Patent ID: 7690008

Claim:
An optical disc drive comprising: a housing; a tray able to be drawn from a front surface of the housing to place a disc on a top surface thereof; a disc rotation mechanism arranged under the proximity to the top surface of the tray within the housing to rotate the disc clockwise viewed from above; and a pickup arranged under the tray and behind a rotation axis of the disc rotation mechanism in the housing being movable frontward and backward of the housing, wherein the tray is almost in a rectangular shape which partitions the housing in a vertical direction and has an internal opening extending in the proximity to the rotation axis of the disc rotation mechanism and in a moving range of the pickup, and the housing has only two openings on a back surface thereof that consist of a first opening placed on a right side of the back surface viewed from its backside, and in a height range between a bottom surface of the tray and the proximity to a bottom end of the pickup, and a second opening placed on a left side of the back surface viewed from the backside, and in a height range between the top surface of the housing and the top surface of the tray, so that the second opening is placed on a diagonal opposite side to the first opening on the back surface of the housing, wherein outside air is introduced to the proximity of the pickup through the first opening and air in the proximity of the pickup is discharged through the second opening.