to provide the particular information at particular locations within the area of the plane and with the plane memory maintained stationary from before requests for particular stored information until after the retrieval of stored information in response to those particular requests, third means including at least one seNsor for retrieving the information stored at the pluralities of fixed locations in the stationary plane memory, fourth means providing a number of X-Y positioners complementing the number of sensors included in the third means and with the X-Y positioners coupled to the sensors to provide movement of the sensors along a plane parallel to the plane of the plane memory to the plurality of fixed locations in the stationary plane memory, and fifth means coupled to the first means and the fourth means to control the fourth means to provide X-Y movement of at least the one sensor in accordance with requests for particular stored information at particular locations to retrieve the particular stored information at the particular locations for transmission back to the terminals.

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