Hitachi Media Electronics Co., Ltd.

Tetsuo Itou

Katsuhiko Kimura

Manabu Ochi

Souichirou Yamada

Masayoshi Watanabe

Masaya Horino

Junichi Senga

Yoshihiro Satou

An objective lens actuator in an optical pickup, having a semiconductor laser diode, electro-optic parts, such as a lens or the like, as well as, the objective lens actuator, etc., in a case, comprises: a holder, which mounts an objective lens and a coil thereon, as being a movable part; a magnetic circuit part, which is made up with a magnet for magnetically driving said holder and a yoke; a plural number of elastic support parts which elastically supports said holder; and a support part, which supports other ends of said elastic support parts, wherein said support part has a part, which is cut open in parallel with the elastic support parts, between said elastic support parts, and has a through hole, in which said elastic support part passes through for each of said elastic support parts, and thereby to provide the objective lens actuator for lowering the unwanted vibration mode of the objective lens, and also enabling a stable control thereof.

Optical pickup with support part having hole for being inserted with a projection part of a case

An objective lens actuator which drives an objective lens in a focusing direction and a tracking direction, so as to focus lights on a recording surface of an optical disc, as a recording medium of information. The objective lens actuator includes a magnet, a lens holder which is configured to hold the objective lens thereon, and four pieces of tracking coils which are disposed in a line on a side surface of the lens holder for holding the objective lens thereon, facing to the magnet.

Objective lens actuator and a disc apparatus using the same therein

To improve the reliability to an environmental temperature change of an optical pickup, an optical pickuphas a semiconductor laserfor generating a laser beam. An objective lens drive leads the laser beam to a predetermined position of a disk. The semiconductor laser and objective lens drive are mounted on a pickup hosing. The objective lens drive has a movable portionand the movable portion has an objective lensfor condensing the laser beam on the recording face of the disk. A fixed portionholds the movable portion through a support member. The fixed portion has a magnetic yoke. An extended portion formed by extending a part of the yoke to the fixed portion side and the upsideof a cutout formed at the intermediate portion of the fixed portion in the tracking direction are adhered and fixed.

Optical pickup

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Yokohama, Japan

Tetsuo Itou