Patent ID: 6751179
Filing Date: 2004-06-15
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A disk device comprising:a chassis; a conveying unit, said conveying until being mounted in the interior of the chassis and further including a conveying roller and a disk guiding section having a protruding section formed so as to move towards the conveying roller as said disk guiding section moves to the end from the center in an approximately vertical position to the direction in which a disk is conveyed, wherein said conveying roller displaces in a direction such that said disk is tightly held by said disk guiding section and said conveying roller and said disk is conveyed by the rotations of said conveying roller while tightly held, and wherein said conveying unit further comprises a supplementary roller to engage a circumferential edge of said disk, said supplementary roller having a rotation shaft and a rotation section and disposed in front of or behind said guiding section, said rotation shaft being mounted on said disk guiding section so as to face the direction in which the disk is being conveyed in an approximately vertical direction and an outer face of said rotation section being disposed on an end of said disk guiding section so as to be placed on said conveying roller side by said protruding section; and a second supplementary roller, wherein the supplementary roller and the second supplementary roller are located at opposite sides of the chassis.