Sony Corporation

Sony Optiarc Inc.

Mitsuru Iba

Keiji Jitsukawa

Hisashi Negoro

Tomoyasu Takaoka

Shunsuke Nirei

A disc drive apparatus includes: an outer casing; a disc drive unit that includes a disc table on which a disc-like recording medium is mounted, a spindle motor, an optical pickup, and a pickup base; a slider that includes a main body and a rack gear, is movable in a first direction as an insertion direction and a second direction as an ejection direction, and moves in the second direction during loading and moved in the first direction during ejection; a drive motor functioning as a drive source of the slider; a deceleration gear group that intermeshes with the rack gear; an eject lever that is rotated to press the recording medium during the ejection; and a link member coupled with the eject lever, the slider including a lock plate and a slide plate.

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Tokyo, Japan

Mitsuru Iba