Patent ID: 8037488

Claim:
An optical pickup device comprising: a lens holder for holding an objective lens for executing recording/replay to an optical disc; a pair of first coils for driving the lens holder in a focusing direction and a second coil for driving the lens holder in a tracking direction, the first coils and the second coil being disposed on each of two side faces of the lens holder, the two side faces being substantially parallel to the tracking direction and focusing direction; a pair of permanent magnets being disposed on the two side faces of the lens holder, respectively, each permanent magnet including four magnetic pole areas divided by a border substantially parallel to the tracking direction and a border substantially parallel to the focusing direction; and means for supplying drive current to the first coils and the second coil; wherein each of the first coils has two first coil line portions substantially parallel to the tracking direction, and two second coil line portions connected to the two first coil line portions, each of the permanent magnets is so disposed that the border line of the magnetic pole areas substantially parallel to the tracking direction is opposed to the center of the two first coil line portions of the first coils, and the pair of first coils and the second coil are opposed to the magnetic pole areas such that both ends of one of the two first coil line portions near the objective lens is shifted to a side departing from the optical axis of the objective lens in the tracking direction with respect to both ends of the other of the two first coil line portions so that the two second coil line portions extend at an incline with respect to the optical axis and substantially parallel to one another, and the two first coil line portions extend in the direction perpendicular with respect to the optical axis; and wherein each of the first coils has a parallelogram shape.