Optical Pickup Device

An optical pickup device comprising:

• an objective lens;
• a lens holder for holding the objective lens at a position facing a signal recording surface of an optical disc, the lens holder having an outer circumferential side and an inner circumferential side relative to the optical disc;
• a suspension wire (hereafter referred to as “outer wire”) fixed at one end thereof to the outer circumferential side of the lens holder and a suspension wire (hereafter referred to as “inner wire”) fixed at one end thereof to the inner circumferential side of the lens holder, the outer and inner wires extending substantially in parallel to the signal recording surface of the optical disc,
• a suspension holder for supporting the other ends of the outer and inner wires so as to cantilever the lens holder, and
• a magnetic drive circuit for driving the lens holder with the objective lens in a focusing direction,
• wherein the outer wire has a longer effective length than that of the inner wire, whereby when the lens holder with the objective lens is moved in the focusing direction by the magnetic drive circuit, the movement of the lens holder causes the outer wire to move more than the inner wire so as to tilt the objective lens at a tilt angle corresponding to the amount of movement of the lens holder.