Patent ID: 7228552

Claim:
A chucking device for a disk player comprising: a motor; a drive gear driven by the motor; a slider disposed slidably on the side of the drive gear; a rack member arranged so as to have an engaging hole as well as to overlap the slider, and connected to the slider with an elastic member therebetween slidably relative to the slider, the rack member having a rack to be mated with the drive gear; and a lever rotatably arranged so as to intersect the rack member and also having a pin engaging with an engaging hole of the slider and with said engaging hole of the rack member, wherein the engaging hole of the rack member comprises a first recess for forward moving the rack member relative to the slider during forward moving and a second recess for holding the slider at an initial position with the pin of the lever therebetween by intersecting the engaging hole of the slider when the slider is located at the initial position, and wherein the slider is forward moved via the rack member by the drive gear for chucking operation while the slider is backward moved by the drive gear for canceling the chucking operation.