US 7,461,389 B2
Adaptor member for a disc drive
Kiyoshi Omori, Tokyo (Japan); Satoshi Muto, Chiba (Japan); Yuji Suzuki, Kanagawa (Japan); Toru Tanaka, Kanagawa (Japan); Hideho Maeda, Tokyo (Japan); and Naoya Hoshino, Kanagawa (Japan)
Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Jul. 22, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/187,116.
Claims priority of application No. P2004-220757 (JP), filed on Jul. 28, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2006/0026616 A1, Feb. 02, 2006
Int. Cl. G11B 7/08 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 720—658 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An adaptor member for allowing an optical pickup mounted in a first disc drive unit having respective main shaft and sub shaft arranged opposite relative to and in parallel with each other and separated from each other by a distance to be mounted in a second disc drive unit having respective main shaft and sub shaft arranged opposite relative to and in parallel with each other and separated from each other by a distance, the distance separating the main shaft and the sub shaft of the first disc drive unit being smaller than the distance separating the main shaft and the sub shaft of the second disc drive unit,
the adaptor member being adapted to be fitted to a second supporting section of the optical pickup mounted in the first disc drive unit, the second supporting section being formed with a guide groove for pinching the sub shaft and arranged opposite to a first supporting section formed with a guide hole for allowing the main shaft to run through it, the adaptor member having a guide groove for pinching the sub shaft of the second disc drive unit.