Patent ID: 7929385

Claim:
An optical pickup apparatus for at least one of recording information onto an information recording surface and reproducing information from the information recording surface, the optical pickup apparatus comprising: a laser light source; an objective lens configured to converge light beams from the laser light source onto the information recording surface through a protective layer of an optical information recording medium; an optical device configured to converge a divergence angle of incident light beams by moving in an optical axis direction of the optical device, the optical device being arranged between the laser light source and the objective lens; a light receiving device configured to receive light beams reflected by the information recording surface and passed through the objective lens; and a driving device configured to move the optical device in a direction crossing the optical axis, the driving device comprising: a drive source; a driven member mounted on the drive source; a movable member holding the optical device, the movable member being engaged with the driven member to be movable in the direction crossing the optical axis; and a guide member engaged with the movable member, the guide member being configured to guide the movable member in the direction crossing the optical axis.