Patent ID: 7137131

Claim:
An optical disc drive comprising: a case having a circuit board; a tray to have an optical disc mounted thereon, and installed in the case and slidable in and out of the case; a main base coupled to the tray, the main base comprising a spindle motor to rotate the optical disc, a bracket to support the spindle motor, an optical pickup to access the optical disc and a driving motor to drive the optical pickup; a flexible printed circuit comprising: a first flexible printed circuit electrically connecting the circuit board and the main base, and a second flexible printed circuit electrically connecting the main base and the tray, wherein a ground pattern is formed on the second flexible printed circuit to ground static electricity; and a base cover coupled to the main base to protect the main base, wherein an exposure portion of the ground pattern is formed on an end portion of the second flexible printed circuit, and a contact portion electrically contacting the exposure portion of the ground pattern is formed on the base cover so that static electricity applied to the base cover is grounded.