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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a stable focus jump operation in a multi-layered optical disc, even when a waveform of an S-curve of a focus error signal becomes asymmetric between positive and negative due to aberration caused by fluctuation of a multilayer optical disk substrate thickness, or the level of the S-curve fluctuates due to reflectance fluctuation. SOLUTION: A focus jump means (DSP 51) performs acceleration processing to move an objective lens (13) from one recording layer of a multi-layered optical disc to another recording layer, standby processing, and deceleration processing to stop the movement of the objective lens. In the acceleration processing, the impulse of an acceleration parameter applied to move the objective lens is made greater than the impulse of a deceleration pulse to stop the objective lens. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical pickup capable of efficiently radiating heat generated in a semiconductor laser diode, an optical integrated element, a light emitting/receiving element, and a light emitting device. SOLUTION: When a drive signal is supplied to the semiconductor laser diode 1204 through a 1st conductive layer 42 of a flexible substrate 40, the diode 1204 is driven and starts light emitting. Heat generated in the diode 1204 due to the light emitting is transmitted to a radiating plate 1202. The heat transmitted to the radiating plate 1202 is transmitted to a holder (pickup casing) 50 and radiated from the holder (pickup casing) 50 and the heat is transmitted to the 1st conductive layer 42 of the flexible substrate 40 through a side plate 1202A, further transmitted to the 2nd conductive layer 44 through a conductive area 46 and radiated from the 2nd conductive layer 44. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stably perform the focus jump of an optical spot with respect to an optical recording medium having a plurality of recording layers. SOLUTION: The device which records and reproduces information on a multiplayer disk having a plurality of recording layers is provided with an optical unit for correcting the spherical aberration of an expander lens composed of two lenses group and of a liquid crystal element or the like, and the correction state of the optical unit is so controlled that the spherical aberration is excellently corrected with respect to the recording layer which is to be preliminarily focused when a focus servo of the optical pickup is drawn in. Further, the optical unit for correcting the spherical aberration is held before the beginning of the focus jump in a state that the spherical aberration is corrected as far as possible with respect to the target recording layer in a range in which the present focus servo is not coming off. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical pickup and disk drive assembly which can correct the radial skew being the largest cause for the occurrence of an aberration while suppressing the unnecessary inclination of an objective lens in a tangential skew direction and can reduce the weight of a moving section mounted with the objective lens. SOLUTION: This optical pickup has an actuator base 21 which is disposed at the optical pickup 2, a bobbin 13 which is supported tiltably relative to the actuator base 21 and is mounted with the objective lens 12, a drive means which tilts the bobbin 13, optical sensors 27 and 28 which detect the inclination quantity of the recording surface with respect to the actuator base 21, optical sensors 25 and 26 which detect the inclination quantity of the bobbin 12 with respect to the actuator base 21 and a titling control means which tilts the moving section in such a manner that the angle of the optical axis of the objective lens 12 with respect to the recording surface is kept constant.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce both flexural rigidity and characteristic impedance. SOLUTION: The signal transmission substrate 36 is constructed in such a manner that in a transmission part 36B, a conductor layer 52 having three signal lines 52S and four ground lines 52G alternately arranged in a width direction is held between a base layer 51 and a cover layer 53, the four ground lines 52G are electrically interconnected at a driver mount part 36A and a diode mount part 36C based on the wiring patterns of the conductor layer 52, and the three signal lines 52S are electrically interconnected at the driver mount part 36A and the diode mount part 36C via jumper lines 55A and 55C. Thus, the signal transmission substrate 36 enables reduction of characteristic impedance almost equal to differential resistance of a laser diode 38 while reducing flexural rigidity of the transmission part 36B to a low level and setting a gap G2 between each signal line 52S and each ground line 52G to be within a range in which the gap is relatively easily manufactured. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve light resistance and to change diffraction efficiency to high speed. SOLUTION: A variable diffraction grating 10 in which a grating surface 11A of a diffraction grating 11 formed with a grating g11 of a period (c) and a grating surface 12A of a diffraction grating 12 formed with a grating g12 of a period (c) are arranged to face each other, can act as a diffraction grating of different diffraction efficiency by acting as a diffraction grating of phase depth ϕ1 represented by an expression (1), to light beams incident from a z-direction in a first state in which the positions of crest parts of the grating g11 and grating g12 are adjusted to each other with respect to the z-direction while acting as a diffraction grating of phase depth ϕ2 represented by an expression (3) in a second state in which the positions of the crest parts and trough parts of the grating g11 and grating g12 correspond to each other by moving the diffraction grating 11 in an x-direction by a width (h), which is the half of the period (c), with respect to the diffraction grating 12. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a photoelectric conversion element integrated circuit, capable of reducing the output terminals by efficiently multiplexing only a control signal whose phase characteristics are not so important and outputting it, and to provide an optical pickup device, a control signal generator, a drive control device, an optical recording medium drive device, and a control method for the same. SOLUTION: The photoelectric conversion element integrated circuit is provided with photodetectors 131 to 136 for receiving rays of light, to convert them into electrical signals, a generation means for recording information in an optical recording medium, based on the electric signals and generating a control signal to reproduce the information recorded in the optical recording medium, a multiplexing means for multiplexing the control signal in a time axis direction, and an output terminal for outputting the time-division multiplexed control signal. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize an optical disk drive of simple constitution capable of performing a more accurate focus control with respect to the optical disks of multiple kinds. SOLUTION: By changing a resolution at an analog-digital conversion of a focus error signal in accordance with the kind of an optical disk to be played back, the resolution can be set to values suitable for respective optical disks without separating optical paths of return lights of laser beam ejected from respective light sources, therefore, a discretization error at the analog-digital conversion can be suppressed to a value suitable for respective optical disk without complicating the constitution of an optical system. Thus, the optical disk drive of simple constitution capable of performing the focus control suitable for respective optical disks of multiple kinds is realized. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent deterioration in quality of a reproducing signal, even when the characteristics of a laser diode vary. SOLUTION: The optical pickup 1, is provided with: a step SP2 for measuring the light amount P1 of an optical beam emitted from a laser diode 3; a step SP4 for measuring the light amount P2 of the optical beam emitted from the laser diode 3 and sequentially transmitted through a 1/2 wavelength plate 5, an aperture 10, a polarization beam splitter 8, and an aperture 14; and a step SP4 for changing the transmittance at the polarization beam splitter 8 by adjusting the rotational angle θ of the 1/2 wavelength plate 5 and for adjusting the ratio of the light amount P2 to the light amount P1 at a prescribed value. Accordingly, the variation in the optical coupling efficiency of the optical pickup 1 is suppressed by adjusting the rotational angle of the 1/2 wavelength plate 5. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize an optical pickup which enables both an average light volume and a peak light volume to be controlled with high accuracy. SOLUTION: A semiconductor laser diode LD2 is driven by a high-frequency drive current HI2, and the optical pickup 23 is equipped with a laser drive circuit 40 which drives the laser diode LD2 to emit a high-frequency light beam L1. An APC circuit 40A detects the average light volume of the high-frequency light beam L1 and feedback-controls the drive current I2 on the basis of the above average light volume, and a superimposition amplitude control circuit 40B detects the peak light volume of the high-frequency light beam L1 and feedback-controls the amplitude A of the high-frequency drive current HI2 on the basis of the above peak light volume independently of control by the APC circuit 40A. The average light volume and peak light volume of the high-frequency light beam L1 emitted from the semiconductor laser diode LD2 can be separately controlled, so that both the average light volume and peak light volume of the light beam L1 can be surely controlled. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI