Patent ID: 6151284
Filing Date: 2000-11-21
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A disk device comprising: a fixed unit having a base portion, a cover portion and a lowered hollow portion and having a connector portion; a movable unit being accommodated in said base portion and to hold a recording disk, a bottom of a projecting portion of said recording disk on said moving unit being protected by said cover portion, said movable unit having a sub-chassis and electrical parts on the sub-chassis, said electrical parts including a disk motor arranged on a base plate, said movable unit being supported on the fixed unit such that the movable unit is movable between an inserted position and a disk-change position in both an inserting direction and an ejecting direction; anda flexible printed circuit cable having wires for electrically connecting the fixed unit and the electrical parts of the movable unit, said flexible printed circuit cable having a connector portion, said connector portion of said flexible printed circuit cable being fitted to the connector portion of the fixed unit and arranged on the base plate having the disk motor thereon such that the electrical parts of the movable unit are electrically connected to the fixed unit through the base plate, substantially all of said flexible printed circuit cable having a width substantially parallel to said base plate and perpendicular to said wires within said flexible printed circuit cable.