Patent ID: 7379397

Claim:
An optical pickup comprising: a laser light source; an objective lens focusing a light beam emitted from said laser light source; a lens holder having said objective lens, focus coils and tracking coils; magnets driving said focus coils and the tracking coils; a magnet fixing member fixing said magnets; a unit base supporting said lens holder; and a casing holding said unit base, wherein one end of an elastic member is connected to said unit base, and the other end of said elastic member is connected to said magnet fixing member at point symmetrical positions on the basis of a center of said objective lens, wherein one of said magnets driving the focus coil or the tracking coil, and a corresponding focus coil or tracking coil provided in said lens holder, are arranged at substantially point symmetrical positions on the basis of the center of said objective lens so as to face to another one of said magnets driving the other of the focus coil or the tracking coil, and a corresponding focus coil or tracking coil, and a connecting position between a suspension supporting said lens holder and said lens holder, is arranged at substantially point symmetrical positions on the basis of the center line of said focus coil or the tracking coil facing to each other.