Patent ID: 6650609
Filing Date: 2003-11-18
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A disk device comprising:a disk device body having a front panel provided with a tray entrance/exit opening formed therein; a cover configured to cover said disk device body, said cover including an upper cover and a lower cover; chassis provided inside of said disk device body; at least one printed circuit board fixed to a bottom of said chassis; a disk tray configured to load and unload a disk-shaped recording medium into and out of, respectively, said disk device body through said tray entrance/exit opening; at least one intake port formed in said front panel of said disk device body along a horizontal line at a predetermined distance above a lower edge of said front panel; an intake passage formed as a gap between said lower cover of said disk device body and said at least one printed board positioned above said lower cover, wherein said gap is bounded on a bottom thereof by a top surface of said lower cover and on a top thereof by a bottom surface of said at least one printed circuit board so that together said lower cover and said at least one printed circuit board form said intake passage and wherein said intake passage has a front end communicating with said at least one intake port; first and second discharge ports, said first discharge port being formed through said lower cover at a position located a predetermined distance behind said inner surface of said front panel of said disk device body and opened to an outside of said disk device body, and said second discharge port being formed through said lower cover at a rear end of said intake passage and opened to said outside of said disk device body such that said second discharge port is formed at a position rearward of said first discharge port; at least one rib including a foreign-matter insertion preventing inner wall configured to prevent insertion of foreign-matter through said at least one intake port, said foreign-matter insertion preventing inner wall having a front surface which extends parallel to and faces an entire length of an inner end of said at least one intake port; and an air sucking gap formed between said inner end of said at least one intake port and said front surface of said foreign-matter insertion preventing inner wall of said at least one rib.