Abstract: A disk laminate includes thin disks laminated to each other, which are to be suctioned and conveyed; and spacers provided between the thin disks to prevent the thin disks from directly contacting each other, the spacers having air permeability.

Abstract: A disclosed disk clamping mechanism includes a turntable fixed on a rotational shaft of a spindle motor to rotate a flexible thin optical disk, a stabilizer member configured to suppress a run-out of the flexible thin optical disk by an applying aerodynamic force to the rotating flexible thin optical disk so as to stabilize the run-out of the rotating flexible thin optical disk, and a clamper movably supported in a center of the stabilizer member in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the flexible thin optical disk. In the disclosed disk clamping mechanism, the flexible thin optical disk is sandwiched between the turntable and the clamper such that the turntable and the clamper rotate the flexible thin optical member sandwiched in-between.

Abstract: A disk carrier device for carrying an optical disk having a plate in the center, which plate is capable of being attracted by a magnetic force, is disclosed. The disclosed disk carrier device includes an attracting unit including a permanent magnet that attracts and thereby holds the plate; and a holding mechanism configured to detachably hold the attracting unit.

Abstract: A disk apparatus includes a head configured to move along a recording surface of a rotating disk; and a stabilizing member provided so as to face the disk. A facing surface of the stabilizing member facing the disk includes a curved surface whose symmetrical axis is a center generating line passing through a center of the facing surface. The head reciprocally moves along a path which is offset from the center generating line.