Patent ID: 8117631

Claim:
A pickup for accessing moving storage media carrying substantially parallel information tracks, comprising: a carrier, an actuator with a lens and suspension wires extending from a rear of the carrier and joining the carrier and the actuator, the actuator movable in a focus direction and in a tracking direction and having a substantially rectangular flat board carrying the lens and a counter weight, the flat board arranged orthogonal to the focus direction and carrying tracking and focus coils, a magnet configuration connected to the carrier with at least two tracking magnets arranged, in the tracking direction at opposite sides of the flat board and extending orthogonal to the focus direction above and/or under the flat board and with at least two focus magnets arranged in front of and behind the flat board and extending orthogonal to the direction of the tracks, wherein the lens is arranged asymmetrically in reference to an axis through a center of the flat board parallel to the direction of the tracks, while the lens and the counter weight are symmetrically in reference to the center of the flat board, wherein, in the tracking direction, at least part of the lens is arranged farther away from the center of the flat board than the tracking and focus coils.