Patent ID: 6510110
Filing Date: 2003-01-21
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A disk carrying apparatus, comprising:a disk carrying section for carrying a disk-type recording medium; a disk accommodation section including a plurality of layered accommodation shelves for accommodating the disk-type recording medium carried by said disk carrying section into one of said accommodation shelves; a storage section for storing position information of said disk carrying section with respect to said accommodation shelves of said disk accommodation section; control means for controlling said disk carrying section in accordance with the position information stored in said storage section to move to a position corresponding to each of said accommodation shelves; stopping state detection means, including a light emitting element and a light receiving element provided on said disk carrying section adjacent said disk accommodation section, for detecting a stopping state of said disk carrying section with respect to each of said accommodation shelves, based on a received light amount of said light receiving element depending on a state of a light intercepting disk that is transferred between said disk carrying section and the accommodation shelf; and updating means for determining an optimum stop position of said disk carrying section with respect to each of said accommodation shelves in response to the stopping state detected by said stopping state detection means and updating the position information stored in said storage section with the position information corresponding to the optimum stop position.