Patent ID: 7451464

Claim:
A disk player, comprising: a tray capable of moving in and out of a player body; a driving unit moving the tray, the driving unit including a first rack gear formed at a lower portion of the tray; a tray gear rotatably formed in the player body to engage the first rack gear; and a driving motor for driving the tray gear; a lifting unit selectively engaged with or disengaged from the driving unit that raises a turntable receiving a disk loaded by the tray thereon and a spindle motor rotating the turntable, the lifting unit including a pivot plate that supports the spindle motor and the turntable and is rotatably formed in the player body; a cam slider provided in the player body for reciprocal sliding movement that causes the pivot plate to ascend or descend according to a direction of movement of the cam slider; a driving gear formed in the player body rotated by power supplied by the driving motor; and a second rack gear formed in the cam slider engaged with and disengaged from the driving gear according to the position of the cam slider; and a damping unit that reduces loads and impacts during movement of the lifting unit.