Patent ID: 8082560

Claim:
A disc drive, comprising: a loader having a first side wall, a second side wall and a third side wall that is perpendicular to the first side wall and the second side wall, with the first, second and third side walls forming an inner space; a traverse disposed in the inner space of the loader and having a spindle motor and a pickup head disposed on the traverse for rotating a disc and reading the data in the disc, respectively; a circuit board electrically coupled to the pickup head for processing the data from the pickup head, the circuit board having a first side, a second side and a third side that is perpendicular to the first side and the second side; and a supporting frame extending horizontally from the second side wall of the loader towards the inner space, and having a supporting surface; wherein the third side of the circuit board is shorter than the third side wall of the loader; and wherein the first side of the circuit board is disposed on the first side wall of the loader, and the second side of the circuit board is disposed on the supporting surface of the supporting frame with the circuit board extending horizontally inside the loader, wherein the supporting surface is provided on a first bar that extends from the third side wall, and the supporting frame comprises at least a second bar that extends from the second side wall to connect the first bar.