Optical disk device
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsIsao Shimada, Seiji Yoshii
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Abstract
An optical disk device which includes a pickup module; a control board for processing the electrical signal received by a pickup from an optical disk and controlling sliding of the pickup; and a flexible cable for coupling the pickup and the control board. The pickup module includes the pickup for reading information on a recording face of the optical disk; a spindle motor for retaining and rotating the optical disk; and a frame on which the spindle motor is disposed. The control board is fixed to a chassis, and the pickup module is fixed to the chassis only via elastic bodies. The cable is disposed to be surrounded by the chassis and the pickup module.
Claims7
An optical disk device comprising:
- (a) a pickup module comprising:
- a pickup slidably disposed for reading information on a recording face of an optical disk by focusing a laser beam on the recording face;
- a spindle motor for retaining and rotating the optical disk;
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- a frame on which the spindle motor is disposed;
- (b) a control board for processing an electrical signal received by the pickup from the optical disk, and controlling sliding of the pickup;
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- (c) a flexible cable for coupling the pickup and the control board;
- wherein the control board is fixed to a chassis;
- the pickup module is fixed to the chassis only via a plurality of elastic bodies;
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- the cable is disposed to be surrounded by the chassis and the pickup module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.