Patent ID: 7634783

Claim:
Scanning device for optical discs, having an optical housing with integrally formed sliding areas for receiving a scanning unit with a carrier with a scanning head arranged thereon, which scanning unit is provided with counter-sliding areas and is adjustable about a virtual axis, having at least one adjusting apparatus which is supported on the housing and acts on the carder, and having at least one clip spring with an elongated spring limb guided in a groovelike depression formed on the housing and a bearing limb formed on a hook-shaped angulars, portion of the spring limb and transversely with respect to the latter spring limb, the angular portion being angled relative to the spring limb and projecting from the depression at an acute angle with respect to the housing, the spring impinging at one of its ends with the bearing limb on the carrier on that side of the sliding areas which is remote from the adjusting apparatus and pressing it against the sliding areas of the housing, and the spring being supported at its other end at a distance from where it impinges on the housing, wherein the spring limb is bent over in barbed fashion in a curvature part at its support-side end towards the side remote from the hook-shaped angular portion and is clamped with a bent-over end Piece in an abutment formed on the housing.