Patent ID: 6728191
Filing Date: 2004-04-27
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A disk loading apparatus, comprising:two independent detection devices provided in the vicinity of a disk loading slot and arranged so as to be activated together when a disk having a predetermined size is passed through said disk loading slot, each of said two independent detection devices including a rod that is designed to pivot about a first axis in accordance with passage of the disk through said disk loading slot; and two independent disk loading control devices corresponding to said two independent detection devices, respectively, said two independent disk loading devices being provided along a carrier path for the disk and arranged to be activated in connection with activation of said two independent detection devices, respectively, so as to provide a disk-carrying enabled state of said carrier path and a disk-carrying disenabled state of said carrier path, each of said two independent disk loading control devices including a lever that is designed to pivot about a second axis from a first position at which said lever is in said carrier path to a second position at which said lever is not in said carrier path, such that upon pivoting of said rod of a corresponding one of said two independent detection devices, about said first axis, said lever pivots about said second axis to said second position, wherein the disk-carrying enabled state of said carrier path is realized when said lever of each of said two independent disk loading control devices is in the second position, and the disk-carrying disenabled state of said carrier path is realized when said lever of at least one of said two independent disk loading control devices is in the first position.