Patent ID: 6320835
Filing Date: 2001-11-20
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A disk drive device comprising:a disk tray;a housing for movably supporting said disk tray so that said disk tray is movable between a disk ejecting position for replacing a disk from said tray and a disk loaded position;said housing including a housing connector;a disk driving part for writing/reading information to/from the disk in said disk tray when said disk tray is in the disk loaded position;an electric wiring substrate attached to a bottom surface of said disk tray and having a substrate connector;a flexible cable having an approximately U-shape configuration and having two legs connected to said substrate connector and to said housing connector respectively with the legs of said flexible cable having respective surface portions and extending in a direction opposite to the direction in which said disk tray is movably drawn from said housing, andwherein one of said legs of said flexible cable is fixed to said housing, with the other leg being bendably configured such that the bendable leg will bend when said disk tray is movably drawn from the housing and will straighten out when said disk tray is contained in said housing and wherein said flexible cable includes a reinforcement film formed on a surface portion of said bendable leg at a position of said flexible cable at which the bendable leg bends, said reinforcement film bending when said bendable leg bends.