Patent ID: 7979871
Filing Date: 2011-07-12
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A disk apparatus, comprising: a housing on which an opening through which a disk is inserted into and extracted from the housing is formed; a carrying unit that performs carrying-in of the disk into the housing and carrying-out of the disk to the outside of the housing; a driving unit that drives the carrying unit; a rotating unit that rotates the disk inserted in the housing; an information reading/recording unit that performs at least one of reading and recording of information from and on the disk rotated by said the rotating unit; and a control unit that controls the entire apparatus; the carrying unit including a pair of arms disposed in a substantially symmetrical relationship with respect to the carrying direction of the disk in the proximity of the ends of the opening such that the arms pivot around end portions thereof adjacent to the opening in synchronism with each other in directions toward and away from each other; each of the pair of arms having rollers that grip the disk to a predetermined position, the rollers including a first roller being provided substantially at a center of the each of the pair of arms and a second roller provided at an end of each of the pair of arms remote from the opening, the rollers provided on at least one of the pair of arms being driven by the driving unit to be rotated to carry the gripped disk to a predetermined position; the control unit including: a state decision section configured to decide a carrying state of the disk by the carrying unit; and a driving control section configured to stop, if it is decided by the state decision section that a part of the disk is carried out to the outside of the housing through the opening, the driving of the driving unit in a state wherein either the first rollers or the second rollers grip the disk.