Patent ID: 7100176

Claim:
An optical disk driving apparatus for selectively driving a plurality of optical disks, comprising: a housing; and an optical disk driving unit accommodated in said housing, said optical disk driving unit including; a turntable for selectively retaining said optical disks; a supporting member for rotatably supporting said turntable; a base plate pivotably retained by said housing; a plurality of vibration isolators intervening between said supporting member and said base plate; a supporting member fixing mechanism operative to assume two operation states including one state to prevent said vibration isolators from isolating said supporting member from outside vibrations, and the other state to allow said vibration isolators to isolate said supporting member from said outside vibrations; a base plate driving mechanism for allowing said base plate to be pivotably moved with respect to said housing, said base plate driving mechanism being operative to assume two operation states including one state to allow said base plate to take a first position, and the other state to allow said base plate to take a second position; and a cam gear for transmitting a rotation torque to said supporting member fixing mechanism to have said supporting member fixing mechanism selectively assume said supporting member fixing mechanism operation states, and transmitting said rotation torque to said base plate driving mechanism to have said base plate driving mechanism selectively assume said base plate driving mechanism operation states.