Patent ID: 7414926

Claim:
An optical head device comprising: a laser light source; a photo detector; an optical system which converges the laser beam emitted by said laser light source onto an optical recording medium and guides the returning beam from said optical recording medium to said photo detector; and a base on which said optical system, said laser light source and said photo detector are mounted; wherein said photo detector is mounted directly on a face of said base which is orthogonal to an optical axis of the photo detector; wherein said optical system has an optical element which is mounted on said base via an optical element holder; wherein two positioning surfaces are formed on a mounting portion of said base for said optical element such that said two positioning surfaces are parallel to the optical axis of the photo detector and an optical axis of said optical element and intersect with each other, said optical element holder being equipped with two mounting surfaces which respectively contact with said two positioning surfaces; wherein said optical element holder is made of material composed of a material having the same linear expansion coefficient as that of said base and is fixed with adhesive directly to said base; and said optical element is fixed on a surface, wherein the surface is positioned on an orthogonal plane to the optical axis; wherein the optical element is surface bonded with an adhesive on a surface of the optical element holder which is orthogonal to the optical axis; and wherein the optical element holder is positioned by abutting the two mounting surfaces with the two positioning surfaces of said base so that the optical axis of the photo detector and the optical axis of said optical element are maintained in an aligned state.