Patent ID: 7853963

Claim:
A disk storage medium processing apparatus comprising: an apparatus body having a disk loading/unloading slot; a traverse unit which is disposed in said apparatus body to conduct at least one of recording, deletion, and reproduction of information onto or from a disk; disk conveying means which conveys said disk into said apparatus body when a part of said disk is inserted through said disk loading/unloading slot and which ejects a part of said disk through said disk loading/unloading slot from a state that said disk is housed in said apparatus body; control means for controlling said disk conveying means, wherein said disk conveying means comprises at least first through third disk conveying arms which are pivotably attached to the apparatus body and which can hold a periphery of said disk to convey said disk, and wherein said control means comprises trigger setting means for setting trigger for starting control of said disk conveying means according to a diameter of said disk, said trigger setting means comprises a trigger lever which is disposed rotatably and movably in a vertical direction perpendicular to a plane where the first to third disk conveying arms move, according to an amount of pivotal movement of at least one of said first through third disk conveying arms in said apparatus body, and sets the trigger; a slide cam member which controls said disk conveying means for centering said disk to said traverse unit; and a resetting slider situated adjacent to and actuated by the trigger lever, said resetting slider actuating said slide cam member for centering said disk to said traverse unit by controlling said disk conveying means.