Patent ID: 6535471
Filing Date: 2003-03-18
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A disk drive apparatus having a mechanism for loading a disk cartridge, in which a removable disk cartridge is loaded, comprising:an elevating plate on which a spindle motor for rotating the disk in the cartridge is mounted and on which alignment pins inserted into two reference holes formed in the cartridge are mounted; and a load plate which moves the elevating plate to the cartridge side in accordance with the insertion of the cartridge into the disk drive apparatus, wherein the elevating plate has two sets of guide pins arranged symmetrically with each other in a direction perpendicular to the inserting direction of the cartridge, the load plate has oblique surfaces, two of the oblique surfaces are arranged on the right and the other two of the oblique surfaces are arranged on the left, the oblique surfaces respectively lifting the guide pins when the load plate is moved, and starting points of said two of the oblique surfaces are shifted in the longitudinal direction with respect to the inserting direction of the cartridge, as compared with the other two of the oblique surfaces.