Patent ID: 7395542

Claim:
A disk apparatus in which a rectangular box type case is formed by a top plate, a bottom plate and a front plate, an apparatus body provided in the case having: a main chassis supporting a tray, on which a disk is placed, in such a manner that the tray can be moved forward and backward; and a driving chassis which is supported pivotably on the main chassis so that the driving chassis can be moved up and down, and which is mounted with an optical pickup and a turntable, a hook being projected from a circumferential portion of a disk storage recess of the tray, the disk being rotated at a high speed by the turntable, from a playing mode, in which the information recorded in the disk is read by the optical pickup, the driving chassis being moved up and down on the basis of an unloading signal, the disk being thereby handed over from the turntable to the tray, the tray being thereafter moved forward through a disk takeout port of the front plate, the disk being taken out from the tray with a new disk placed on the tray, a power source being turned off to stop the driving chassis in a downwardly moved state with the tray forcibly pushed in the rearward direction so that the tray is returned to the interior of the case the disengagement of the disk from the interior of the disk storage recess of the tray being prevented by the hook by inclining the case, characterized in that; the hook is removed, projections being extended downward from the portion of a lower surface of the top plate which is close to a rear portion of the tray stored in the case, the projections being positioned at lower ends thereof lower than an upper surface of the tray, the case being made of a synthetic resin, the top plate of the case and projections being formed so as to be integral with each other.