Patent ID: 7308691
Filing Date: 2007-12-11
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A disk apparatus comprising: a disk tray; a housing; and a guide mechanism for guiding the in-and-out movement of the disk tray into or out of the housing, wherein the disk tray carries a disk into a home position within said housing or out of said housing; the guide mechanism includes left and right parallel guide ways provided on said disk tray and extending in the direction where said disk tray is moved in or out, one pair of fore position regulating pieces like projections disposed oppositely to the left and right in the front part of said housing and located on both sides of said disk tray across said left and right guide ways for the disk tray that completes carrying the disk into said housing, in which an opposed interval between said one pair of fore position regulating pieces is wider than a mutual interval between said left and right guide ways; anti-slip lugs prevent the disk tray from slipping out of the housing by engaging stoppers provided at the rear end portion of said housing to the left and right of the front end portion of said disk tray; said anti-slip lugs are disposed opposite to the inner faces of left and right side walls of said housing; each of said left and right guide ways is a straight flat face, and one pair of rear position regulating pieces like projections located on both sides across said left and right guide ways to the left and right of a rear part of said housing, and spaced with a wider interval than the mutual interval between the guide ways are disposed oppositely; a projecting width of said one pair of fore position regulating pieces from said housing is longer, the opposed interval between said fore position regulating pieces being closer to the mutual interval between said left and right guide ways, or equalized to the mutual interval between said left and right guide ways; said left and right guide ways are formed as run-off guide ways biased inwards to the left or right in the front end portions opposed to said fore position regulating pieces at a stage immediately before said disk tray completes carrying the disk into said housing, the dead spaces for receiving said fore position regulating pieces are formed outside said run-off guide ways, and inclined nominal guide ways are provided across the rear end of said run-off guide ways and the lacked end of said guide ways, said nominal guide ways allowing said fore position regulating pieces to slide and ride on said guide ways when said disk tray completes carrying the disk into the inside of said housing; and said anti-slip lugs each has a projecting width enough to prevent the fore position regulating pieces having entered said dead spaces from contacting said run-off guide ways by contacting side wall inner faces of said housing, before said fore position regulating pieces contact said run-off guide ways, when the disk tray is obliquely moved to carry the disk into the inside of said housing.