Patent ID: 8745646
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A disk apparatus, comprising: a housing; a rotation section adapted to engage with a disk in said housing and rotate the disk around a direction of an axis of the disk; an information reading/recording section adapted to carry out at least one of reading and recording of information from and on the disk; a holding member adapted to hold at least one of said rotation section and said information reading/recording section; and a moving section adapted to move said holding member at least in one of a direction in which said holding member moves toward the disk and another direction in which said holding member moves away from the disk, wherein: said moving section includes a first cam member formed in an arcuate shape surrounding at least part of said holding member and provided for arcuate movement along said holding member around an axis of the arcuate movement at the center of the arcuate shape, and one of said holding member and said first cam member has a grooved portion inclined with respect to a direction along the axis of the arcuate movement while the other of said holding member and said first cam member having a first engaging portion for engaging with the grooved portion.