Patent ID: 8004937

Claim:
An optical pickup comprising: a movable part including: an objective lens; an objective lens driving coil; a lens supporting member for supporting the objective lens and the driving coil; and a plurality of terminal protrusions for connection to the driving coil, the plurality of terminal protrusions being disposed in an arrangement at each side surface of the lens supporting member, wherein a first direction in which at least one of the plurality of terminal protrusion protrudes from the lens supporting member is a tangential direction of an optical disk and a second direction in which the other terminal protrusions protrude from the lens supporting member is a tracking direction of the optical disk; and a fixed part including: a support base for supporting the movable part; and supporting members for connecting the movable part with the fixed part, wherein the supporting members include a plurality of elastic supporting members and fixing members, with each of the supporting members fixed between the terminal protrusions of the lens supporting member and the support base, wherein at least one of the plurality of elastic supporting members is attached to a fixing member fixed on a side surface of the terminal protrusion that protrudes in the tangential direction, and the other elastic supporting members are attached to fixing members fixed on upper surfaces, different from the side surfaces, of the terminal protrusions that protrude in the tracking direction, and wherein the driving coil is electrically connected to the elastic supporting members at the terminal protrusions.