Patent ID: 7593308

Claim:
An optical head device for carrying out recording or reproducing of data by irradiating a recording face of an optical disk with a laser beam, comprising: a semiconductor laser for emitting a laser beam having an elliptical beam shape; a collimator lens for collimating the laser beam emitted from the semiconductor laser; a reflector including a pair of belt-like pieces one of surfaces of which is used as a reflecting face formed in a curved face having a curvature along their longitudinal direction, a supporting piece for supporting the one side of each of the pair of belt-like pieces so that the pair of belt-like pieces are arranged apart from each other in a direction vertical to their longitudinal direction and a fixing piece fixed to a frame of the optical head device; an optical sensor including a condenser lens for detecting the strength of the laser beam reflected from the pair of belt-like pieces, wherein the pair of belt-like pieces of the reflector are arranged between the semiconductor laser and the collimator lens so that their longitudinal direction is set at the same direction as a minor axis direction of an elliptical beam of the laser beam and an optical axis of the laser beam is located between the pair of belt-like pieces.