Patent ID: 7903506

Claim:
An optical pickup device comprising: a first objective lens configured to condense a laser beam having a short wavelength onto an optical recording medium; a second objective lens configured to condense a laser beam having a long wavelength onto an optical recording medium; a lens holder provided with first and second lens receiving cylindrical parts to which the first and second objective lenses are attached, respectively, so that distance from the first objective lens to the optical recording medium becomes shorter than distance from the second objective lens to the optical recording medium without overlapping the objective lenses; a slidable buffer member formed in a cylindrical shape so as to surround the periphery of the first objective lens and having a projection configured to prevent collision between the first objective lens and the optical recording medium, the projection being provided at an end on the optical recording medium side; a lens tilt adjusting and holding structure configured to hold the first objective lens so that tilt of the first objective lens is adjustable, wherein the second objective lens is fixed in the second lens receiving cylindrical part, and wherein the lens tilt adjusting and holding structure comprises: a support part provided on an inner face of the buffer member and supporting the first objective lens from the optical recording medium side; a flange provided on an outer face of the buffer member; three through holes provided at equal angle intervals in the flange; three female screw holes provided at equal angle intervals around the first lens receiving cylindrical part of the lens holder; three screws that penetrate the through holes and screw in the female screw holes, thereby attaching the buffer member to the lens holder; and a spring provided between the first objective lens and the first lens receiving cylindrical part and generating elastic force of pressing periphery of the first objective lens toward the optical recording medium, the spring being arranged concentrically with the first objective lens and supported between a first engagement part formed at a circumferential end of the first objective lens and a second engagement part formed on an upper part of the first lens receiving cylindrical part.