Lg Electronics Inc.

Won-Hyung Cho

Jae-Won Jang

Ki-Ro Sung

A stack type disk changer is capable of not only being designed to have a relatively small overall size and to be simple and mounting more many disks thereon, but also allowing a user to easily withdraw a desired tray and check disks mounted on the respective trays by withdrawing the entire trays in a stairway form.

Stack type disk changer

A disk drive includes a main frame; a cartridge slidably installed in the main frame; a plurality of trays stacked in the cartridge and slidably installed therein; an elevation unit for controlling a height of a turn table; a tray selecting unit for locking each tray to a state that each tray can be loaded or unlocking a specific tray among a plurality of locked trays to draw it out of the main frame; a loading unit for loading the specific tray, among the plurality of trays locked by the tray selecting unit to reproduce/record a disk by means of an optical pick-up unit, onto the turn table; and a driving unit for driving the cartridge, the elevation unit, the tray selecting unit and the loading unit.

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Seoul, South Korea

Won-Hyung Cho