Patent ID: 8064312

Claim:
A disk accommodating device for accommodating a disk as a recording medium, comprising: a housing on which a disk accommodating section for accommodating the disk and an opening portion for allowing the disk to be accommodated into said disk accommodating section therethrough are provided; and a lid member configured to close up said opening portion, said housing having a support portion for supporting a one-end side of said lid member for pivotal motion such that the other end side of said lid member may move toward and away from said housing, said disk accommodating section having an upright piece attached for pivotal motion on the side opposite to the side thereof on which said support portion is provided such that said upright piece engages at one end thereof with said disk accommodating section and at the other end thereof with said lid member so as to be erected uprightly from said disk accommodating section in response to pivotal motion of said lid member, said upright piece having a raising up portion provided thereon for raising up, when said lid member is pivoted in a direction in which said lid member is spaced away from said housing, the disk accommodated in said disk accommodating section from said disk accommodating section.