Patent ID: 9111567
Filing Date: 2015-08-18
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A disk drive comprising: a transport roller; a motor drive mechanism that drives and rotates the transport roller; an opposing member facing the transport roller; an insertion detection unit disposed at a position deviating from a transport center line in a first direction along an axis of the transport roller, the transport center line passing through a central part of the transport roller along the axis of the transport roller so as to extend in both a loading direction in which a disk sandwiched between the transport roller and the opposing member is transported into the disk drive with a force generated by rotation of the transport roller and an unloading direction in which the disk sandwiched between the transport roller and the opposing member is transported out of the disk drive with a force generated by rotation of the transport roller; and a control unit that activates the motor drive mechanism to rotate the transport roller in the loading direction when the insertion detection unit is actuated by the disk, wherein the transport roller and the opposing member define a space therebetween to receive the disk inserted from a position deviating from the transport center line in a second direction along the axis of the transport roller.