Patent ID: 8302116

Claim:
An optical disc drive, comprising: a chassis; a circuit board disposed on the chassis and having a connector; and a traverse disposed in the chassis, wherein the traverse comprises: a carrier having an opening; a pick-up head module movably disposed in the opening and having a connector positioned above a bottom of pick-up head module; and a spindle motor module disposed on the carrier and located at one side of the pick-up head module, wherein the spindle motor module is used for carrying an optical disc above the pick-up head module; and a flexible flat cable disposed in the opening and having two connection ends connected to the connector of the pick-up head module and the connector of the circuit board, respectively, wherein a portion of the flexible flat cable other than the connection end connected to the connector of the pick-up head module is fixed to the bottom of the pick-up head module; wherein the pick-up head module located at a first position enables the flexible flat cable to have a bending portion, the bending portion protrudes towards a direction opposite to the position of the spindle motor module, the pick-up head module located at a second position extends the bending portion, and the first position is closer to the spindle motor module than the second position is.