Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Myoung-wook Lee

Jae-Seong Shim

Kyu-chul Bang

An optical pickup actuator includes a lens holder on which a plurality of object lenses to use in recording/reproducing information onto/from different kinds of optical media are mounted, a tilting unit tilting the lens holder, and a controller controlling the tilting unit to tilt the lens holder about one of the object lenses that is appropriate to use in recording/reproducing information onto/from a kind of optical medium to be used.

Optical pickup actuator and optical recording/reproducing apparatus having the same

An optical pick-up actuator having a servo control system with increased stability includes a base, a lens holder mounted on the base to be tiltable about a tilting axis of the lens holder, at least one objective lens being mounted on the lens holder, and at least one groove being formed in the lens holder, and a magnet unit mounted on the base and extending into the at least one groove. Walls of the least one groove facing the magnet unit in a direction transverse to the tilting axis include sloping surfaces providing a tilting margin to enable tilting control to be performed.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Myoung-wook Lee