Patent ID: 8060894

Claim:
A disk device comprising: a disk tray on which a disk recording medium is placed; a spindle motor configured to rotate the disk recording medium together with a disk table on which the disk recording medium is chucked; a chucking section configured to selectively chuck and unchuck the disk recording medium with respect to the disk table; a loading motor configured to move the disk tray between an eject position and a retract position and move the chucking section between a chucking position and an unchucking position; a tray-in switch configured to detect whether or not the disk tray is located at the retract position; a tray-out switch configured to detect whether or not the disk tray is located at a predetermined range between the eject position and the retract position; and a loading motor drive voltage generating section configured to generate a drive voltage for the loading motor so that a torque of the loading motor is decreased in response to the tray-out switch detecting that the disk tray is not located at the predetermined range between the eject position and the retract position, and then the torque of the loading motor is gradually increased after the tray-out switch detects that the disk tray is not located at the predetermined range between the eject position and the retract position until the tray-in switch detects that the disk tray is located at the retract position.