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BDT Media Automation Assigned Patent

Storage cartridge and cartridge drive

BDT Media Automation, GmbH, Rottweil, Germany, has been assigned a patent (9,053,741) developed by Steinhilber, Friedhelm, Rottweil, Germany, for a “storage cartridge and cartridge drive.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A docking station for receiving a cartridge includes a housing having a receiving space configured to receive the cartridge. A movable carriage is disposed in the receiving space and configured to transport the cartridge into the receiving space. A movable mouth piece is configured to at least partially surround a multipoint connector of a non-tape storage medium of the cartridge through a horizontal access side opening of the cartridge so as to fix the multipoint connector. A fixing slider is configured to move the mouth piece through the horizontal access side opening so as to fix the multipoint connector within the receiving space. A connector slider is configured to move a connector within the docking station through a vertical access bottom opening of the cartridge against the electrical multipoint connector.

The patent application was filed on September 23, 2011 (13/241,652).

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