PICKUP DRIVE MECHANISM AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pickup drive mechanism which moves a pickup to an innermost position of an optical disk at high speed, and which suppresses collision sound generated when the pickup stops. SOLUTION: A rotating shaft 201a which pivotally supports a first gear 201 to transmit driving power to an optical pickup 100 and is interlock with the rotation of the first gear 201, is arranged in the pickup drive mechanism in which the optical pickup 100 is brought into contact with a wall 304 of a traverse chassis at a point where the optical pickup has reached the innermost position of a disk for DVD recording and playback. The pickup drive mechanism is constructed by winding a coil spring 301 whose one end 301a is fixed to the traverse chassis and the other end 301b is protruding from the wall 304 to a direction of the optical pickup 100 around the rotating shaft 201a. When the optical pickup 100 has reached the innermost position of the disk for DVD recording and playback, the optical pickup 100 presses the other end 301b of the coil spring, and the coil spring 301 clamps the rotating shaft 201a. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT