Patent ID: 6789260
Filing Date: 2004-09-07
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A disk drive apparatus comprising:a mechanical deck having a spindle motor for rotationally driving an installed disk-like recording medium and having means for recording data to and/or reproducing data from a disk-like recording medium mounted thereon and that is rotated by the spindle motor; a tray ascending/descending unit movably installed from above said mechanical deck and driven vertically to ascend or descend between an ascending position and a descending position in said mechanical deck; a disk tray removably installed from a front side to said tray ascending/descending unit and driven to be loaded or unloaded between a pulling-out position in front of said tray ascending/descending unit and an inward pulling-in position in a horizontal direction, wherein in said descending position of said tray ascending/descending unit the spindle motor and means for recording data are brought into operable association with the disk-like recording medium loaded on the disk tray; and a one motor type loading drive mechanism having the motor and drive mechanism mounted on said tray ascending/descending unit for movement therewith and for performing in sequence driving to load/unload said disk tray in respect to said tray ascending/descending unit and driving to ascend or descend said tray ascending/descending unit itself in respect to said mechanical deck, wherein said one motor type loading drive mechanism comprises: J-shaped guide grooves and J-shaped racks formed in parallel with said disk tray; one loading motor fixed to said tray ascending/descending unit; guide pins oscillatably attached to said tray ascending/descending unit through a differential arm and engaged with said J-shaped guide grooves and pinions inserted into outer circumferences of said guide pins, engaged with said J-shaped racks, normally or reversely driven to rotate by said loading motor; a link arm oscillatably attached to said tray ascending/descending unit and oscillatably driven by said differential arm; a pair of right and left slider cams attached in parallel to both right and left sides of said tray ascending/descending unit and driven to be slid in an opposite direction of a forward or rearward direction by said link arm; and a pair of right and left cam mechanisms formed between both right and left sides of said pair of right and left slider cams and inside portions of both right and left side walls of said mechanical deck and having slants in forward or rearward direction set in opposite directions to each other.