Patent ID: 8028310

Claim:
An optical pickup comprising: a moving base that moves in a radial direction of a disk-like recording medium mounted on a disk table; and an objective lens drive device disposed on the moving base and including an objective lens, the objective lens drive device including a fixed block fixed with respect to the moving base, a movable block including the objective lens and a lens holder that holds the objective lens, the movable block formed to move with respect to the fixed block at least in a focusing direction approaching or separating from a recording surface of the disk-like recording medium and a tracking direction substantially corresponding to the radial direction of the disk-like recording medium, a plurality of supporting springs that connect the fixed block and the movable block, focusing magnets that move the movable block in the focusing direction, tracking magnets that move the movable block in the tracking direction, each tracking magnet having a north pole and a south pole positioned to be adjacent to each other in the tracking direction and a boundary between the north pole and the south pole being formed other than as a straight line segment and traversing from a first side of the tracking magnet to a second side of the tracking magnet opposing the first side of the tracking magnet, focusing coils positioned to face the focusing magnets, and a pair of tracking coils positioned to face the tracking magnets and to be apart from each other in the tracking direction.