Patent ID: 8220013
Filing Date: 2012-07-10
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A recording medium drive apparatus configured to drive a recording medium, comprising: a case; a drive source used for loading the recording medium into the case and ejecting the recording medium from the case; a motor unit configured to hold the recording medium and rotate the recording medium held; a pickup unit configured to perform one of recording a signal on the recording medium that is rotated by the motor unit and reproducing the signal recorded on the recording medium; a first slider that is driven by the drive source to slide a first distance in a first direction; a second slider that is cam-engaged with the pickup unit and slides in a second direction to move the pickup unit upward and downward; a moving member that is releasably engaged with the first slider, engaged with the pickup unit, and cam-engaged with the motor unit, and slides a second distance in the first direction integrally with the first slider while being engaged with the first slider, to move the motor unit upward and downward, the second distance being shorter than the first distance; and a link mechanism configured to link the first slider and the second slider so that a moving speed of the first slider in the first direction corresponds to a moving speed of the second slider in the second direction and the second slider slides the first distance.