Patent ID: 7739704

Claim:
A disk apparatus comprising: a base body, a traverse base provided on said base body, a spindle motor held by said traverse base and configured for rotating a disk, a loading motor provided on said base body, a traverse cam member for displacing a location of said traverse base with respect to said base body, a spindle cam member for displacing a location of said spindle motor with respect to said traverse base, wherein: said spindle motor is biased toward said traverse base by a resilient member, in order to position a disk loaded on the disk apparatus to a recording/replaying position, said loading motor moves said traverse cam member and said spindle cam member correlatively in the horizontal direction, and said traverse base and said spindle motor are moved upward and downward, the disk apparatus is a slot-in type configured to directly insert or discharge a disk from or to the outside, said traverse base and said spindle motor are positioned closest to said base body, said spindle motor moves upward in the direction separating away from said base body, said traverse base moves upward by maintaining distance between said traverse base and said spindle motor, and said traverse base moves downward by maintaining distance between said traverse base and said spindle motor.