Patent ID: 7525899

Claim:
A device for traversing an optical pickup of a disc drive, the device comprising: an optical pickup unit slidably installed at a guide shaft; a lead screw adjacently and parallely installed to the guide shaft; and a feed guide fixed to the optical pickup unit to be engaged with the lead screw using an elastic force, wherein the feed guide includes: a first molding member elastically engaged with the lead screw, a second molding member elastically engaged with the lead screw, and an elastic member having elasticity, wherein the first molding member and the second molding member are elastically connected to each other through the elastic member, and wherein the elastic member is a plate spring member, the plate spring member including: a flat portion fixed to the optical pickup unit at one end thereof, and fixed to the second molding member at the other end thereof; and an elastic supporting portion extending from a surface of the flat portion, and fixed to the first molding member.