Patent 7555759 was granted and assigned to Panasonic on June, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
To provide an optical pickup device and optical disk device which can have a sufficient heat radiating effect without a new member for radiating heat, an optical pickup device includes a laser light source that emits laser light onto an optical disk; a power supply that supplies electric power to the laser light source; an upper surface cover that has a first opening section which introduces the wind generated by the rotation of the optical disk toward the power supply and that covers the power supply; and a side surface that is provided with a second opening section which discharges the wind introduced from the first opening section through the power supply.