Patent application number | Description | Published |
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 |
20090261234 | LIGHT INTENSITY CONTROLLER AND OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - A light intensity control device of the present invention includes a light source for outputting a plurality of types of light beams having different wavelengths; a light receiving section for receiving and converting the light beams into an electric signal in accordance with the intensity of the respective light beam; and a polarization separation section provided between the light source and the light receiving section. The plurality of types of light beams include a first light beam and a second light beam having a longer wavelength than that of the first light beam. The polarization separation section guides both a first polarization direction light component of the second light beam and a second polarization direction light component, perpendicular to the first polarization direction, of the second light beam to the light receiving section. The polarization separation section guides a first polarization direction light component of the first light beam to the light receiving section, and suppresses a second polarization direction light component, perpendicular to the first polarization direction, of the first light beam from advancing to the light receiving section. | 10-22-2009 |
20100061211 | OPTICAL PICKUP AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An optical pickup ( | 03-11-2010 |
20100302784 | OPTICAL DEVICE - The present invention provides an optical device including: a light source; an optical element to be irradiated with light emitted from the light source; and a supporting member for supporting the optical element through a cured product of an adhesive. This cured product of the adhesive contains a thermoplastic elastic material. The present invention also provides an optical device including: a light source; an optical element to be irradiated with light emitted from the light source; and a supporting member for supporting the optical element through a cured product of an adhesive. This cured product of the adhesive has a Young's modulus of at least 1.0E+5 Pa but less than 1.0E+7 Pa in an exponential expression, in a temperature range that the cured product of the adhesive reaches due to heat generation during operation. | 12-02-2010 |
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 |
20110044150 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE - The present invention provides an optical pickup device including: a light source for emitting light in a first wavelength range including a wavelength of 405 nm; an optical element for transmitting the light emitted from the light source and guiding the emitted light to an optical disc, and for transmitting light reflected from the optical disc and guiding the reflected light to a detector unit; a supporting member for supporting the optical element through an adhesive; a first light blocking member for blocking the light emitted from the light source from entering the adhesive when the optical element guides the emitted light to the optical disc; and a second light blocking member for blocking the light reflected from the optical disc from entering the adhesive when the optical element guides the reflected light to the detector unit. In this optical pickup device, at least one of the first and second light blocking member blocks the light in the first wavelength range and transmits light in a second wavelength range included in an ultraviolet wavelength range of 10 to 400 nm. | 02-24-2011 |
20110103209 | DRIVE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An optical drive includes: an optical pickup; a preprocessing circuit which processes an optical signal detected by the optical pickup; nonvolatile memory having stored therein relation information which represents the relation of a signal balance with respect to a signal difference between a TE signal and an FE signal at the time of a predetermined operation of the optical pickup; and a central processing circuit which performs focus control of the optical pickup. The preprocessing circuit generates the signal balance of the optical pickup. The preprocessing circuit also obtains the FE signal and the TE signal with respect to the optical disc. The central processing circuit derives a phase difference and an amplitude difference from the signal balance and the relation information, and calculates, based on the differences and the TE signal, a FE signal suitable for the predetermined operation. | 05-05-2011 |
20120257398 | OPTICAL MODULE - An object is to suppress precipitation and adhesion of an organotin compound in an optical module which is incorporated into an optical pickup device and so on. The optical pickup | 10-11-2012 |
20130094337 | OPTICAL READ/WRITE APPARATUS AND READ APPARATUS - In one embodiment, the optical read/write apparatus includes a plurality of optical pickups arranged to cross tracks of an optical storage medium and a control section. On finding the data that has been written by any of those optical pickups inaccurate or on detecting any defect at a location where data is going to be written by any of the optical pickups, the control section instructs another one of the optical pickups to write that data on a different track from a track on which the data should have been written. | 04-18-2013 |