Patent ID: 7937721

Claim:
An optical disc apparatus, comprising: a housing; and a tray, which is attached within said housing, so that it can be inserted therein, wherein within said housing are included: a rotation driver portion, which is configured to load an optical disc thereon, so as to rotationally drive it at a predetermined rotation speed; an optical pickup, which is configured to record information by irradiating a laser light on a recording surface of said optical disc, or to reproduce recorded information by means of a reflection light thereof; a mechanism portion, which is configured to move said optical pickup in a radial direction of said optical disc loaded into said apparatus; and also a chassis portion, which is configured to be formed with a penetrating portion for moving said optical pickup therethrough; a controller substrate, which is configured to dispose below said chassis portion and to comprise a controller portion therein; and a wide-width flexible cable, which is configured to achieve electrical connection between said controller substrate and said optical pickup, wherein: said optical pickup mounts at least three (3) pieces of laser light emitting portions, each including an element for emitting a laser light differing in wavelength, in one body, a passage is defined for guiding an airflow generated accompanying with rotation of said optical disc below said tray, in a part of a left bottom surface of said tray, a cutoff portion is formed in a part of said chassis portion, so that said penetrating portion is located below said passage under a condition where said tray is stored within the housing of said apparatus, thereby guiding the airflow guided below through said passage onto said at least three (3) sets of laser light emitting portions built in said optical pickup in one body, irrespective of disposition of said wide-width flexible cable, and a width of said wide-width flexible cable is near to a width of said penetrating portion, which is formed in said chassis portion for moving said optical pickup therethrough.