Patent ID: 7844981

Claim:
An optical disc drive comprising: a spindle motor for rotating an optical disc; a pickup for irradiating the optical disc with a laser beam; a guiding mechanism on which the pickup is supported movably in a radial direction of the optical disc; a mechanism chassis to which the spindle motor, the pickup, and the guiding mechanism are fitted; a housing capable of housing the mechanism chassis; a metallic non-contacting cooling plate fitted on either the side of the mechanism chassis that is opposite to the side thereof on which the optical disc can be mounted or one side thereof along which the pickup moves, wherein the cooling plate is formed separately from the pickup and faces the pickup adjacently, and wherein the side of the pickup that is adjacent to the cooling plate is metallic; and a sliding spacer provided on either the side of the pickup that is adjacent to the cooling plate or the side of the cooling plate that is adjacent to the pickup; wherein the spacer takes the form of a band plate long in the direction in which the pickup moves.