Patent ID: 6985423
Filing Date: 2006-01-10
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An optical pickup device with a defocus adjustor comprising: a laser light source for emitting a laser beam; an optical system including a focusing lens for focusing the laser beam emitted from the laser light source on a data recording face of an optical disc; a photo-sensor for sensing a reflected laser beam reflected by the data recording face of the optical disc and for converting the reflected laser beam to an electric signal; a flexible printed circuit board on which the photo-sensor is mounted and having wiring patterns to which terminals of the photo-sensor are connected; a plate spring to which the flexible printed circuit board is fixed for adjusting a position of the photo-sensor against the optical system; a holder on which a first end of the plate spring is fixed; and an adjusting screw engaged with a second end of the plate spring and adjustably fixed on the holder; wherein the adjusting screw is tightened or loosened for adjusting a posture of the plate spring with the flexible printed circuit board with respect to the holder, so that a position of a photo-sensing surface of the photo-sensor against the optical system and an inclination of the photo-sensing surface against an optical axis of a reflected laser beam can be fine adjusted; the plate spring is formed flat with no bending portion, and warped after fixing the first end and the second end of the plate spring on the holder; a fixing face of the holder is inclined against the optical axis of the reflected laser beam for giving a predetermined inclination angle to the plate spring with the flexible printed circuit board when the first end the plate spring is fixed on the fixing face of the holder; when the second end of the plate spring with the flexible printed circuit board is fixed on the holder by the adjusting screw, the plate spring is warped for generating a stress so that a spring effect can be obtained when the defocus of the photo-sensor against the optical system is adjusted.