Patent ID: 7406006

Claim:
A disk apparatus comprising: a plurality of stockers each for stocking a disk therein; a plurality of stocker moving elements arranged around said plurality of stockers, for, when stocking a disk in one of said plurality of stockers and when playing back a disk stocked in one of said plurality of stockers, moving said one of said plurality of stockers upward or downward, each of said plurality of stocker moving elements having small-diameter portions at upper and lower ends thereof; and an actuation member movably arranged in a gap between said small-diameter portion of one of said plurality of stocker moving elements and an inner surface of a wall of a housing, wherein said actuation member is a sliding plate for, when playing back a disk, retracting a disk conveying mechanism for conveying said disk to a predetermined position toward a disk insertion/ejection opening so as not to hinder said disk from rotating.