| US 7,533,395 B2 | ||
| Disk apparatus | ||
| Yukihiro Araki, Fujiidera (Japan); Shingo Kage, Kobe (Japan); Shinya Ogasawara, Yokohama (Japan); and Nobuyuki Miroku, Ikoma (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Panasonic Corporation, Osaka (Japan) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/576,378 PCT Filed Oct. 18, 2004, PCT No. PCT/JP2004/015380 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Apr. 19, 2006, PCT Pub. No. WO2005/038793, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 28, 2005. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 2003-359779 (JP), filed on Oct. 20, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0079310 A1, Apr. 05, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. G11B 17/28 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 720—712 | 4 Claims |
| 1. A disk apparatus comprising:
a stationary frame to be a stable portion, and
a floating unit which is disposed in said stationary frame through elastic component and which performs recording and/or reproducing
on a disk-shaped recording medium,
wherein said floating unit comprises a clamping member including a clamper which holds said disk-shaped recording medium,
and a disk recording/reproducing-driving member including a turn table, and
a part of said clamper and a part of said turn table are fitted in each other, when said disk-shaped recording medium is held
between said clamper and said turn table,
wherein a claw of a clamper-holding part is engaged with a hook portion of said clamper near the internal position of the
center hole of said disk-shaped recording medium held between said clamper and said turn table, and wherein the part of said
clamper is fitted in an annular groove formed in a shaft portion of said turn table at its engaging position,
wherein the hook portion is formed at the center portion of said clamper, and wherein said hook portion includes a plurality
of hooks formed at regular intervals on the same circumference, and a projection which is formed on the center axis of rotation
of said disk-shaped recording medium and which comes into contact with said clamper-holding part when said disk-shaped recording
medium is held between said clamper and said turn table.
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