Patent ID: 7774803

Claim:
A disk loading apparatus comprising: a feed roller selectively controlled between a normal rotation for drawing a disk inserted through a slot and a reverse rotation for ejecting the disk through said slot; a disk arm adapted to move back and forth between an initial position where the disk that is drawn by the normal rotation of said feed roller is received and a retracted position that corresponds to a chucking position for the disk; and a straight guide groove for sliding an engaging body included in said disk arm to guide the back-and-forth movement of said disk arm, in which said feed roller has a centering function of moving the disk that is received by said disk arm in the axial direction of said feed roller while pressing the disk against said disk arm, and said disk arm is adapted to be retracted from said initial position to said retracted position by the push-in operation of the disk that is given a feed force by said feed roller, wherein said guide groove is partitioned into an initial part having a large groove width that corresponds to said engaging body in said disk arm positioned in said initial position and a principal part having a groove width smaller than that of said initial part, slant wall surfaces are provided at the juncture between said principal part and said initial part, the groove width between said slant wall surfaces decreasing progressively in the retracting direction of said disk arm, and said engaging body has a convex shape elongated in the longitudinal direction of said guide groove and locking parts to be locked against said slant wall surfaces are formed at a predetermined position in the longitudinal direction of said engaging body, said disk arm in said initial position being adapted to receive the disk that is drawn by said feed roller at a biased position and thereby to be tilted from the neutral state so that said locking parts are pressed against said slant wall surfaces, and further the groove wall surfaces in said initial part that run parallel to the groove wall surfaces in said principal part being adapted to come into contact with said engaging body to limit the tilt angle of said disk arm when said disk arm is tilted from the neutral state with said engaging body, and wherein the centering function of said feed roller is for moving the disk so that the center of the disk is positioned on the extension of the center line of said principal part in said guide groove.