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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 12, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yasushi Okada, Hadano, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369263 ; 369244 ;
Abstract
In an optical disk drive for recording and reproducing data out of an optical disk, a carriage locking mechanism has an engaging member which is rotatable in a plane parallel to a base member. This reduces the space occupied by the engaging member in the direction of height of the base member. As a result, the overall thickness of the disk drive is successfully reduced. Moreover, since a notch is located at a position where the engaging member interferes with a yoke member, the height of the disk drive is further reduced.