Patent ID: 7610590
Filing Date: 2009-10-27
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An optical disc apparatus comprising: a main chassis; a disc tray that slides in a reciprocating fashion with respect to the main chassis to admit and eject an optical disc; a traverse chassis that is supported on the main chassis so as to be movable up and down; an optical head that is arranged on the traverse chassis so as to be slidable and that records data to or plays back data from the optical disc by irradiating the optical disc with laser light; and a drive motor that is fixed to the main chassis and that generates a drive force, wherein the optical head wherein the traverse chassis has a slide boss that protrudes from a front surface thereof, wherein the main chassis has wherein, as the cam slider slides, the slide boss slides along inside the cam groove of the cam slider, so that the traverse chassis moves up and down between when the traverse chassis moves down to the stand-by position, the projection portion of the optical head engages with the latch portion of the main chassis, and wherein the stopper member is resiliently biased in such a direction that the lock portion makes contact with the cam slider and, as the optical head slides toward an inner edge side of the optical disc, the lever portion rotates by being pushed by the projection portion, the stopper member moving between