Patent ID: 9245574
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G11B

Claim Text:
1. An optical disc drive, the optical disc drive comprising: a housing; a tray installed in the housing; an optical pickup unit mounted to a bottom surface of the tray; a motor base for a spindle motor directly fixed to the tray wherein the motor base is a first portion of the tray; a guide shaft mounted to the tray via a first support post and a second support post, wherein the second support post is integrally formed on an edge of the first portion of the tray, and the first support post is integrally formed on a second portion of the tray; and a circuit board mounted to the bottom surface of the tray, wherein: the guide shaft and the optical pickup unit are configured such that the optical pickup unit is reciprocally movable along the guide shaft, a saddle-shaped groove within the first support post receives the guide shaft, and a supporting member coupled directly to the first support post fixes the guide shaft between the supporting member and the saddle-shaped groove.