Patent ID: 7257054

Claim:
An optical recording/reproducing apparatus comprising: an optical pickup for recognizing information of an optical disc; a main shaft installed on a base plate, for supporting the optical pickup; a sub-shaft positioned at a certain distance between itself and the main shaft and installed on the base plate, for supporting the optical pickup; and an optical pickup skew adjustment means operating within a range that the optical pickup can recognize the optical disc and installed at at least one of the main shaft and the sub-shaft, for correcting a skew of the optical pickup, the optical pickup skew adjustment means including: a fixing portion installed on the base plate and having a groove for movably supporting one end of the main shaft at its side; a support portion for supporting the other end of the main shaft, installed on the base plate at a certain distance from the fixing portion, having an insertion hole at its side to insert an end of the main shaft therein and having an elastic member for elastically supporting the end of the main shaft therein; a prop portion installed on the base plate, for supporting a bottom middle surface of the main shaft; and a skew adjustment screw rotatably installed at the base plate, for upwardly pushing the end of the main shaft supported by the prop portion.