Patent ID: 8051439

Claim:
A disk drive to be loaded with a disk cartridge that houses a disk therein, the drive comprising: a cartridge holder for holding the disk cartridge, the holder having a holder opening, through which the disk cartridge is inserted from outside of the drive into the cartridge holder and ejected out of the cartridge holder; a pair of guide walls, which is arranged in the vicinity of the holder opening of the cartridge holder to define a direction in which the disk cartridge is supposed to be inserted; a disk motor for rotating the disk that has been mounted thereon; a head for reading and/or writing information from/on the disk; a base for supporting the head and the disk motor thereon; a first opening/closing lever, which has a first engaging portion that engages with a portion of the disk cartridge and which rotates while the disk cartridge is being inserted or ejected; and a second opening/closing lever, which has a second engaging portion that engages with another portion of the disk cartridge and which rotates while the disk cartridge is being inserted or ejected, wherein the pivots of the first and second opening/closing levers are arranged opposite to the holder opening with respect to the center of the disk that is stored in the disk cartridge loaded, and wherein the first and second opening/closing levers rotate and get engaged with the disk cartridge so as to leave a narrower gap between the first and second engaging portions than between the guide walls when the disk cartridge is being inserted but to leave a broader gap between the first and second engaging portions than between the guide walls when the drive gets loaded with the disk cartridge, thereby opening a window in the disk cartridge so as to allow the head to access the disk and also allow the disk motor to mount the disk.