Appeal No. 1997-1503 Page 4
Application No. 08/422,649
a recording medium drive unit within said
housing for writing and reading data to and from a
recording medium cartridge;
an accessor for automatically switching
recording medium cartridges between said cell unit
and said recording medium drive unit;
a door attached swingingly on said housing
adjacent to said cell unit, said door being
configured to allow a large number of recording
medium cartridges to directly enter, all at once,
into the cells of a selected cell column in said
cell unit; and
automatic faulty cartridge entry detection means
proximate to said cell unit for automatically
monitoring the placement of the recording medium
cartridges in all of the cells of said selected
column and for automatically detecting faulty entry
of a recording medium cartridge into any cell of
said selected cell column into which recording
medium cartridges are allowed to enter through said
door.
The references relied on in rejecting the claims follow:
Jenkins et al. (Jenkins) 4,271,440 Jun.
2, 1981
Lind et al. (Lind) 4,779,151 Oct. 18,
1988
Tatsuta, 1 02-25816 Dec. 12, 1991.
(Japanese Published Patent Application)
1A copy of the translation prepared by the U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office is included and relied upon for this
decision. We will refer to the translation by page number in
this opinion.
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