Patent ID: 7853964
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An optical disk drive device comprising: a housing; a rotating table rotatably holding a disk; a loading lever pivotably located inside the housing near an insertion port to push an insertion-direction trailing end of the disk to place the disk on the rotating table; a motor pivotally rotating the loading lever to allow the loading lever to abut against the insertion-direction trailing end of the disk; a detection switch driving the motor; a main lever pivotably located inside the housing closer to a center thereof and pushed and pivotally rotated by an insertion-direction leading end of the disk when the disk is inserted through an insertion port by a predetermined distance, the pivoting operation of the main lever turning on the detection switch to drive the motor; and a sub-lever pivotably provided at the leading end of the main lever and abutting against the insertion-direction leading end of the disk before the main lever abuts against the leading end, to pivotally rotate the main lever.