Disk device

#The present invention relates to the improvement of a disk device, which splits disk housing sections housing a plurality of disks therein and moves a drive unit playing a disk to a space formed between the split disk housing sections, to play a disk.

#Conventionally, there has been widely used a disk device which is installed with a magazine for housing disks and in which a disk taken out from the magazine is automatically played. Such a disk device is excellent in operability since the disks do not have to be inserted or ejected one by one every time when playing the disk.

#However, it is required that the magazine attached or detached with respect to the device be strong enough to protect a plurality of disks held therein when taking out the magazine to the outside. Therefore, the walls of the magazine main body are thick, and as a result the sizes of the magazine itself and the entire device for installing the magazine are large. Moreover, in order to take out a tray or the like holding the disks inside the magazine, a guiding groove and a rail section are provided on an inner face of a side wall of the magazine. By forming such a groove and rail section, the thickness of the magazine side wall further increases and the gap between each adjacent disk holder becomes wide, whereby the height of the magazine increases and the size of the device for installing the magazine also increases.

#FIG. 1 is a plan view showing an embodiment of the disk device of the present invention;

#FIG. 2 is a plan view showing a state in which a disk shown in FIG. 1 is housed;

#FIG. 3 is a back view showing the chassis and a shift plate of the disk device shown in FIG. 1;

#Hereinafter, an embodiment (“present embodiment”, hereinafter) of an on-board disk device to which the present invention is applied is described in detail with reference to the drawings. It should be noted that, in the following descriptions of the drawings, the front face side of the disk device is the head side, the back face side of same is the rear side, and the vertical and longitudinal directions correspond to the directions viewed from the front face side of the disk device.

#The present embodiment has the following schematic configurations as shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 2, FIG. 8, and FIG. 9:

#(1) A pick chassis 110, in which trays 250 capable of holding disks D are stacked and which can move up and down in a chassis 101.