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 |
20090034402 | Optical Head Device, Optical Information Device, Optical Disc Player, Car Navigation System, Optical Disc Recorder, and Optical Disc Server - In an optical head device including a light source for emitting a light of a predetermined wavelength; a collimator lens for converting a divergence degree of the light; a folding mirror for folding a direction of the light emitted from the light source; an objective lens for converging the light on a recording surface of an optical disc; a photodetector for receiving the light reflected at the recording surface of the optical disc, and converting to an electric signal; and an optical path adjustment unit for guiding the light emitted from the light source to the collimator lens and guiding the light reflected at the recording surface of the optical disc to the photodetector; a wavelength plate for polarizing the light reflected by the folding mirror is arranged on an actuator base between the folding mirror and the objective lens. | 02-05-2009 |
20090034403 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - An optical pickup device which can more improve heat radiation efficiency and an optical disk apparatus including the optical pickup device are provided. The optical pickup device having a base ( | 02-05-2009 |
20090072818 | Position sensor, optical head device, head moving mechanism, information recordng/reproducing device and position control system - As imaging devices are miniaturized, and optical devices are miniaturized, lens moving mechanisms are also miniaturized. Thus, position sensors for them are required to be miniaturized and have high accuracy at low cost. A magnet | 03-19-2009 |
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 |
20090086330 | OPTICAL PICKUP, OPTICAL DISC DRIVE DEVICE, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE - A small optical pickup of wide spherical aberration correction range is provided. The optical pickup includes a rising mirror for deflecting a light beam at substantially right angle and guiding to an entrance surface of the objective lens; a spherical aberration correction lens having one surface formed to a larger curvature than the other surface; a lens holder for holding the spherical aberration correction lens so that the surface of large curvature partially projects out towards the rising mirror side; a guide member extending in an optical axis direction of the spherical aberration correction lens sand having an end arranged to the side of a reflecting surface of the rising mirror; and a slidable part slidable along the guide member; wherein the projecting portion of the slidable part is configured to be fitted within the side surface of the reflecting surface of the rising mirror, and the projecting portion from the lens holder of the spherical aberration correction lens overlaps the reflecting surface of the rising mirror when the spherical aberration correction lens approaches the rising mirror the most. | 04-02-2009 |
20090138901 | OPTICAL PICKUP, OPTICAL ELEMENT, OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE, COMPUTER, OPTICAL INFORMATION MEDIUM PLAYER, CAR NAVIGATION SYSTEM, OPTICAL INFORMATION MEDIUM RECORDER AND OPTICAL DISK SERVER - An optical pickup includes: a laser light source which outputs an divergent beam having an elliptical far-field pattern; a beam shaping element having at least one cylindrical plane and which shapes the divergent beam outputted from the laser light source into an divergent beam having a prescribed shape in which at least the length in the major axis direction of the elliptical shape is shortened; a light collecting portion having a beam splitter which perpendicularly collects the divergent beam that is outputted from the beam shaping element and which has a prescribed shape on the recording surface of an optical disk, and a mirror or the like; and a light detecting portion The optical axis of the divergent beam is rotated so that the direction in which the major axis of the divergent beam having a prescribed shape is shortened conforms to the radial direction of an optical information recording medium. | 05-28-2009 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
20090284856 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - A guide shaft and a guide portion movably guide a lens holder for holding a collimator lens (i.e. correction lens) in an optical axis direction. A stepping motor rotates a screw shaft arranged in parallel to the optical axis direction. A nut member converts a rotating movement of the screw shaft into a rectilinear movement of the optical axis direction. An urging spring urges the lens holder against the guide shaft and the guide portion. The lens holder is driven in the optical axis direction along the guide shaft by the stepping motor, with a first contact portion and a second contact portion of the lens holder being contacted with the guide shaft, and a third contact portion of the lens holder being contacted with the guide portion by an urging force of the urging spring. The optical pickup device having the above arrangement allows for stable driving of a correction lens. | 11-19-2009 |
20090310465 | OPTICAL HEAD AND OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE - An optical head according to the present invention includes: a first light source that emits light with a first wavelength; a beam splitter that splits the light emitted from the first light source into a first light beam traveling in a first direction and a second light beam traveling in a second direction different from the first direction; a first collimator lens for changing degrees of divergence of the first light beam; a first mirror that changes the traveling directions of the first light beam, of which the degrees of divergence have been changed; a first objective lens for converging the first light beam, which has had its traveling directions changed, toward a storage layer of a first optical disk; a mover that holds the first objective lens; a first photodetector that receives the first light beam reflected from the storage layer of the first optical disk and converts it into an electrical signal; a condenser lens for condensing the second light beam; and a second photodetector that receives the second light beam condensed by the condenser lens and converts it into an electrical signal. | 12-17-2009 |
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 |
20100165823 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSOR - In an optical beam transmissive adjusting mechanism ( | 07-01-2010 |
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 |
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 |
20110122744 | OBJECTIVE LENS UNIT, OPTICAL PICKUP, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION APPARATUS - An objective lens unit according to the present invention includes a first objective lens | 05-26-2011 |
20110122745 | OBJECTIVE LENS UNIT, OPTICAL PICKUP, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION APPARATUS - An objective lens unit according to the present invention includes a first objective lens | 05-26-2011 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
20140119169 | OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE, OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An optical pickup device includes a single objective lens ( | 05-01-2014 |
20140321252 | OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE, TILT DETECTION METHOD, COMPUTER, PLAYER, AND RECORDER - A photodetector outputs a first signal and a second signal corresponding to light amounts of the received first light flux and the received second light flux, first and second low band extraction circuits extract low band components of the first signal and the second signal, first and second high band extraction circuits extract high band components of the first signal and the second signal, a differential circuit calculates a difference signal between a high band component difference signal as a difference between the high band component of the first signal and the high band component of the second signal and a low band component difference signal as a difference between the low band component of the first signal and the low band component of the second signal, and a control signal processing section generates a tilt control signal based on the calculated difference signal. | 10-30-2014 |
20140341007 | OPTICAL INFORMATION DEVICE, CROSS-TALK REDUCTION METHOD, COMPUTER, PLAYER, AND RECORDER - A ratio Xm of an information item recorded on an adjacent track relative to an information item recorded on a main track included in a first signal obtained from a first light flux having passed through a center region ( | 11-20-2014 |