IP Library Granted Patent US 7,472,408
Granted Patent B2
US 7,472,408 · App. 10/576,141 · Granted Dec 30, 2008

Disk apparatus

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Patent No.
US 7,472,408
App. No.
10/576,141
Granted
Dec 30, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

A disk apparatus moves a traverse unit vertically, a spindle motor is allowed to approach a base body or a lid, a disk is pressed by the spindle motor and the lid, thereby mounting the disk on the spindle motor. When the spindle motor is moved upward, a tip end surface of a convex portion of the lid is inclined, the tip end surface of the convex portion of the lid and the spindle motor are substantially in parallel to each other, and the disk can stably be mounted.

Claims (4)

1. A disk apparatus comprising a chassis outer sheath having a base body and a lid, having a convex portion, that is in parallel with said base body, in which a front surface of said chassis outer sheath is formed with a disk inserting opening into which a disk is directly inserted, the base body is provided with a traverse, a spindle motor having a rotation stage on which the disk is placed is held by the traverse, one side of the traverse is inclined and moved around another side of the traverse as a rotation support shaft on the front side of the chassis outer sheath, thereby bringing the rotation stage close to the lid, the disk placed on the rotation stage is pushed toward the rotation stage to mount the disk on the rotation stage by the convex portion being smaller than the rotation stage and being provided around a circular opening greater than a hub of the spindle motor on the side of the center portion of the lid such that the convex portion projects toward the rotation stage at a position opposed to the rotation stage, wherein the convex portion located on the one end of the traverse is higher than the convex portion located on the other end of the traverse, whereby a tip end of the convex portion is inclined such that the tip end of the convex portion becomes substantially in parallel to a surface of the rotation stage when the traverse approaches the lid.

2. The disk apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the convex portion is integrally formed with the lid by drawing.

3. The disk apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the tip end of the convex portion on the side of the disk insertion opening is inclined toward the rotation stage.

4. The disk apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the one side of the traverse is moved by a main slider and a sub-slider, the main slider is disposed on the side of the spindle motor in such a direction that one end of the main slider comes on the side of a front surface of the chassis outer sheath and the other end comes on the side of a rear surface of the chassis outer sheath, the sub-slider is disposed on the side of the rear surface of the spindle motor in a direction perpendicular to the main slider.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 21, 2008
From: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 021897/0588 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 12, 2007
From: WADA, SHINICHI; MASAOKA, KENGO
To: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 018880/0896 →