Patent ID: 7444650

Claim:
A disk apparatus comprising: a playback unit having a reading means for reading information recorded on a disk, and a turntable on which said disk is placed, said playback unit being movable between a lateral side of a disk conveyance path and a central portion of said disk; an arc-shaped stocker for stocking said disk, said stocker being shaped like a part of a circle whose more than half of its area including a center is removed in order to make it possible for said playback unit to move toward the central portion of said disk; and a disk guide member disposed separately from said stocker opposite to a part of said disk which is not held by said stocker, said disk guide member restricting horizontal movements of said disk, wherein the disk guide member has a sandwich portion that sandwiches an outer edge of the disk, and can be vertically moved upward or downward with respect to said disk and is retracted to below a disk conveyance path when said disk is conveyed via said disk conveyance path.