Patent ID: 7627876

Claim:
An optical disk assembly comprising: (A) an optical disk device comprising: (a) a pickup module comprising: a pickup slidably disposed for reading information on a recording face of an optical disk by focusing a laser beam on the recording face; a spindle motor for retaining and rotating the optical disk; and a frame on which the spindle motor is disposed; (b) a control board for processing an electrical signal received by the pickup from the optical disk, and controlling sliding of the pickup; and (c) a flexible cable for coupling the pickup and the control board; wherein the control board is fixed to a chassis; the pickup module is flexibly secured to the chassis only via a plurality of tubular elastic bodies, each of the elastic bodies having a first constricted part and a second constricted part formed on a periphery thereof, each of the constricted parts forming a respective groove, with the frame being flexibly secured to the first constricted part, and the chassis being flexibly secured to the second constricted part; and the cable is disposed to be surrounded by the chassis and the pickup module; and (B) a cabinet in which the optical disk device is installed, the cabinet comprising: top and bottom protrusions, wherein the pickup module of the optical disk device is mounted in the cabinet by passing the top and bottom protrusions of the cabinet through a top and bottom opening of the tubular elastic bodies, the top and bottom protrusions contiguous with each other.