Lg Electronics Inc.

In-Sang Song

Dae-Young Kim

Song-Chan Park

Man-Hyung Lee

Jin-Yong Kim

Soo-Kyung Kim

Seung-Hon Yoo

An optical disc cartridge of the present invention includes: a casing provided with a disc inserting/opening part for inserting/taking out a disc thereinto/therefrom at an upper surface thereof and an access hole which an optical pickup approaches at a lower surface thereof; a pair of shutters mounted in the casing and opening/closing the access hole and fixing the optical disc; a rotary wheel rotatably positioned on the shutters and moving the shutters; a wheel fixing/releasing means mounted at one side in the casing and fixing/releasing the rotary wheel; and a disc fixing/releasing means movably mounted at the casing and limiting inserting/taking out the disc into/from the disc inserting/opening part by adjusting a size of the disc inserting/opening part. Accordingly, the optical disc cartridge having such a construction facilitates a job of accommodating/taking out a high density optical disc in/from a disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and an apparatus of recording or reproducing data on or from an optical disc, comprising: a driving unit rotating an optical disc inserted in the optical disc cartridge; and a recording or reproducing unit recording or reproducing data on or from the optical disc.

Optical disc cartridge casing providing for easy disc insertion/removal

In an optical loading apparatus, by including a main roller installed at an inlet side of an optical disc drive; a disc guide installed in the opposite direction of the main roller with an inserted disc therebetween; a disc path control member which can change disc path; a small disc stopping member formed at the drive in order to make an inserted small disc stop at a position mountable onto a spindle; and a large disc stopping member formed at the drive in order to make an inserted large disc stop at a position mountable onto a spindle, it is possible to reduce a fabrication cost by reducing the number of parts by simplifying a structure, and accordingly different-sized optical discs can be reliably loaded.

Optical disc loading apparatus

A contamination preventing device of an optical head for near field recording includes a slider being supported by a suspension in a deck and having a collective hole vertically penetrated though which a light source is transmitted; a collective lens being installed at a lower portion of the collective hole of the slider, collecting light generated from the light source and forming a spot at an upper surface of a recording medium; and a lens contaminant removing means removing a foreign substance clung to the collective lens. When the surface of the collective lens mounted at the slider is exposed to contaminant substances while performing interaction with the surface of the recording medium in the near field optical recording or reproducing, the lens surface can be easily cleansed to remove the contaminant of the surface of the lens immediately.

Contamination preventing device of optical head for near field recording

An improved optical pick-up apparatus capable of reading data irrespective of disc type capable of reading various kinds of discs having different thicknesses and writing densities using only one pick-up apparatus, which includes a light source; a beam splitter for passing through or splitting a beam from the light source; an objective lens for condensing the beam onto corresponding disc among discs having different thicknesses and different densities; a numerical aperture control unit for controlling an effective numerical aperture of the objective lens so as to execute a focussing operation with respect to a certain disc; and a photo-detector for receiving the beam reflected by the disc and transmitted from the beam splitter.

Optical pick-up apparatus capable of reading data irrespective of disc

An improved optical pick-up apparatus capable of reading data irrespective of disc type capable of reading various kinds of discs having different thicknesses and writing densities using only one pick-up apparatus, which includes a light source; a beam splitter for passing through or splitting a beam from the light source; an objective lens for condensing the beam onto corresponding disc among discs having different thicknesses and different densities; a numerical aperture control unit for controlling an effective numerical aperture of the objective lens so as to execute a focussing operation with respect to a certain disc; and a photodetector for receiving the beam reflected by the disc and transmitted from the beam splitter.

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Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

In-Sang Song