Patent ID: 7424724
Filing Date: 2008-09-09
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A disk apparatus comprising a stationary frame as a stationary side, and a floating unit which is disposed in said stationary frame through elastic component, and which has a function to record data on and/or reproduce the data from a disk-shaped recording medium inserted into said disk apparatus, wherein said floating unit includes a disk-carrying means which carries said disk-shaped recording medium inserted from a disk insertion/extraction port formed on said stationary frame, a disk-clamping means which clamps said disk-shaped recording medium at a recording/reproducing position, a disk recording/reproducing-driving means which rotates said disk-shaped recording medium about the axis of the disk-shaped recording medium to record the data on or reproduce the data from said disk-shaped recording medium, an electric circuit board having an electric circuit which controls the driving of said disk-carrying means, said disk-clamping means and said disk recording/reproducing-driving means, and disk insertion-detecting levers which are disposed in a plane that includes said disk insertion/extraction port, and which are rotated in an axial direction with respect to the disk-shaped recording medium by the outer edge of said inserted disk-shaped recording medium, so as to directly drive a switch which outputs a disk detection signal to said electric circuit.