Patent ID: 7401342
Filing Date: 2008-07-15
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An optical disk conveying device for holding and conveying an optical disk between a rotatable feeding roller and disk guides approximately opposite to said feeding roller, wherein said disk guides have; a first ridge disposed at positions approximately in parallel with and opposite to said feeding roller, protruding toward said feeding roller, and formed in a tapered shape approaching said feeding roller and longitudinally extending from a central part toward both ends thereof; and a second ridge disposed on a side of an opening for disk insertion from the first ridge, protruding towards said feeding roller, and formed in a tapered shape approaching said feeding roller and longitudinally extending from a central part towards both ends thereof; a first tapered part longitudinally extending from the central part towards both ends of the second ridge is formed on the second ridge, a gradient of said first tapered part is larger than a gradient of the tapered part longitudinally formed on said first ridge; and said first tapered part is formed in a manner that when the disk is drawn out of said optical disk conveying device for being ejected, only the back-end circumferential periphery of the disk point-contacts said first tapered part.