Patent ID: 8056097
Filing Date: 2011-11-08
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus comprising: a disk mounting part on which a disk-shaped recording medium is detachably mounted; a clamp member holding the disk-shaped recording medium mounted on the disk mounting part between the clamp member and the disk mounting part; and a support member movably supporting the clamp member, wherein one of the disk mounting part and the clamp member has a magnet and the other has an attractable member attracted to the magnet, the apparatus further comprising: a rotating member rotatably supported by the support member; and a rotary elevating mechanism moving the rotating member up and down at a predetermined height by rotating the rotating member, wherein the rotating member is rotated and moved up and down by the rotary elevating mechanism, so that the clamp member is allowed to approach the disk mounting part by attracting the attractable member by a magnetic force of the magnet or to depart from the disk mounting part against a magnetic force of the magnet.