Patent ID: 6426932
Filing Date: 2002-07-30
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; printed circuit boards 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 outside of said tray entrance/exit opening; at least one intake passage formed as a gap inside of said cover of said disk device body and having a front end which communicates with said at least one intake port, 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 printed circuit boards so that together said lower cover and said printed circuit boards form said at least one intake passage; a discharge port formed in said at least one intake passage and opened to an outside of said cover through an aperture in said lower cover near said at least one intake port; and an intake passage narrowing member located adjacent to said aperture in said lower cover, said intake passage narrowing member narrowing said at least one intake passage at a location near said aperture in order to divert most of an air flow from said at least one intake port to said outside of said disk device body, said intake passage narrowing member being formed by bending a portion of said lower cover into said at least one intake passage so that a first part of said portion of said lower cover is near to and parallel with a bottom of one of said printed circuit boards and a second part of said portion of said lower cover is diagonally between said first part and a remainder of said lower cover.