POSITION DISPLACEMENT DETECTING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:CA2035996C

    公开(公告)日:1998-01-06

    申请号:CA2035996

    申请日:1991-02-02

    Applicant: CANON KK

    Abstract: An apparatus capable of detecting a displacement of a probe from a track of a recording medium caused by track fluctuations, vibrations at recording/reproducing period. For example, a probe 1 is maintained to vibrate at frequency f in the direction perpendicular to a data train 4 at an amplitude smaller than the width of the data train 4. In this case, the amplitude of a reproduced signal of the data train changes with the displacement between the probe 1 and the data train. The envelope signal i of the reproduced signal is phase detected using as a reference signal the vibration waveform (standard signal) at frequency f o of the probe 1, to obtain a signal proportional to the displacement from the data train. Using this signal, it becomes possible to feedback control the probe 1 so as to make it trace the data train.

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    公开(公告)号:DE69221944T2

    公开(公告)日:1998-01-02

    申请号:DE69221944

    申请日:1992-06-10

    Applicant: CANON KK

    Abstract: The apparatus includes a recording medium (7-9,11,13) having a plurality of segmented planar electrodes (7-9), a plurality of probe electrodes (21-23) respectively facing the plural planar electrodes and electrically connected to each other, and a circuit (17) for independently applying a voltage for recording and/or reproducing between each pair of the planar electrodes and the probe electrodes. The information recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a circuit for inputting information to be recorded into the recording medium, a memory (19,20) other than the recording medium for temporarily storing the input information, and a circuit (16) for applying the recording voltages between a plurality of probe electrodes and segmented planar electrodes in correspondence with the information stored in the memory.

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    公开(公告)号:DE69126830T2

    公开(公告)日:1997-11-20

    申请号:DE69126830

    申请日:1991-08-08

    Applicant: CANON KK

    Abstract: A cantilever type probe comprises a cantilever-shaped displacement element having electrodes (5-10) for driving which displace two layers (3,4) of piezoelectric material at the interface and first and second surfaces of the layers, respectively, and each of the electrodes being arranged separately within the same plane, and a tip (1) for information input and output connected to electrodes for drawing out arranged separately from the electrodes for driving at the free end of either one of the first and second surfaces of the element. A scanning tunneling microscopy or an information processing device comprises the cantilever type probe, a driving means for driving the displacement element of the cantilever type probe and a bias or pulse voltage application means for applying a bias or pulse voltage between a sample and the probe.

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    公开(公告)号:DE69126343D1

    公开(公告)日:1997-07-10

    申请号:DE69126343

    申请日:1991-03-07

    Applicant: CANON KK

    Abstract: This specification discloses a method of recording information on a recording medium which has the relative scanning of the recording medium by a probe for information recording, the relative scanning being effected along the surface of the recording medium, the recording medium being capable of forming two or more kinds of state changes relative to the state of non-recording, and a recording process onto the recording medium through the probe effecting the relative scanning, the recording process being carried out by intermittently forming bits on the recording medium, each of the bits being formed with one of the two or more kinds of state changes in conformity with recording information. The specification also discloses a method of reproducing information recorded on a recording medium by such information recording method. The specification further discloses an apparatus for carrying out the information recording method, and an apparatus for carrying out the information reproducing method.

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    公开(公告)号:DE69017759D1

    公开(公告)日:1995-04-20

    申请号:DE69017759

    申请日:1990-04-26

    Applicant: CANON KK

    Abstract: An encoder has a reference scale having periodic structure of atoms or molecules in a predetermined direction, a probe disposed in opposed relationship with the reference scale, the probe being used to detect the structural variation information of the periodic structure of the reference scale, and relative displacement amount detecting means for detecting the amount of relative displacement of the reference scale and the probe along a predetermined direction from the structural variation information obtained by the probe.

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    公开(公告)号:DE68915940T2

    公开(公告)日:1994-11-17

    申请号:DE68915940

    申请日:1989-11-06

    Applicant: CANON KK

    Abstract: A probe unit (Fig.1) is provided that is suitable for example for use in a scanning tunnel microscope or the like. The electrical probe contact (7) of this unit is centrally located and mounted upon a flexible member (4,5,6). The flexible member (4,5,6) is symmetrically supported (3) at its periphery and is constrained thus so that the electrical probe contact (7) can only move back and forth in a single direction. Flexure of the flexible member (4,5,6) may be driven by electrostatic or piezoelectric forces. Alternatively, the flexible member may include a layer of piezoelectric material, the elongation or contraction of which will cause flexure.

    INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE AND INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING PROCESS

    公开(公告)号:CA1331219C

    公开(公告)日:1994-08-02

    申请号:CA594452

    申请日:1989-03-22

    Applicant: CANON KK

    Abstract: The present invention relates to an information recording device, comprising: a) a recording medium; b) a probe electrode capable of recording on the recording medium by applying a voltage between the electrode and the recording medium; and c) a displacement detecting means for detecting the force acting between the recording medium and the probe electrode as the displacement amount of the probe electrode when they are approximated to each other, and an information recording process comprising: the step of approximating a probe electrode to a recording medium comprising an electroconductive substrate and an organic thin film having electric memory effect formed thereon; the step of detecting the interatomic force acting between the atom of the organic thin film surface and the atom at the tip end of the probe electrode and maintaining the distance between the organic thin film surface and the probe electrode on the basis of such detection; and the step of applying a voltage not lower than the threshold value voltage which causes an electric memory effect between the electroconductive substrate and the probe electrode.

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