Patent ID: 7526781
Filing Date: 2009-04-28
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An optical disk apparatus, comprising: a deck with a central hole provided on a central portion of the deck; a pair of guide shafts provided on the deck on opposite sides of the central hole; a spindle motor provided at a predetermined position on the deck and coupled to a turntable on which an optical disk is placed; an optical pickup movably supported at opposite sides thereof by the pair of guide shafts, with an objective lens provided in the optical pickup; and an optical pickup actuating unit to reciprocate the optical pickup in a radial direction of the optical disk, and including: an objective lens protective unit, including a cover to cover the objective lens and being linearly reciprocated by the drive motor in a direction crossing the pair of guide shafts, thus covering and uncovering the objective lens.