OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISK DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical pickup device and an optical disk device which can adjust variation in precision and assembling of parts and improve optical characteristics. SOLUTION: The optical pickup device is provided with an actuator 29 which supports an objective lens slightly movable to an optical disk and a carriage 30 which has the actuator 20 on board and moves in the direction of the radius of the optical disk. Characteristically, the actuator 29 is provided with a projection 31 having a spherical surface, and the carriage 30 is provided with a V-shaped groove 32 receiving a projection 32. The optical disk device is characterized in that it has this optical pickup device on board. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO