Patent 7672197 was granted and assigned to Sanyo on March, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An optical pickup device having a lens through which light transmits, a holder to which the lens is mounted, a position adjusting member which is mounted on the holder, and a housing to which the holder is mounted has a structure to allow adjustment of a mounting position of a lens assembly formed by mounting the lens and the position adjusting member on the holder when the lens assembly is assembled in the housing. In this manner, the lens can be mounted to the housing with high precision.