Patent ID: 7210153
Filing Date: 2007-04-24
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A disk apparatus having an optical pickup comprising: a base formed of a synthetic resin molding on which an optical system that scans a disk being rotated is mounted; a bearing slidably supported by a guide shaft that is circular in cross section; and an engagement portion guided by a guide rail disposed parallel to the guide shaft, wherein the base includes the bearing and the engagement portion; the guide shaft is inserted in a round hole having a cylindrical sliding surface for which a hole is provided in the bearing; the bearing includes a pair of front and rear bearing elements provided on one side end of the base and slidably supported by the guide shaft; the guide rail includes a round bar that is circular in cross section; the engagement portion has a pair of protruding pieces provided on the other side end of the base and slidably sandwiches the round bar in a longitudinal direction; instead of providing the round hole in the bearing, a concave portion having a shape that enables forming die extraction in a direction orthogonal to a direction of an axis line and a pressing piece pressing the guide shaft inserted in the concave portion to thereby prevent the guide shaft from coming out of an open part of the concave portion are provided on at least one of the bearing elements so as to be displaced in the direction of the axis line; the concave portion has a bottom surface slidably sandwiching the guide shaft in the longitudinal direction in cooperation with a flat surface of the pressing piece and a pair of opposing surfaces provided so as to rise from both ends of the bottom surface and slidably sandwiching the guide shaft in a lateral direction; the flat surface of the pressing piece and the bottom surface and the pair of opposing surfaces of the concave portion constitute a sliding surface for the guide shaft; and the bottom surface and the pair of opposing surfaces of the concave portion are each formed as a curved surface extending in the direction of the axis line of the guide shaft.