Patent application number | Description | Published |
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 |
20090040909 | Optical head device and optical information device - An optical head device is provided with a light source | 02-12-2009 |
20090046564 | OPTICAL HEAD AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - In an optical head ( | 02-19-2009 |
20090080298 | OPTICAL HEAD, OPTICAL HEAD MANUFACTURING METHOD AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - It is aimed to provide an optical head, an optical head manufacturing method and an optical disc device capable of correcting coma aberration generated due to different positions of emission points of a plurality of laser lights having different wavelengths. | 03-26-2009 |
20090245075 | 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. | 10-01-2009 |
20090262629 | OPTICAL HEAD, OPTICAL DISC DEVICE AND INFORMATION RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING DEVICE - An optical head is provided with a light source for emitting a first laser beam having a first wavelength shorter than 430 nm, a two-wavelength light source for emitting a second laser beam having a second wavelength equal to or longer than 430 nm, a flat beam splitter in the form of a single plate for reflecting the first laser beam emitted from the light source, a wedge prism in the form of a single plate for reflecting the first laser beam reflected by the flat beam splitter and transmitting the second laser beam emitted from the two-wavelength light source, and an objective lens for focusing the first laser beam reflected by the wedge prism on an information recording surface of a BD. The light source is arranged such that the optical axis of the first laser beam emitted from the light source is inclined with respect to that of the second laser beam emitted from the two-wavelength light source. By this construction, the miniaturization of the optical head can be realized. | 10-22-2009 |
20090279399 | OPTICAL HEAD AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - A tilt can be detected highly accurately by minimizing the tilt detection error. An optical head includes: an objective lens for converging a light beam from a light source onto an optical disc; a photodetector section receiving the beam, reflected from the disc, at divided areas on its photodetection plane and outputting light detection signals from those areas; and a tilt detecting section for detecting a relative tilt between the lens and disc based on the detection signals. The tilt detecting section generates a first push-pull signal PP | 11-12-2009 |
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 |
20100034073 | OPTICAL HEAD DEVICE AND RECORDING/REPRODUCTION DEVICE - An optical head device includes a first light source and a second light source which respectively emits a first light beam and a second light beam, a luminous flux separating section which selectively separates the first and second light beams for which the same optical path is used, to first and second optical paths, respectively, a first objective lens for converging the first light beam that has been separated to the first optical path on the first optical information recording medium, a second objective lens made of resin for converging the second light beam separated to the second optical path on the second optical information recording medium, and a first filtering section formed on a beam exit face of the second objective lens, for reducing the transmittance of the first light beam to be lower than transmittance of the second light beam. | 02-11-2010 |
20100074067 | OPTICAL DISK DRIVING APPARATUS, OPTICAL DISK DRIVING SYSTEM, VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH OPTICAL DISK DRIVING SYSTEM, METHOD OF CORRECTING SPHERICAL ABERRATION IN OPTICAL DISK DRIVING APPARATUS, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An optical disk driving apparatus includes an optical head device having a laser light source, a converging optical system converging a light beam emitted by the laser light source onto an optical disk, a photo detector receiving reflected light reflected by the optical disk, and an aberration correcting optical system controlling aberration of the converging optical system; a motor rotating the optical disk; and a control section receiving a signal from the photo detector, wherein the converging optical system has an objective lens formed using resin as a main material, the aberration correcting optical system has a spherical aberration correcting element correcting spherical aberration, and the control section evaluates quality of a reproduction signal for information in the optical disk by using the reflected light received by the photo detector, and utilizes a result of the evaluation to perform closed loop control on the spherical aberration correcting element. | 03-25-2010 |
20100103803 | OPTICAL HEAD, OPTICAL DISC DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - It is aimed to provide an optical head, an optical disc device and an information processing device capable of suppressing the amount of third-order astigmatism created upon recording or reproducing information on or from a multi-layer optical disc including at least three information recording surfaces. | 04-29-2010 |
20100128102 | OPTICAL DISC LABEL PRINTER, THERMOSENSITIVE RECORDING PRINTER AND THERMOSENSITIVE RECORDING METHOD - A thermosensitive recording printer is provided with semiconductor lasers | 05-27-2010 |
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 |
20100142358 | OPTICAL HEAD, OPTICAL DISC DEVICE, COMPUTER, OPTICAL DISC PLAYER AND OPTICAL DISC RECORDER - An optical head ( | 06-10-2010 |
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 |
20100208563 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND REPRODUCING METHOD - An information recording medium according to the present invention includes at least three information recording layers. If the readout power of a laser beam in reading information from an information recording layer L(n) is identified by Pw(n), and if the readout power of the laser beam in reading information from an information recording layer L(n+a) is identified by Pw(n+a), then a base thickness between the information recording layers is determined so that the intensity of the light when the information recording layer L(n+a) is irradiated with a laser beam having the readout power Pw(n) becomes equal to or lower than that of the light when the information recording layer L(n+a) is irradiated with a laser beam having the readout power Pw(n+a). | 08-19-2010 |
20100208564 | OPTICAL PICKUP, OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE, COMPUTER, OPTICAL DISK PLAYER, CAR NAVIGATION SYSTEM, OPTICAL DISK RECORDER, AND OPTICAL DISK SERVER - To provide an optical pickup and an optical information device, capable of obtaining excellent signal characteristics for an optical disk on and/or from which recording and/or reproducing are performed using a laser. The optical pickup includes an optical detector, a support holder for holding the optical detector, and an optical base for fixing the support holder. The support holder has at least two notches at its both ends, the optical base has convex portions corresponding to the notches of the support holder, the optical base and the support holder are fixed by photo-curable adhesives for bonding the convex portions and the support holder to each other, and the shortest distance between the side faces of the convex portions, which do not face each other, is equal to or less than the width of the support holder in the direction of right and left ends. | 08-19-2010 |
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 |
20100246343 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE, OPTICAL HEAD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An object of the invention is to provide an optical disc device, an optical head, and an information processing device that enable to advantageously record or reproduce information with respect to an information recording medium having three or more information recording surfaces with light transmissive layers of different thicknesses from each other. Assuming that an aberration amount of third-order coma aberration resulting from tilting a multilayer optical disc ( | 09-30-2010 |
20100271925 | OPTICAL HEAD, OPTICAL ELEMENT WITH DIFFRACTION GRATING, OPTICAL DISC DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An optical head ( | 10-28-2010 |
20110032805 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING DEVICE AND REPRODUCING METHOD - An information recording medium according to the present invention includes at least three information recording layers. If the readout power of a laser beam in reading information from an information recording layer L(n) is identified by Pw(n), and if the readout power of the laser beam in reading information from an information recording layer L(n+a) is identified by Pw(n+a), then a base thickness between the information recording layers is determined so that the intensity of the light when the information recording layer L(n+a) is irradiated with a laser beam having the readout power Pw(n) becomes equal to or lower than that of the light when the information recording layer L(n+a) is irradiated with a laser beam having the readout power Pw(n+a). | 02-10-2011 |
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 |
20110235492 | OPTICAL HEAD, DIFFRACTION DEVICE, OBJECTIVE LENS, AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - An object of the present invention is to reduce the influence of a stray light incident on a light receiving device by reflection of an unnecessary diffraction light not contributing to write or read on a disc surface at write or read of an optical disc having a large surface reflectivity with respect to an information recording surface. A position in which a diffraction light with an n-order in an advancing path and the n-order in a returning path, reflected on the information recording surface of a first information recording medium, is focused by a condensing lens is different from a position in which a diffraction light different from the n-order diffraction light in at least one of the advancing path and the returning path, reflected on a surface of the first information recording medium, is focused by the condensing lens. | 09-29-2011 |
20110242950 | 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 or 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 or 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 above optical element is integrally combined with the objective lens to perform a tracking servo following operation. | 10-06-2011 |
20110267934 | OPTICAL PICKUP, OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE, COMPUTER, OPTICAL DISK PLAYER, CAR NAVIGATION SYSTEM, OPTICAL DISK RECORDER, AND OPTICAL DISK SERVER - To provide an optical pickup and an optical information device, capable of obtaining excellent signal characteristics for an optical disk on and/or from which recording and/or reproducing are performed using a laser. The optical pickup includes an optical detector, a support holder for holding the optical detector, and an optical base for fixing the support holder. The support holder has at least two notches at its both ends, the optical base has convex portions corresponding to the notches of the support holder, the optical base and the support holder are fixed by photo-curable adhesives for bonding the convex portions and the support holder to each other, and the shortest distance between the side faces of the convex portions, which do not face each other, is equal to or less than the width of the support holder in the direction of right and left ends. | 11-03-2011 |
20110305131 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE - An optical disk compliant with both a conventional optical disk such as a BD, HD DVD, and the like and a next-generation high-density optical disk according to a near-field light recording system and the like is provided. | 12-15-2011 |
20120023514 | COMPOUND OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL HEAD DEVICE, OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A compound objective lens, an optical head device, an optical information device, and an information processing device that can inhibit the occurrence of aberration even when a light beam source wavelength shifts from the designed value. A diffraction structure having a sawtooth or stepwise cross section is formed in the region (R | 01-26-2012 |
20120075978 | Objective Lens Element and Optical Pickup Device - An objective lens element that can suppress occurrence of an aberration is disclosed. Sawtooth-like diffraction structures having different height and cycles (pitches) are provided on an inner part R | 03-29-2012 |
20120075983 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE - An information recording medium includes a first information recording layer and a second information recording layer. The first information recording layer is formed at a laser beam entrance surface, and is configured so that information can be recorded thereupon and/or reproduced therefrom using a first objective lens having a numerical aperture NA | 03-29-2012 |
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 |
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 |
20120182852 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL HEAD, OPTICAL DISK APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An objective lens, an optical head, an optical disk apparatus and an information processing apparatus which can suppress deterioration of a focal spot caused by a drop in the diffraction efficiency are provided. An inner circumference area ( | 07-19-2012 |
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 |
20120213052 | OPTICAL HEAD, OPTICAL DISC DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND OBJECTIVE LENS - Provided are an optical head capable of favorably recording or reproducing information to or from an information recording medium including a plurality of information recording surfaces, an optical disc device including the optical head, an information processing device including the optical disc, and an objective lens. The optical head ( | 08-23-2012 |
20120240136 | OPTICAL PICKUP AND DRIVE APPARATUS - An optical pickup includes a lens holder; an objective lens provided on the lens holder and having an effective region for collecting light from a light source and an edge located outer to the effective region; and a lens protector provided on the lens holder. The lens protector protrudes toward an optical disc more than the objective lens. The edge of the objective lens includes a convexed portion protruding toward the optical disc. An apex of the effective region of the objective lens protrudes toward the optical disc more than the convexed portion of the edge. A straight line connecting a part of the edge of the objective lens and a part of the lens protector is closer to the optical disc than the apex of the effective region of the objective lens. | 09-20-2012 |
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 |
20120320728 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL HEAD AND OPTICAL DISK DEVICE - A lens surface ( | 12-20-2012 |
20130021884 | OPTICAL DISK DRIVING APPARATUS, OPTICAL DISK DRIVING SYSTEM, VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH OPTICAL DISK DRIVING SYSTEM, METHOD OF CORRECTING SPHERICAL ABERRATION IN OPTICAL DISK DRIVING APPARATUS, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An optical disk driving apparatus includes an optical head device having a laser light source, a converging optical system converging a light beam emitted by the laser light source onto an optical disk, a photo detector receiving reflected light reflected by the optical disk, and an aberration correcting optical system controlling aberration of the converging optical system; a motor rotating the optical disk; and a control section receiving a signal from the photo detector, wherein the converging optical system has an objective lens formed using resin as a main material, the aberration correcting optical system has a spherical aberration correcting element correcting spherical aberration, and the control section evaluates quality of a reproduction signal for information in the optical disk by using the reflected light received by the photo detector, and utilizes a result of the evaluation to perform closed loop control on the spherical aberration correcting element. | 01-24-2013 |
20130064057 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL HEAD, OPTICAL DISK DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A disclosed objective lens includes: a lens having an entrance surface and an emission surface; and an anti-reflection coat formed on the emission surface, wherein a transmittance T | 03-14-2013 |
20140078877 | DETECTION LENS, LENS UNIT, OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE, OPTICAL DISC DEVICE, COMPUTER, OPTICAL DISC PLAYER AND OPTICAL DISC RECORDER - The present application discloses detection lens provided with lens portion and flange portion including first surface connected to lens portion and second surface opposite to first surface. Flange portion includes base along optical axis of lens portion, and first to fourth projections projecting from base. First and second projections are point-symmetric around optical axis. Third and fourth projections are point-symmetric around optical axis. Flange portion excludes projection extending beyond second surface. First projection includes first intersecting surface which intersects with first axis. Second projection includes second intersecting surface which intersects with first axis. Third projection includes third intersecting surface which intersects with second axis. Fourth projection includes fourth intersecting surface which intersects with second axis. First distance between first and second intersecting surfaces is longer than second distance between third and fourth intersecting surfaces. | 03-20-2014 |
20140098656 | OPTICAL ELEMENT - An optical element has at least one surface divided into a plurality of regions and includes: a first region configured to converge light with a wavelength λ | 04-10-2014 |
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 |
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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