Patent ID: 7536702

Claim:
A disk device comprising: a turn table; a clamp head; a spindle motor; an elevating frame including a front end, a rear end, and a rear end portion; wherein the turn table and the clamp head are fixed to a driving shaft of the spindle motor that is disposed adjacent to the front end of the elevating frame; means for rocking the front end of the elevating frame up and down to clamp an optical disk by the clamp head and to hold the optical disk on the turn table or to release the held optical disk; wherein when the front end of the elevating frame descends, a horizontal state of a plane of the front end of the elevating frame is held parallel to the optical disk; and wherein the elevating frame is movably supported by a chassis along at least one axis and is rocked on a different axis being positioned at the rear end portion, and where the different axis is non-parallel with the at least one axis.