Patent ID: 6574185
Filing Date: 2003-06-03
Classification: G11B,H04B

Abstract:
A disk player comprising:a disk rotating mechanism for rotationally driving a turntable, thereby rotating a disk carried by the turntable; a disk mounting mechanism for mounting the disk onto the turntable of a disk drive section; a pickup feeding mechanism for moving an optical pickup reading optical signals in a radial direction of the disk, wherein said disk player includes a selecting mechanism for transmitting a driving force from a single driving source selectively to said disk mounting mechanism and said pickup feeding mechanism; and a detection element which is adapted to detect said optical pickup located at the inner peripheral position on the inner periphery side of an information recording area of a disk where optical disk signals are readable, and is adapted to detect the completion of chucking of the disk on said turntable with the operation of said optical pickup.