Patent ID: 8151286

Claim:
A disk device comprising: a loader chassis having a bottom plate with a through hole; a control board fixedly attached to a lower face of the bottom plate of the loader chassis; an optical pickup movable between inner and outer positions with respect to the loader chassis in inward and outward movement directions that are parallel to a radial direction of a disk disposed in the loader chassis; a flexible flat cable electrically connecting the control board to the optical pickup and partially disposed through the through hole of the loader chassis, the flexible flat cable including a bent end portion that is connected to the optical pickup; and a guide member formed on an upper face of the bottom plate of the loader chassis and guiding the bent end portion upward with respect to the bottom plate when the optical pickup is located at the outer position with respect to the loader chassis, the guide member including a first guide plate that is formed in a rectangular shape and extends in a transverse direction perpendicular to the inward and outward movement directions of the optical pickup with the first guide plate having an first upper slope face, and a pair of second guide plates that extend from edge portions of the first guide plate in the inward movement direction of the optical pickup with the second guide plates having second upper slope faces, respectively, and the first and second upper slope faces of the first and second guide plates sloping downward in the inward movement direction and guiding the bent end portion of the flexible flat cable upward.