Patent ID: 7698714
Filing Date: 2010-04-13
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An optical disc drive comprising: a deck having a protrusion, a spindle motor that rotates an optical disc being mounted on the protrusion, and an optical pickup sliding along a radial direction of the optical disc drive also being mounted on the protrusion, the spindle motor being mounted directly on the deck without a space therebetween; a lower case, that the deck slides into and out of, the lower case has a penetration having a substantially same shape as the protrusion such that a sliding limit of the protrusion corresponds to an edge of the penetration; and a cover that covers the penetration, wherein the penetration comprises a placing part that is prepared at the edge of the penetration and has a lower surface recessed by a thickness of the lower case from the lower surface of the lower case.