Patent ID: 7363635

Claim:
A disk drive in which a player main body having a disk-placing tray which can advance forward and backward is disposed inside a housing, and a tray insertion slot is provided on a front panel of the housing opposed to the tray, the disk drive comprising: a pair of arms protruded bilaterally to the back of a tray door that are for opening and closing the tray insertion slot; a long aperture respectively formed on a pair of brackets; a supporting shaft protruded to the front end of the respective arms, and rotatably inserted into the long aperture of the pair of brackets bilaterally protruded to the back of the front panel; a door spring for constantly giving a force to the tray door in the direction of closing movement so as to position the tray door at the tray insertion slot; a spring shaft in parallel with one of the supporting shafts below integrally protruded to the back of the front panel; and a hold-down spring is integrally formed in the door spring, wherein: the forward-advanced tray pushes the tray door against the door spring, by which the tray door is axially opened and moved around the supporting shaft; the long aperture horizontally extends along the forward and backward movement direction; each of the supporting shafts is movably inserted into each of the long apertures; the door spring is wound up by one of the supporting shafts, the free end of which is engaged with one of the arms and also the hold-down spring is wound up by the spring shaft, and the free end of which is engaged with the front panel; and a force given by the hold-down spring is designed to be smaller than that given by the door spring, the forward-advanced tray pushes the tray door against the hold-down spring, by which the tray door is moved forward horizontally, and then the tray door is axially opened and moved around the supporting shaft against the door spring.