Patent ID: 7779434

Claim:
A disk drive apparatus comprising: a chassis having a disk insertion slot provided on a front face through which a disk-type recording medium is inserted and/or ejected; a disk transfer mechanism by which the disk-type recording medium is transferred between a disk ejection position located outside of the disk insertion slot in the chassis and a disk loading position located inside of the disk insertion slot; a rotational drive mechanism including a disk loading portion on which the disk-type recording medium is removably loaded and which is rotationally driven, such that the disk-type recording medium is rotated; an optical pickup configured to record and/or reproduce an information signal on the disk-type recording medium that is loaded and rotated on the disk loading portion; a pickup movement mechanism by which the optical pickup is moved along an information recording surface of the disk-type recording medium; a base member on which the rotational drive mechanism, the optical pickup and the pickup movement mechanism are mounted; a base movement mechanism with which the base member is attitude changeably supported and the disk-type recording medium is loaded on or removed from the disk loading portion by changing the attitude of the base member; and an attitude adjustment mechanism by which the attitude of the base member can be adjusted relative to the chassis.