Patent ID: 8332881

Claim:
An optical disc apparatus having an optical pickup for replaying information recorded on an optical disc or recording information on the optical disc, a main bearing provided at one edge of the optical pickup, a sub-bearing provided at another edge of the optical pickup, a main guide shaft engaging with the main bearing, a sub-guide shaft engaging with the sub-bearing, a chassis having a hole in which the optical pickup moving along the main guide shaft and the sub-guide shaft is arranged, a spindle motor mounted on a front end portion of the chassis to rotate the optical disc, and a cabinet having a top cover and a bottom cover for housing the chassis, wherein both ends of the sub-guide shaft are supported by being sandwiched between a pair of support parts formed in the chassis and a pair of pressing members mounted on the chassis, each of the support parts of the chassis is formed by bending a protruding portion both protruding in an inward direction of the hole from a side edge of the hole of the chassis and extending along the inward direction perpendicular to the sub-guide shaft, and the support part on the side of the spindle motor is arranged to be separated from a front edge of the hole of the chassis so that a space is created between the support part on the spindle motor side of the pair of support parts and the front edge of the hole of the chassis: wherein the space created between the support part on the spindle motor side of the pair of support parts and the front edge of the hole of the chassis results in an indirect vibration path, thereby reducing vibrations transmitted from the motor to the sub-guide shaft.