Patent ID: 7882511
Filing Date: 2011-02-01
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A disk apparatus, comprising: an apparatus body including a driving section for rotating a disk of a substantially circular shape on and/or from which information is to be recorded and/or reproduced, an information reading/writing section for reading information recorded on the rotating disk and/or recording information on the disk, and a control section for controlling said driving section and said information reading/writing section; and a housing for accommodating said apparatus body therein; said housing including a housing body accommodating the apparatus body and having an accommodating recess formed at a position thereof corresponding to said driving section and said information reading/writing section for accommodating the disk therein and a lid member having a first end pivotally supported on said housing body and a second end to be moved toward the housing body for closing up said accommodating recess; the housing body having a first placement face and a second placement face adjacent to and intersecting with each other, the housing body being placed in a vertically upright posture or in a horizontally placed posture, the disk apparatus being fully functional when the housing body is placed in the vertically upright posture and in the horizontal placed posture, the vertically upright posture being a posture in which the first placement face serves as a bottom face and the accommodating recess faces upwards, the horizontally placed posture being a posture in which the second placement face serves as the bottom face and the accommodating recess faces sideways; the driving section including a chucking member disposed within the accommodating recess and engaged with a hole formed at a center of the disk, the chucking member singly holding the disk rotatably; said accommodating recess having a convex portion formed in a projecting manner on a bottom face thereof such that said convex portion surrounds the mounted disk around a rotary shaft of the chucking member, a face of said convex portion opposed to an end face of the disk accommodated in said accommodating recess is inclined to be spaced away from the end face of the disk toward the direction in which said convex portion projects; a space which is formed by said convex portion and surrounds the disk having a shape defined as a combination of a circular shape conforming to the shape of an outer profile of the disk and a rectangle of which center is substantially aligned with the center of the circular shape, the length of all the sides of the rectangle being smaller than the diameter of the disk and the length of the diagonal line of the rectangle being greater than the diameter of the disk as viewed in a direction in which the disk is accommodated, wherein two corners of the rectangle formed by the convex portion which are positioned opposite to an end portion of said housing body at which said lid member is pivotally supported are respectively provided with first and second corner portions formed deeper than the bottom face of said accommodating recess, said first corner portion, which is located upward when the disk apparatus is placed in the vertically upright posture, is formed deeper than said second corner portion, and faces of the corner portions opposite to the end face of the disk are continuous with the face of the convex portion.