Patent ID: 7437746

Claim:
A lens driving apparatus comprising: a fixing member; a moving member which is movably provided with respect to the fixing member; an objective lens which is held by the movable member; a connecting member which elastically connects the fixing member to the movable member, wherein the connecting member includes a first wire member and a second wire member which are arranged along a planar surface extending along a direction of the radius of the objective lens and a third wire member and a fourth wire member which are arranged along another planar surface extending along a direction of the radius of the objective lens, the first to fourth suspension wire members respectively have first ends which are connected to the fixing member and second ends which are connected to the movable member, and one of distances D 1 and D 2 is smaller than the other, one of distances D 3 and D 4 is smaller than the other, one of distances D 5 and D 6 is smaller than the other and one of distances D 7 and D 8 is smaller than the other where the distance D 1 designates a distance between the first end of the first suspension wire member and the first end of the second suspension wire member, the distance D 2 designates a distance between the second end of the first suspension wire member and the second end of the second suspension wire member, the distance D 3 designates a distance between the first end of the third suspension wire member and the first end of the fourth suspension wire member, the distance D 4 designates a distance between the second end of the third suspension wire member and the second end of the fourth suspension wire member, the distance D 5 designates the distance between the first end of the first suspension wire member and the first end of the third suspension wire member, the distance D 6 designates a distance between the second end of the first suspension wire member and the second end of the third suspension wire member, the distance D 7 designates a distance between the first end of the second suspension wire member and the first end of the fourth suspension wire member, and the distance D 8 designates a distance between the second end of the second suspension wire member and the second end of the fourth suspension wire member.