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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2001
Pioneer Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A lens driving apparatus for a disk player capable of easily approaching to the innermost circumference of a disk and realizing a reduction in size and weight thereof, in which: an actuator section where a movable portion including printed board coils fixed to the respective side surfaces of a lens holder containing an objective lens is movably supported by outer circumferential side wire-form elastic members and inner circumferential side wire-form elastic members fixed to an actuator base, and a suspension base including a pair of yokes to which a pair of magnets disposed so as to be opposed to each other with a predetermined magnetic space therebetween are fixed and standing portions are included; and a width Wi of each of the inner circumferential side wire-form elastic members is set to be greater than a width Wo of each of the outer circumferential side wire-form elastic members.