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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To switch a wide angle region into/from an original focal-length region, without having to remove a wide converter. SOLUTION: The wide converter 30 has a function to displace the focal length to a wide-angle side, and a liquid lens is used as one or more lenses 12 and 22 out of lenses constituting the wide converter 30. Either surfaces 3 and 6 of the liquid lenses 12 and 22 are constituted of a deformed film having light transmittance, and liquid inside the liquid lens is made variable so that the focal length may be varied. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce drive voltage which causes the change of the contact angle of a liquid material part by an electro wetting phenomenon. SOLUTION: The electro wetting device is equipped with the liquid material parts 4a and 4b having conductivity or polarity, and an electrode 1 applying voltage to the liquid material parts 4a and 4b while making a dielectric layer lie in between. The dielectric layer is composed as an anodic oxidation part 2 composed of metallic oxide formed by anodizing an electrode. Thus, film thickness is made thin; a dielectric constant is made high and the drive voltage is reduced. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately perform centering of an object lens and an aberration compensation element which are used for an optical head device. SOLUTION: In a construction mode in which an aperture 21 is provided in a holding member 7 for the object lens 5 and the aberration compensating element 6, for performing center alignment of the object lens 5 and the aberration compensation element 6, through holes 23 are formed over three or more parts in the holding member 7, so that the external shape of the object lens 5 can be seen from the aberration compensating element 6 side, through the through holes. In another construction mode, an aperture is formed in the aberration compensating element 6, so that the centering of the object lens 5 and the aberration compensation element 6 can be performed accurately. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To record or reproduce information in high density by specifying the thickness of an optical disk and integrally performing focus controls of an objective lens and a front lens while making the total numerical aperture of the objective lens and the front lens a value equal to or above a specific value. SOLUTION: When there is a variation in thickness of a substrate 61, a spherical abberation is generated. Then, in the case a two-group lens having a high numerical aperture is used as a lens unit, when the thickness of the substrate 61 is fluctuated remarkably, the quality of a reproduced signal is impaired largely. Since when the thickness of the substrate is thickened too much, the influence due to a skew becomes large, it is desirable to make the thickness of the substrate to be within the range of 0.1mm to 0.3mm and it is made to be =0.8 because the multiple of about 1.8 times is multiplied with respect to the numerical aperture of an incident light.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To save power and to miniaturize and inghten a device. SOLUTION: A tip ball lens 43 irradiates laser light generated by a semiconductor laser and incident through a prescribed optical system on a prescribed position of a magneto-optical disk 1. A magnetic field modulation coil 42 generates magnetic field answering to a prescribed recording signal to apply it to the irradiative position of the laser light. The magnetic field modulation coil 42 and a radiator 44 are loaded on the periphery of the tip ball lens 43, and since the magnetic field modulation coil 42 is arranged on the position the most suitable for the recording layer of the disk 1 when the laser light is focused, it can apply the magnetic field of sufficient strength by irreducible minimum power.
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PURPOSE: To suppress the occurrence of spherical aberration due to dispersion in thickness of a solid immersion lens and a magneto-optical disk. CONSTITUTION: The magneto-optical disk 1 is irradiated with light converged by an objective lens 41 through a plate 42 and a solid immersion lens 43. A holder 44 holding the objective lens 41 and the plate 42 is focus-controlled and tracking-controlled respectively by a focus actuator 45 and a tracking actuator 46. Further, an SIL actuator 48 is driven corresponding to the change in capacity of a capacitor formed between the holder 44 and the holder 47, and it is controlled so that an interval between the holders 47 and 44 becomes a fixed value.
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PURPOSE:To eliminate deterioration of a reproducing signal due to the variation of a light source, deviation of a servo, generation of dropout, and so on. CONSTITUTION:The signal outputted from a photodetecting element 22 for signal read out is converted to a voltage signal by a current-voltage converter 25. A specified calculation is performed by a matrix amplifier 26 to take out respectively a data signal, i.e., RF signal, pull-in signal for servo, tracking servo signal, focus signal, etc., and those signals are inputted to the numerators of division devices 27A, 27B, 27C and 27D. A monitor signal from the photodetecting element 23 for monitoring the output variation of light source is converted to the voltage signal by a current-voltage converter 29. Then, this monitor signal is inputted to the denominators of each division device 27A, 27B, 27C and 27D through an amplifier 30.
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PURPOSE:To reduce a number of parts and to obtain a small pickup device facilitating the adjustment of an optical axis. CONSTITUTION:A SHG laser light transmitted in the direction of Y axis by means of the lifting mirror 19 of a laser generating device passes through a beam expander 23 and a diffraction grating 24, is transmitted to a polarization beam splitter 25, passes through a collimator lens 26 and a 1/4 wavelength plate 27 and is converged on the recording surface of an optical disk 22 by means of an objective lens 21. The returned light from the recording surface of an optical disk 22 is made incident again on the polarization beam splitter 25 through the objective lens 21, the 1/4 wavelength plate 27 and the lens 26, received by a photodetector 29 through a multiple lens 28 and the recorded signal is reproduced.
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PURPOSE:To provide interchangeability to plural kinds of optical disk by obtaining plural light spots with a grating. CONSTITUTION:A grating 3 by which plural light spots are obtained is turned around an axis O orthogonal to the grating surface by a turning means 12 to change the intervals in the direction orthogonal to the track of an optical disk 7. Positional relations between the track of the disk 7 and light spots are detected by a detecting means 13 to detect the positional deviation of turning of the grating 3, and the turning position is properly set so that intervals of light spots for tracking servo correspond to the track pitch of the disk 7. Thus, interchangeability to plural kinds of optical disk different by track pitch is provided, and the degree of modulation of error in the tracking servo is surely obtained, and a high RF level is obtained in the two-channel constitution.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable obtaining a more stable output.SOLUTION: A laser emitting device includes a semiconductor laser for emitting light having a prescribed wavelength, a grating which is provided at the latter part of the semiconductor laser while forming a resonance structure between itself and the semiconductor laser by reflecting emitted light from the semiconductor laser, and from which a part of the emitted light is taken out to the outside as output light, and at least one cylindrical lens provided between the semiconductor laser and the grating so that the light emitting surface of the semiconductor laser and the reflection surface of the grating serve as a confocal.