Patent ID: 7467396

Claim:
A disc drive for processing a data on a disc, said disc drive comprising: a circuit board; a flexible cable assembly coupled to the circuit board, including: a flexible cable having a first end and a second end opposite to the first end and coupled to the circuit; and a protector partly attached to the flexible cable; and substantially aligned with the first end of the flexible cable; and an optical pick-up unit connected to the flexible cable wherein the protector keeps the flexible cable away from the disc when the optical pick-up unit processes the data on the disc, wherein the protector includes a joint part fixed to the flexible cable, and an extended part joined together with the joint part and separated from the flexible cable, wherein the flexible cable further includes a first conductive terminal exposed on a first surface of the flexible cable electrically connecting to the optical pick-up unit, and the protector is disposed on a second surface of the flexible cable and opposite to the first conductive terminal, and wherein said disc drive further comprises: a connector disposed on the circuit board; a second conductive terminal exposed on the first surface of the flexible cable and electrically connecting to the connector on the circuit board; and a fixing board, disposed on the second surface of the flexible cable, opposite to the second conductive terminal and substantially aligned with the second end of the flexible cable; wherein part of the fixing board and the second conductive terminal are in the connector when the flexible cable is electrically connected to the circuit board, and part of the fixing board and the second conductive terminal are out of the connector when the flexible cable is detached from the circuit board.