Patent ID: 6034840
Filing Date: 2000-03-07
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A disk storage apparatus for storing a disk cartridge having a front face and which includes a disk like storage medium, comprising:an apparatus body onto which said disk cartridge is detachably loaded;a shutter opening and closing mechanism provided on said apparatus body for, in an interlocking operation with an operation of attaching and detaching said disk cartridge, opening and closing a shutter capable of opening and closing a head-positioning-mechanism insertion slot of said disk cartridge; anda rotary head-positioning mechanism, which includes a head portion, being such that said head portion is inserted from said head-positioning mechanism insertion slot into said disk cartridge by a rotary operation, and a rotation center of said rotary head-positioning mechanism is provided on said apparatus body adjacent to the head-positioning mechanism insertion slot on a line intersecting from a center of said disk-like storage medium to said disk cartridge front face perpendicularly.