Patent ID: 7406701

Claim:
A disk drive, comprising: a main base; a pickup base installed on the main base and provided with parts for recording and reproducing signals on and from a disk, including an optical pickup linearly movable within a predetermined region; a board fixedly installed on a side of the main base and configured to control driving of the parts including the optical pickup; and a flexible cable having a folded portion in the form of a portion of a flexible cable main body folded so that two opposing faces are in contact with each other, wherein two strips of cable extend from the folded portion in the same direction and are connected, respectively, directly to the optical pickup and to the board so as to transmit signals therebetween, wherein movement of the optical pickup is configured to be between an inner end and an outer end of said predetermined region and wherein corresponding movement of said flexible cable main body is configured to occur only to one side of a position of the folded portion when said optical pickup is at said outer end.