Patent ID: 6912722

Claim:
A disk drive comprising a turntable mounted on a chassis for receiving and rotating a disk, a guide shaft fixed to said chassis, an optical pickup rotatably mounted on said guide shaft for moving along said guide shaft and a beam angle adjusting mechanism so provided as to apply a light beam emitted from said optical pickup to the surface of said disk at a prescribed angle, wherein said beam angle adjusting mechanism consists of a turntable angle adjusting mechanism mounted on said turntable for adjusting inclination of said disk in a direction along said guide shaft and an optical pickup angle adjusting mechanism mounted on said optical pickup for adjusting the angular position of said optical pickup around said guide shaft thereby adjusting the angle of said light beam in a plane intersecting with said guide shaft, said optical pickup angle adjusting mechanism consists of an external screw member and an internal screw part, said external screw member is formed by integrating a flange engaging part engaging with said chassis for holding the edge of said chassis with two flanges to be located on a reference height position based on said chassis, an external screw portion and a cylindrical press-fit part located between said flange engaging part and said external screw portion, and said internal screw part includes a nut fixed to a pickup support part partially forming said optical pickup and a press-fit hole formed in said pickup support part coaxially with said nut for receiving said press-fit part in a close contact manner, for engaging said flange engaging part of said external screw member with the edge of said chassis, fitting said external screw portion with said nut and press-fitting said press-fit part into said press-fit hole thereby adjusting the distance between said chassis and said internal screw part.