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US5124965A
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Optical head supporting apparatus
Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corp
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Filing: 1989-09-28
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Granted: 1992-06-23
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Expires: 2009-09-28
Abstract
Abstract An optical head and supporting apparatus has an optical head for irradiating a parallel beam in a direction perpendicular to a recording surface of an optical disk, an objective lens rigidly mounted on the optical head for receiving the parallel beam from the optical head, tracking drive coils for driving the optical head over the whole recording range in a first direction transverse to the recording tracks of the optical disk, focusing drive coils for driving the optical head in a second direction perpendicular to the recording surface of the optical disk, and a support mechanism made of wire-shaped elastic bodies for supporting the optical head freely movably in the first and second directions over the whole recording range in the first direction of the optical head. The support mechanism is fixedly mounted through elastic bodies on a part of a structural body independent of movement of the optical head. Seek, tracking and focusing movements of a beam spot can be achieved in such a way that the wire-shaped eleastic bodies are elastically deformed by forces developed through the tracking drive coils and focusing drive coils thereby to move the optical head two-dimensionally.
Inventors
- 👤 Osamu Mizuno
- 👤 Tohru Nakamura
- 👤 Noboru Kikuchi
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-02 21:30
CPC Classifications
G; G11; G11B; G11B7/00; G11B7/08; G11B7/085; G11B7/0857; G11B7/08582; G11B7/09; G11B7/0925; G11B7/093; G11B7/0932; G11B7/0935
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
238 words
An optical head and supporting apparatus, comprising: an optical head for irradiating a light beam perpendicular to a recording surface of a recording medium having information tracks in a recording area thereof; an objective lens rigidly fixed to said optical head for focusing the light beam on said recording surface; a support body extending across the recording area of the recording medium; supporting means for freely movably supporting said optical head on said support body for movement in both a first direction traversing the information tracks of the recording medium over the whole recording area of the recording medium and a second direction perpendicular to the recording surface of the recording medium, said supporting means including at least one elastic body on said supporting body; focusing drive means for driving said optical head in said second direction; and tracking drive means for driving said optical head in said first direction over the whole recording area of the recording medium, said tracking drive means having: a magnetic yoke having first and second yoke portions extending parallel to each other in said first direction; a magnet extending in said first direction and fixed to said first yoke portion so as to oppose said second yoke portion; and a tracking drive coil fixed to said optical head and would so as to surround a part of said second yoke portion and having an inner surface spaced from said second yoke portion.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
238 words
An optical head and supporting apparatus, comprising: an optical head for irradiating a light beam perpendicular to a recording surface of a recording medium having information tracks in a recording area thereof; an objective lens rigidly fixed to said optical head for focusing the light beam on said recording surface; a support body extending across the recording area of the recording medium; supporting means for freely movably supporting said optical head on said support body for movement in both a first direction traversing the information tracks of the recording medium over the whole recording area of the recording medium and a second direction perpendicular to the recording surface of the recording medium, said supporting means including at least one elastic body on said supporting body; focusing drive means for driving said optical head in said second direction; and tracking drive means for driving said optical head in said first direction over the whole recording area of the recording medium, said tracking drive means having: a magnetic yoke having first and second yoke portions extending parallel to each other in said first direction; a magnet extending in said first direction and fixed to said first yoke portion so as to oppose said second yoke portion; and a tracking drive coil fixed to said optical head and would so as to surround a part of said second yoke portion and having an inner surface spaced from said second yoke portion.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
18 words
An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said elastic body has at least four independently deformable areas.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
21 words
An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said elastic body has a longitudinal axis with at least one non-linear part.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
16 words
An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said elastic body is made of electrical conductor.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
15 words
An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said elastic body is a non-magnetic body.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
19 words
An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said elastic body has a surface covered with a viscoelastic material.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
22 words
An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said elastic body has a substantially square-shaped section substantially perpendicular to said first direction.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
78 words
An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said supporting means comprises an elastic body having four independently deformable areas on a first plane which is spaced a first distance in a direction from the recording surface of said recording medium to said optical head, and another elastic body having four deformable areas on a second plane which is spaced a second distance in the direction from the recording surface of said recording medium to said optical head.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
27 words
An apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein said elastic body has at least one longitudinal part substantially parallel to the recording surface of the recording medium.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
99 words
An apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein said yoke and said magnetic form a magnetic circuit having a magnetic gap with a magnetic field therein, and said focusing drive means includes a focusing drive coil on said optical head, and wherein at least part of said track drive coil and at least part of said focusing drive coil are in the same magnetic gap for being caused to drive said optical head by electromagnetic forces developed by interactions of electricity caused to flow in said tracking drive coil and electricity caused to flow in said focusing drive coil.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
48 words
An apparatus as claimed in claim 10 in which said track drive coil and said focusing drive coil are positioned in said magnetic gap for causing the same magnetic lines of force pass through at least one part of said tracking drive coil and said focusing drive coil.
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