Patent ID: 6958970

Claim:
A disk player for holding a plurality of disks at a disk standby area in a casing, so that a disk selected from said plurality of disks may be transferred to a disk playing area in said casing and may be reproduced, comprising: a plurality of disk trays, which are stacked in a predetermined direction, respectively keeping one of said plurality of disks thereon; a disk playing assembly for clamping and playing one of said plurality of disks having been moved to said disk playing area to reproduce information recorded on said disk; and a supporting mechanism for supporting said disk playing assembly thereon, wherein during a movement in which one of said disk trays is being moved from said disk standby area to said disk playing area said one of disk trays comes into engagement with said supporting mechanism so that said disk playing assembly is caused to move in said predetermined direction thereto, and clamp and play said one of plurality of disks wherein said supporting mechanism is rotatably supported about a rocking fulcrum, said disk playing assembly is supported apart from said rocking fulcrum on said supporting mechanism, and said disk playing assembly is moved in said predetermined direction by rotating said supporting mechanism about said rocking fulcrum.