Patent ID: 6874155

Claim:
A chucking apparatus for holding a disk placed on a turntable of a disk player, comprising: a magnet; a chuck disk in a shape of a disc arranged to be opposed to said turntable, and adapted to hold said magnet, said chuck disk having a plurality of claws formed to project toward said turntable, arranged at a plurality of positions along an outer circumference of the magnet, and including, at distal end portions thereof, claw engaging parts to be engaged with an outer circumference of said magnet; a chuck arm for rotatably holding said chuck disk; deflection preventing member for preventing said engaging parts of said claws from deflecting in a direction away from said magnet, when said magnet and said engaging parts of said plurality of claws are pressure contacted; a plurality of engaging recesses formed in an outer circumferential area of said magnet and having first engaging faces with which said engaging parts of said plurality of claws are adapted to be engaged; and claw engaging faces formed at said distal end portions of said claws and adapted to be engaged with said magnet engaging faces.