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Document | Title | Date |
20080198727 | Optical Pickup Unit for a Desk Drive and Disk Drive Comprising Such an Optical Pick up Unit - An optical pickup unit for an optical disk drive, comprises a lens holder ( | 08-21-2008 |
20080198728 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING-REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - An optical information recording-reproduction apparatus comprises: a light source; an objective lens and a SIL (solid immersion lens) for focusing a light beam from the light source on an optical recording medium; an aperture element for collecting a part of the light beam reflected by an optical recording medium, corresponding to the effective aperture number of the objective lens and SIL of less than 1; a detecting element for detecting the part of the light beam from the aperture element corresponding to the effective aperture number of less than 1; a speed-generating circuit for reducing the speed of approach of the SIL to the recording medium in accordance with the level of the signal detected by the detecting element; and a driver circuit for driving the objective lens and the SIL in accordance with output from the speed-generating circuit. | 08-21-2008 |
20080198729 | LENS APPARATUS - A lens apparatus has a focusing lens unit, a separating optical unit disposed on an optical axis of the lens apparatus, a focus detection unit that detects focus condition using a light beam from the separating optical unit, a first drive unit that drives the focusing lens unit based on an output of the focus detection unit, and a second drive unit that drives the separating optical unit. An optical separating surface that the separating optical unit has reflectance that varies continuously in a first direction. The second drive unit drives or moves the separating optical unit in the first direction. | 08-21-2008 |
20080198730 | Optical head and apparatus for optically recording and reproducing information - An optical sensor has first light receiving surfaces having respective pentagonal or hexagonal shapes and being independent of each other, and second light receiving surfaces having respective hexagonal shapes and being independent of each other, third light receiving surfaces having respective hexagonal shapes and being independent of each other, fourth light receiving surfaces having respective hexagonal shapes and being independent of each other, and fifth light receiving surfaces having respective hexagonal shapes and being independent of each other. A relationship between a size of each of the light receiving surfaces and a diameter of respective one of light beams received by corresponding one of the light receiving surfaces is set within a predetermined range. A light beam multiple-dividing element diffracts the light beams received by a first grating area to form +primary lights, and diffracts the light beams received by second and third grating areas to form +primary lights and −primary lights. Relationships of U/D and V/D are set within predetermined ranges. | 08-21-2008 |
20080205248 | Optimization Spherical Aberration to Determine Current Layer - A spherical aberration correction mechanism is optimised early in the start-up process by measuring responses for various settings of the spherical aberration correction device that are removed from the initial settings of the spherical aberration correction by small amounts and comparing these responses with those anticipated for various of the multiple layers on the optical media. Signal measurements and calibrations can be performed prior to attempting to read data from the disc or concurrently with reading data from the disc. Comparing the responses with ideal, typical or anticipated curves for the various layers can derive the address of the current layer and the desired layer can be immediately accessed. | 08-28-2008 |
20080205249 | COMPATIBLE OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM SYSTEM EMPLOYING- THE SAME - An optical pickup compatible with different types of optically recorded media and an optical recording and/or reproducing system employing the compatible optical pickup, the compatible optical pickup including: a short wavelength light source emitting a short wavelength light suitable for a high-density information storage medium; a low-density optical system emitting a long wavelength light suitable for a low-density information storage medium; an objective lens focusing lights incident from the long wavelength light source and the low-density optical system onto an information storage medium; a single photodetector (PD) receiving the short and long wavelength lights reflected from the information storage medium to detect a reproduction signal and a focus error signal; a detection lens focusing the short and long wavelength lights reflected from the information storage medium as a light spot having an appropriate size onto the single PD; a first collimating lens positioned on an optical path of a light reflected from the information storage medium, wherein the optical path is positioned between the objective lens and the single PD; and a driving unit adjusting a position of the first collimating lens along an optical axis according to a wavelength of a light moving towards the single PD to reduce an offset of a focus error signal caused by chromatic aberration. | 08-28-2008 |
20080212452 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS - An optical pickup apparatus comprising: an objective lens configured to focus laser light having the Gaussian distribution properties emitted from a laser diode to a signal recording layer of an optical disc; and an adjustment coating formed on a surface of an incident face of the objective lens on which the laser light is to be made incident, the adjustment coating being configured to adjust transmittance of the laser light passing through the objective lens, the adjustment coating being formed on the surface of the incident face such that the transmittance is lowered as a numerical aperture of the objective lens is reduced. | 09-04-2008 |
20080219131 | Objective Lens - The invention concerns an objective lens for use with a dual layer optical information carrier. Such a carrier as used in Blu-ray Disks (BD) has a first information layer at a depth D | 09-11-2008 |
20080225673 | Information recording device and head - In a magnetic recording device, a semiconductor laser (LD) is disposed at a position with a predetermined distance from a swing arm having a slider. The laser beam output from the LD is irradiated, via a beam converter and a mirror, to a spherical aberration lens that generates spherical aberration. The laser beam transmitted through the spherical aberration lens is directed to a light incident opening of the slider at a constant angle (perpendicularly), and then to a position of a recording medium at which information is recorded, thereby performing thermal assist at the magnetic recording time. | 09-18-2008 |
20080239928 | OPTICAL PICKUP - An objective lens corresponding to a BD beam light, and an objective lens corresponding to a DVD/CD beam light are arranged parallel to an optical disc. One rising mirror is arranged in a tilted manner on a side opposite to the optical disc of the objective lenses. A first film for reflecting the BD beam light emitted from a laser diode and making the beam light enter the objective lens and transmitting the DVD/CD beam light emitted from a laser diode is arranged on one of the parallel surfaces of a transparent substrate of the rising mirror. A second film for reflecting the DVD/CD beam light transmitted through the first film and the transparent substrate and making the beam light enter the objective lens is arranged on the other surface. An incident optical axis to each objective lens of the BD beam light and the DVD/CD beam light is branched with the rising mirror. | 10-02-2008 |
20080247298 | Optical System, Optical Pickup Apparatus, and Optical Disk Apparatus - The present invention discloses an optical system for extracting signal light components from a beam including the signal light components and stray light components. The optical system includes a condensing optical element situated on an optical path of the beam for condensing the beam, a polarization changing unit for changing the state of polarization of at least one of the signal light components and the stray light components included in the incident beam transmitted through the condensing optical element, and an extracting element for extracting the signal light components included in the beam transmitted through the polarization changing unit. | 10-09-2008 |
20080259770 | Optical Pick-Up for Use in a Multi-Disc Optical Player and Method for Correcting Optical Aberrations in Such an Optical Pick-Up Unit - The present invention concerns to an optical pick-up unit for use in a multi-disc system, for scanning a first type of record carriers and at least a second type of record carriers, the second type of record carriers having an information density different from an information density of the first type of record carriers, the optical pick-up unit comprising at least two optical branches ( | 10-23-2008 |
20080259771 | Optical Pickup Device - An optical pickup device comprises a lens holder to hold an objective lens for irradiating a laser beam onto an optical disc; outer and inner circumferential side wires fixed at one ends thereof to outer and inner circumferential sides of the lens holder and extending substantially in parallel to the optical disc; a suspension holder for suspending and supporting the other ends of the outer and inner wires to cantilever the lens holder; and a magnetic drive circuit for driving the lens holder in a focusing direction and a tracking direction. The outer wires have an effective length longer than that of the inner wires. This makes it possible to tilt the objective lens so as to compensate the tilt of the optical disc, if any, at the time of recording and reproduction, thereby reducing jitter and improving recording and reproduction performance of the optical pickup device with simple structure. | 10-23-2008 |
20080259772 | Optical disc reproducing apparatus - An objective lens is raised from below upwards with a DVD laser diode turned on and levels of detection signals A, B, C, and D from a four segment photodetector are acquired and stored in a RAM. A ratio (A+D)/(B+C) in a direction of the X-axis is then calculated. When the ratio exceeds a predetermined value, a lens shift correction amount is calculated for the calculated ratio based on a correction table. The objective lens is then shifted in the direction of the X-axis in accordance with the calculated lens shift correction amount. These processes are executed before a series of processes required for achieving a focus-on state. | 10-23-2008 |
20080259773 | Optical element and optical pickup device - An objective lens causes birefringence, which causes wave aberration in outgoing light from the objective lens. A coated objective lens has a dielectric multilayer film that can reduce astigmatism component of the wave aberration to 5 mλ rms or smaller when 10 mλ rms or larger astigmatism component of wave aberration is generated. | 10-23-2008 |
20080259774 | Objective lens driving device and optical disc apparatus - Both of two permanent magnets which are arranged in an objective lens driving device are multipole magnetized magnets having rectangular parallelepiped shapes. The two permanent magnets have inverse N-S polarity at a part of surfaces which face each other. Focusing coils and tracking coils which are set up on a lens holder are disposed such that effective portions which are sides of the respective coils that face each other to generate driving force by electromagnetic force action with the permanent magnets, act with different direction magnetic fields respectively. | 10-23-2008 |
20080259775 | OBJECTIVE LENS FOR OPTICAL PICK-UP - There is provided an objective lens for an optical pick-up. The objective lens includes a first surface on a light source side, and a second surface on an optical disc side. The first surface has a convex shape. Te objective lens is formed to be a single-element lens having a numerical aperture of 0.75 or more. In this configuration, the objective lens satisfies a condition: | 10-23-2008 |
20080267043 | Optical pickup having optical path length correction function - An optical pickup configured so as to reproduce signals recorded in optical disks of plural standards by means of a single laser beam. The optical pickup has an objective lens for gathering a laser beam emitted from a semiconductor laser—which emits a laser beam of single wavelength—onto a signal recording layer provided in each of optical disks of first and second standards whose cover layers differ from each other in terms of a thicknesses. The first standard is; for example, a CD, and the second standard is; for example, a DVD. An optical path length correction member—in which there is formed an optical path length correction section for making a correction to an optical path length falling within a range smaller than the diameter of a light beam passing through the objective lens—is provided in an optical path between the semiconductor laser and the objective lens. The optical path length correction section may also be formed on a lens plane of the objective lens facing the semiconductor laser. | 10-30-2008 |
20080267044 | Optical pickup device and optical disc apparatus - An optical pickup device has: a light source; an objective lens that condenses laser light emitted from the light source on a recording layer of an optical disc; and a movable lens that is disposed between the light source and the objective lens and that is movable along the optical axis. The movable lens is moved to correct for spherical aberration. Between the light source and the objective lens, a RIM intensity adjusting element is also disposed that adjusts the RIM intensity by changing the range within which, as the movable lens is moved, the intensity of the laser light incident on the objective lens can be varied. | 10-30-2008 |
20080273445 | OPTICAL HEAD DEVICE AND OPTICAL RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An optical head device and an optical recording and reproducing apparatus using this optical head device, which can record information and reproduce the recorded information at any of optical recording media, such as a next generation optical recording medium, in which the wavelength of the light source is made to be shorter, the numerical aperture of the objective lens is made to be higher, and the thickness of the recording medium is made to be thinner, and conventional recording media of DVD and CD standards, are provided. A light having wavelength of 405 nm, emitted from one of optics, is inputted to an objective lens as a collimated light, and is focused on a disk having thickness of 0.1 mm. A light having wavelength of 650 nm, emitted from the other of optics, is inputted to the objective lens as a diverged light, and is focused on a disk having thickness of 0.6 mm. A spherical aberration, which remains for the light having wavelength of 650 nm, is decreased by the change of the magnification of the objective lens, further the decreased spherical aberration is decreased by using a wavelength selective filter. | 11-06-2008 |
20080279083 | OBJECTIVE LENS DESIGN METHOD, LENS, AND OPTICAL SYSTEM, OPTICAL HEAD, AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS USING THE SAME - When the DVD provided with the DVD substrate | 11-13-2008 |
20080285421 | Optical Disk Drive - An optical disk drive according to the present invention includes: an optical pickup | 11-20-2008 |
20080285422 | OBJECTIVE LENS AND OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS - Disclosed is an objective lens for an optical pickup apparatus which records and/or reproduces information with a light beam emitted from a light source, including: a substrate; and an anti-reflection coating comprising at least one layer, formed on a surface of the substrate at a side of the light source, wherein a refractive index of the anti-reflection coating at a peripheral part where an outer edge of an effective light beam transmits is smaller than a refractive index of the anti-reflection coating at a center part where a light beam on an optical axis transmits. | 11-20-2008 |
20080285423 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS - An optical pickup apparatus includes: an optical pickup actuator including an objective lens for converging an optical beam emitted from a light source to a surface of a recording medium, a lens holder for holding the objective lens, an elastic support member for elastically supporting the lens holder at its one end to be capable of driving the lens holder, and a base member for fixing and holding the other end of the elastic support member; a casing that supports the base member of the actuator; a flexible substrate for taking a signal from the optical beam; a substrate pressing member for restricting floating of the flexible substrate; and an actuator restricting holding part that is mounted integrally with the substrate pressing member and holds the base member while restricting operation of the base member to a predetermined operation. | 11-20-2008 |
20080285424 | Optical pickup apparatus - An optical pickup apparatus is provided for recording and/or reproducing information on an optical disc in which information can be recorded at recording positions. The optical pickup apparatus includes: a light source; a relay optical system; an objective lens for converging a light flux onto one of the plurality of recording positions; a photodetector for receiving a light flux from the optical disc; a detector; a first actuator; and a second actuator. The detector is provided for detecting information for keeping a distance between the optical disc and the objective lens a predetermined value. The first actuator is provided for driving the objective lens for keeping the distance between the optical disc and the objective lens the predetermined value. The second actuator is provided for driving the relay optical system corresponding to one of the plurality of recording positions where information is recorded and/or reproduced. | 11-20-2008 |
20080285425 | Optical disc device and optical disc determination method - An optical disc device includes a control part for causing processing of determining a type of an optical disc to be executed. The processing caused by the control part to be executed for determining the optical disc includes: signal acquisition processing of acquiring a pull-in signal (sum signal of reflected signal) and an RF signal (reproduced signal) by moving an objective lens in either of a direction approaching the optical disc and a direction separating from the optical disc; and determination processing of deciding whether or not to correct the pull-in signal acquired in the signal acquisition processing and determining the type of the optical disc by using either of amplitude of the acquired pull-in signal and a correction value with which the amplitude of the acquired pull-in signal is corrected by using a predetermined value obtained from the acquired RF signal. | 11-20-2008 |
20080298211 | Disc Device - A disc device includes a lens that focuses a laser light on an optical disc surface, a focus drive unit that drives the lens in a focusing direction, a focus control unit that controls to focus the laser light on the optical disc surface, a focus displacement detecting unit that detects a displaced amount in the focusing direction, a differentiation unit that differentiates a focus displacement detected signal, and a unit that inverts a sign of a differentiated signal, thereby, the disc device is driven intermittently to restrain a motion of an objective lens in a focusing direction and avoid colliding the objective lens with the optical disc surface. | 12-04-2008 |
20080298212 | OPTICAL DISC DRIVE AND FOCUS POSITION CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, a focus position control method includes irradiating a beam to an optical disc via an objective lens, receiving reflected light and outputting a signal, generating a focus error signal, detecting an amplitude of a signal high-pass-filtering the signal, detecting an intensity of a signal low-pass-filtering the signal, supplying a driving voltage corresponding to the focus error signal to a drive coil configured to move the objective lens to an optical axis direction of the beam when the amplitude is larger than the first value, or when the amplitude is not larger than the first value and the intensity is smaller than the second value, and supplying a driving voltage having a constant voltage value to the drive coil when the amplitude is not larger than the first value and the intensity is not smaller than the second value. | 12-04-2008 |
20080298213 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS AND OPTICAL DISC RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION METHOD - In an optical disc apparatus, a CPU controls a focus control circuit, and a focus offset for adjusting a height of an objective lens is set. A spindle motor control circuit, a laser driver circuit, and an RF amplifier are controlled. When an optical disc is rotated by using the set focus offset in a state where a tracking servo is not performed, an envelope of a full addition signal or a RF signal obtained from each focused focal point corresponding to the objective lens in a land and a groove is detected. An amplitude level of the envelope is measured, and a focus control circuit is controlled. By using the focus offset with which the amplitude level of the envelope of the full addition signal or the RF signal is minimized, a focus offset used when recording or reproduction of the optical disc is performed is determined. | 12-04-2008 |
20080298214 | Objective lens actuator utilizing piezoelectric elements - An objective lens actuator includes a lens holder for holding an objective lens, a holder support member for holding the lens holder movably along a direction of an optical axis of the objective lens and rotatably about a rotation axis that is parallel to the direction of the optical axis, and a base for holding the holder support member. A gap is provided between the holder support member and the base, the gap extending around a junction which connects the holder support member with the base, wherein a plurality of piezoelectric elements are inserted in the gap. | 12-04-2008 |
20080298215 | Discrimination method for optical disc types and optical disc apparatus - An optical disc apparatus, which discriminates types of optical discs having different thicknesses of transparent layers by using the same wavelength of laser light, includes an aberration correction unit for correcting spherical aberration, an objective lens for condensing the laser beam onto a recording surface of an optical disc, an actuator for moving the objective lens with respect to the optical disc, a signal detection unit for delivering a focus error signal or a sum light signal, a control unit for controlling the aberration correction unit, the actuator and the signal detection unit. The control unit drives and sets the aberration correction unit so that the laser beam has a predetermined spherical aberration, performs a focus search operation of moving the objective lens to approach the optical disc in a state where the laser beam is projected onto the optical disc, and uses at least one of the focus error signal and the sum light signal delivered from the signal detection unit at a just focus position as an optical disc type discrimination signal. | 12-04-2008 |
20080304395 | Air Gap Servo For Optical Recording - A device reads and/or records marks in a track on a record carrier via near field optical recording. The device has a head including a lens to be positioned at a near field distance from a surface of the record carrier. An air gap controller is for controlling an air gap ( | 12-11-2008 |
20080304396 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING-REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An optical information recording-reproducing apparatus comprising a light source, an objective lens for condensing a light beam from the light source on a recording layer of an optical recording medium, a divergence angle-converting element provided in an optical path from the light source to the optical recoding medium for converting a divergence angle of the light beam to be introduced to the objective lens, a focus error detecting optical system including a photodetector for detecting a focus error of the light beam, an optical element for introducing a part of the light beam emitted from the divergence angle-converting element to the focus error detecting optical system, a circuit for detecting the divergence angle of the light beam emitted from the divergence angle-converting element from output from the photodetector, and a circuit for compensating spherical aberration in the recording layer of the optical recording medium by driving the divergence angle-converting element in accordance with the detection result of the divergence angle-detecting circuit. | 12-11-2008 |
20080310286 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS - An optical pickup apparatus comprising: an objective lens formed so that a first and second laser beams different in wavelength are respectively focused onto signal recording layers of a first and second optical discs; and a photodetector including a square-shaped light-receiving portion for being irradiated with return light, as a spot, of the first or second laser beam respectively reflected from the signal recording layers of the first or second optical discs, to generate a focus error signal, a length of a diagonal line of the light-receiving portion being substantially equal to a longer diameter of an elliptical spot formed in a direction of the diagonal line when the focus error signal is at a maximum level for an optical disc that is either one of the first and second optical discs, to which a laser beam shorter in wavelength out of the first and second laser beams is focused. | 12-18-2008 |
20080316901 | Optical Scanning Device - The invention relates to an optical scanning device for scanning at least one information layer ( | 12-25-2008 |
20080316902 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE AND CONVERGING POSITION CORRECTION METHOD - An optical disc device that irradiates an optical beam to an optical disc including a recording layer for recording information and a positioning layer provided with a track for identifying a recording position of the information on the recording layer, includes: objective lens that converges a predetermined positioning optical beam to adjust the optical beam to a desired track on the positioning layer and converges an information optical beam that shares an optical axis with the positioning optical beam on the recording layer; moving section that moves the objective lens in a tracking direction which is substantially orthogonal to the track to make a focal point of the positioning optical beam to follow the desired track; a detection section that detects a moving amount of the objective lens to the tracking direction; and correction section that corrects a converging position of the information optical beam in accordance with the moving amount. | 12-25-2008 |
20080316903 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS - An optical pickup apparatus comprising: a collimating lens configured to convert laser light having Gaussian distribution property emitted from a laser diode from divergent light to parallel light; an objective lens configured to focus the laser light from the collimating lens onto a signal recording layer of an optical disc; and an adjustment film formed on a surface of an incident face of the collimating lens on which the laser light is incident, and configured to adjust transmittance of the laser light passing through the collimating lens, the adjustment film being formed on the surface of the incident face so that the transmittance is lower on the inner side of the incident face than on the outer side of the incident face. | 12-25-2008 |
20090003183 | Optical pickup, optical information recording device, optical information recording method, optical information reproduction device, optical information reproduction method and optical information recording medium - An optical pickup includes: an objective lens that collects a first beam and a second beam and emits the first and second beam toward an optical information recording medium on which information can be recorded as a recording mark as a result of being exposed to the first beam; a section that drives the objective lens to focus the second beam on a reflection layer formed on the optical information recording medium, the reflection layer at least partly reflecting the second beam; and a section that changes the convergence state of the first beam to position a focal point of the first beam a distance away from a focal point of the second beam in the direction of depth in order to place the focal point of the first beam at a target depth. | 01-01-2009 |
20090003184 | Method of Moving Tracks, Method and Apparatus of Recording and/or Playback - A recording and/or playback apparatus and method and a method of moving tracks, and more particularly, an apparatus and method for efficiently seeking a track and recording and/or playback data on/from a recording medium, are disclosed. The method of moving tracks includes changing a gap between a lens part and a recording medium in correspondence with a distance of moving tracks when the lens moves from a current track to another track. Accordingly, it is possible to minimize or prevent the collision between the lens part and the recording medium and to efficiently seek the track to perform recording/reproduction when recording and/or playback data on/from the recording medium. | 01-01-2009 |
20090010137 | OPTICAL DISC DRIVE AND OPTICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM - The type of a disc is determined by detecting focus error signals and the amount of returned light while emitting light with a wavelength such as infrared light which maximizes the focal length and moving an objective lens in the direction of an optical axis. If the S shape and AS immediately after the surface are greater than those at the surface, the optical disc is determined to be an optical disc with a largest capacity. It is determined whether or not there is a reflective layer at a depth equal to or less than 0.1 mm. If there is no reflective layer thereat, it is determined whether or not there is a reflective layer at a depth of 0.6 mm. If there is a reflective layer thereat, the type of the reflective layer is determined based on TE and RF signals with blue light. If the blue light is not adaptable to the layer, red light is emitted, and replay of the recording layer at a depth of 0.6 mm is performed. | 01-08-2009 |
20090010138 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An optical pickup device to provide a stable operation in both low-speed and high-speed modes by controlling a change in natural frequency, the optical pickup device including: a lens holder to support an objective lens; a supporting unit spaced apart from the lens holder; and a plurality of suspension members each having one end fixed to the lens holder and another end supported by the supporting unit to enable a movement of the lens holder, wherein the supporting unit includes a fixing member, a coupling portion provided in the fixing member to couple each suspension member, magnetic fluid received in the coupling portion, and an excite device to apply a magnetic field to the magnetic fluid. | 01-08-2009 |
20090010139 | OPTICAL PICKUP - An optical pickup comprising: an objective lens | 01-08-2009 |
20090010140 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus having a lens unit configured to include a plurality of lenses and a variable aperture mechanism capable of varying an aperture opening diameter, the image pickup apparatus including: in the lens unit, a variable aperture unit configured by integrating the variable aperture mechanism and the single lenses of the lens unit using a fixing portion. | 01-08-2009 |
20090010141 | Optical pickup apparatus and objective lens - An optical pickup apparatus is provided for recording and/or reproducing information on an optical disc including at least one reference layer and at least one recording layer in which information can be recorded at recording positions each located at a different distance from an optical disc surface. The optical pickup apparatus includes: a light source; a relay lens system for emitting a converged light flux; an objective lens arranged at a predetermined distance from the reference layer, for converging the converged light flux onto one of the recording positions; and a photodetector. The relay lens system changes a convergence angle of the converged light flux to enter the objective lens by moving in a direction of an optical axis thereof so as to select a recording position where information is recorded and/or reproduced. | 01-08-2009 |
20090010142 | Complex objective lens, optical head, optical information apparatus, computer, optical disk player, car navigation system, optical disk recorder, and optical disk server - A complex objective lens composed of a hologram and an objective lens, capable of realizing stable and high-precision compatible reproducing/recording of a BD with a base thickness of about 0.1 mm for a blue light beam (wavelength λ | 01-08-2009 |
20090016196 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - An optical disk device of the present application includes: a turntable | 01-15-2009 |
20090016197 | OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL DISK DEVICE - An optical pickup includes: a plurality of object lenses mounted in a central portion; a lens holder having tracking and focusing coils distributed between two side portions; a fixed base having a plurality of magnets paired with the tracking and focusing coils and a plurality of stand-up mirrors each facing a different one of the object lenses; a plurality of wires supporting the two side portions of the lens holder; a coil substrate having a winding pattern as a tracking coil and integrated with the lens holder so as to cross through the central portion of the lens holder and project beyond the two side portions while avoiding the object lenses and the stand-up mirrors. A plurality of through holes are formed in the coil substrate for electrically connecting the plurality of wires as leads to the tracking and focusing coils. | 01-15-2009 |
20090016198 | OPTICAL HEAD DEVICE AND OPTICAL RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An optical head device and an optical recording and reproducing apparatus using this optical head device, which can record information and reproduce the recorded information at any of optical recording media, such as a next generation optical recording medium, in which the wavelength of the light source is made to be shorter, the numerical aperture of the objective lens is made to be higher, and the thickness of the recording medium is made to be thinner, and conventional recording media of DVD and CD standards, are provided. A light having wavelength of 405 nm, emitted from one of optics, is inputted to an objective lens as a collimated light, and is focused on a disk having thickness of 0.1 mm. A light having wavelength of 650 nm, emitted from the other of optics, is inputted to the objective lens as a diverged light, and is focused on a disk having thickness of 0.6 mm. A spherical aberration, which remains for the light having wavelength of 650 nm, is decreased by the change of the magnification of the objective lens, further the decreased spherical aberration is decreased by using a wavelength selective filter. | 01-15-2009 |
20090016199 | OPTICAL ELEMENT AND PRODUCING METHOD - An optical element includes: an element body including a resin containing a polymer having an alicyclic structure. The optical element is treated by one of heat treatment and wet-heat treatment for 15 hours or longer at a temperature lower by 10C.° to 30C.° than a glass transition temperature of the resin after being formed by injecting the resin in a mold. The optical element body has a length along an optical axis of the optical element in a range of 0.5 to 3 mm, and a length in a perpendicular direction to the optical axis in a range of 3 to 5 mm. | 01-15-2009 |
20090022038 | OBJECTIVE LENS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS - An objective lens formed of a synthetic resin material having characteristics of substantially not reducing transmittance of the objective lens when a first laser beam having a first wavelength passes through the objective lens, and reducing the transmittance according to an elapsed time to apply a second laser beam when the second laser beam having a second wavelength shorter than the first wavelength and longer than a wavelength of ultraviolet light passes through the objective lens, the objective lens being irradiated with the ultraviolet light in advance for a predetermined time such that a change in the transmittance for the second laser beam is set within a predetermined range. | 01-22-2009 |
20090028036 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - The invention permits stable tracking with few control errors, uninfluenced by stray light reflected by signal surfaces other than the signal surface being used for focusing during recording and playback of a multilayer disc. To this end, the optical splitter element of the optical disc device according to the present invention has first areas ( | 01-29-2009 |
20090034399 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS AND OPTICAL DISC DETERMINING METHOD - An objective lens is moved with a disc irradiated with laser light. A maximum value FEmax and a minimum value FEmin of the focus error signal, and a maximum value FSmax of the amplitude of a focus sum signal are measured. “(FEmax−FEmin)/FSmax” is compared with a determination value to determine the type of a disc. | 02-05-2009 |
20090034400 | Objective lens actuator and optical pickup device including the same - An objective lens actuator includes a lens holder which holds an objective lens. A collision preventing portion which prevents collision of the objective lens and an optical disc and a cleaning portion which performs cleaning of the optical disc when the objective lens and the optical disc collide with each other, are set up on the lens holder. It is preferable that the collision preventing portion and the cleaning portion are disposed such that the collision preventing portion is located in an up stream side of a rotating direction of the optical disc and the cleaning portion is located in a down stream side of the rotating direction of the optical disc. | 02-05-2009 |
20090034401 | OPTICAL DISK APPARATUS - It is intended to provide an optical disk apparatus which detects a light amount greater than zero even when used in conjunction with an optical disk substrate having a large birefringence, so that it is possible to properly read a signal without errors and properly perform optical disk controls. The optical disk apparatus includes: a light source for emitting light; an objective lens for converging the light onto a signal surface of an optical disk; a polarized beam diffraction element for diffracting the light reflected from the optical disk; a photodetector for detecting the light diffracted from the polarized beam diffraction element; and a wavelength plate disposed between the optical disk and the polarized beam diffraction element. The wavelength plate has a two-dimensional array of a plurality of birefringent regions including first and second regions, the first and second regions differing in birefringent phase difference and/or optic axes from each other, and the plurality of birefringent regions including the first and second regions cause the light to have different polarization states. | 02-05-2009 |
20090040904 | Laser Driving Device, Optical Head Incorporating Laser Driving Device, and Optical Disk Apparatus - Provided is a semiconductor laser driving device which enables to reduce unnecessary power consumption. | 02-12-2009 |
20090040905 | Objective lens driving device, control circuit, optical disc device and objective lens driving method - An objective lens driving device includes an objective lens holder | 02-12-2009 |
20090040906 | SIL NEAR-FIELD SYSTEM - A solid immersion lens (SIL) near-field system including: a radially polarized beam generator to generate a radially polarized beam; an SIL; an objective lens to focus the radially polarized beam on a bottom surface of the SIL; and a mask to shield a center portion of the radially polarized beam, the center portion being about an optical axis of the radially polarized beam. | 02-12-2009 |
20090040907 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISK APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - An optical pickup device includes an objective-lens driving mechanism including a lens holder that holds an objective lens configured to focus a light beam emitted from a light source onto an optical disk, a support unit that movably supports the lens holder in a focusing direction parallel to an optical axis of the objective lens and in a tracking direction perpendicular to the optical axis, and magnets that apply predetermined magnetic fields to coils of the lens holder. The optical pickup device further includes a light source holding unit that fixedly holds the light source, and a yoke member attached to a magnet located at a position near the light source. The light source holding unit and the yoke member are thermally conductive metal. The yoke member extends toward the light source and is fixed to the light source holding unit in a thermally conductive manner. | 02-12-2009 |
20090040908 | OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An optical pickup performing recording, reproduction and deletion of information on or from an optical recording medium. The pickup includes light sources for information recording media using a blue wavelength beam, information recording media of DVD family and information recording media of CD family. A single object lens may be used to condense light from any of the light sources. A single aberration correction device may be disposed in a common light path between each of the light sources and the object lens. | 02-12-2009 |
20090046562 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT, OPTICAL DETECTOR UNIT, OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DISK DEVICE - A light source unit comprises a plurality of light sources emitting a plurality of light beams. A plurality of volume hologram elements are provided for the plurality of light sources respectively, each volume hologram element having a plane of incidence of an incoming light beam and a plane of outgoing radiation of a diffracted light beam which are perpendicular to each other, the plurality of volume hologram elements having mutually different Bragg conditions in which an optical intensity of a diffracted light beam is set to a maximum. | 02-19-2009 |
20090046563 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An optical information recording and reproducing apparatus is provided for recording and/or reproducing information on an optical disc including a recording layer in which information can be recorded at recording positions each located at a different distance from a surface of the optical disc. The optical information recording and reproducing apparatus includes: a light source; and an objective lens which can converge the light flux from the light source onto one of the recording positions at a predetermined depth in the recording layer for recording information on the optical disc. When information to be recorded is recorded on one of the recording positions at a predetermined depth in the recording layer, the optical information recording and reproducing apparatus records information about the predetermined depth on one of the plurality of recording positions at the predetermined depth, with the information to be recorded. | 02-19-2009 |
20090052304 | Optical head device and optical information processor - A laser beam | 02-26-2009 |
20090052305 | OPTICAL PICK-UP - There is provided an optical pick-up including first to third light sources respectively emitting first to third light beams, a first coupling lens, and an objective lens formed to converge each of the first, second and third light beams onto the first, second and third optical discs, respectively. The objective lens has a step structure including a plurality of concentrically formed refractive surface zones divided by steps, the step structure having a function of giving, at each step, an optical path length difference of approximately 2λ | 02-26-2009 |
20090059768 | Optical Pickup Device - An optical pickup device enables prevention of an increase of spherical aberration during tracking without needing any finite optical system. The diameters of parallel light beams (A, B, C) for the next-generation DVDs, DVDs, and CDs are limited to diameters of a, b, c (a>b>c) in accordance with the NA for each type by a light beam limiting element, the diameter of light beam B is limited to the diameter ranges of b to c and d (=0.85×c) to e (d>e>0), the diameter of the light beam C is limited to the diameter ranges of c to d and less than e. They are passed through a phase correcting element ( | 03-05-2009 |
20090059769 | OBJECTIVE LENS AND OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS - Disclosed is an objective lens used for an optical pickup apparatus to perform writing and/or reading of an optical information recording medium, comprising an antireflective film on a surface of a light source side, wherein a light flux of wavelengths including a wavelength λ | 03-05-2009 |
20090059770 | Optical pickup apparatus - An optical pickup apparatus comprises: a base on which a movable optical member is disposed; a metal cover mounted on the base; and an electrical component which is fixed to the base and used to move the optical member. The base is made of resin, and the metal cover touches the electrical component or is connected to the electrical component via a heat-conductive member. | 03-05-2009 |
20090067314 | OPTICAL READING METHOD AND OPTICAL READING SYSTEM - An optical reading system is provided to improve read signal quality with increasing its linear recording density. An optical recording medium in which the distance from a light incident surface to an information recording layer is less than 100 μm is irradiated with a laser beam through an objective lens and information stored in the information recording layer is read by means of a PRML detection method. At this time, the constraint length n in the PRML detection method is set to an integer which satisfies 0.5×(λ/NA)/(LV/f)−103-12-2009 | |
20090073853 | OPTICAL PICKUP AND DISC DRIVE APPARATUS - An optical pickup includes a movable base and an objective lens driving mechanism mounted on the movable base. The objective lens driving mechanism includes a fixed block affixed to the movable base; a movable block having an objective lens and a lens holder holding the objective lens, the movable block moving in focusing, tracking, and tilting directions; supporting springs connecting the fixed block and the movable block; a focusing magnetic circuit including a focusing coil and a focusing magnet; a tracking magnetic circuit including a tracking coil and a tracking magnet; and a tilting magnetic circuit including a tilting coil and a tilting magnet. The lens holder includes a body holding the objective lens, and a thin segment projecting from the body and serving as a dynamic damper that absorbs vibration occurring in the movable block. The tilting coil or the tilting magnet is attached to the thin segment. | 03-19-2009 |
20090073854 | OPTICAL PICKUP AND DISK DRIVE APPARATUS - An optical pickup has an objective lens drive device which includes a fixed block fixed to a movement base, a movable block having an objective lens and a lens holder that holds the objective lens, a plurality of support springs that couples the fixed block with the movable block, and a focusing magnetic coil that operates the movable block in a focusing direction. A distance between the fixed block and a recording surface of a disk recording medium is larger than a distance between the movable block and the recording surface. The support springs are inclined with respect to the recording surface. The support springs have a longitudinal direction orthogonal to a direction of a thrust generated at the focusing magnetic circuit to the movable block during a focusing operation. | 03-19-2009 |
20090073855 | OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL DISK DRIVE APPARATUS - An optical pickup includes an objective lens, a protection member for protecting the objective lens, and a lens holding member configured to hold these members. The optical pickup records and/or reproduces an information signal on and/or from an optical recording medium by condensing laser light through the objective lens. The protection member includes a bearing surface to contact a surface of an edge portion of the objective lens not facing the optical recording medium, an aperture to control a diameter of laser light to be incident on the objective lens, and a protection portion protruding toward the optical recording medium with respect to the objective lens. The bearing surface, the aperture, and the protection portion are integrally formed with one another. | 03-19-2009 |
20090073856 | OPTICAL HEAD WITH DIFFUSER STRUCTURE - An optical head for reading an object includes a hollow housing, a light source module, a diffuser structure and a light sensing module. The light source module is fixed in the hollow housing and provides an initial light ray. The diffuser structure is connected the hollow housing, receives the initial light ray, and processes the initial light ray into a uniform light ray for output. The initial light ray is reflected by the diffuser structure multiple times to form the uniform light ray. The light sensing module is fixed in the hollow housing and senses the uniform light ray reflected by the object. An optical axis of the light sensing module is substantially parallel to an axial direction of the diffuser structure. | 03-19-2009 |
20090080319 | OBJECTIVE OPTICAL SYSTEM AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - There is provided an objective optical system including an optical element having a phase shift structure, and a single-element objective lens made of resin, wherein the phase shift structure includes a plurality of refractive surface zones, the phase shift structure includes a first area to contribute to converging at least the third light beam on a record surface of the third optical disc, the first area includes at least two types of steps, each of which is formed at a boundary between adjacent ones of the plurality of refractive surface zones, the at least two types of steps gives optical path length differences different from each other to an incident light beam, the annular zone structure satisfies following conditions: | 03-26-2009 |
20090080320 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING READ SIGNAL - A method for evaluating a read signal obtained by irradiating a medium with a laser beam through an objective lens and reading data from the reflected laser beam by a PRML detection method is provided. The method includes: a sampling step of sampling the data obtained from the reflected laser beam at clock timings to obtain sampled values; and a step of, when a constraint length of a PR class in the PRML detection method is an even number, computing an intermediate sampled value for evaluation using at least adjacent two of the sampled values arranged in the order sampled at the clock timings. The provided method is an objective evaluation method when the PRML detection method is used, whereby the selection of a recording medium and a reading apparatus is facilitated. | 03-26-2009 |
20090080321 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL ELEMENT, OPTICAL PICK-UP APPARATUS AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS EQUIPPED THEREWITH - A hybrid objective lens has a refractive lens and a diffractive optical element constructed by plural coaxial ring-shaped zones on at least one optical surface thereof. When n | 03-26-2009 |
20090097382 | OBJECTIVE LENS DRIVING DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - Each of sensors ( | 04-16-2009 |
20090097383 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS - An optical pickup apparatus includes: a light-emitting element for emitting laser light; a collimating lens for causing incident laser light to be converted into an optical beam and for emitting the optical beam thus converted; an objective lens for converging onto a recording surface of a recording medium the optical beam from the collimating lens; a light-receiving element for receiving reflected light from the recording medium; a collimating lens holder for holding the collimating lens; supporting means for supporting the collimating lens holder so that the collimating lens holder can freely move in an optical axis direction of the collimating lens; driving means for driving the collimating lens holder by electromagnetic force; and an elastic member, provided between a housing and the collimating lens holder, for pulling back the collimating lens holder to a neutral position in the optical axis direction of the collimating lens. | 04-16-2009 |
20090097384 | LAMINATED WAVE PLATE AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE USING THE SAME - A laminated wave plate that corresponds to a plurality of wavelengths including at least two wavelengths of λ | 04-16-2009 |
20090103420 | OPTICAL PICKUP AND DISC DRIVE APPARATUS - An objective-lens driving device includes a fixed block fixed to a moving base, a movable block having a lens holder configured to hold objective lenses, support springs configured to connect the fixed block and the movable block to each other, a focusing magnetic circuit including a first focusing coil, a second focusing coil, a first focusing magnet, and a second focusing magnet, and a tracking magnetic circuit. The first focusing coil is attached to the lens holder such that a first thrust-generating portion and a second thrust-generating portion are spaced from each other in a tangential direction. The second focusing coil is attached to the lens holder such that an axial direction of the second focusing coil coincides with the tangential direction. The first focusing magnet and the second focusing magnet are arranged in the tangential direction with the movable block disposed therebetween. | 04-23-2009 |
20090103421 | Object Lens Actuator, Optical Pickup and Optical Disk Drive - The present invention provides an object lens actuator, an optical pickup, and an optical disk drive, which can increase the size of the object lens actuator driving a lens holder in the tangential tilt direction, and drive and control the lens holder with a small amount of drive current. | 04-23-2009 |
20090103422 | OPTICAL RECORDING HEAD DEVICE, OPTICAL RECORDING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an optical recording head device includes a light source which outputs such a relaxation oscillation optical pulse that a full width at half maximum of a single pulse is 820 ps or less, a driving unit for driving the light source, an objective lens which converges emission light from the light source on a recording layer of a recording medium, and captures reflective light which is reflected by the recording layer of the recording medium, a distribution unit, placed between the light source and the objective lens, for distributing incident light, and a photodetection unit for receiving via the distribution unit the reflective light which is reflected by the recording layer of the recording medium, wherein a resonator length of the light source is 6560 μm or less. | 04-23-2009 |
20090103423 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING SUBSTRATE WITH MICROSCOPIC PATTERN AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS THEREFOR - A recording medium includes a substrate having a microscopic pattern, which includes a shape of continuous substance of approximately parallel grooves formed with a convex shaped section and a concave shaped section alternating on a surface of the substrate. A recording layer is formed on the microscopic pattern and a light transmitting layer has a thickness of 0.05 mm to 0.12 mm formed on the recording layer. The microscopic pattern satisfies a relation of P≦λ/NA, wherein P is a pitch of the convex shaped section, λ is a wavelength of a reproducing light beam and NA is a numerical aperture of an objective lens. The microscopic pattern also includes modulated address information formed on both side walls of the convex shaped section viewed from the light transmitting layer as a wobble, both the side walls being parallel to each other, and furthermore wherein the address information is modulated by the phase-shift keying modulation system. A reproducing apparatus is particularly suited for the recording medium. | 04-23-2009 |
20090109826 | OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM SYSTEM EMPLOYING THE OPTICAL PICKUP - An optical pickup and a recording and/or reproducing apparatus having the same, the optical pickup including: a light source emitting a light beam; an objective lens focusing the emitted light beam onto a multi-layered optical information storage medium; a polarization dependent optical path changer changing a proceeding path of the light beam; a photodetector detecting a signal beam reflected from the optical information storage medium; and a polarization element provided on an optical path of the reflected signal beam, and reducing interference between the signal beam and a noise beam reflected from an adjacent layer on a light receiving plane by changing a polarization state of the signal beam in at least a portion where the signal beam overlaps with the noise beam. | 04-30-2009 |
20090109827 | COUPLING LENS AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - There is provided a coupling lens used in an optical information recording/reproducing device for recording information to and/or reproducing information from an optical disc. The coupling lens includes a first surface and a second surface, wherein the coupling lens is configured to satisfy a following condition (1): | 04-30-2009 |
20090109828 | Optical System With Superlens - An optical system includes an optical recording medium configured to store data and a light device configured to emit a beam of light to write the data to the optical recording medium or read the data from the optical recording medium. The optical system also includes a superlens positioned between the optical recording medium and the light device. The superlens is configured to focus the beam of light emitted from the light device to create a focused beam of light on the optical recording medium. | 04-30-2009 |
20090109829 | Optical pickup - An optical pickup is provided with a protector which prevents collision between an objective lens and an optical recording medium. The protector includes: a first sheet material which is arranged on an uppermost layer, has durability for abrasion against the collision with the optical recording medium that rotates in high speed, and is softer than a protecting member that protects a recording surface of the optical recording medium; a second sheet material which is provided in lower side than the first sheet material and has elasticity; and a plurality of adhesive sheets to perform adhesion between the sheet materials that form the protector, or adhesion between the lowermost sheet material among the sheet materials and a lens holder which holds the objective lens, or the objective lens. | 04-30-2009 |
20090109830 | Optical pickup lens - An optical pickup lens includes a first surface to focus laser light for recording/playback on an optical disc, a second surface formed outside the first surface and radiated with laser light for lens tilt detection, and an antireflection coating to transmit the laser light for recording/playback, the antireflection coating being continuously formed on the first surface and a second surface. | 04-30-2009 |
20090116364 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An optical pickup device according to the present invention includes: a first light source that outputs a first laser beam; a second light source that outputs a second laser beam; and an optical system that irradiates an information medium with the first and second laser beams. The information medium includes: an information layer on which user data is written; and a recording layer on which visible information, which is directly visible to a user, is recorded. The optical pickup device is characterized by outputting the first laser beam in writing the user data on the information layer but outputting the second laser beam in recording the visible information on the recording layer. | 05-07-2009 |
20090122686 | Method of focus capture in an optical drive - The invention relates to a new method for focus capture in an optical drive comprising a collimator lens. Use is made of the pre-programmed collimator lens position to secure a baseline position of the laser spot at a position with respect to an optical record carrier placed in the optical drive such that the correct information layer on the optical record carrier is captured efficiently and accurately. | 05-14-2009 |
20090122687 | OPTICAL PICKUP - An optical pickup includes a semiconductor laser, a beam splitter, a collimating lens, an objective lens, an aperture and a front monitor. The beam splitter splits a light beam emitted by the semiconductor laser into transmitted light and reflected light. The front monitor detects luminous energy of the transmitted light. The front monitor is disposed near an optical axis of the transmitted light so that the following is satisfied: 1≦(S×L)/(s×f)≦6.8. S is an area of an entrance pupil of the objective lens, f is an optical distance from an emission portion of the semiconductor laser to the collimating lens, s is an effective receiving area of the front monitor, and L is an optical distance from the emission portion of the semiconductor laser to the front monitor. | 05-14-2009 |
20090122688 | Optical disk apparatus - An optical disc apparatus includes: a first signal generating portion which generates a first signal that is obtained by processing signal which is output from the photo detecting portion, and which shows a peak in case where a focus position of an objective lens is matched on a recording surface of an optical disc; a second signal generating portion which generates a second signal that is obtained by slicing the first signal at a prescribed level to be digitalized; and a movement stopping portion which stops moving of the objective lens if the second signal is asserted by existence of the recording surface that is a target to be reproduced or to be recorded, then it is negated, and the state to be negated is continued for a prescribed time interval when focus control is performed. | 05-14-2009 |
20090129238 | OBJECTIVE LENS - A combined aspherical lens has an aspherical shape with an intermediate substrate thickness between the substrate thicknesses of a BD and an HD in a numerical aperture (NA) range for the HD, and an aspherical shape dedicated to the BD in an NA range for the BD only. The lens is designed such that wave aberration occurring through the NA range for the HD for BD reproduction has the same aberration form as but has an opposite sign to wave aberration occurring through this range for HD reproduction. Further, in the NA range for the HD, a pattern of annular transparent electrodes is optimized for a spherical aberration wavefront defocused to minimize the maximum inclination of the wave aberration. A phase shift applied is within plus or minus half wave excluding an integer wavelength of aberration. | 05-21-2009 |
20090129239 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - In laser welding an optical part to a pickup case of an optical pickup device, outgas deposition on a lens surface can be inhibited, and positional shifting of the optical part can be reduced. The optical part has a lens surface facing in an optical axis direction and a protruding part formed, to be joined to the pickup case, at an end portion thereof in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis. A joint surface between the protruding part and the pickup case extends in a direction parallel to the optical axis, and the joint surface is fixed by a weld portion formed by laser irradiation. The joint surface is parallel to a bottom surface of the pickup case, and the height from the bottom surface is approximately equal to the height of the center of the lens surface. | 05-21-2009 |
20090129240 | GAP CONTROLLER AND OPTICAL INFORMATION PROCESSOR - A gap controller according to the present invention can set a reference level reasonably for a gap control that needs to be done to keep the gap between a solid immersion lens (SIL) and an optical disc constant. With the gap varied at a substantially regular step, gap detection signal levels are logged to find an extreme value of its second-order difference. And the gap control reference level is determined by the gap detection signal level that results in that extreme value. | 05-21-2009 |
20090129241 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE HAVING THE SAME, AND RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, EQUIPPED WITH THE OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An objective lens consists of a single lens element, and has a light source side surface formed into a convex surface having a large curvature and an optical recording medium side surface has a small curvature. The both surfaces are aspheric surfaces. Also, the objective lens satisfies the following expressions (1) to (3): | 05-21-2009 |
20090129242 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE HAVING THE SAME, AND RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, EQUIPPED WITH THE OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An objective lens | 05-21-2009 |
20090129243 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE HAVING THE SAME, AND RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, EQUIPPED WITH THE OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An objective lens consists of a single lens element. A light source side surface is formed into a convex surface having a large curvature, and an optical recording medium side surface has a small curvature. The both surfaces are formed into aspheric surfaces. Also, the objective lens satisfies the following expressions (1) to (3): | 05-21-2009 |
20090141615 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium according to one embodiment of the invention is an optical recording medium to be processed using a light beam having a wavelength λ and a lens having a numerical aperture NA, which includes one of a track and a pit array, and in which a width TP of the track or pit satisfies a condition 0.480≦TP×NA/λ<1.026. | 06-04-2009 |
20090147659 | OBJECTIVE LENS UNIT, OPTICAL PICKUP, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE - An objective lens unit according to the present invention includes a first objective lens | 06-11-2009 |
20090147660 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS, POSITION CONTROL METHOD AND OPTICAL PICKUP - An optical disc apparatus can make the focus of an information light beam converged by an objective lens agree with a target track of a target mark layer of an optical disc by appropriately predefining the distance between the focus of a servo light beam and that of the information light beam with regard to the direction of the thickness and a radial direction of the optical disc by means of the optical pickup of the apparatus and then operating for focus control and tracking control of the objective lens so as to make focus of the servo light beam converged by the objective lens agree with a reference track of a reference mark layer. | 06-11-2009 |
20090154324 | OPTICAL DISC AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - An optical disc drive according to the present invention can read and/or write data from/on an optical disc with information layers including first and second information layers (L | 06-18-2009 |
20090154325 | OBJECTIVE LENS AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - There is provided an objective lens for information recording/reproducing for three types of optical discs, which includes a first area contributing to converging a third light beam onto a record surface of a third optical disc. The first area includes a phase shift structure having refractive surface zones concentrically formed about a predetermined axis. The phase shift structure includes first and second step groups. The first step group is configured such that an optical path length difference ΔOPD | 06-18-2009 |
20090168631 | OPTICAL RECORDING DEVICE AND OPTICAL RECORDING METHOD - An optical recording device includes a light source, a light-converging optical system, a moving unit, detection unit, and an acquisition unit. In the optical recording device, interference fringes from a recording light are shift multi-recorded as a plurality of pages of holograms within each of a plurality of planes corresponding to a plurality of convergence positions based on light exposure amount of each page, acquired by the acquisition unit, for each of the convergence positions. | 07-02-2009 |
20090168632 | OPTICAL DISK APPARATUS, POSITION CONTROL METHOD, AND OPTICAL PICKUP - An optical disk apparatus appropriately adjusts the optical paths of a reference light beam and information light beam in an optical path forming section of an optical pickup, condenses the reference light beam and information light beam using an objective lens, and performs position control of the objective lens in the focusing and tracking directions so as to focus the reference light beam onto a reference track in a target mark layer, thereby focusing the focal point of the information light beam condensed by the objective lens onto a target track TG in the target mark layer. | 07-02-2009 |
20090175150 | MULTI-CHANNEL OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS EMPLOYING THE SAME - A multi-channel optical pick-up and a multi-channel optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus employing the same, the multi-channel optical pick-up including: a plurality of light sources including a center light source closest to an optical axis from among the plurality of light sources and at least one off-axis light source farther than the center light source to the optical axis; an objective lens to condense a plurality of light beams respectively emitted from the plurality light sources onto a plurality of tracks of an information storage medium; and an optical path length changing element to compensate for defocus that occurs due to the at least one off-axis light source distanced from the optical axis when a center light beam from the center light source and at least one off-axis light beam from the at least one off-axis light source form spots on the information storage medium. | 07-09-2009 |
20090175151 | OPTICAL DISC, OPTICAL DISC DRIVE, OPTICAL DISC RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An address format for appropriately controlling the recording linear density and the number of information recording layers is provided in order to increase the recording capacity of an information recording medium such as an optical disc or the like in a range in which a necessary S/N ratio can be guaranteed. An optical disc includes an information recording layer having a concentric or spiral track, and has a format for describing a track address, which is pre-recorded on the track or is to be added to data that is to be recorded on the information recording layer. The format includes layer information regarding the information recording layer and address information regarding the track address. | 07-09-2009 |
20090185473 | OBJECTIVE LENS AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - In order that thickness reduction, weight reduction, and mass productivity improvement should be achieved in an objective lens even in the case where NA is high, an objective lens according to the present invention is a bi-convex single lens having at least one aspheric surface, and satisfies conditions: (1) 3.507-23-2009 | |
20090190461 | OPTICAL DATA STORAGE SYSTEM FOR RECORDING AND/OR READING AN OPTICAL DATA STORAGE MEDIUM FOR USE IN SUCH SYSTEM - Multi layer near-field optical recording using a moderate numerical aperture (NA) is superior to the high-NA (NA=2.0) first-surface single-layer technique. The use of very flat and thin spacer layers limits spherical aberration due to difference in layer depth. The thin spacer layers may have a high refractive index because their thickness allow for a relatively high absorption constant. This makes possible in principle an m-layer system, e.g. m=4, with NA=1.6 which may include a flat, protective cover layer. Further a medium for use in such a system is described. | 07-30-2009 |
20090190462 | Optical Recording Apparatus With Reduced Power Consumption - The present invention relates to an optical recording apparatus capable of writing information on an optical medium in a writing mode and capable of writing a label image on an optical medium in a label mode. The apparatus has a displaceable optical head with a radiation source capable of emitting radiation. The apparatus further contains one or more processing means adapted to: analyze radiation reflected from the medium, control the radial position of the optical head, control the focal point of the radiation relative to the optical medium, and control the radiation source. In label mode, the optical recording apparatus is adapted to turn off at least one of the processing means for a pre-defined period of time in order to reduce the power consumption and in turn the temperature of the apparatus. | 07-30-2009 |
20090190463 | OPTICAL PICK-UP UNIT WITH TWO-MIRROR PHASE SHIFTER - Optical pick-up units (OPU), which require several light sources for reading newer formats, such as Blu-Ray, and legacy formats, such as DVD and CD, require a series of beam splitters/combiners for directing the various source light beams from the light sources along a common path. A two-mirror reflector sub-unit, in which at least one mirror includes a thin film dielectric retarder element, is used to redirect the beams traveling along the common path onto the disc-media, while imposing a 90° retardation onto the polarized light incidence, whereby light returning from the disc-media undergoes a 90° orientation change in the state of polarization from one linear polarization to the other orthogonal linear polarization. | 07-30-2009 |
20090196149 | Optical pickup apparatus - In order to provide an optical pickup apparatus that has a relatively simple configuration and that can carry out recording and/or reproduction of information in a s compatible manner for different optical information storage medium, the optical surface of the first objective lens OBJ | 08-06-2009 |
20090196150 | Multi-stage lens driving device - A multi-stage lens driving device for driving an optical lens so as to perform the functions of zooming and/or focusing comprises: a front cover, a rear cover, a plurality of yokes, a plurality of driving coils, a lens seat, and a plurality of permanent magnets. The front cover is a hollow annular cover having a plurality of recesses formed on an inner periphery thereof and a plurality of holders on an outer periphery thereof. The rear cover can be combined with the front cover, thereby forming a receiving space therebetween. The lens seat is a hollow housing disposed in the receiving space. The yokes are provided in the recesses formed on the inner periphery of the front cover. The permanent magnets are surrounding and embedded in an outer periphery of the lens seat, disposed in correspondence to the yokes and spaced therefrom by a predetermined distance. The driving coils are provided respectively on the holders of the front cover, and correspond respectively to the yokes received in the recesses. When predetermined impulse currents of different directions are applied to the driving coils respectively, polarities of corresponding yokes are reversed, respectively. By virtue of magnetic attraction between the permanent magnets and the yokes, rotation of the lens seat in the receiving space is converted to linear axial translation. | 08-06-2009 |
20090196151 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE, OPTICAL PICKUP CONTROLLER AND OPTICAL PICKUP CONTROL METHOD - An optical pickup device such that the driving force of the drive unit provided on the same optical base as that of the objective lens exerts no adverse influence on controlling of the objective lens is provided. The optical pickup device | 08-06-2009 |
20090196152 | QUARTER-WAVE PLATE, AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - A quarter-wave plate includes a base member including a ridge and trough periodic structure with a structural period of λ | 08-06-2009 |
20090196153 | TRACKING ERROR SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, it is possible to obtain a compensation SPP signal, which compensates a push-pull signal obtained by a ± first-order light or a lens shift compensation signal generated by other method according to phases of a motor to rotate a recording medium, from a MPP signal which is a component indicating the amount of de-tract in a reflected light from any one of recording layers of an optical disc detected by a photodetector, and it is possible to obtain a tracking signal with a high signal-to-noise ratio, by the following equation by using a compensation SPP signal and a MPP signal: | 08-06-2009 |
20090201787 | PICKUP DEVICE - A pickup device includes an irradiation optical system including an object lens for focusing light flux on a track of a recording surface of an optical recording media having a plurality of recording layers stacked while a spacer layer is interposed between the recording layers to form a spot and a detection optical system including an photo detector having a plurality of light receiving parts for receiving returning light reflected from the spot through the object lens to perform photoelectric conversion. The pickup device controls a position of the object leans according to an electrical signal calculated from outputs of the light receiving parts. The pickup device further includes an astigmatic device for providing astigmatism to the returning light directed to the light receiving parts and a division device, having divisional regions divided by a division line extending in an astigmatic direction about an optical axis of the returning light, for dividing the returning light having the astigmatism into a plurality of partial light fluxes divided for the respective divisional regions along the optical axis of returning light. The neighboring divisional regions provide the partial light fluxes with an optical action so that interference between the corresponding partial light fluxes does not occur on the light receiving parts. | 08-13-2009 |
20090213717 | METHOD OF ADJUSTING INCLINATION OF OBJECTIVE LENSES, METHOD OF PRODUCING OPTICAL PICKUP, DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING INCLINATION OF OBJECTIVE LENSES, OPTICAL PICKUP COMPONENT, OPTICAL PICKUP, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE - A method of adjusting the tilt of objective lenses in an optical pickup having a plurality of light sources, an optical pickup component with a plurality of objective lenses which converge light from the plurality of light sources on an optical information recording medium and a movable part which holds the plurality of objective lenses, an actuator which drives the movable part of the optical pickup component, and a base on which the actuator is arranged and an optical system which introduces light emitted from the plurality of light sources to the plurality of objective lenses is constituted, which are capable of producing an optical pickup with a plurality of objective lenses while tilt is being simply adjusted, the method includes: | 08-27-2009 |
20090219799 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE - An optical pickup device has a near-field optical system having a numerical aperture of NA>1; a first light source emitting a first light having a first wavelength; a second light source emitting a second light having a second wavelength; an optical system multiplexing the first light and second light and irradiating the multiplexed light onto an optical recording medium having at least two recording layers; a first photodetector detecting the first light returned from the recording medium a second photodetector detecting the second light returned from the recording medium; a controller obtaining a signal corresponding to distance between the near-field optical system and the recording medium based on the returned second light, and obtaining a reproducing signal and a tracking signal of the recording medium and a focus signal corresponding to the recording layer based on the returned first light; and a focus position adjustment mechanism moving a focus position of the first light under control of the focus signal. | 09-03-2009 |
20090231984 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS - An optical pickup apparatus comprising: a laser diode; an objective lens made of a synthetic resin configured to focus laser light emitted from the laser diode to a signal recording layer of an optical disc; and a collimating lens having a diffraction grating and arranged in an optical path between the laser diode and the objective lens, the collimating lens being so moved in an optical axis direction of the laser light as to correct spherical aberration occurring in response to a change in temperature when performing a recording operation for the optical disc, and the collimating lens correcting by the diffraction grating chromatic aberration occurring when switching from the recording operation to a reproducing operation for the optical disc. | 09-17-2009 |
20090238062 | OBJECTIVE LENS DRIVING APPARATUS - An objective-lens-driving apparatus comprising: a base opposed to a signal surface of an optical disc; an objective-lens holder including an objective lens, first and second focusing coils arranged across the objective lens in a tracking direction of the disc, first and second tracking coils arranged across the first-focusing coil in a tangential direction of the disc, and third and fourth tracking coils arranged across the second-focusing coil in the tangential direction, the objective-lens holder being supported on the base movably in a focusing direction of the disc and the tracking direction; and first to fourth magnets arranged on the base to be respectively opposed in the tangential direction to the first to fourth tracking coils, the first and second magnets each having two poles polarized in the tracking direction, magnetization widths of the two poles with respect to the first-focusing coil in the tracking direction being different from each other. | 09-24-2009 |
20090245070 | Suspension Arm Actuator For an Optical Scanning Device - The invention relates to a suspension arm actuator for an optical scanning device, comprising a suspension arm designed as a two-arm lever and allocated to an optical recording carrier. The suspension arm is, in known manner, mounted to a support between the lever arms such that it can be pivoted about an axis extending perpendicularly to said suspension arm. On its end side, one of the lever arms supports an optical head having optical components, in particular having an objective lens, while a magnetic drive initiating a swivel motion about the axis is allocated to the other lever arm. In addition, the suspension arm actuator comprises a magnetic drive initiating a motion perpendicular to this swivel motion and electric connections between a control unit arranged outside of said suspension arm actuator and the electrical and optical components. The invention solves the problem of designing such a suspension arm actuator such that said suspension arm actuator allows arrangement of an increased number of optical components while keeping or being reduced in its height. To achieve this, electric connections are established by means of line sections arranged at the suspension arm in a plane extending in transverse direction in relation to the axis spaced apart radially from the axis and spaced apart from each other, said line sections each being electrically connected to a contact element for connection of a control line running to the control unit. | 10-01-2009 |
20090245071 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE AND MEDIA TYPE DETERMINATION METHOD - A device includes: an objective lens that serves as a lens having a first numerical aperture when a first optical beam corresponding to a first optical disc converges on the first optical disc while serving as a lens having a second numerical aperture when a second optical beam corresponding to a second optical disc converges on the second optical disc; a section that generates a reflection optical signal from the first or second optical beam reflected by the first or second optical disc; and a section that determines whether an unknown disc is the first optical disc based on a degree of matching between the waveform of the reflection optical signal obtained when the first optical beam is emitted to the first optical disc, and the waveform of the reflection optical signal obtained when the first optical beam is emitted to the unknown disc. | 10-01-2009 |
20090245072 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS - An optical-pickup apparatus comprising: a laser diode to emit laser light forward and backward; an objective lens to focus the laser light emitted forward from the laser diode onto a signal-recording layer of an optical disc; a spherical-aberration correction element that is arranged on an optical path between the laser diode and the objective lens, and is so movable in an optical-axis direction of the laser light as to correct spherical aberration; a movement-position detection unit to detect a movement position of the spherical-aberration correction element, and output a detection signal indicating the movement position of the spherical-aberration correction element; a photodetector to receive the laser light emitted backward from the laser diode, and output a monitor signal corresponding to a light-receiving level of the laser light; and a control unit to control intensity of the laser light emitted from the laser diode based on the monitor and detection signals. | 10-01-2009 |
20090252020 | OPTICAL PICKUP - An optical pickup according to the present invention includes: an objective lens | 10-08-2009 |
20090252021 | MULTIFOCAL OBJECTIVE LENS AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE - There is provided a multifocal objective lens used for two types of optical discs. The protective layer thicknesses of first and second optical discs t | 10-08-2009 |
20090252022 | Method of Manufacturing Synthetic Resin Lens, Method of Manufacturing Reformed Synthetic Resin Material and Optical Pickup Apparatus - A method of manufacturing a synthetic resin lens, comprising: adjusting a degree of change in transmittance of a lens member made of synthetic resin for a blue violet laser beam with accumulated application of the blue violet laser beam, by applying to the lens member an electromagnetic wave shorter in wavelength than the blue violet laser beam. | 10-08-2009 |
20090252023 | INTEGRATED OPTICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND INFORMATION RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS USING THE INTEGRATED OPTICAL SYSTEM - An optical system and an information apparatus using the optical system are provided. The optical system includes an optical bench on which a light source and a photodetector including a main photodetector receiving the light are mounted. A lens unit is coupled to the optical bench, and an optical path separating member separates an optical path of light emitted from the light source and propagating toward the lens unit and an optical path of light incident from the lens unit. The optical system may include a monitor photodetector and/or an optical path forming unit coupled to the optical bench. The monitor photodetector receives a portion of the light emitted from the light source. The optical path forming unit includes a first mirror reflecting the light emitted from the light source and a second mirror reflecting the light incident from the lens unit and reflected by the first mirror. | 10-08-2009 |
20090257338 | Optical pickup objective lens, optical pickup apparatus and optical disc apparatus - A pickup lens has a plurality of ring zones on at least one surface, and steps are formed respectively between the plurality of ring zones. The plurality of steps have step differences causing laser light to have a phase difference to reduce aberration occurring in the pickup lens due to a change in ambient temperature. Further, when a numerical aperture of the pickup lens is NA, a focal length is f (mm) and a working distance is WD (mm), the pickup lens is fabricated to satisfy NA=0.85, 1.1=f=1.8 and WD=0.3. | 10-15-2009 |
20090257339 | OPTICAL HEAD DEVICE AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS - There is disclosed an optical head apparatus and an optical information recording or reproducing apparatus capable of obtaining a high light output at a recording time, and a high S/N at a reproducing time with respect to any of disks of next-generation, DVD, and CD standards. Light having a wavelength of 400 nm emitted from a semiconductor laser is almost all reflected by a beam splitter, and condensed on a disk of the next-generation standard. Light having a wavelength of 660 nm emitted from a semiconductor laser is almost all reflected by a beam splitter, almost all transmitted through the beam splitter, and condensed on the disk of the DVD standard. Light having a wavelength of 780 nm emitted from a semiconductor laser is almost all reflected by a beam splitter, almost all transmitted through the beam splitters and condensed on the disk of the CD standard. Reflected light from the disk is almost all transmitted through the beam splitters and received by a photodetector. | 10-15-2009 |
20090262630 | OPTICAL CONTROL DEVICE, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND OPTICAL HEAD CONTROL METHOD - An optical controller includes a light source for emitting light, an object lens for condensing light emitted from the light source, a light detection unit for receiving light reflected on an optical information recording medium and outputting a signal corresponding to the amount of the light, and a laser control unit for controlling the amount of the light emitted from the light source to the information recording surface on which information is to be recorded or reproduced, based on the recording state of an information recording surface disposed closer to the object lens than an information recording surface on which the information is to be recorded or reproduced. | 10-22-2009 |
20090262631 | OBJECTIVE LENS DRIVING APPARATUS, OPTICAL PICKUP, AND INFORMATION RECORDING / REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An objective lens driving device is provided with an objective lens; a lens holder for holding the objective lens; a pair of linear suspension springs for supporting the lens holder at each one end; a spring holder whereupon the other ends the springs are fixed; and a driving means for at least driving the objective lens in a tracking direction together with the lens holder. The linear suspension springs have narrowed or widened end compared with the other end in plan view from an optical axis direction. The lens holder is supported to be driven in the tracking direction, by having the cross point of the two lines, which pass the suspension spring ends on one side and are vertical to the extending directions of the linear suspension springs, respectively, at the driving center. | 10-22-2009 |
20090262632 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING LENS MODULE - An apparatus for assembling a lens module, is provided. The lens module includes a lens and a lens holder for receiving the lens. The lens holder has a through hole and a retainer formed in the through hole. The apparatus includes a base for supporting the lens holder, and a supporter formed on the base, for extending through the through hole of the lens holder and supporting the lens thereon. A height of the supporter is greater than a depth of the through hole of the lens holder. The supporter is movable relative to and away from the lens holder so as to place the lens on the retainer in the through hole of the base. | 10-22-2009 |
20090262633 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS AND OPTICAL DISC REPLAY METHOD - When an optical disc apparatus reproduces information from an optical disc, it converges a reading light beam emitted from an LED to substantially collimated light and projects it to the optical disc to cause it to be reflected by reflection surface thereof so as to make it become a reading reflected light beam. Then, the apparatus converges the reading reflected light beam by a mark layer selection lens, detects the reading reflected light beam passing through the target position by a detection region located at the confocal point of the target position and generates a detection signal. Subsequently, the apparatus recognizes the presence or absence of a recording mark based on the detection signal to reproduce the information. Thus, the apparatus can detect the state of the reading reflected light beam observed when it passes the target position and can recognize the presence or absence of a recording mark. | 10-22-2009 |
20090268586 | Objective Lens Unit and Optical Pickup Apparatus - An objective lens unit for use in an optical pickup device, includes: a first lens section; a first flange section positioned peripheral of the first lens section; and a support section which supports a second objective lens having a second lens section provided in parallel to the first lens section with an optical axis different from that of the first lens section, wherein the first lens section, the first flange section and the support section are integrally formed. | 10-29-2009 |
20090268587 | OPTICAL PICKUP - An optical pickup, having an optical pickup housing made of resin, for maintaining the heat radiation performance or capacity of a semiconductor laser, also an objective lens driving mechanism, and further a driver IC for the semiconductor laser, while keeping small-size and light-weight thereof, comprises a pickup housing, in which an optical part and a semiconductor laser are fixed; an objective lens, which is attached within the pickup housing; and an objective lens driving mechanism, which is configured to drive the objective lens, further comprising: a metal-made bottom cover, which is configured to cover a lower surface of the pickup housing and a side surface of an inner periphery of an optical disc, wherein the metal-made bottom cover and the semiconductor laser are thermally connected with each other. | 10-29-2009 |
20090268588 | OPTICAL HEAD, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVICE - An object of the invention is to provide an optical element for use in an optical information recording and reproducing device or a like device for recording or reproducing information with respect to an information recording medium using laser light, wherein the optical element is a resin optical element capable of suppressing lowering in transmittance due to deterioration by irradiation of light having a high energy density, and maintaining a high transmittance for a long time. To realize the above object, used is an optical element made of a silicon resin cured material obtained by subjecting a silicon resin composition containing a silsesquioxane compound to a curing treatment. | 10-29-2009 |
20090274032 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - This optical disc drive can read and/or write data from/on an optical disc | 11-05-2009 |
20090279409 | OPTIMAL DETECTION OF TWODOS SIGNALS - A method and a device for simultaneously reading information from a plurality of data tracks ( | 11-12-2009 |
20090279410 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING SPHERICAL ABERRATION CORRECTION FOR AN OPTICAL DISK DRIVE - The invention provides a method for controlling spherical aberration correction for an optical disk drive. First, a collimator lens is moved to a first target position for spherical aberration correction. A driving time of motion of the collimator lens is then calculated. A prohibiting time is then determined according to the driving time. The collimator lens is then prevented from moving until the prohibiting time elapses. | 11-12-2009 |
20090285078 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE, AND OPTICAL RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An objective lens for converging light emitted from a light source onto an optical recording medium to record and reproduce information consists of a single lens that has at least one aspheric surface. The following conditional expressions (1) and (2) are satisfied: | 11-19-2009 |
20090285079 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE, AND OPTICAL RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An objective lens for converging light emitted from a light source on an optical recording medium to record and reproduce information consists of a single lens having at least one aspheric surface. The following conditional expressions ( | 11-19-2009 |
20090290476 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - An optical information recording medium, which has recording layers that include substrates of the same thickness and that correspond to laser light at two difference wavelength, has excellent compatibility. | 11-26-2009 |
20090290477 | OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCING DEVICE - An optical disk reproduction apparatus according to the present invention is an optical disk reproduction apparatus capable of reading information from the NBCA of an optical disk | 11-26-2009 |
20090290478 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE - An optical information recording/reproducing device is provided with a first light source | 11-26-2009 |
20090290479 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - An optical disc apparatus includes an optical pickup for outputting an output signal according to reflected light from an optical disc medium and a comparison signal output unit for outputting a comparison signal indicating whether a level of the output signal is higher than a threshold value, relatively moves an objective lens with respect to a surface of the medium within a predetermined range to measure a maximum level of the output signal, sets a value determined according to the maximum level as a threshold value used by the comparison signal output unit, and measures a level of a reflected signal corresponding to reflected light from each of a plurality of signal surfaces based on the output signal in a time period in which the comparison signal indicates that the level of the output signal is higher than the set threshold value, while moving the objective lens. | 11-26-2009 |
20090296560 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS, SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD, AND OPTICAL DISK APPARATUS - An optical pickup apparatus is provided with an optical system for guiding a laser light emitted from a laser light source to an objective lens and also for guiding the laser light reflected by a recording medium to a photodetecting section as a convergent light. The photodetecting section is provided with first and second photodetectors disposed at positions at which a first part of the target laser light and a second part different from the first part are respectively received, the positions being separated further from the optical system than a convergence position of a target laser light reflected by an irradiation-target recording layer, out of the laser light reflected by the recording medium, and a third photodetector disposed at a position closer to the optical system than the convergence position of the target laser light, the position being bridging more over the second part than the first part. | 12-03-2009 |
20090303857 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - A servo objective lens and a recording/reproducing objective lens are commonly held on a holder. The servo objective lens and the recording/reproducing objective lens are integrally displaced, thereby pulling servo light onto a servo layer. Upon the pulling, focus positions of recording light and reproducing light follow a focus position of the servo light. As a result, the focus positions of recording light and reproducing light are set close to the servo layer. Thereafter, an optical element for displacing the focus positions of recording light and reproducing light in the optical axis direction is driven to pull the recording light and the reproducing light onto a targeted recording layer. | 12-10-2009 |
20090310466 | OBJECTIVE LENS DRIVING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD FOR THE SAME - [Problems] In an objective lens driving device used for an optical disc and the like, a moving speed of the objective lens is changed corresponding to amount of vertical deviation of the optical disc, and when the vertical deviation is small, time for aligning the focus is reduced. | 12-17-2009 |
20090310467 | OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE - An optical information apparatus according to the present invention includes: an optical system that includes a solid immersion lens (SIL) | 12-17-2009 |
20090310468 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS - Influences of reflected light, which result in crosstalk from adjacent layers in a multi-layered optical disk, are mitigated. In an astigmatic optical system of an optical pickup, a first composite segmented wave plate having a segmentation direction that is in the same direction as the focal line that is close to the astigmatic optical system, a second composite segmented wave plate of the same segmentation direction, and an analyzer are inserted. | 12-17-2009 |
20090310469 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS - An optical pickup apparatus reads an information signal recorded on a recording surface of an optical disk along a track by projecting a light beam. Said optical pickup apparatus has: an objective lens for converging said light beam onto said recording surface; an objective lens moving device for moving said objective lens in a radial direction of said optical disk; and a divisional photosensing device for receiving return light reflected by said optical disk, in a plurality of divided regions. Said divisional photosensing device has: a first divisional photosensing device for dividing a first region including both edge portions in said radial direction of said return light, in two divided areas in said radial direction; a second divisional photosensing device for receiving a second region including both edge portions in a direction which perpendicularly crosses said radial direction of said return light, in two divided areas in said radial direction; and a third divisional photosensing device for receiving a third region including an almost center portion of said return light, in two divided areas in said radial direction. | 12-17-2009 |
20090323503 | CONNECTION STRUCTURE OF FLEXIBLE PRINTED CIRCUITS AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE INCLUDING THE CONNECTION STRUCTURE - A connection structure of Flexible printed circuits comprising: first and second Flexible printed circuits, respectively, including a base formed of a resin, a plurality of wiring patterns arranged side by side on the base, a cover formed of a resin to cover opposite sides of the wiring patterns to the base, and a connection portion in which the plurality of wiring patterns are not covered by the cover, the connection portions of the first and second Flexible printed circuits being connected with each other. The wiring patterns in the connection portions include a large width portion which is larger in width than the wiring patterns covered by the cover. The large width portions on the first Flexible printed circuit and the large width portions on the second Flexible printed circuit are connected to each other by means of soldering. | 12-31-2009 |
20090323504 | OPTICAL PICKUP AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - An optical pickup includes an actuator having an objective lens and an optical base on which the actuator is supported. The actuator includes a yoke having an opening, a first straight section and an opposing second straight section, the opening being interposed between the straight sections, the first and second straight sections having a first and a second bent section, respectively, as an extension of each bent section. The yoke is formed as coving the actuator with the straight sections so that the objective lens is exposed through the opening without being obstructed by the optical base. The first bent section has one contact section whereas the second bent section has two contact sections. The optical base includes an ark-like support section. The optical base supports the actuator in such a way that the contact sections are made to have contact with the ark-like support section. | 12-31-2009 |
20100002560 | COUPLING LENS, OPTICAL HEAD AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - Provides a coupling lens which, when used in combination with an objective lens for a plurality of types of optical discs such as a high density disc, DVD, CD or the like, is capable of compensating for various types of aberrations including those caused by wavelength changes and thus providing good recording or reproduction characteristics with a good wavelength dispersion compensation ability; and an optical head and an optical disc apparatus (drive). | 01-07-2010 |
20100002561 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISK DRIVE APPARATUS - An optical pickup device includes an optical part module having a light emitting device and an optical pickup case to which the optical part module is fixed by way of an adhesive, in which the optical part module is adhesively fixed by disposing a bonding surface of the optical part module to the optical pickup case at least at two positions on lateral surfaces of the optical part module putting an optical axis therebetween, and a bonding distance L in the lateral surface between the optical part module and the optical pickup is defined as: 40 μm01-07-2010 | |
20100002562 | OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An optical pickup includes a light source emitting a light beam, an objective lens condensing the light beam emitted from the light source onto an optical disc, at least one divergent angle conversion lens (collimator lens) disposed between the light source and the objective lens and changing a divergent angle of the incident light beam, a driving unit (collimator lens driving mechanism) configured to drive the divergent angle conversion lens in a direction of an optical axis, an optical detection device (optical detector) detecting a return light beam reflected at the optical disc, and an environmental change detecting unit (temperature sensor) configured to detect change in environmental temperature, wherein the objective lens is made of a refractive element having, on one surface thereof, a diffraction structure in a stepped shape or a blazed sectional shape, which generates diffraction light providing a spot adapted to perform satisfactory recording and/or reproducing, the objective lens satisfying certain relationships among an amount of wavefront aberration thereof corresponding to change in environmental temperature, an amount of the change in environmental temperature, and a focal length. | 01-07-2010 |
20100020672 | OBJECTIVE LENS AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An objective lens used for an optical information recording/reproducing apparatus for an optical disc based on a predetermined standard is made of resin and has a numerical aperture larger than or equal to 0.75. When f (unit: mm) represents a focal length at a wavelength λ (unit: nm), d (unit: mm) represents a thickness, and n represents a refractive index of the objective lens at the wavelength λ, the objective lens satisfies following conditions: | 01-28-2010 |
20100027403 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS AND SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD - An optical disc apparatus includes a light separator configured to separate a light beam emitted from a light source into a main beam and a sub-beam, an objective lens configured to, when the light beam is condensed and irradiated to an optical disc having a uniform recording layer in which a track is formed by record marks, irradiate at least part of the sub-beam to an area where the main beam is not irradiated in a radial direction which is defined as a direction of radius of the optical disc, and a signal generating unit configured to generate a mark layer distance signal, representing a distance between a focus of the light beam and a mark layer to which the track belongs, based on a return light beam resulting from at least one of the main beam and the sub-beam, which has been irradiated to the track. | 02-04-2010 |
20100027404 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS AND FOCAL-POINT ADJUSTING METHOD - An optical pickup apparatus includes an astigmatic element, an angle adjusting element for contradicting propagation directions of luminous fluxes within four different luminous flux regions out of a reflected light, a polarization adjusting element. Two of the luminous flux regions are placed in a direction in which aligned are a set of opposite angles made by the two mutually crossing straight lines respectively parallel to a first convergence direction and a second convergence direction vertical to the first convergence direction by the astigmatic element, and the remaining two luminous flux regions are placed in a direction in which an alternate set of opposite angles are aligned. The polarization adjusting element differentiates polarization directions of luminous fluxes which are selected out of the luminous fluxes within the four luminous flux regions and which are adjacent in a peripheral direction in which the optical axis of reflected light serves as an axis. | 02-04-2010 |
20100027405 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS, FOCAL-POINT ADJUSTING METHOD, AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - An optical pickup apparatus is provided with an angle adjusting element. The angle adjusting element changes a propagation direction of luminous fluxes of four luminous flux regions set about an optical axis of the laser light, out of laser light reflected by a disc, and mutually disperses the luminous fluxes. A signal light region in which signal light only is present appears on a detecting surface of a photodetector. A sensor pattern for signal light is placed at a position irradiated with the signal light within this region. A sensor pattern for a spherical aberration detection is placed on an inner side of this region. | 02-04-2010 |
20100034072 | FRESNEL MEMBER HAVING VARIABLE SAG FOR MULTIPLE WAVELENGTH OPTICAL SYSTEM - A Fresnel member for an optical system is configured to receive at least reflected light having a first wavelength at a first envelope and reflected light having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength at a second envelope. The Fresnel member includes a plurality of ring zone portions having predetermined surface heights for achieving a maximum diffraction efficiency. | 02-11-2010 |
20100046347 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE - An optical scanning device for scanning optical record carriers, the optical record carriers including a first optical record carrier, a second optical record carrier and a third optical record carrier, the scanning device including a radiation source system ( | 02-25-2010 |
20100046348 | OPTICAL MODULE, OPTICAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE USING THE SAME AND REFLECTIVE OPTICAL PATH SETTING METHOD - An optical module having a laser element which emits a laser beam, include an optical path setting material which reflects a part of the laser beam in a predetermined direction; and a shield element which blocks the laser beam that is reflected by the optical path setting material. | 02-25-2010 |
20100046349 | FABRICATION METHOD OF MULTILAYER OPTICAL RECORD MEDIUM AND RECORDING APPARATUS FOR MULTILAYERED OPTICAL RECORD MEDIUM - A fabrication method of a multilayer optical recording medium having a plurality of recording layers, comprises a step of preparing an optical recording medium having at least one record area; a write-position mark generating step of recording write-position marks in the record area beforehand; a step of preparing an optical system including a common objective lens to focus a data recording beam and a position mark recording beam on different positions in a thickness direction of the record area; a first data writing step of writing data between the write-position marks with following the write-position marks by the data recording beam; a position mark recording step of, in parallel with the first data writing step, recording new write-position marks in the record area by the position mark recording beam; and a second data writing step of writing data between the new write-position marks with following the new write-position marks by the data recording beam. | 02-25-2010 |
20100054106 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing method which contains: delivering laser light to a thermoreversible recording medium to heat the medium and record an image thereon, the medium reversibly changing a transparency or tone thereof depending on a temperature thereof; and heating the medium to erase the image recorded thereon, wherein the delivering is carried out using an image processing device containing: a laser light emitting unit; a light scanning unit disposed on a plane onto which laser light emitted from the laser light emitting unit is delivered; a light intensity distribution adjusting unit to change a light intensity distribution of the laser light; and a fθ lens to condense the laser light, and wherein energy of the laser light passing through a peripheric portion of the fθ lens and traveling onto the medium is lower than energy of the laser light passing through a center portion of the fθ lens and traveling onto the medium. | 03-04-2010 |
20100067351 | OBJECT LENS DRIVING APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An objective lens driving apparatus includes an objective lens ( | 03-18-2010 |
20100067352 | OBJECTIVE LENS ACTUATOR AND AN OPTICAL PICKUP - An objective lens actuator comprises, two objective lenses, each for focusing lights upon an optical disc, an objective lens holder member for holding the objective lenses thereon, and lens protectors for preventing the objective lenses from being contacted on the optical disc, wherein the lens protectors include first and second lens protectors, which are provided on both end portions of the objective lens holder member in a tracking direction, and a third lens protector, which is provided in a middle of the two objective lenses, wherein the first and second lens protectors, which are provided on both end portions of the objective lens holder member in the tracking direction, are provided the objective lenses and end portion of the objective lens holder member in the tracking direction, and the third lens protector, which is provided between the objective lenses, has a height closer to that of the optical disc than the protectors, which are provided on both end portions of the objective lens holder member in the tracking direction. | 03-18-2010 |
20100067353 | OBJECTIVE LENS ACTUATOR AND A DISC APPARATUS APPLYING THE SAME THEREIN - An objective lens actuator comprises a lens holder for attaching an objective lens thereon, a piece of focusing coil, being wound along side surface of the lens holder around the objective lens, and three magnets, being disposed opposing to two surfaces each having a normal line perpendicular to both a focusing direction and a tracking direction, among four side surfaces of the lens holder, wherein the three magnets are aligned, continuously, along the tracking direction, differing a polarity thereof from one another, and width of the magnets on both outsides is wider than width of the magnet inside, or alternately, one magnet, being disposed opposing to two surfaces each having a normal line perpendicular to both a focusing direction and a tracking direction, among four side surfaces of the lens holder, wherein the magnet is magnetized into three poles along the tracking direction, and among the three poles, width of the poles on both outsides is wider than width of the pole inside. | 03-18-2010 |
20100067354 | OPTICAL PICKUP AND AN OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS MOUNTING THE SAME THEREON - An optical pickup, mounting a lens actuator | 03-18-2010 |
20100067355 | Optical Pickup Apparatus - An optical-pickup apparatus comprising: a laser-light source including first-and-second-light-emitting points for laser lights with first-and-second wavelengths which points are disposed at positions deviating in a direction optically corresponding to an optical-disc-tracking direction; a diffraction grating including a plurality of periodic structures which are joined to be different in phase from each other in the direction and each of which includes a recess and projection repeated in a direction optically corresponding to an optical-disc-tangential direction, the diffraction grating being configured to generate main-and-sub-luminous fluxes from the laser light; a holder to hold the diffraction grating to be movable in the direction corresponding to the tracking direction; a collimating lens; an objective lens to focus the main-and-sub-luminous fluxes from the collimating lens on the same track of an optical disc; and a photodetector to be applied with reflected lights of the main-and-sub-luminous fluxes from the optical disc, to generate main-and-sub-push-pull signals. | 03-18-2010 |
20100080105 | Optical Pickup Device and Optical Disk Driver Using the Same - A light source, an objective lens, and an astigmatism generation element producing for light for focus control, and an optical receiver are provided. The astigmatism generation element is interposed between the objective lens and the optical receiver and produces focal points in front of and behind the optical receiver within two mutually orthogonal cross-sectional planes including an optical axis of the reflected light. The astigmatism generation element is a Fresnel mirror that has a plurality of orbicular zones and steps connecting adjacent orbicular zones to each other and that takes the orbicular zones as reflecting mirrors. A depth “d” of the steps is set substantially one-half of a wavelength λ, and a depth d | 04-01-2010 |
20100085861 | LENS SYSTEM FOR SCANNING DEVICE - A lens system includes a lens ( | 04-08-2010 |
20100085862 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - In the invention, a movable lens varying the rate of convergence or divergence of light reaching an objective lens by moving in an optical axis direction has its position adjusted to correspond to ambient temperature. The objective lens is arranged to be tilted with respect to an optical axis of light reaching the objective lens from the movable lens. First coma aberration of which the amount produced varies according to movement of the movable lens, and second coma aberration of which the amount produced varies due to variation in the warping state of an optical disc that is caused along with variation in ambient temperature both occur in the radius direction of the optical disc, and the objective lens has its tilting direction adjusted such that the first coma aberration and the second coma aberration have their increasing and decreasing directions of the amount of coma aberration produced with respect to variation in ambient temperature reversed. | 04-08-2010 |
20100091633 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND OPTICAL PICKUP MODULE - A flat pre-board plate including connection electrodes, internal interconnections, and external-connection portions is prepared. This pre-board plate is cut at portions each located between adjacent ones of the connection electrodes, thereby forming trenches. A plurality of semiconductor elements are placed in each of the trenches. Electrode pads and the connection electrodes are connected to each other by metal wires. Transparent lids are placed on, and bonded to, spacers to cover the semiconductor elements. Thereafter, two lines of the connection electrodes arranged between adjacent ones of the trenches are separated from each other. Subsequently, adjacent ones of the semiconductor elements are also separated from each other. | 04-15-2010 |
20100091634 | OPTICAL HEAD DEVICE - In an optical head device that subjects light exiting from a light source to reflection on an information recording layer of an optical disk, to thus guide the light to a photodetector, an optical attenuation device is disposed in an optical path from the optical disk to the photodetector, wherein the optical attenuation device has a first region having high transmissivity, a second region having low transmissivity, and a third region having an intermediate value of transmissivity, whereby light returned from a layer differing from the information recording layer, which will be responsible for crosstalk, is reduced by mean of the photodetector. | 04-15-2010 |
20100091635 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An optical pickup device is provided with: a light source; an objective lens focusing light from the light source on an information recording surface of an optical recording medium; a lens holder holding the objective lens; and a collision prevention member provided on the lens holder, and preventing collision between the optical recording medium and the objective lens. The collision prevention member is formed with a sheet member, and is disposed on the lens holder so that a side surface, substantially parallel to a thickness direction, of the sheet member faces the information recording surface. | 04-15-2010 |
20100097920 | Optical Pickup Actuator and Optical Disc Driver Using the Same - The present invention relates to an optical pickup actuator which includes a plurality of objective lenses for converging a light on an optical recording medium, a lens holder for holding the objective lenses, a suspension wire for holding the lens holder and projections provided at the lens holder, wherein the projections are provided at the periphery of the objective lens and at least one of the projections is provided on the upstream side of the insertion direction of the optical recording medium. A slope for guiding the optical recording medium upward at the time of inserting the optical recording medium is provided on the side surface of each of the projections. Thus, even when the optical recording medium is inserted so as to slide on the upper surface of a pickup cover, the end portion of the outer periphery of the optical recording medium contacts with the slope provided at the projection and slides to thereby push down the optical pickup actuator in the elevational direction. Thus, since there does not arise a force in the bending direction of the suspension wire, the deformation of the suspension wires can be prevented. | 04-22-2010 |
20100103799 | Optical head device and optical recording and reading system - An optical head device (optical head) for a multi-layered optical recording medium has a focus control mechanism that makes use of astigmatism. The focus control mechanism has a sensor lens that includes a cylindrical lens. The focus control mechanism causes a light beam having passed through the sensor lens to have astigmatism, thereby being focused linearly in the Y direction on a front focal line located closer to the sensor lens and focused linearly in the X direction at a rear focal line located farther therefrom. The optical head also includes a photodetector which is disposed between the front focal line and the rear focal line to detect a focal position from the shape of a light beam. At the position of the front focal line, a shield plate with a window portion is disposed. The window portion has a size so as to allow the focal line to pass therethrough and shield stray light reflected from an unfocused recording layer. | 04-29-2010 |
20100103800 | Apparatus with a pickup for reading data from or writing data to an optical storage medium - The apparatus comprising a pickup for reading data from or writing data to an optical storage medium, wherein the pickup comprises a laser providing a laser beam, an objective lens for focusing the laser beam onto the optical storage medium, a first detector and a beam splitter arranged between the laser and the objective lens for guiding light reflected from the optical storage medium onto the first detector. A selecting means, arranged in front of the beam splitter, with regard to the reflected light from the optical storage medium, is provided for guiding reflected light passing through an outer section of the objective lens onto a second detector. The light guided onto the first detector is utilized for providing a tracking error signal and the light guided onto the second detector is utilized for providing a data signal. | 04-29-2010 |
20100103801 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS USING THE SAME, OPTICAL RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS USING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF CORRECTING ABERRATION USING THE SAME - Provided is an objective lens for which expressions 0.83<(p | 04-29-2010 |
20100110863 | COMPATIBLE NEAR FIELD OPTICAL RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A compatible near field optical recording/reproducing apparatus includes a solid immersion lens unit including a first lens, which has an aspherical surface in which light incident from the first light source is condensed, and a second lens, which realizes a high numerical aperture via a near field effect by light condensed by the first lens and has an aspherical surface. An effective beam size-controlling device controls an effective size of a light beam transmitted to the solid immersion lens unit such that either near field light or far field light is transmitted to an information storage medium by the solid immersion lens unit and a focal point adjusting optical system adjusts a focal position of light transmitted to the information storage medium according to the type of the information storage medium. | 05-06-2010 |
20100110864 | Information recording carrier and information reproducing apparatus for the same - Plural grooves or lands formed in an information recording carrier include at least a wobbling region and data is recorded wobblingly in this wobbling region by phase shift modulation while recorded digitally with a single or multiple waves as a channel bit. | 05-06-2010 |
20100118685 | OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING METHOD AND INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE - An optical recording medium is capable of preventing a back focus at the face thereof and reducing the interference between beams reflected by each recording surface, thereby improving the quality of a servo signal and a reproductive signal. In a disk having (N-1) layers if N is a natural number (more than three), if a cover-layer thickness and intermediate-layer thicknesses are d | 05-13-2010 |
20100118686 | PICKUP FOR ACCESSING MOVING STORAGE MEDIA AND DRIVE HAVING THE PICKUP - A pickup for accessing moving storage media carrying substantially parallel information tracks has a carrier, a movable actuator with a lens, and suspension wires joining the carrier and the actuator. The actuator is movable in at least a tracking direction and a focus direction. The suspension wires are soldered to the actuator by soldering points. According to the invention, the soldering points are made by induction soldering. | 05-13-2010 |
20100118687 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, OPTICAL INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, OPTICAL INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention can record sub-data. An optical disk drive ( | 05-13-2010 |
20100124158 | HOLOGRAPHY WITH INTERFERENCE REVIVAL - An optical system for reading and recording data on a media includes a laser source for generating a laser beam; an optical subsystem for splitting the laser beam into a reference beam and an object beam; and first and second lens for receiving the reference beam and object beam, respectively, and focusing the reference and object beams at a focal point on the media at which the reference beam and object beam interfere with each other. The reference beam and the object beam have first and second optical path lengths defined from the laser source to the focal point of the media. The optical subsystem is positioned so that an optical path length difference between the first and second optical path lengths is substantially equal to an integer multiple of an interference revival period associated with the reference beam and the object beam, the interference revival period associated with peak values of visibility of the interference versus the optical path difference. | 05-20-2010 |
20100124159 | Optical Pickup Device and Objective Optical Element - There are provided an optical pickup device which can satisfactorily record and/or reproduce information on different kinds of optical information recording medium in spite of compactness, and an objective optical element used for the optical pickup device. The optical functional surface of the objective optical element includes at least two areas of a central area including an optical axis and a peripheral area surrounding the central area. An optical path difference providing structure in the central area is a structure obtained by overlapping a first central basic structure and a second central basic structure which are in a shape of ring-shaped zones divided by step differences, with each other. An optical path difference providing structure in the peripheral area is a structure obtained by overlapping a first peripheral basic structure and a second peripheral basic structure which are in a shape of ring-shaped zones divided by step differences, with each other. | 05-20-2010 |
20100128592 | Objective Lens for Optical Pickup Device, and Optical Pickup Device - There are provided an objective lens for an optical pickup device which can record and/or reproduce information on/from an optical disk with high density with the use of a light flux with a short wavelength while keeping a temperature characteristic to be satisfactory in spite of having a plastic objective lens, and the optical pickup device. The objective lens suppresses generation of a spherical aberration even if a temperature change arises, by sacrificing wavelength characteristics and by enhancing temperature characteristics. Such satisfactory temperature characteristics can be acquired by the ring-shaped structure formed as a turning structure on an optical surface of the objective lens, in which the ring-shaped structure includes ring-shaped zones whose number is 3 or more and 30 or less and the ring-shaped structure is formed such that adjoining ring-shaped zones cause a predetermined optical path difference for an incident light flux. | 05-27-2010 |
20100128593 | PHASE DIFFERENCE ELEMENT AND OPTICAL HEAD APPARATUS - Three phase difference layers having refractive index anisotropy are stacked in parallel and an optic axis angle and retardation of each of the phase difference layers are adjusted and thereby, characteristics having peaks at which ellipticity is approximated to 1 at desired three design wavelengths can be obtained and it can efficiently be adapted to an optical head apparatus for converting linear polarization of a light source with, for example, three different wavelengths into circular polarization. | 05-27-2010 |
20100135146 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - When first-order diffracted beams leak into a region, which is for receiving only a zeroth-order diffracted beam from an optical disc, due to positional displacement between an objective lens and a hologram element, an offset compensation signal includes an AC component, the offset compensation signal preferably including a DC component only. Accordingly, there may be caused deterioration in a modulation degree of the tracking error (TE) signal. A partial light shielding element | 06-03-2010 |
20100142357 | OBJECTIVE LENS SYSTEM AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - Provided are an optical pickup device which is compatible with a plurality of disc standards, and can stably monitor the outputs from light sources, and an objective lens system used in the optical pickup device. An optical pickup device | 06-10-2010 |
20100149953 | OPTICAL PICKUP ACTUATOR AND OPTICAL RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An optical pickup actuator and an optical recording/reproducing apparatus are provided. The optical pickup actuator can include a three-axial driving unit to independently drive an objective lens to focus a laser beam onto a disk in a focusing direction, a tracking direction and a radial-tilt direction, respectively, and a tangential-tilt driving unit to drive the three-axial driving unit in a tangential-tilt direction to drive the objective lens in the tangential-tilt direction. | 06-17-2010 |
20100149954 | OBJECTIVE LENS ACTUATOR, OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL DISC DRIVE - An objective lens actuator | 06-17-2010 |
20100149955 | OPTICAL PICK UP AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - An optical pickup includes: a light source emitting a beam having a predetermined wavelength; a plastic objective lens condensing the emitted beam on an optical disc; a light detector receiving and detecting the beam reflected by the optical disc; an objective-lens driving unit driving the objective lens in the tilt direction to tilt the objective lens; and a tilt-sensitivity sensing unit sensing a tilt sensitivity denoted by ΔW | 06-17-2010 |
20100149956 | OPTICAL INTEGRATED DEVICE, METHOD FOR DETECTING LIGHT, OPTICAL PICKUP, AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - An optical integrated device includes a light source; a light splitting-and-guiding section that splits a reflected light beam into two end light beams, a connection light beam, and a residual light beam, and guides the two end light beams and the connection light beam in directions different from a direction of the residual light beam; and a light receiving section that receives the two end light beams and the connection light beam with photodetection devices divided, in the tangential direction, into at least two regions within a range in which the connection light beam is incident, receives the residual light beam with photodetection devices divided, in the tangential direction, into regions having widths corresponding to portions on which the two end light beams are incident, and outputs a detection signal in accordance with an amount of light received with each of the photodetection devices. | 06-17-2010 |
20100157779 | OBJECTIVE LENS DRIVE DEVICE - An objective lens drive device where a cushioning elastic body can be stably poured into a through-hole that is formed in a wire holder in which a suspension wire is inserted, and where the amount of the elastic body required is reduced. The through-hole that is formed in the wire holder ( | 06-24-2010 |
20100165820 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An optical pickup apparatus including a motor, a rotary member connected to the motor, the rotary member having a movement part and a stop part, a lead member disposed on the rotary member such that the lead member moves along the movement part and stops at the stop part, and a lens connected to the lead member to correct an aberration. The motor to correct a spherical aberration of the optical pickup apparatus is used instead of a sensor to sense the position of the collimator lens during the movement of the collimator lens, thereby reducing costs. The collimator lens may be controlled by sensing the reference position of the collimator lens to correct a spherical aberration of an optical disc, thereby preventing damage to optical components due to malfunction of the collimator lens. | 07-01-2010 |
20100165821 | ASPHERIC LENS AND OPTICAL PICKUP INCLUDING THE SAME - An aspheric lens includes at least one aspheric lens surface, and an angle of inclination on the aspheric lens surface is smaller than or equal to 65°. The aspheric lens surface is given by the equation | 07-01-2010 |
20100172229 | DRAWING METHOD, DRAWING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - In a drawing method and device, an electron beam is radiated to a surface of an object to draw a pattern along scan lines on the surface of the object. A pattern is drawn along the scan lines on the surface of the object by the electron beam through relative movement of the object relative to the electron beam. The electron beam is deflected at a speed that does not cause a pattern to be formed on the object surface, in one of a first direction intersecting the scan lines and a second direction opposite to the first direction, without performing blanking of the electron beam, so that a beam spot of the deflected electron beam is positioned to one of the scan lines on the object surface. The drawing step and the deflecting step are repeated alternately. | 07-08-2010 |
20100177619 | PICKUP DEVICE - A pickup device which, focusing a ray bundle on a track of a recording surface of an optical recording medium to form a light spot, comprises a detection optical system including a photo detector to receive return light reflected from the light spot via an objective lens and perform photoelectric conversion. The photo detector has at least two photoreceptor sections positioned axis-symmetrical with respect to a detection-side division line extending through an optical axis of the return light and parallel to the track. A dividing element placed in an optical path between the photo detector and the objective lens includes at least two inner divided areas positioned axis-symmetrical with respect to a deflection-side division line extending through the optical axis of the return light and parallel to the track, and at least two outer divided areas positioned sandwiching the inner divided areas and axis-symmetrical with respect to the deflection-side division line. The inner divided areas are formed such that parts of a light beam from the other region than overlap regions, divided axis-symmetrically along the deflection-side division line, are exchanged in position across the detection-side division line and directed to the photoreceptor sections of the photo detector so as to be axis-symmetrical with respect to the detection-side division line. | 07-15-2010 |
20100177620 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE AND LENS TILT CONTROL METHOD - With an optical disc apparatus of the present invention, the number of tracks of an optical disc crossed by a light spot when the tracking control is inactive is measured and stored in a memory for each passage of a predetermined rotation angle. When the tracking control is active, a lens tilt driving signal is generated by multiplying the value of a memory section corresponding to the disc rotation angle by a gain according to the disc rotation speed, thereby correcting the AC tilt occurring due to a lens shift. | 07-15-2010 |
20100177621 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND COLLIMATE LENS - It is an object of the present invention to provide an optical pickup device being capable of correcting coma aberration induced in a light-condensing optical system including an objective lens for an optical disc and having a reduced size and a reduced thickness in comparison with the conventional art. The present invention includes a first coma-aberration correction actuator ( | 07-15-2010 |
20100177622 | OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCING DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISK REPRODUCING METHOD - An optical disk reproducing device includes: a semiconductor laser for sequentially emitting singular peak light and singular slope light as laser light when supplied with a driving pulse formed in a form of a pulse and formed of a predetermined singular voltage; an objective lens for condensing the laser light onto a recording layer disposed in an optical disk, and converting an angle of divergence of return light returned from the recording layer; a detection signal generating section configured to detect respective light intensities in each of wavelength bands in the return light, and respectively generate a plurality of detection signals according to the respective light intensities; and a reproduction processing section configured to reproduce information recorded on the optical disk on a basis of the plurality of detection signals. | 07-15-2010 |
20100177623 | OPTICAL PICKUP - An optical pickup has a first optical system and a second optical system. The optical axis of the first optical system and the optical axis of the second optical system are inclined, for example, 45 degrees with respect to the reference plane, and are parallel to each other. A first objective lens and a second objective lens are arranged substantially side-by-side in a radial direction, and the center position of the second objective lens is slightly displaced from the reference plane in a tangential direction. The first optical system and the second optical system each have a flat-shaped beam splitter; this is used to produce astigmatism for acquiring a focus error signal by the astigmatic method. | 07-15-2010 |
20100182890 | OPTICAL DISK RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE AND OPTICAL HEAD - An optical disk recording/reproducing device includes a turntable | 07-22-2010 |
20100182891 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - An optical pickup device is so configured as to change the propagating directions of light fluxes in four light flux areas defined in the periphery of an optical axis of laser light, out of the laser light reflected on a disc, to separate the four light fluxes one from the other. A signal light area where only signal light exists is defined on a detecting surface of a photodetector. Sensors for signal light is disposed at a position in the signal light area to be irradiated by the signal light, and a tracking error signal is generated based on a signal from the sensors. A direct-current component of the tracking error signal resulting from positional displacements of the sensors is cancelled by adjusting a gain of the signal from the sensor. | 07-22-2010 |
20100188960 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL DISK APPARATUS - A plastic objective lens is configured to collect a light beam with at least a wavelength λ on a recording layer of an optical disk and is used in an optical pickup for recording and/or reproducing an information signal by illuminating a light beam on the optical disk having one or a plurality of recording layers in an incident direction of the light beam. | 07-29-2010 |
20100188961 | Optical Disc Apparatus - An optical disc apparatus includes a laser diode, a first optical component which branches beams from the laser diode into a first beam and a second beam, an objective lens which focuses the first beam on an optical information recording medium, an actuator which drives the objective lens in an optical axis direction, a reference mirror provided in an optical path of the second beam, an optical path length varying unit which varies an optical path length of the second beam, a first photo detector, a second photo detector, a second optical component which branches beams obtained by combining the first beam which is reflected by the optical information recording medium and the second beam which is reflected by the reference mirror and which makes the branched beams incident on the first and second photo detectors, and a signal processing part. | 07-29-2010 |
20100195474 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - A disk-shaped optical information recording medium ( | 08-05-2010 |
20100208570 | Objective Lens Actuator - An objective lens actuator includes a lens holder, a protector holder, and a protector. The lens holder in which the objective lens is provided has a face configured to oppose the disc. The protector holder is provided on the face of the lens holder. The protector is formed with an opening defined by a first inner face, a second inner face and a bottom face between the first inner face and the second inner face. The protector has a parallelepiped shape elongating in a first direction parallel to the disc. A part of the protector is inserted in the opening so as to contact the first inner face and the second inner face and to extend from the bottom face toward the disc. A first distance between an end of the protector in a second direction in which the protector extends toward the disc and the disc is shorter than a second distance between the objective lens and the disc. A gap is formed between an end of the opening and an end of the protector in the first direction. | 08-19-2010 |
20100214903 | EXTRACTION OPTICAL SYSTEM AND OPTICAL HEAD DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide an extraction optical system capable of separating and extracting a signal light and a stray light with a simple configuration, and an optical head device including the same. A phase plate and a phase plate are +λ/4 phase plates, while a phase plate and a phase plate are −λ/4 phase plates. A focal line, a focal line and a focal line represent a focal line of a stray light, a focal line of a reproduction light and a focal line of a stray light, respectively. All beams of the reproduction light enter the state in which a polarization direction is rotated by 90 degrees after passing through the phase element. In contrast to the all light bundles of the reproduction light, polarization directions of all light bundles of the stray lights and are not rotated even after passing through the phase element. | 08-26-2010 |
20100220578 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL HEAD AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - Provides an objective lens, an optical head and an optical disc apparatus (drive) capable of compensating for various types of aberrations including wavelength changes for a plurality of types of optical discs including high density optical discs, DVDs and CDs with a good wavelength dispersion compensation ability and thus capable of providing good recording or reproduction characteristics. | 09-02-2010 |
20100232283 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISK APPARATUS - An optical pickup device includes a first laser element that emits first laser light, a second laser element that emits second laser light of which the wavelength is longer than that of the first laser light, an optical path composition element that composes the first laser light and the second laser light to one optical path, a wavelength selective element that acts on the composed first or second laser light; and an objective lens that condenses the first laser light and the second laser light on an optical disk. The magnitude of the power of the wavelength selective element as a lens with respect to the second laser light is larger than the magnitude of the power of the wavelength selective element as a lens with respect to the first laser light. Accordingly, it may be possible to reduce the optical pickup device and the optical disk apparatus in size. | 09-16-2010 |
20100238781 | Optical Pickup Apparatus and Objective Lens - An optical pickup apparatus comprising: a laser diode; an objective lens made of synthetic resin arranged in an optical path of laser light between the laser diode and an optical disc so that the laser light from the laser diode is focused onto a signal recording layer through a protection layer of the optical disc; and an aberration correction element interposed in an optical path of the laser light between the laser diode and the objective lens, the aberration correction element configured to be operated so as to correct spherical aberration caused by moisture-absorption characteristics of the objective lens. | 09-23-2010 |
20100238782 | OPTICAL PICKUP, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, AND OPTICAL DISK APPARATUS - The recording accuracy of information on an optical disc is increased. | 09-23-2010 |
20100246368 | LAMINATED HALF-WAVE PLATE, OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE, POLARIZATION CONVERTER, AND PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS - A laminated half-wave plate includes: first and second wave plates having optical axes intersecting each other, wherein when phase differences of the first and second wave plates with respect to a wavelength λ are represented by Γ | 09-30-2010 |
20100246369 | Optical Pickup Apparatus - An optical pickup apparatus comprising: a laser light source; an objective lens; a reflection mirror; a photodetector; and a beam splitter, the beam splitter including a first reflective film configured to generate a first phase difference corresponding to a predetermined wavelength with respect to laser light, the reflection mirror including a second reflective film configured to generate a second phase difference corresponding to the predetermined wavelength with respect to the laser light, the first reflective film and the second reflective film being formed so that a combined phase difference of the first phase difference and the second phase difference becomes substantially quarter-wave with respect to the laser light. | 09-30-2010 |
20100246370 | OPTICAL PICKUP UNIT AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - An optical pickup unit comprising: an objective lens that focuses laser light on an optical disc; a lens holder that holds the objective lens; a coil that is fitted on the lens holder and capable of driving the lens holder; and a reinforcement member that is fitted on the lens holder and reinforces strength of the lens holder. | 09-30-2010 |
20100254248 | OPTICAL PICKUP OPTICAL SYSTEM AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - An optical system for optical pickup, which optical system is used for performing recording, reproducing, and/or erasing of information on an optical recording medium and has a simple configuration, is provided. An optical pickup device | 10-07-2010 |
20100260031 | Objective Lens for Optical Pickup Apparatus, and Optical Pickup Apparatus - Provided is an objective lens for an optical pickup apparatus. The objective lens collects diffracted light generated by an optical path difference giving structure onto the information recording surface of an optical information recording medium as a spot and suppresses fluctuation of diffraction efficiency due to a change of using wavelength. The optical pickup apparatus using such objective lens is also provided. The total diffraction efficiency can be improved by adjusting a wavelength at which the diffraction efficiencies of a plurality of basic structures forming the optical path difference giving structure in the objective lens are maximum, in accordance with a basic structure. | 10-14-2010 |
20100260032 | RECORDING/REPRODUCTION DEVICE, RECORDING/REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention contributes to getting a reproduction/recording operation done with stability on an information recording medium by utilizing an absorption edge shifting phenomenon. An apparatus | 10-14-2010 |
20100265810 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - An optical pickup device imparts different astigmatisms from each other to light fluxes in four light flux areas A through D formed around an optical axis of laser light, out of the laser light reflected on a disc. The optical pickup device also changes the propagating directions of the light fluxes in the light flux areas A through D to separate the light fluxes in the light flux areas A through D from each other. A signal light area where only signal light exists is defined on a detection surface of a photodetector. Sensing portions are arranged at a position corresponding to the signal light area. Accordingly, only the signal light is received by the sensing portions, thereby suppressing deterioration of a detection signal resulting from stray light. | 10-21-2010 |
20100271926 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - An optical pickup device imparts different astigmatisms from each other to light fluxes in four light flux areas formed around an optical axis of laser light, out of the laser light reflected on a disc. The optical pickup device also changes the propagating directions of the light fluxes in the light flux areas to separate the light fluxes in the light flux areas each other. A signal light area where only signal light exists is defined on a detection surface of a photodetector. Eight sensing portions are arranged at a position corresponding to the signal light area. According to this arrangement, only the signal light is received by the sensing portions to thereby suppress deterioration of a detection signal resulting from stray light. Further, a push-pull signal, whose DC component is suppressed, is obtained by computing an output from the eight sensing portions by a predetermined formula. | 10-28-2010 |
20100278030 | OPTICAL PICKUP OPTICAL SYSTEM AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - An optical system for optical pickup, which optical system is used for performing recording, reproducing, and/or erasing of information on an optical recording medium and has a simple configuration, is provided. An optical pickup device | 11-04-2010 |
20100284260 | OBJECTIVE LENS DRIVING DEVICE AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An objective lens driving device includes a lens holder ( | 11-11-2010 |
20100284261 | Objective Lens, Optical Pickup Apparatus, and Optical Information Recording Reproducing Apparatus - An objective lens relating to the present invention includes a first optical path difference providing structure in which a first basic structure and a second basic structure are overlapped with each other. The first basic structure is a blaze-type structure which emits a Xth-order diffracted light flux, when the first light flux passes through the first basic structure, where the value of X is an odd integer. At least a part of the first basic structure arranged around an optical axis includes a step facing an opposite direction to the optical axis. The second basic structure is a blaze-type structure which emits a Lth-order diffracted light flux, when the first light flux passes through the second basic structure, where the value of L is an even integer. At least a part of the second basic structure arranged around the optical axis includes a step facing the optical axis. | 11-11-2010 |
20100284262 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS, OBJECTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENT AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An optical pickup apparatus according to the present invention includes: a first light source for emitting a first light flux; a second light source for emitting a second light flux; a third light source for emitting-a third light flux; and an objective optical element. The objective optical element has an optical surface including at least two areas provided with optical path difference providing structures. The objective optical element converges the first to third light fluxes each passing through the predetermined areas on the objective optical element onto respective information recording surfaces of the first to third optical disks. The optical pickup apparatus provides a wavelength dependency of a spherical aberration so as to correct a change in a spherical aberration due to a refractive index change with a temperature change of the objective optical element. | 11-11-2010 |
20100302928 | OBJECTIVE LENS ACTUATOR AND DISC DRIVE EMPLOYING THE OBJECTIVE LENS ACTUATOR - An object lens actuator can improve workability and operate with high reliability by prevention of damage to the object lens actuator and a disc and sticking of a moving part caused by an excessive movement of the moving part. In a disc drive employing the object lens actuation, stable writing/reading operation is implemented by always keeping a focal point of an object lens at a predetermined track of a recording surface of the disc even when being under the action of external perturbations such as a vertical deviation or a radial deviation of the disc, resulting in improved reliability. A solder-flux adhesion prevention gadget is provided between a substrate and a stopper receiving face, which may include a stepped stage, a partition protruding from the surface of the lens holder, or alternatively a combination of them arranged in order in the range. | 12-02-2010 |
20100309771 | OPTICAL HEAD APPARATUS, OPTICAL DISK APPARATUS AND OPTICAL DISK - [Object] A recoding playback apparatus and an optical disk are provided that allows reduction of a low frequency noise at a time of playback of a super resolution optical disk including small record marks whose size is below the diffractive limitation, to enhance quality of a playback signal. | 12-09-2010 |
20100309772 | STORAGE MEDIUM, REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORDING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a write-once type information storage medium comprises an organic dye based recording material having sensitivity at a wavelength of 405 nm and at a recording wavelength in the range of 600 nm to 700 nm, wherein, when absorbance of a maximum absorption wavelength in the vicinity of 405 nm is defined as 1, the absorbance is 5% or more at any wavelength in the range of 600 nm to 700 nm. | 12-09-2010 |
20100315932 | OPTICAL STORAGE MEDIUM, MASTERING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR READING OF RESPECTIVE DATA - The optical storage medium comprises a substrate layer, and a data layer having a mark/space data structure with data arranged in tracks on the substrate layer, wherein between neighboring tracks alternatingly a groove section or a land section without a groove is arranged. The tracks, groove sections and land sections may be arranged by providing a single spiral, two spirals, or four spirals on the optical storage medium. The optical storage medium is in particular an optical disc comprising a nonlinear layer with a super-resolution structure arranged above the data layer. | 12-16-2010 |
20100315933 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND TEMPERATURE CHARACTERISTICS CORRECTION METHOD FOR OBJECT LENS - In an optical pickup device | 12-16-2010 |
20100315934 | Plastic lens, manufacturing method thereof, production tracing management method thereof, and optical pickup device - A lens has a flange part at the outer periphery of its surface. A flange surface of the flange part is higher than the lens surface. The flange surface has a marking to identify a production jig, for example. | 12-16-2010 |
20100322061 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - There is provided a low-cost and reliable optical pickup device, wherein an objective lens is in contact with an adhesive at least one or more portions and fixed to the adhesive and also the height of the adhesive for fixing the objective lens is higher than the surface of the objective lens or the end of the objective lens, thereby a sufficient adhesive strength is secured between the objective lens and a member to which the objective lens is adhered and further this adhesive serves also as a disc protector. | 12-23-2010 |
20100322062 | OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - An optical pickup includes: a light source that emits a light beam; an object lens that focuses the light beam on an optical disc having a recording layer formed of a fluorescent recording material and a reflecting section adjacent to the recording layer, the recording layer generating, according to presence or absence of a recording mark representing information, a reproduction light beam having wavelength different from that of the light beam when the light beam is irradiated thereon from the light beam, and the reflecting section reflecting the light beam; a wavelength selecting element that separates, from the reproduction light beam, a reflected light beam reflected by the reflecting section of the optical disc and having wavelength equivalent to that of the light beam; and a reflected light detector that receives the reflected light beam separated by the wavelength selecting element and generates a position detection signal. | 12-23-2010 |
20100329101 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - A dichroic mirror is a wedge-shaped quadrangular prism whose cross-section is a trapezoid having an upper base d and a lower base d+Δd. The dichroic mirror receives on its top surface parallel light emitted from a collimating lens and reflects, off the top surface, most of the parallel light towards a wavelength plate. Moreover, the dichroic mirror transmits, through the top surface, part of the parallel light to output the part of the parallel light from a bottom surface facing the top surface toward a front monitor. The dichroic mirror has, on the bottom surface thereof, an inclination of an angle φ with respect to the top surface in a direction where a normal vector N of the bottom surface intersects with an xy-plane formed of: an optical axis x of incident light from the collimating lens; and an optical axis y of light emitted towards the wavelength plate. | 12-30-2010 |
20100329102 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An optical pickup device includes a photodetector which receives laser light reflected on a recording medium, and an optical system which guides laser light to the photodetector as convergent light. A light transmitting plate which imparts astigmatism to the laser light is disposed between the optical system and the photodetector with an inclination with respect to an optical axis of the laser light. The optical pickup device further includes an optical element which separates four light fluxes of the laser light from each other. The four light fluxes are obtained by dividing the laser light by two straight lines respectively in parallel to a first focal line direction of the laser light transmitted through the light transmitting plate, and a second focal line direction orthogonal to the first focal line direction. | 12-30-2010 |
20110002216 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - Regarding optical pickup devices usable for performing recording on and reproduction from a plurality of types of optical discs, there is a problem that because of the structure of locating many optical elements in a height direction of an optical system, the height of the optical system is increased and so it is difficult to realize a thin and compact optical pickup device. According to the present invention, a first wave plate is located between a first light source and a first mirror, a second wave plate is located between a second light source and a second mirror, and the first wave plate and the second wave plate cause a desirable phase shift to light beams of the first through third wavelengths. Owing to this, the number of optical elements located in the height direction of the optical system can be decreased, and so the height of the optical system can be reduced. | 01-06-2011 |
20110002217 | OBJECTIVE LENS AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - In order that thickness reduction, weight reduction, and mass productivity improvement should be achieved in an objective lens even in the case where NA is high, an objective lens according to the present invention is a bi-convex single lens having at least one aspheric surface, and satisfies conditions: (1) 3.501-06-2011 | |
20110007622 | Objective Lens and Optical Pickup Apparatus - Provided is an optical pickup device which can properly record and/or reproduce information on and/or from three types of discs having different recording densities and is simple in configuration and low cost. An objective lens is also provided. On the optical surface of the objective lens, an optical path difference giving structure is formed. Out of diffracted light generated when a first luminous flux enters the structure, second order diffracted light has the maximum diffraction volume. Out of diffracted light generated when a second luminous flux enters the structure, zero order diffracted light has the maximum diffraction volume. Out of diffracted light generated when a third luminous flux enters the structure, the minus first order diffracted light has the maximum diffraction volume. | 01-13-2011 |
20110019524 | OPTICAL HEAD AND OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE - An optical head comprises: a light source that emits a light beam; an objective lens that condenses, in the form of converging light, the light beam emitted by the light source, onto an information recording medium; a cylindrical lens onto which a reflected light beam that is reflected by the information recording medium is incident, and which generates astigmatism for forming a focus error signal; a light detector that receives the reflected light beam passing through the cylindrical lens; and a holder that holds the cylindrical lens and the light detector. The holder has a first main face and a second main face that extend in directions that intersect the optical axis of the reflected light beam. The cylindrical lens is bonded to the first main face and the light detector is bonded to the second main face. | 01-27-2011 |
20110032812 | OPTICAL HEAD DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISK PLAYBACK SYSTEM - Problem: To provide a recording and reproducing device that is capable of improving in its reproduction quality by efficiently detecting a reproduction signal having small low frequency noises even when reproducing data on a super-resolution optical disk including recording marks smaller than a diffraction limit. | 02-10-2011 |
20110044153 | Objective lens and optical data storage apparatus comprising the objective lens - An objective lens is described, which is switchable between a far-field mode and a near-field mode. The objective lens comprises a lens, an optical element having a variable refractive index and a solid immersion lens, which are disposed on a common optical axis, wherein the optical element is arranged at a convex side of the solid immersion lens and has a top and a bottom surface arranged adjacent to each other in a direction of the optical axis, the bottom surface having a concave shape that is adapted to the shape of the convex side of the solid immersion lens and the top surface having a curvature that is lower than a curvature of the convex side of the solid immersion lens, and wherein a difference between a refractive index of said optical element and the solid immersion lens is small in the far-field mode so that the solid immersion lens and the optical element act substantially as a single optical element in the far-field mode, whereas said difference is large in the near-field mode so that the optical effect of the solid immersion lens is significant in the near-field mode. | 02-24-2011 |
20110044154 | Objective lens and optical pickup comprising the objective lens - Optical pickup | 02-24-2011 |
20110044155 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An optical pickup device corresponding to a plurality of media is provided. The optical pickup device includes a light emitting system and a light receiving system including a plurality of light sources and a light transmission system shared by the light emitting system and the light receiving system, configured to irradiate light on a medium, and receive light reflected from the medium. The light transmission system irradiates light from the light emitting system to be appropriately focused on the medium, receives light reflected from the medium, and transports light to the light receiving system. The light transmission system includes one beam splitter corresponding to the light emitting system and the light receiving system and a position-changing collimating lens shared to correspond to a plurality of media. The position-changing collimating lens is disposed between the beam splitter and the medium, the position being controlled according to optical characteristics of the media. | 02-24-2011 |
20110051587 | Structure For Optical Pickup Head - An optical pickup head is provided, including a laser diode set, an optical element set and an optical signal detector. The laser diode set is a laser light source capable of emitting single wavelength, two wavelengths or three wavelengths laser lights. Optical element set includes a low reflectivity beam-splitter and an objective lens. The low reflectivity beam-splitter has an average reflectivity ranging from 10% to 30%. After reflected twice by low reflectivity beam-splitter, the light fed back from recording medium to the laser diode set is reduced to avoid laser noise problem. Moreover, with the optical signal detector having a tilt θ ranging from 3° to 15° to optical axis, the optical signal detector can directly reflect the incident laser light into a different direction so that the reflected light will reduce the feedback light to the laser diode set. | 03-03-2011 |
20110051588 | PHOTO-CURING TYPE ADHESIVE, OPTICAL PICKUP UNIT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An adhesive agent, which contains a light starting agent and is cured by light, is added with fillers in which the difference in refractive indices between the adhesive agent and the fillers is not larger than ±0.02. Even if the adhesive agent is added with functional fillers, this addition method allows the suppression of a lowering in the light penetrability of the adhesive agent. As a result, it becomes possible to suppress the uncuring and shrinkage of the photo-curing type adhesive agent and to perform the bonding of components with high accuracy. | 03-03-2011 |
20110051589 | Optical Disc, Optical Disc Reproducing Apparatus, Optical Disc Apparatus, Reproducing Method and Recording Method - Where a hybrid disc has different types of media, the light spot moves among recording layers of the different media, after loading the disc into an optical disc apparatus, there is a problem that information on a media type of each recording layer should be recorded in DI etc. of the optical disc. Detailed information on the hybrid disc is stored in DI, by changing a disc layer type identifier or a disc structure in DI such as BCA or PIC on the optical disc. | 03-03-2011 |
20110051590 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An optical pickup device includes an objective lens portion which converges laser light at a first focal point and a second focal point; an actuator which positions the first focal point or the second focal point on a recording layer in a disc; an astigmatism element which sets a first focal line position and a second focal line position of the laser light reflected on the disc away from each other in a propagating direction of the laser light; a spectral element which disperses four light fluxes obtained by dividing the laser light reflected on the disc in four from each other; and a photodetector having a sensor group which receives the four light fluxes dispersed by the spectral element. | 03-03-2011 |
20110058464 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING OPTICAL DISC - An optical disc identifying device includes an optical pickup head, a digital signal processor and a radio frequency amplifier. The optical pickup head has a plurality of laser diodes and a lens. During a start-up procedure, a non-blue laser diode of the optical pickup head is turned on to irradiate a loaded optical disc, thereby generating an electronic signal. The digital signal processor outputs a driving signal, thereby controlling a motor driver to move the lens in a focusing direction. The radio frequency amplifier receives the electronic signal during the movement of the lens, thereby generating a first signal. The digital signal processor includes a detecting unit for comparing the first signal with a slicing signal to generate a pulse signal, and determining whether the optical disc is a blue-ray disc or a non-blue-ray disc according to a pulse number of the pulse signal. | 03-10-2011 |
20110063968 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS HAVING MULTI-SECTIONAL POLARIZER - An optical pickup apparatus includes a light generating unit to generate a light to record or reproduce information, an objective lens to focus the light generated from the light generating unit onto a disk, and a multi-sectional polarizer disposed on a light path between the light generating unit and the objective lens and divided into a plurality of sectors having their individual optical axes. | 03-17-2011 |
20110069598 | OBJECTIVE LENS, AN OPTICAL PICKUP, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An objective lens has a numerical aperture of 8.0 or more and focusing a light beam of a wavelength λ of at least 450 nm or less on an optical information recording medium. In this objective lens, a wavefront-aberration deterioration level TOR, accumulative value of aberration deterioration, satisfies the equation (1): | 03-24-2011 |
20110069599 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING METHOD, OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND SOLID IMMERSION LENS - An optical information recording and/or reproducing apparatus comprises: a focusing unit ( | 03-24-2011 |
20110069600 | OPTICAL RECORDING-REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An optical recording-reproducing apparatus includes a laser light source, an objective lens for concentrating a luminous flux from the laser light source onto a disk medium, an actuator for controlling the position of the objective lens, a tilt-adjusting circuit for adjusting a tilt of the objective lens with respect to the disk medium, a circuit for determining laser power for recording a recording mark on the disk medium, and a circuit for detecting symmetry of the recording mark based on reflected light from the disk medium. In recording, the tilt of the objective lens is adjusted by the tilt-adjusting circuit based on an amount of change of the symmetry of the recording mark. | 03-24-2011 |
20110075544 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An optical system of an optical pickup device includes an astigmatism element which imparts astigmatism to BD light reflected on BD and CD light reflected on CD, and a spectral element which disperses four light fluxes of BD light and four light fluxes of CD light by diffraction, the four light fluxes of BD light and the four light fluxes of CD light being obtained by dividing the BD light reflected on the BD and the CD light reflected on the CD by a first straight line parallel to a converging direction by the astigmatism element, and a second straight line perpendicular to the first straight line. A photodetector of the optical pickup device is provided with first and second sensor groups for respectively receiving the four light fluxes of BD light and the four light fluxes of CD light dispersed by the spectral element. | 03-31-2011 |
20110075545 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An optical pickup device is provided with a spectral element which imparts diffraction in such a manner that four light fluxes of the first laser light are separated from each other, when a light flux of the first laser light and a light flux of the second laser light reflected on a recording medium having laminated recording layers and servo layers are divided into four by a first straight line in parallel to a converging direction by an astigmatism element, and a second straight line perpendicular to the first straight line, and that the four light fluxes of the first laser light propagate on an outer side than the light flux of the second laser light; and a photodetector including a first sensor group which receives the first laser light, and a second sensor group which receives the second laser light. | 03-31-2011 |
20110075546 | Objection Lens and Optical Pick-Up Device - Provided are an optical pickup apparatus and an objective lens which can appropriately record and/or reproduce information on three types of discs with different recording densities and improve the light-utilization efficiency using a simple structure. A first optical path difference providing structure is formed on an optical surface of the objective lens. The first optical path difference providing structure is a step structure in which plural ring-shaped step units each including the same number of steps are arranged concentrically about the optical axis as the center. The width w | 03-31-2011 |
20110085433 | Objective Lens, Optical Pickup Device, and Optical Disk Drive - Provided are an optical pickup apparatus and an objective lens which can record and/or reproduce information for discs with different recording densities and can realize simplification of the structure of themselves and reducing cost. When the expression (1) is satisfied, step differences of a step structure can be further reduced than those in the case that d1=λ1(n−1) holds, and fine grooves corresponding to a steps structure, formed on an optical-surface transfer surface of a mold for molding the objective lens become shallow, to be easily processed. In addition, the moldability is enhanced because the material of the objective lens easily enters the inner portion of the grooves. Further, a fluctuation of a diffraction efficiency caused when wavelength of a light flux changes or temperature changes is reduced so that information can be recorded and/or reduced stably. | 04-14-2011 |
20110090781 | Objective Lens for Optical Pickup Apparatus, Objective Lens Unit for Optical Pickup Apparatus and Optical Pickup Apparatus Using the Same - The present invention relates to an objective lens, an objective lens unit and an optical pickup apparatus. The objective lens is provided for an optical pickup apparatus recording or reproducing information by converging a light flux with a wavelength λ | 04-21-2011 |
20110103217 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING OPTICAL SYSTEM AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An objective lens for an optical information recording/reproducing optical system for an optical disc letting a laser beam impinge on a recording layer of the optical disc, and wherein a center wavelength λ (unit: nm) of the laser beam is in a range defined by a condition: 390≦λ≦420, a base material of the objective lens is made of resin, the resin has a glass transition temperature Tg and light transmissivity T (unit: %) per a path length of 3 mm at a wavelength of 406 nm defined by conditions: Tg≧115° C., 85≦T≦90, same antireflection films or different types of antireflection films are respectively formed on optical surfaces of the objective lens, and each of the antireflection films formed on the objective lens has a thickness of 100 nm or more in a vicinity of an optical axis of the objective lens. | 05-05-2011 |
20110110217 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - An objective lens is made of a resin material and focuses incident rays, which have a wavelength of 410 nm or less and are emitted from a light source, on an optical disc at a numerical aperture of 0.8 or more, wherein when a lens tilt sensitivity is defined as an amount of a 3rd-order coma aberration caused per a lens tilt of 1 degree which is an angle formed between an optical axis of the objective lens and a system optical axis of an optical system including the objective lens at 0° C., the lens tilt sensitivity is 130 mλrms/degree or less. | 05-12-2011 |
20110116354 | Optical Pickup Apparatus - An optical pickup apparatus includes: a laser diode configured to emit a laser beam; and an objective lens configured to condense the laser beam into a laser spot through which a signal recorded on a signal recording layer of an optical disc is read out by the laser beam, the objective lens having formed thereon a lens surface with a second numerical aperture for acting as a lens, which is larger than a first numerical aperture for forming the laser spot. | 05-19-2011 |
20110122755 | Objective Lens and Optical Pickup Apparatus - Provided are an objective lens with enhanced transmittance and an optical pickup apparatus which can record and/or reproduce information properly for three kinds of discs with different recording densities, even if a single lens is used as the objective lens. When all the expressions (1) to (3) are satisfied, excellent aberration characteristics can be obtained for the three kinds of discs: −0.02≦m | 05-26-2011 |
20110128838 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An optical pickup device capable of eliminating interlayer crosstalk which is responsible for fluctuation in control signals and error rate in data signals, thereby ensuring stable action for a multilayered recording disc with a narrow interlayer spacing. The reflected beam coming from the multilayered disc is divided along the central line into two parallel portions by the dividing optical system and then condensed. The reflected beam coming from the active layer, which has been condensed, is reflected by the reflecting plane whose reflecting region is limited and the thus reflected beam is detected by the optical detector. The reflected beam coming from other layers is not reflected by the reflecting plane, so that interlayer crosstalk is reduced. | 06-02-2011 |
20110128839 | OPTICAL DISK DEVICE - Proposed is an optical disk device capable of appropriately performing focus control. In an optical disk device, an objective lens is moved in the thickness direction of an optical disk by controlling an actuator and a time interval in which each of the recording layers was detected is measured while moving the objective lens, a first time interval from the first detection of the recording layer to the second detection of the recording layer is compared with a second time interval from the second detection of the recording layer to the third detection of the recording layer, and a focal position of the objective lens is determined based on the comparative result. | 06-02-2011 |
20110134743 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - In an optical disk including at least a rewritable phase change material and comprising a recording layer having a reflectivity of more than 15%, an address output value as an address pit signal component occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be 0.18 though 0.27 or a numerical aperture of an address pit signal occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be more than 0.3. | 06-09-2011 |
20110149712 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND OBJECTIVE LENS FOR THE SAME - An objective lens including: a first region to respectively converge first and second light beams onto recording surfaces of first and second optical discs; and a second region located outside of the first region and configured to converge the first light beam onto the recording surface of the first optical disc and not to converge the second light beam onto the recording surface of each of the first and second optical discs, and wherein the first region is divided into a plurality of refractive surface zones concentrically formed about an optical axis and has a first step, a diffraction order at which a diffraction efficiency is maximized for each of the first and second light beams passing through the first step in the first region is a first order, and the objective lens satisfies a condition: | 06-23-2011 |
20110158077 | CONNECTION STRUCTURE OF FLEXIBLE PRINTED CIRCUITS AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - In connecting flexible printed circuits, a structure with improved connection strength of the connection portion is provided. In this structure in which a first flexible printed circuit and a second flexible printed circuit are connected to each other, a through-hole is provided on the second flexible printed circuit, and a resin member passes through the through-hole and is adhered to the wires of a connection surface of the first flexible printed circuit and the side of the second flexible printed circuit opposite to the connection surface, whereby impact is absorbed by the elasticity of the resin; as for the first flexible printed circuit, adhesion is performed on a metal in a wiring layer with high adhesion strength, while as for the second flexible printed circuit, adhesion is performed on the back side upon which no peeling stress is exerted, improving joining strength to prevent peeling. | 06-30-2011 |
20110158078 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND FOCUS JUMP METHOD - In an optical pickup device and a method of a focus jump, in order to make optimum correction of spherical aberration responsive to the position of a recording layer at one end nearer a target recording layer than a current in-focus recording layer, the recording layer at the one end being one of recording layers at opposite ends of a plurality of recording layers, spherical aberration correcting means is controlled, and then a focus actuator is controlled, thereby causing a focus to jump to the recording layer at the one end. Next, in order to make optimum correction of spherical aberration responsive to the position of a different recording layer shifted by at least one recording layer from the recording layer at the one end toward the target recording layer, the spherical aberration correcting means is controlled, then the focus actuator is controlled, the focus is caused to jump to the different recording layer, and such a focus jump is repeated until the focus reaches the target recording layer. | 06-30-2011 |
20110158079 | OPTICAL PICKUP LENS - An optical pickup lens for focusing a light beam from a laser light source on an optical information recording medium is a single lens. The optical pickup lens has two surfaces, and a surface R | 06-30-2011 |
20110164488 | OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - Provided is an optical pickup including: a light-source emitting a light-beam; an objective lens collecting the light-beam on a desired recording layer among one or two recording layers or more installed in an optical disc and where spirally- or concentrically-shaped tracks are formed; a lens-moving unit moving the objective lens in a tracking direction toward at least an inner-circumference or outer-circumference side; a light splitting device splitting a reflected light-beam into reflected light-beams and propagating the light-beams; a light-detecting device generating central, inner-circumference-side, and outer-circumference-side light-detecting signals according to received light amounts thereof by central, inner-circumference-side, and outer-circumference-side light-detecting areas, receiving central, inner-circumference-side, and outer-circumference-side portions of an image of the reflected light-beam in the radial direction and allowing a signal processing unit to generate a tracking error signal by using the inner-circumference-side and outer-circumference-side-light-detecting signals, being added with a product of a predetermined coefficient and the central-light-detecting signal. | 07-07-2011 |
20110170398 | OPTICAL HEAD DEVICE, OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE, COMPUTER, DISC PLAYER, CAR NAVIGATION SYSTEM, OPTICAL DISC RECORDER, AND VEHICLE - An optical head device compatible to different types of optical discs and capable of guaranteeing a sufficiently wide dynamic range for a low density optical disc, and the like are provided. | 07-14-2011 |
20110170399 | OPTICAL ENCODER HAVING OPTICAL ENCODING DISC - An optical encoder includes an optical encoding disc, a light source module, a motor, and an optical detection system. The optical encoding disc includes a plurality of concentric annular tracks. Each track includes a plurality of coding units. Each coding unit includes a light converging portion and a light diverging portion. The light converging portions and the light diverging portions are arranged alternately along a circumferential direction of the optical encoding disc. The motor is configured for driving the optical encoding disc to rotate. The optical detection system includes a plurality of photo-detectors arranged in a line parallel to a radius of the optical encoding disc. Each photo-detector is corresponding to each track of the optical encoding disc respectively. Each photo-detector is configured for receiving the light beam transmitted through the corresponding track, and generating a voltage according to an intensity of the received light beam. | 07-14-2011 |
20110170400 | LAMINATED HALF-WAVE PLATE, POLARIZING CONVERTER, POLARIZED LIGHT ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND LIGHT PICKUP DEVICE - First and a second wave plates using quartz crystal having birefringence are laminated together in such a manner that their optical axes intersect to form a laminated wave plate functioning as a half-wave plate as a whole. Phase differences of the first and the second wave plates relative to an ordinary ray and an extraordinary ray with respect to a predetermined wavelength λ are set to be Γ | 07-14-2011 |
20110182165 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS USING SAME - According to the present invention, of all beams of light reflected from the optical disc, only light in a peripheral region excluding a push-pull region is used to generate a DPD signal. In this method of signal generation that optimizes internal light-receiving surface interconnections in a photodetector, the lens error signal required for the generation of a tracking error signal in the DPP scheme is amplified at a lower amplification factor. In addition, the light reflected from the multilayered optical disc will be divided into a plurality of regions and the divided beam of light will be focused at different positions on the photodetector. When the beam is focused upon a desired layer, stray light from recording layers other than those to be subjected to information reproduction will not enter the photodetector light-receiving surfaces used for servo signals. | 07-28-2011 |
20110199883 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - In recording or reproducing data on or from an optical disc with recording multi-layers, the focusing is likely to be out of control when an inter-layer jumping is carried out for changing a recording layer on or from which data is to be recorded or reproduced to another one. An optical disc apparatus is arranged to obtain an objective lens shift position that makes the focus signal S-character waveform better balanced in advance by learning and to carry out the inter-layer jumping at the shift position when jumping an optical pickup from one layer to another on a multilayered optical disc. The jumping at this shift position makes it possible to prevent out of focus and to stably make the recording or reproducing quality excellent. | 08-18-2011 |
20110199884 | ABERRATION CORRECTING DEVICE, OPTICAL DEVICE, AND OPTICAL HEAD DEVICE - The present invention relates to an aberration correcting device comprising: an aberration correcting element which modulates the phase of incident light; and a position adjusting section which can move the aberration correcting element in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the incident light, wherein the aberration correcting element includes first and second aberration correction plates, each of which is disposed such that the phase of transmitted light beam differs with transmission position of the incident light beam with the same phase, and the aberration correcting element has a reference arrangement which is an arrangement of the first and second aberration correction plates in which the light beams transmitted through the aberration correcting element have the same phase, and assuming that a point on the first aberration correction plate crossing the optical axis is a point O | 08-18-2011 |
20110216641 | OPTICAL PICK-UP - In an optical pick-up used in common with DVD/CD and BD, when the thickness is intended to be reduced by mounting a total reflection mirror, a cavity for passing through a laser light is necessary and, since this decreases the degree of freedom for arranging tracking coils and magnets and secondary resonance caused by a magnetic thrust in the tracking direction tends to be generated, an improvement therefor is necessary. In a lens coil holder of the optical pick-up having an objective lens and tracking coil mounted thereon each of the coils is arranged such that the thrust relative to the vertical center of the suspension wires that support the lens coil holder is well balanced. For example, most of the portion of the tracking coils is situated at one height relative to the suspension wire and the tilt coil is situated at the other remaining height. | 09-08-2011 |
20110235496 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND OBJECTIVE LENS FOR THE SAME - An objective lens for an optical information recording/reproducing apparatus, at least one of optical surfaces of the objective lens comprising a diffraction surface having a diffraction structure defined by an optical path difference function, and wherein: the diffraction surface has a first region contributing to converging first and second light beams and having a diffraction structure configured such that diffraction orders at which the diffraction efficiencies are maximized for the first and second light beams are 1 | 09-29-2011 |
20110242959 | LAMINATED WAVE PLATE AND OPTICAL DEVICE USING THE SAME - [Problems to be Solved] To obtain a laminated quarter-wave plate having a bandwidth of a plurality of wavelengths to be a phase difference of 90 degrees broadened | 10-06-2011 |
20110267935 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An optical pickup which is configured to suppress resonances in the objective lens which are caused during tilt control of the objective lens is provided. The optical pickup device includes an objective lens, a lens holder for retaining the objective lens, and an actuator for rotating the lens holder to control tilt of the objective lens. The objective lens is bonded to the lens holder via adhesives applied at a plurality of adhesion positions. The adhesion positions at which the objective lens and the lens holder are bonded are asymmetrical relative to a plane which includes the rotation axis of the lens holder and the optical axis of each objective lens. | 11-03-2011 |
20110299377 | LENS AND OPTICAL PICK-UP - A lens including: a lens body having first and second surfaces; a flange part formed to protrude from a periphery of the lens body and to have a cylindrical outer circumferential surface; a lens installation surface formed at an outer edge part of the flange part; a recessed part formed as a part of the flange part such that a part of the cylindrical outer circumferential surface is recessed toward the optical axis; and a gate root part located at a central part of the recessed part. The gate root part has a flat surface which is in a same level with respect to the lens installation surface. The gate root part lies on an optical axis side with respect to a virtual curved surface formed by extending the cylindrical outer circumferential surface through the recessed part. | 12-08-2011 |
20110317538 | OPTICAL PICKUP ASSEMBLIES AND DRIVE SYSTEMS WITH THE SAME - Disclosed are a pickup device assembly and an optical drive system. The assembly may comprise: a laser generator for generating laser beams; an objective lens; and at least one piezoelectric actuator for generating bending moments once applied with voltages, wherein the generated bending moments move the objective lens such that the laser beams are focused by the objective lens and then aim at concentric spiral data tracks of a disc with a strongest reflected signal of the laser beams from the disc. | 12-29-2011 |
20110317539 | Objective Optical Element and Optical Pickup Device - Provided is an objective optical element which can appropriately correct degradation from spherical aberration upon fluctuation of a light source wavelength while maintaining light use efficiency, just by changing the magnification of the objective optical element, and which can record/reproduce information to/from different optical discs. Also provided is an optical pickup device using the objective optical element. When a light flux having two different wavelengths λ | 12-29-2011 |
20120008484 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING REPRODUCTION METHOD - An optical information recording reproduction apparatus includes: a first light beam source; a second light beam source emitting a beam with a wavelength shorter than that of the first light beam source; and an object lens condensing the beams from the first and second light beam sources to an optical information recording medium. When information is recorded in the optical information recording medium, a recording beam is emitted from the first light beam source and a beam used to generate a signal for controlling a position of the object lens is emitted from the second light beam source. When the information of the optical information recording medium is reproduced, a reproduction beam is emitted from the second light beam source. | 01-12-2012 |
20120008485 | Objective Lens, Optical Pickup Apparatus, and Optical Information Recording Reproducing Apparatus - An objective lens relating to the present invention includes a first optical path difference providing structure in which a first basic structure and a second basic structure are overlapped with each other. The first basic structure is a blaze-type structure which emits a Xth-order diffracted light flux, when the first light flux passes through the first basic structure, where the value of X is an odd integer. At least a part of the first basic structure arranged around an optical axis includes a step facing an opposite direction to the optical axis. The second basic structure is a blaze-type structure which emits a Lth-order diffracted light flux, when the first light flux passes through the second basic structure, where the value of L is an even integer. At least a part of the second basic structure arranged around the optical axis includes a step facing the optical axis. | 01-12-2012 |
20120020198 | OBJECTIVE LENS AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An optical information recording/reproducing apparatus for an optical disc using a light beam having a wavelength of λ including: an objective lens that converges the light beam onto a recording surface of the optical disc and satisfies a condition: | 01-26-2012 |
20120026858 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An optical pickup device has an astigmatism element which imparts astigmatism to reflected light of laser light reflected on a recording layer, and a spectral element into which the reflected light is entered, and which separates the reflected light. The spectral element is divided into four third areas by a first area having a certain width and formed along a straight line in parallel to a first direction, and by a second area having a certain width and formed along a straight line in parallel to a second direction. The spectral element is configured to guide the reflected light passing through the four third areas to respective corresponding sensors on a photodetector while making propagating directions of the reflected light different from each other, and to avoid guiding the reflected light entered into the first area and into the second area to the sensors. | 02-02-2012 |
20120057447 | OBJECTIVE LENS FOR OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An objective lens for an optical pickup device is provided with a light-source-side lens surface by which laser light is converged, and a disc-side lens surface by which the laser light converged by the light-source-side lens surface is converged. The first lens surface and the second lens surface are configured to guide a part of a light collecting portion of the laser light reflected on the second lens surface to a position on an outside of the first lens surface. | 03-08-2012 |
20120057448 | RECORDING METHOD, RECORDING DEVICE AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - A writing method according to the present invention is a method for writing a data sequence as a combination of marks and spaces on an information recording medium by condensing a laser beam through a lens. The writing method is characterized in that a cooling pulse for recording a mark that is even shorter than the limit of optical resolution of the laser beam and another cooling pulse for recording a mark that is still longer than the limit of the optical resolution of the laser beam are applied under mutually different conditions. | 03-08-2012 |
20120063287 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL PICKUP, AND OPTICAL DRIVE DEVICE - Provided is an objective lens, which is provided in an optical pickup including a spherical aberration correction mechanism which performs a spherical aberration correction with respect to laser light applied to a recording layer of an optical recording medium, having the recording layer on which information can be recorded at a plurality of positions in a depth direction, via the objective lens, and a tilt correction unit which varies a lens tilt angle which is a tilt angle of the objective lens, thereby performing a tilt correction. | 03-15-2012 |
20120069726 | Optical Storage Focus Servo System And Method Of Controlling Same - An optical storage focus servo system may include an optical pickup unit that includes an astigmatic focusing lens, a focusing actuator that controls a position of the lens relative to an optical media, and a plurality of detectors that detect an intensity and shape of a reflected beam from the media. The system may also include a controller that controls the focusing actuator based on the intensity and shape of the reflected beam. | 03-22-2012 |
20120069727 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING READ SIGNAL - A method for evaluating a read signal obtained by irradiating a medium with a laser beam through an objective lens and reading data from the reflected laser beam by a PRML detection method is provided. The method includes: a sampling step of sampling the data obtained from the reflected laser beam at clock timings to obtain sampled values; and a step of, when a constraint length of a PR class in the PRML detection method is an even number, computing an intermediate sampled value for evaluation using at least adjacent two of the sampled values arranged in the order sampled at the clock timings. The provided method is an objective evaluation method when the PRML detection method is used, whereby the selection of a recording medium and a reading apparatus is facilitated. | 03-22-2012 |
20120075982 | Objective Lens Element and Optical Pickup Device - An optical pickup device is provided which is compatible with at least two types of optical disc standards having different NAs and which controls an effective NA when a light beam for an optical disc standard having a relatively small NA is converged, thereby forming a desired spot. An inner part | 03-29-2012 |
20120082020 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An astigmatism element converges laser light in first and second directions to generate focal lines. A spectral element makes propagating directions of light fluxes entered into first through fourth areas different from each other to disperse the four light fluxes from each other. The direction along which the first and second areas are aligned is in parallel to a direction of a track image of a recording medium projected onto the spectral element. Each of the first and second areas has a surface area larger than a surface area of each of the third and fourth areas, and a boundary portion between the first and second areas, and the third and fourth areas includes a straight portion extending in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the track image. | 04-05-2012 |
20120087226 | OPTICAL PICKUP LENS - An optical pickup lens for focusing a light beam from a laser light source on an optical information recording medium is a single lens. The optical pickup lens has two surfaces, and a surface R | 04-12-2012 |
20120087227 | OPTICAL PICKUP LENS - An optical pickup lens for focusing a light beam from a laser light source on an optical information recording medium is a single lens. The optical pickup lens has two surfaces, and a surface R | 04-12-2012 |
20120099414 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An astigmatism element converges reflected light to generate focal lines, and a light separating element separates light fluxes of the reflected light entered into four first areas from each other. Two of the first areas are disposed in a direction along which a pair of vertically opposite angles defined by first and second straight lines are aligned, and the other two of the first areas are disposed in a direction along which the other pair of vertically opposite angles are aligned. Each of the four first areas is divided into two segment areas by a second area. The reflected light to be entered into the second area is guided to a position on the outside of sensors of a photodetector, and light fluxes of the reflected light to be entered into the paired segment areas are irradiated, on the photodetector, at positions away from each other. | 04-26-2012 |
20120106312 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - A first laser light source emits first laser light of a predetermined wavelength, and a second laser light source emits second laser light of a wavelength different from the wavelength of the first laser light. Reflected light of the first and second laser light is entered into an astigmatism portion. The astigmatism portion generates first and second focal lines. A light separating portion separates light fluxes of the reflected light of the first and second laser light from each other, the light fluxes obtained by dividing the reflected light of the first and second laser light into four light fluxes. The light separating portion is constituted of at least one prism having plural slopes, and the photodetector is provided with a common sensor portion which receives the light fluxes of the reflected light of the first and second laser light. | 05-03-2012 |
20120106313 | Optical Disk Device and Optical Disk Discriminating Method - An optical disk discriminating method and an optical disk device which can detect reflected rays for making discrimination among kinds of optical disks with high accuracies. By switching a plurality of lasers and moving a spherical aberration corrector while moving an objective lens to cause it to approach or keep away from an optical disk, rays reflected light from the optical disk can be detected with high accuracies. Discrimination among the kinds of a plurality of optical disks can be made on the basis of signals generated from the detected reflected rays. This ensures that the kind of an optical disk can be determined through one operation of sweeping. | 05-03-2012 |
20120127845 | OPTICAL PICKUP - An optical pickup includes an objective lens, a lens holder which holds the objective lens, a focusing coil attached to the lens holder having the winding axis directed at the optical axis of the objective lens, and a magnet provided opposite the side surface of the lens holder. A protruding portion is attached to the side surface of the lens holder at a side apart from the objective lens with respect to the optical axis direction of the objective lens farther than the focusing coil. | 05-24-2012 |
20120127846 | OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE AND INTERLAYER MOVEMENT METHOD IN OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE - Provided is a method of, in movement between recording layers of an optical disc, resolving a problem caused by an increase in spherical aberration change as a result of widening of a layer interval at which the movement is made and executing appropriate interlayer movement. An upper limit value is defined for a recording layer interval at which the interlayer movement can be made, and if a layer interval from a moving-source layer to a moving-target layer is equal to or larger than the upper limit value, the interlayer movement and spherical aberration correction are once carried out where a predetermined recording layer for which a layer interval is less than the upper limit value is defined as a temporary shelter layer, and the processing is repeated with this temporary shelter layer defined as a new moving-source recording layer to thereby realize favorable interlayer movement to the target layer. | 05-24-2012 |
20120134255 | OBJECTIVE LENS AND OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS USING THE SAME - Disclosed is an objective lens that favorably focuses multiple laser beams having different wavelengths on information recording layers of optical discs, and an optical pickup apparatus including the lens. The objective lens of the invention is provided with a first region for focusing laser beams of the BD, DVD and CD standards. The first region is provided with an annular zone step having a height calculated on the basis of a wavelength of the laser beam of the BD standard, and thus causes chromatic aberration of the laser beam of the DVD standard. This chromatic aberration corrects spherical aberration occurring due to a difference in thickness between coating layers of optical discs. In the invention, the curve surface shape of the first region is adjusted so that the BD and DVD standards can share the aberration for reducing the aberration of the laser beam of the DVD standard. | 05-31-2012 |
20120134256 | OPTICAL HEAD, OPTICAL ELEMENT WITH DIFFRACTION GRATING, OPTICAL DISC DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An optical head includes a blue-violet laser light source for emitting a blue-violet laser beam, a mirror with a diffraction grating for transmitting and reflecting the blue-violet laser beam at a predetermined ratio, and a front monitor sensor for receiving transmitted light or reflected light from the mirror with a diffraction grating and creating an APC signal for controlling an output of the blue-violet laser light source. The mirror with a diffraction grating includes a first surface which the blue-violet laser beam enters, and a second surface facing the first surface. The first surface and the second surface are mutually parallel. A reflecting coat for transmitting and reflecting the blue-violet laser beam at a predetermined ratio is formed on the first surface, and a diffraction grating is formed on the second surface. | 05-31-2012 |
20120140610 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - In an optical disk including at least a rewritable phase change material and comprising a recording layer having a reflectivity of more than 15%, an address output value as an address pit signal component occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be 0.18 though 0.27 or a numerical aperture of an address pit signal occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be more than 0.3. | 06-07-2012 |
20120147725 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND REPRODUCING METHOD - A reproducing apparatus includes: a first laser irradiation section irradiating an optical recording medium having a bulk recording layer and recording marks formed by focusing a laser beam on each predetermined layer position in the recording layer, with a first laser beam through an objective lens; a focus position adjusting section adjusting a focus position of the first laser beam; a beam receiving section receiving a reflected beam of the first laser beam from the marks and generating a light receiving signal; a reproducing section reproducing information recorded with the marks based on the light receiving signal; and a control section performing control to allow the focus position in reproduction of the information to correspond to a position shifted by a certain distance to an upper layer side from a focus position of the laser beam in forming the mark at the layer positions as a reproducing object. | 06-14-2012 |
20120163153 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS, FOCUS SEARCH METHOD, AND FOCUS SEARCH PROGRAM - A focus search is performed for an optical disc. A focus drive voltage is output for moving an objective lens in a thickness direction of an optical disc. An average value of focus drive voltages is acquired and recorded while the optical disc is rotating at least one time in an in-focus condition in which a laser beam emitted via the objective lens is in focus to a data layer of the optical disc. A closest-position voltage is set based on the average value, the closest-position voltage being a focus drive voltage at which the objective lens is moved closest to the optical disc in a focus search that is performed after the average value has been recorded. The focus search is performed by moving the objective lens between a specific starting position and a position corresponding to the closest-position voltage. | 06-28-2012 |
20120163154 | Optical Element and Optical Pickup Device Using the Same - An optical element which has optical steps each providing a phase difference to transmitted light and has low light amount loss and a high efficiency is provided. The optical element includes a symmetry axis, a plurality of optically functional surfaces which are ring-shaped regions around the symmetry axis, and a plurality of wall regions connecting the optically functional surfaces to each other. The optically functional surfaces and the wall regions constitute the optical steps. On a cross-section taken by, as a cutting plane, a plane including the symmetry axis, the contour line of each wall region is substantially parallel to a light beam which is incident on the optically functional surface on the outer side and passes near the wall region. The maximum value of the angle between the symmetry axis and the light beam passing near the wall region is equal to or more than 25 degrees. | 06-28-2012 |
20120163155 | Optical System for Optical Pickup - An optical system for optical pickup includes a magnification conversion optical element moving along an optical axis direction in accordance with each recording surface and an objective lens element converging a light beam incident through the magnification conversion optical element, to form a spot on a corresponding recording surface of the recording surfaces, and satisfies the following formula. | 06-28-2012 |
20120163156 | Objective Lens Element - A high-NA and thin objective lens which prevents occurrence of a crack during lens molding and can stably be molded is provided. The present invention is directed to an objective lens having an optical surface having power which is not negative. The objective lens is a single lens and is formed such that a flat portion which is provided at an outer peripheral portion and perpendicular to the optical axis is closer to a disc surface than the position of the top of an exit-side surface of the objective lens and such that the rate of change in sag of the exit-side surface is continuous across the entire region. | 06-28-2012 |
20120163157 | Optical Element and Optical Pickup Device - An optical element which can be shared by three wavelengths for BD, DVD, and CD and which is easily manufactured is provided. An objective lens system includes an optical element | 06-28-2012 |
20120170440 | ELECTROMAGNETIC ACTUATOR OF OPTICAL PICKUP HEAD - An electromagnetic actuator is provided, including a movable part and a base part. The movable part further includes at least an object lens, an object lens holder, a wire set, a first focus coil set, a second focus coil, a tilt coil set, and a track coil set. The object lens is placed inside object lens holder. One end of the wire set is fixed to object lens holder, and the other end is fixed to the base part so that the wire set is like a suspending wire set for hanging the object lens holder. The base part further includes a focus magnet set, a track magnet set and a tilt and focus shared magnet. The first focus coil set is located to correspond to focus magnet set, and the track coil set is located to correspond to the track magnet set, a second focus coil and a tile coil set in side-by-side layout are located to correspond to the tilt and focus shared magnet. When the current runs through the coils, the interaction of the poles of the magnets will cause the movable part to move in three different directions. | 07-05-2012 |
20120182853 | Device for Recording and Reading Data on a Multi-Layer Optical Disc - A three-dimensional optical memory device comprises an optical disc positioning system, two sources of radiation with wavelengths | 07-19-2012 |
20120182854 | Objective Lens for Optical Pickup Device, Optical Pickup Device, and Optical Information Recording and Reproducing Device - Provided is an optical pickup device capable of ensuring the compatibility among three types of optical discs, i.e., BDs, DVDs, and CDs, with a common objective lens and, in addition, capable of ensuring a sufficient working distance for CDs, and also provided are an optical information recording and reproducing device and an objective lens suitable for the optical information recording and reproducing device. On the objective lens, there is arranged a first optical path difference providing structure formed such that: the direction of step differences of a basic structure wherein the diffraction order of a blue-violet laser light flux become an odd order faces toward the opposite direction of the optical axis; the direction of step differences of a basic structure wherein the diffraction order of the blue-violet laser light flux become an even order faces toward the optical axis; and both the basic structures are overlapped together. | 07-19-2012 |
20120182855 | Objective Lens and Optical Pickup Device - Provided is an objective lens that enables the suppression of molding defects in a high NA lens, and an optical pickup device. As the objective lens (OBJ) includes a thick-flange section (FT), a thick-flange-section forming section ( | 07-19-2012 |
20120195181 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS USING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OBJECTIVE LENS - Provided is an objective lens manufactured well by using a mold and an optical pickup apparatus including the same. The objective lens of the present invention includes a first region that focuses laser beams of a BD, DVD, and CD standards, a second region that focuses the laser beams of the DVD and CD standards, and a third region that focuses the laser beams of the BD and the DVD standards are provided in this order from a center portion of the objective lens. A first annular zone step provided in the first region has a step amount larger than step amounts of annular zone steps provided in other regions. | 08-02-2012 |
20120201115 | METHOD FOR DRIVING OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS - A method for driving an optical pickup apparatus which improves the durability of components that drive a movable lens that moves back and forth between an original position and a drive-limit position and achieves stable operability and an extended lifetime of the optical pickup apparatus performs a first step-drive in which a movable lens moves to an original-restoration start position by being driven a specified distance toward a drive-limit position, a second step-drive in which the movable lens thereafter moves to an original position by being driven toward the original position a distance equivalent to the distance from the drive-limit position to the original position, and a third step-drive in which the movable lens thereafter moves to a default position by being driven a specified distance. | 08-09-2012 |
20120207008 | Objective Lens Element and Optical Head Device Including the Same - An objective lens element having improved diffraction efficiency at least one of used wavelengths is provided. The objective lens element includes one surface including: a first region including an optical axis; and a second region surrounding the first region. A periodic first diffraction structure is formed on the first region, and a periodic second diffraction structure different from the first diffraction structure is formed on the second region. The objective lens element satisfies the following conditions. | 08-16-2012 |
20120207009 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND OPTICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - This invention allows super-resolution reproduction with which a better bER value is attainable, when information is recorded by a random pattern including a mark length not longer than a resolution limit, by use of a highly versatile signal decoding method. | 08-16-2012 |
20120269051 | Objective Lens for Optical Pickup Device and Optical Pickup Device - Disclosed are an objective lens for optical pickup device and an optical pickup device that are capable of recording/reproducing information for an optical disc having multilayered information recording surfaces with achieving compactness and reduced cost. In the objective lens and the optical pickup device, under the assumption that T | 10-25-2012 |
20120281517 | OBJECTIVE LENS DRIVING UNIT AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE USING THE SAME - An objective lens driving unit is provided and includes a moving structure having an objective lens and a plurality of driving coils, a permanent magnet and a yoke structure to correspond to the driving coils, a wire holder coupled to the yoke structure and having a plurality of wiring layers buried in a portion of the wire holder, and a plurality of suspension wires to connect the plurality of driving coils to the plurality of wiring layers. | 11-08-2012 |
20120314558 | COMPOSITE OBJECTIVE LENS, DIFFRACTION ELEMENT, OPTICAL HEAD DEVICE, OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE, OBJECTIVE LENS DRIVING METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE - In an optical head device which performs recording/reading of data in/from a high-density optical disc using an objective lens with a large NA, a saw-tooth shape diffraction element is used for also performing recording/reading of data in/from a conventional optical disc, such as DVD, CD, or the like. A step difference that produces an optical path length for blue light which is equal to or longer than the wavelength of the blue light and optical path lengths for red and infrared light which are shorter than the wavelengths of the red and infrared light is utilized so as to exert an inverse action on the blue light to those exerted on the red and infrared light. The effect of increasing the working distances for CD and DVD enables multiple compatibility. The optical element is integrally combined with the objective lens to perform a tracking servo following operation. | 12-13-2012 |
20120314559 | OPTICAL PICKUP LENS - An optical pickup lens for focusing a light beam from a laser light source on an optical information recording medium is a single lens, The optical pickup lens has two surfaces, and a surface R | 12-13-2012 |
20120320728 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL HEAD AND OPTICAL DISK DEVICE - A lens surface ( | 12-20-2012 |
20130003517 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE, OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD - An optical pickup device and an optical disc apparatus including the optical pickup device are provided which can obtain a stable servo signal in the recording/reproduction of an information recording medium inexpensively fabricated with multiple information recording surfaces. The optical pickup device includes: a laser diode that emits a light beam; a grating that splits the light beam into at least a main beam, a first sub beam, and a second sub beam; and an objective lens that condenses the light beams and forms at least three spots on an optical disc, wherein the spot of the first sub beam and the spot of the second sub beam are located inside or outside the spot of the main beam on the optical disc, and a tracking error signal is generated from signals obtained by detecting the first sub beam and the second sub beam. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003518 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is an optical pickup device capable of preventing a soldering work from physically damaging any part of a housing of the optical pickup device. In the optical pickup device to be provided, a circuit board fixed to an LD holder and a circuit board covering a housing from below are connected via a solder joint. An inner-side part of an upper-end portion of an external sidewall of the housing located near the connecting position is cut away to form a cut surface. When a soldering iron is used to form the solder joint to connect the two circuit boards, the cut surface prevents the soldering iron from touching the external sidewall and thereby preventing this part of the external sidewall from being damaged by the soldering iron. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003519 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND POSITION ADJUSTING METHOD FOR LIGHT SEPARATING ELEMENT - An astigmatism element converges laser light in a first direction for generating a first focal line, and converges the laser light in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction for generating a second focal line. A light separating element guides the laser light entered into two first areas and into two second areas to four respective positions different from each other, and guides the laser light entered into a third area to a position different from the four positions. When an intersection of two straight lines extending in parallel to the first direction and the second direction and intersecting with each other is aligned with an optical axis of the laser light, the third area is disposed at the intersection of the two straight lines. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003520 | OBJECTIVE LENS DRIVING APPARATUS - An objective lens driving apparatus includes: an objective lens opposing a signal recording surface of an optical disc; a lens holder configured to hold the objective lens; and an actuator configured to displace the lens holder in a focusing direction or a tracking direction of the optical disc, the actuator including a coil attached to the lens holder, a magnet configured to generate a magnetic field effectively acting on the coil, and a yoke having the magnet fixed thereto, the yoke formed by bending a sheet of metal plate into a rectangular shape around an axis in the tracking direction, and the magnet fixed to the yoke with an adhesive. | 01-03-2013 |
20130010584 | OPTICAL HEAD AND OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE - There are provided an optical head and an optical information device capable of downsizing the optical head, and capable of improving the qualities of a focus error signal, a tracking error signal, and a reproduction signal. A light detector ( | 01-10-2013 |
20130021890 | COLLIMATOR FOR OPTICAL PICK-UP UNITS - Aspects of the disclosure provide an apparatus. The apparatus includes a collimator configured to have a plurality of positions, and a controller configured to control the collimator to move to a predetermined position associated with a data layer of an optical storage medium to collimate a light beam. The collimated light beam is then focused onto the data layer of the optical storage medium. | 01-24-2013 |
20130021891 | OPTICAL OSCILLATION DEVICE AND RECORDING APPARATUS - Provided is a recording apparatus including a self-excited oscillation semiconductor laser that has a double quantum well separate confinement heterostructure and includes a saturable absorber section to which a negative bias voltage is applied and a gain section into which a gain current is injected, an optical separation unit, an objective lens, a light reception element, a pulse detection unit, a reference signal generation unit, a phase comparison unit, a recording signal generation unit, and a control unit. | 01-24-2013 |
20130021892 | INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an information recording and reproducing apparatus including, a focus control module, an objective lens control module, a calculation module, and a tracking control module. If, detection the recording marks line, to focus a laser light of a second wavelength to the recording layer through an objective lens and to operation a recording layer tracking control using a tracking error signal taken out from a second reflected light and a laser light of a first wavelength to a track groove through the objective lens and to operation a guide layer tracking control to control the objective lens using a tracking error signal taken out from a first reflected light. | 01-24-2013 |
20130039161 | OPTICAL ELEMENT RETAINING DEVICE, OPTICAL ELEMENT TRANSFER DEVICE AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An element holding device of the present invention includes: a guide portion engaging with a guide shaft; a lens fixing portion on which to fix a collimator lens; an arm portion; an insertion portion having a hole portion in which to insert a guide shaft; a wire fixing portion made by protruding a side surface of the insertion portion in a −Y direction; and a wire fixed on the wire fixing portion. A bent portion being a leading end portion of the wire is housed in a slit. Thereby, excess deformation of a contact portion is suppressed. | 02-14-2013 |
20130077458 | OPTICAL READ/WRITE APPARATUS - In one embodiment, an optical read/write apparatus includes first and second optical pickups | 03-28-2013 |
20130083644 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - In an optical disk including at least a rewritable phase change material and comprising a recording layer having a reflectivity of more than 15%, an address output value as an address pit signal component occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be 0.18 though 0.27 or a numerical aperture of an address pit signal occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be more than 0.3. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083645 | OPTICAL PICKUP, INCLINATION ANGLE DETECTION METHOD, OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An optical pickup, an inclination angle detection method, an optical information device, and an information processing device capable of reliably and accurately detecting a relative inclination angle between an end face of a solid immersion lens and a surface of an optical recording medium are provided. A convergence position modifying unit modifies convergence states of a first beam and a second beam according to layers of an optical recording medium, a first optical detector includes a first light receiving section which receives the converged first beam and a second light receiving section which receives the converged second beam, and the first optical detector detects a relative inclination angle between an end face of a solid immersion lens and a surface of the optical recording medium based on a difference in quantities of received light between the first light receiving section and the second light receiving section. | 04-04-2013 |
20130100793 | Optical Pickup and Optical Disc Drive - A optical pickup includes: a laser diode; a driver including a first output end of a laser diode drive current; a first line electrically connected to the first output end of the driver and a first port of the laser diode; a second line provided adjacent to the signal line at at least one location or more and electrically connected to a second port of the laser diode; a printed circuit board including the first and second lines; and a metal heat dissipation cover for the driver. The first and second lines form a two layer structure in which the first and second lines are vertically disposed. The line width of the line provided close to the heat dissipation cover is wider than the line width of the other line between the first and second lines in the two layer structure. | 04-25-2013 |
20130107693 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS | 05-02-2013 |
20130114388 | LENS DRIVING UNIT FOR OPTICAL PICKUP AND OPTICAL DISC DRIVE INCLUDING THE LENS DRIVING UNIT - Provided is a lens driving unit for an optical pickup and an optical disc drive employing the lens driving unit. First and second driving coils are directly wound around a coil winding unit included in the lens frame, which is different from a conventional lens frame in which a driving coil is manufactured as a separate element and is separately attached to a lens frame. | 05-09-2013 |
20130142026 | LENS CLEANER AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - A lens cleaner capable of more surely cleaning grime off from an objective lens is provided. A lens cleaner of the present invention includes first and second lens cleaning portions. The first lens cleaning portion is provided to be brought into contact with a lens protector when the lens cleaner is rotated, to cause an objective lens to be away from a recording or reproducing position against an elastic force of an elastic member. The second lens cleaning portion is provided on an upstream side in a rotation direction relative to the first lens cleaning portion. The second lens cleaning portion is provided to pass above the lens protector while the objective lens is away from the recording or reproducing position, and to be brought into contact with the objective lens when the objective lens returns to the recording or reproducing position by the elastic force of the elastic member. | 06-06-2013 |
20130163400 | Optical Pickup Device and Method for Manufacturing the Same - The invention provides an optical pickup device that ensures complete curing of adhesive when a tilt adjusting holder is glued to an objective lens holder. The optical pickup device comprises: a light source; an objective lens for focusing light emitted from the light source onto an optical storage medium; a tilt adjusting holder to which to secure the objective lens; and an objective lens holder to which to glue the tilt adjusting holder. The objective lens holder includes: adhesive joint sections for securing the tilt adjusting holder to the objective lens holder using an adhesive; a seat section on which the tilt adjusting holder abuts; and adhesive anti-overflow pockets, located between the adhesive joint sections and the seat section, for receiving the adhesive when the adhesive flows from the adhesive joint sections. | 06-27-2013 |
20130188467 | OPTICAL PICKUP - An optical pickup which excels in assembly workability and which can increase the drive force generated in a focusing coil is provided. The optical pickup has an objective lens, a lens holder holding the objective lens, and a first and a second focusing coil wound around the lens holder. The first focusing coil includes an upper part wound about a central axis extending in parallel with an optical axis of the objective lens and a lower part connected to the upper part. The second focusing coil includes an upper part wound, in a wiring system separate from the first focusing coil, about a central axis extending in parallel with the optical axis of the objective lens and a lower part connected to the upper part. | 07-25-2013 |
20130223201 | OBJECTIVE LENS AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An objective lens capable of converging light of a used wavelength with a satisfactory aberration on a recording medium is provided. An objective lens for converging light of a predetermined wavelength λ on a recording medium satisfies the following condition: |CML|+|CMF|<0.03λ, where CML is an amount of a generated third-order coma aberration per 1 degree of tilt of the objective lens, and CMF is an amount of a generated third-order coma aberration per 1 degree of tilt of off-axis light. | 08-29-2013 |
20130229903 | LENS DRIVING UNIT AND OPTICAL PICKUP INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided is a lens driving unit for an optical pickup and an optical disc drive that employs the lens driving unit. The lens driving unit includes a lens frame in which an object lens and a plurality of driving coils are installed, and a plurality of suspension wires connected to the driving coils. The lens frame also includes a plurality of winding posts disposed on opposing sides of the lens frame and extending in a direction in which the suspension wires extend. According to various examples, coil ends of the driving coils are wound around the winding posts to electrically connect the driving coils to the suspension wires. | 09-05-2013 |
20130242715 | OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS - An optical pickup apparatus includes: first and second laser diodes to generate first and second laser beams, respectively; a first holder, made of metal, to incorporate the first laser diode; a second holder, made of metal, to incorporate the second laser diode; an objective lens; optical elements to guide the first and the second laser beam to the objective lens; a housing made of synthetic resin to house the first and the second holders, the objective lens, and the optical elements such that the first and the second holders are adjacent to each other; and a first heat-transfer gel filled in a first space between the first and the second holders, so as to transfer heat generated in the first laser diode from the first holder to the second holder as well as transfer the heat generated in the second laser diode from the second holder to the first holder. | 09-19-2013 |
20130286810 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - An optical pickup device includes a laser light source | 10-31-2013 |
20130294211 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The optical pickup device includes a light-emitting element that emits light, an objective lens that converges light emitted by the light-emitting element on an external optical recording medium, a light-receiving element that receives the light returned from the optical recording medium via the objective lens, a holder that holds the light-emitting element or the light-receiving element, and a casing to which the holder is secured with an adhesive interposed therebetween. The holder has a holder's bonding surface to be bonded to the casing, while the casing has a case's bonding surface facing the holder's bonding surface and to be bonded to the holder. The holder's or casing's bonding surface is provided with adjoining sidewalls that have wall faces forming an angle with the holder's or casing's bonding surface. The holder and casing are adhesively secured to each other with a UV-curable adhesive applied on the holder's or casing's bonding surface. | 11-07-2013 |
20130336101 | OBJECTIVE LENS DRIVING UNIT THAT MAINTAINS ELECTRICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN SUSPENSION WIRES AND LEADS - Provided are an objective lens driving unit that maintains the electrical connection between suspension wires and winding bosses. The objective lens driving unit includes a plurality of winding bosses disposed at a side of the frame, each having a projection formed at its end and extending in a direction in which a suspension wire extends. | 12-19-2013 |
20140016449 | LENS DRIVING DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - A lens driving device includes a lens holder for holding a lens, a supporter portion for supporting the lens holder in a movable manner, a drive portion for driving the lens holder, and an elastic portion for supplying the lens holder with a force in a predetermined direction. The supporter portion includes a shaft engaging with a bearing of the lens holder, and the force in a predetermined direction includes a force in a direction perpendicular to the shaft and a force in a direction to rotate the lens holder about the shaft. | 01-16-2014 |
20140022880 | ADHESIVE STRUCTURE OF OPTICAL DEVICE, ADHESION METHOD, AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - In an optical pickup device for use in recording and reproducing on an optical recording medium, such as a CD or DVD, banks are formed on both sides of an adhesive agent application position for adhering an optical device, such as a photodetector or a laser diode, in an optical pickup case. At this time, a bank on the side of an optical path is formed higher than a height of an outer bank, and an adhesive agent is poured between the banks, to adhere the optical pickup case and the optical device. | 01-23-2014 |
20140086035 | LENS DRIVING DEVICE, INFORMATION RECORDING AND PLAYBACK APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - According to one embodiment, a lens driving device includes a fixed member, a movable member, a support part, and a coil. The movable member is configured to retain a lens and a magnet. The supporting part is configured such that a guide member placed substantially in parallel with a lens optical axis supports the movable member at plural positions symmetric with respect to the lens optical axis while the movable member is movable in a direction of the lens optical axis with respect to the fixed member. The coil is configured such that a driving force is generated for the movable member by interaction with the magnet provided in the fixed member. | 03-27-2014 |
20140119169 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE, OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An optical pickup device includes a single objective lens ( | 05-01-2014 |
20140146653 | OBJECTIVE LENS ELEMENT AND OPTICAL HEAD DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - An objective lens element having improved diffraction efficiency at at least one of used wavelengths is provided. The objective lens element includes one surface including: a first region including an optical axis; and a second region surrounding the first region. A periodic first diffraction structure is formed on the first region, and a periodic second diffraction structure different from the first diffraction structure is formed on the second region. The objective lens element satisfies the following conditions. | 05-29-2014 |
20140211603 | Optical Pickup Assembly Having Optical Pickup Units Laterally Arranged Across a Tape Path - An optical pickup assembly includes a first optical pickup unit (OPU) and a second OPU. The OPUs are either stacked on each other in separate housings or integrated together in a common housing such that the OPUs are arranged laterally across a tape path and are positioned at a longitudinal position along the tape path. | 07-31-2014 |
20140254345 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL HEAD, OPTICAL DISK DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - Assuming that third-order coma aberration per unit angle generated by tilt of BD ( | 09-11-2014 |
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20150036474 | SHAPE-VARIABLE OPTICAL ELEMENT AND OPTICAL READ/WRITE DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - An optical read/write device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes a lens portion configured to irradiate light emitted from a light source to an optical recording medium, and the lens portion includes: a flexible shape-variable lens; and an electrode portion provided on the shape-variable lens. The shape of the shape-variable lens can be changed when voltage is applied to the electrode. | 02-05-2015 |
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20150124577 | OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE | 05-07-2015 |
20150124578 | OBJECTIVE LENS AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - An objective lens capable of converging light of a used wavelength with a satisfactory aberration on a recording medium is provided. An objective lens for converging light of a predetermined wavelength λ on a recording medium satisfies the following condition: |CML|+|CMF|<0.03λ, where CML is an amount of a generated third-order coma aberration per 1 degree of tilt of the objective lens, and CMF is an amount of a generated third-order coma aberration per 1 degree of tilt of off-axis light. | 05-07-2015 |