Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Hideaki Satou

Toshiyuki Tanaka

Yukio Kurata

Yoshio Yoshida

Nobuo Ogata

Yasuo Nakata

Etsuji Minami

Teruaki Inoue, Deceased

A focusing error detector comprises a light source, a collimator lens for making parallel the pencil of rays emitted by the light source, an objective lens which focuses the parallel pencil of rays to form a beam spot on a data-recording disc with data tracks and guide tracks formed thereon and which receives the pencil of rays reflected from the data-recording disc, an optical system for forming a beam spot from the reflected pencil of rays incident to the objective lens, and an optical detector having a plurality of divided optical sensor blocks for receiving the formed beam spot so as to detect the focusing error of the beam spot formed on the data-recording disc on the basis of the configuration of the received beam spot.

Focusing error detector and optical data detecting device incorporating

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Nara, Japan

Hideaki Satou