Patent ID: 7046614

Claim:
An optical pickup having a photodiode arranged in an opening formed on an end of a light transmission hole provided with a half mirror in a pickup body of synthetic resin, a collimator lens and an objective lens arranged in an opening formed on another end of said light transmission hole, a laser diode stored in said light transmission hole on a position opposed to said half mirror and a printed board, connecting said photodiode and said laser diode to a connector through cables, provided on the outer peripheral surface of said pickup body, for the purpose of projecting a laser beam from said laser diode onto a disk through said half mirror, said collimator lens and said objective lens and receiving said laser beam reflected by said disk in said photodiode through said half mirror thereby reading information recorded in said disk, wherein said printed board comprises a metal board body, said metal board body having a notched portion corresponding to a connector pin portion fed with a high-frequency signal such that a terminal pattern of said printed board connected to said connector pin is arranged at a position corresponding to said notched portion, and an extension integrally provided on a metal support substrate for said laser diode is inserted in a concave groove formed on the outer peripheral surface of said pickup body for fixing said board body to said pickup body thereby bringing said board body into close contact with said extension and the outer peripheral surface of said pickup body.