Patent ID: 7984460

Claim:
A disk drive comprising: a mechanical chassis; a pickup for reading and/or writing information from/on a disk storage medium; a rotation drive section with a turntable configured to mount and rotate the storage medium thereon in a plane of rotation; a pickup supporting member having a base portion for supporting the pickup and the rotation drive section and a standup wall that extends from the base portion toward the plane of rotation, the pickup supporting member being supported on the mechanical chassis so as to turn around an axis of rotation that is defined through the wall; a pickup raising/lowering portion, which is provided for the mechanical chassis in order to drive the pickup supporting member to either a first position in which the pickup is ready to perform a read or write operation on the storage medium that is mounted on the turntable or a second position in which the turntable has been retracted so as to avoid contact with the storage medium being inserted or ejected; and an elastomer member, which is arranged between the wall of the pickup supporting member and the mechanical chassis, wherein the elastomer member has the shape of a ring, the center axis of the hole of which is not only parallel to the storage medium that is mounted on the turntable but also crosses the axis of rotation of the pickup supporting member at right angles.