Patent ID: 7284247

Claim:
An optical disk driving apparatus for selectively driving a plurality of optical disks, comprising: a housing including a front plate having a loading slot formed therein; and an optical disk driving unit accommodated in said housing, said optical disk driving unit including: a shutter plate for shutting and opening said loading slot of said front plate; a shutter plate driving mechanism for driving said shutter plate to shut and open said loading slot of said front plate; a turntable for selectively retaining said optical disks; a supporting member for rotatably supporting said turntable; a base plate pivotably retained by said housing; a plurality of trays for respectively accommodating said optical disks; an optical disk guiding mechanism for guiding each of said optical disks to said turntable from said trays and vice versa; and a cam gear for transmitting a rotation torque to each of said shutter plate driving mechanism and said optical disk guiding mechanism.