Disk device equipped with a skew-adjusting mechanism for an optical pickup

• US 20050097586A1
• Filed: 10/27/2004
• Published: 05/05/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Orion Electric (Orion Denki KK)
• Original Assignee: Orion Electric (Orion Denki KK)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Yuichi, Hara, Hirotoshi
• Application Number:
  US10/973,354
• Publication Number:
  US 20050097586A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 720/675
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/082 Aligning the head or the light source relative to the record carrier otherwise than during transducing, e.g. adjusting tilt set screw during assembly of head
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/08582 Sled-type positioners

Abstract

A disk device equipped with a skew-adjusting mechanism for an optical pickup, including a traverse unit having a chassis, two guide rails arranged in parallel with each other on the chassis, a turntable to mount a disk thereon, and an optical pickup to be driven to move along the guide rails irradiating a recording surface of the disk with a laser beam to effect recording and reproduction. To adjust a guide rail correctly and finely enabling the optical pickup to move maintaining a predetermined distance at all times with respect to the recording surface of the disk to accomplish correct recording and reproduction, the traverse unit further has a fixed support member for supporting one end of at least one of the guide rails, and a movable support member made of a resin for supporting the other end thereof, said movable support member being secured to the chassis integrally therewith, a threaded hole being formed penetrating through the chassis and the movable support member, a skew-adjusting screw being screwed with said threaded hole in a manner that an end of the skew-adjusting screw protrudes upward beyond the movable support member, and the guide rail being urged toward the skew-adjusting screw.

Claims

1. A disk device equipped with a skew-adjusting mechanism for an optical pickup, comprising a traverse unit having a chassis, two guide rails arranged in parallel with each other on the chassis, a turntable to mount a disk thereon, and an optical pickup to be driven to move along the guide rails irradiating a recording surface of the disk with a laser beam to effect recording and reproduction, wherein the traverse unit further having a fixed support member for supporting one end of at least one of the guide rails, and a movable support member made of a resin for supporting the other end thereof, said movable support member being secured to the chassis integrally therewith, a threaded hole being formed penetrating through the chassis and the movable support member, a skew-adjusting screw being screwed with said threaded hole in a manner that an end of the skew-adjusting screw protrudes upward beyond the movable support member, and the guide rail being urged toward the skew-adjusting screw.

2. A disk device according to claim 1, wherein one end of the guide rail of the one side is supported by the fixed support member, the other end thereof is supported by the movable support member adjustably with the skew-adjusting screw, and both ends of the guide rail of the opposite side are supported by the movable support members adjustably with the skew-adjusting screws respectively.

3. A disk device according to claim 1, wherein a guide groove is formed in upper part of each movable support member enabling the guide rail to slide up and down, and the threaded hole is opened in the bottom surface of the guide groove.

4. A disk device according to claim 3, wherein the guide rail is urged in a direction tilted relative to the skew-adjusting screw.

5. A disk device according to claim 1, wherein the threaded hole is one formed by forming a lower hole only and by pushing the skew-adjusting screw while rotating it.

6. A disk device according to claim 2, wherein a guide groove is formed in upper part of each movable support member enabling the guide rail to slide up and down, and the threaded hole is opened in the bottom surface of the guide groove.