Patent ID: 6904006

Claim:
An optical disk reproducing apparatus comprising: a tray movable into and out of a body of said optical disk reproducing apparatus; a rotary table rotatably mounted on said tray and having a plurality of depressed portions for holding therein a plurality of optical disks; and a disk damper that, when said rotary table is brought to a predetermined positional relationship to said tray, clamps a particular optical disk, held in one of the depressed portions, at a predetermined position above an upper surface of said rotary table for reproduction of the particular optical disk, said rotary table having a plurality of protruding elements provided in corresponding relation to the depressed portions near outer peripheral edges of corresponding ones of the depressed portions, each of the protruding elements being provided at a position where, as said rotary table is rotated upon removal of a clamping force by said disk clamper, the protruding element can press an optical disk left adhering to said disk clamper.