Patent ID: 7137133

Claim:
A pickup device, comprising: an actuator including an objective lens, a lens holder for holding the objective lens and a pair of coil substrates mounted on sides of the lens holder; and an optical system including a raise-up mirror, positioned below the objective lens, and a light source, the optical system creating a first optical path of a light beam from the light source to the raise-up mirror and a second optical path of a light beam from the raise-up mirror to the objective lens, wherein the first optical path runs at a same height level as the coil substrates, wherein the pair of coil substrates are mounted so as to be partially opposed to each other by being relatively shifted by a predetermined distance to opposite directions in a tracking direction of an optical disc opposed to the objective lens, and wherein the first optical path extends to the raise-up mirror through a space created by the shifted coil substrates in which the pair of coil substrates are not opposed to each other.