Patent ID: 7014798

Claim:
A manufacturing method for an optical pickup in which a movable member carrying an objective lens is supported by a fixed member through a pair of elastic support member groups so as to be movable in a focusing direction and a tracking direction, each of the elastic support member groups being made up of a plurality of elastic support members arranged in parallel, comprising: a suspension unit forming step of forming, by insert molding, two holding members at different positions of each of the elastic support member groups in a lengthwise direction of the plurality of elastic support members so as to hold together the plurality of elastic support members, thereby forming a pair of suspension units, the holding members being made of a synthetic resin; and a connecting step of opposing the pair of suspension units to each other with an arrangement direction of the plurality of elastic support members being substantially same as the focusing direction, and connecting one holding member of each of the suspension units to the movable member and the other holding member of each of the suspension units to the fixed member.