Patent ID: 7703110
Filing Date: 2010-04-20
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A structure for attaching a printed circuit board on a traverse chassis in an optical disk apparatus, comprising: a main chassis; a disk tray for transporting an optical disk to the main chassis; a traverse chassis which is raised and lowered with respect to a recording surface of the optical disk transported into the main chassis; a pickup unit having an optical pickup which reciprocatingly moves in a radial direction parallel to the recording surface of the optical disk while being supported by the traverse chassis; a motor provided in the traverse chassis to drive the disk tray, the traverse chassis, and the pickup unit; and an encoder including a slit plate which is fixed to a spindle of the motor and rotates as the motor is driven and a printed circuit board on which a photo interrupter is mounted sandwiching the slit plate from above and below and which is attached in an upright state on the traverse chassis, the printed circuit board being attached without a board holder screwed down with a screw to the traverse chassis, wherein a first groove, a second groove, and a prepared hole are formed in the traverse chassis, the first groove is adapted to restrict the downward movement of the printed circuit board as a lower edge portion of the printed circuit board is slidably pinched in the first groove, the second groove is adapted to restrict the sliding movement in one direction and the upward movement of the printed circuit board as an edge portion on one side of both lateral sides of the printed circuit board whose lower edge portion is nipped in the first groove is fitted in the second groove, the prepared hole vertically penetrates a portion of the traverse chassis defining the first groove, the prepared hole being disposed adjacent to an edge portion on another side of the both lateral sides of the printed circuit board whose edge portion on the one side is fitted in the second groove, the printed circuit board with the edge portion on the one side fitted in the second groove while the lower edge portion is nipped in the first groove being installed on the traverse chassis such that the sliding movement in another direction and the upward movement thereof are restrained by the tapping screw screwed into the prepared hole, and an upper side of the edge portion on the other side of the printed circuit board is notched, and an inner surface of a head of the tapping screw screwed into the prepared hole is brought into pressure contact with a lower end of the notch.