Patent ID: 6922379

Claim:
A disk changer apparatus comprising: a drive device for reading or writing information from or to a disk loaded on a sliding tray of said drive device by irradiating a light beam onto the disk through an opening formed in said sliding tray; a disk storage section for storing a plurality of disks supported on respective carrying trays; a tray keeping section for temporarily keeping the carrying tray of a given disk; a first transport section that receives, from said disk storage section, a designated disk along with the respective carrying tray supporting thereon the designated disk and then transports the designated disk and respective carrying tray to a predetermined position adjacent to said tray keeping section to thereby pass the carrying tray of the designated disk to said tray keeping section; and a second transport section that receives only the designated disk from said first transport section having transported the designated disk and respective carrying tray to the predetermined position, and then passes the designated disk to said sliding tray of said drive device.