Patent ID: 7219356

Claim:
An optical disk driving apparatus for selectively driving a plurality of optical disks, comprising: a housing including a front plate having a loading slot formed therein; and an optical disk driving unit accommodated in said housing, said optical disk driving unit including: a shutter plate for shutting and opening said loading slot of said front plate; a shutter plate driving mechanism for driving said shutter plate to shut and open said loading slot of said front plate; a turntable for selectively retaining said optical disks; a supporting member for rotatably supporting said turntable; a base plate pivotably retained by said housing; a plurality of vibration isolators for isolating said supporting member from outside vibrations by intervening between said supporting member and said base plate; a supporting member fixing mechanism for fixing said supporting member on said base plate by preventing said vibration isolators from isolating said supporting member from outside vibrations; a base plate driving mechanism for driving said base plate to pivotably move with respect to said housing; a plurality of trays for respectively accommodating said optical disks; an interval adjusting mechanism for adjusting each of said intervals of said trays; an optical disk guiding mechanism for guiding each of said optical disks to said turntable from said trays and vice versa; a first cam gear for transmitting a rotation torque to each of said supporting member fixing mechanism and said base plate driving mechanism; a second cam gear for transmitting said rotation torque to each of said shutter plate driving mechanism and said optical disk guiding mechanism; and a transmission gear for transmitting said rotation torque to each of said first cam gear and said second cam gear.