Patent ID: 7278145

Claim:
An optical disk driving apparatus for selectively driving a plurality of optical disks, comprising: a housing; and an optical disk driving unit accommodated in said housing, said optical disk driving unit including: a turntable for selectively retaining said optical disks; a supporting member for rotatably supporting said turntable; a base plate pivotably retained by said housing, and adapted to assume first and second operational positions; a base plate driving mechanism for pivotally driving said base plate to assume each of said first and second operational positions and, said base plate driving mechanism including an urging mechanism for urging said base plate to said first operational position when said base plate assumes said first operation position, and urging said base plate to said second operational position when said base plate assumes said second operation position, said optical disk driving unit further including: a plurality of trays for respectively accommodating said optical disks under the state that said central axis of each of said optical disks are in parallel relationship with one another; and in which said base plate is pivotally moved with respect to said housing under the state that said central axis of said turntable is substantially in perpendicular relationship with said central axis of said optical disk inserted toward said trays through said loading slot of said front plate.