US 7,570,546 B2
Optical pick-up and optical disk device
Kazuyoshi Ishii, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Apr. 07, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/399,469.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-116913 (JP), filed on Apr. 14, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2006/0233090 A1, Oct. 19, 2006
Int. Cl. G11B 7/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 369—44.14 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An optical pick-up comprising:
an objective lens for collecting/irradiating laser light onto an optical disk; and
an objective lens holding member for holding the objective lens,
wherein (a) a plurality of cutout portions for injecting therein an adhesive for fixing the objective lens are provided on a side of the objective lens holding member opposite to a side thereof facing the optical disk and, at the cut out portions, an adhesive is filled in a gap between (i) a surface of the edge of the objective lens perpendicular to the optical disk and (ii) a portion of the objective lens holding member opposing the surface, and (b) a protection member is disposed on a surface of the edge opposing the optical disk and on a side of the gap opposing the optical disk.