Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroshi Motohashi

Akihiro Tanaka

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Suguru Takishima

Isao Okuda

Masahiko Sasaki

Koichiro Nishikawa

Makoto Iwaki

Hiroshi Kokado

Wataru Kubo

Junichi Takeda

Masami Ninomiya

An optical disk apparatus comprises an optical pickup having an optical pickup body carrying a laser and a photodetector responsive to light emitted from the laser and reflected by the optical disk for producing tracking error signals mounted on the optical pickup body for reciprocal movement in a tracking direction responsive to operation of an actuator, and supports an objective for focusing the beam on the disk. A position sensor produces position signals in response to displacement of the movable portion in the tracking direction. Finally a servo tracking circuit outputs driving signals to the actuator on the basis of tracking error signals produced either in response to tracking error signals produced from outputs of the photodetector and position signals produced from output signals of the position sensor, in response only to the latter. The optical disk apparatus having the foregoing construction eliminates direct-current offset included in tracking error signals, stabilizes driving of the objective, and reduces access time.

Objective driving device for an optical disk apparatus

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Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Motohashi