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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yuji Shida, Tokyo, JP;
Shigehisa Miyasaka, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 3/302 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 3/302 ;
Abstract
A disk device is provided with a disk tray having a holding part that holds part of an outer circumference of an optical disk when the disk is inserted into a depression on the disk tray, the disk being held roughly parallel to the surface of the depression. The holding part prevents a disk mounted in a disk tray used in the vertical orientation from tilting with respect to the disk tray, which could interfere with insertion of the disk tray into the disk device.