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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2000
Yoshiaki Yamauchi, Minori, JP;
Hisahiro Miki, Chigasaki, JP;
Seiji Hamaie, Hitachinaka, JP;
Tomoki Hirata, Yokohama, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A disk drive apparatus is provided in which there is a disk tray having a disk-receiving face shaped in the form of a circular groove for mounting a recording disk thereon. The disk tray has a plurality of disk holding parts for holding a recording disk onto the disk-receiving face. A disk loading mechanism provides for loading/unloading the disk tray in/out of the apparatus, and a disk position regulator is placed near the disk tray to position the disk when the disk tray is loaded/unloaded. The regulator has a contact surface contacting a part of the rim of a recording disk protruding out of the sides the disk tray.