Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Seok-jung Kim

Yong-hoon Lee

Jung-gug Pae

Chong-sam Chung

Han-kook Choi

Sun-mo Kim

Byung-ryul Ryoo

Yong-ki Son

Jang-hoon Yoo

Soo-han Park

Young-man Ahn

Pyong-yong Seong

Tae-kyung Kim

Tae-youn Heor

Tae-Kyung Kim

Yong-Hoon Lee

Yong-jae Lee

Hyung-hoon Kang

Jin-Won Lee

Joong-Eon Seo

Moon-whan Lee

In-sik Park

Jong-Chul Choi

Chul-Woo Lee

Byung-in Ma

Kwang Hyun Kim

Jong-bae Kim

Kun-Ho Cho

Bong-gi Kim

Young-Man Ahn

Young-sun Seo

Seung-tae Jung

Hea-jung Suh

Tae-yong Doh

Hae-jung Suh

Heui-jong Kang

Do-hoan Nam

Hyo-chan Lee

In-wook Hwang

Byung-In Ma

Kim Kwang

Kwan-Joon Kim

Shi-yang Ryu

An optical pickup actuator independently drivable in focusing, tilting and tracking directions. The optical pickup includes a lens holder movably installed on a base, and mounted with an objective lens for transmitting an incident light to an optical information recording medium; and a magnetic circuit to independently driving the lens holder in the focusing, tilting and tracking directions. The magnetic circuit includes opposing magnets; a focusing coil and tilting coils interposed between the magnets, mounted inside the lens holder, and wound around respective axes parallel to the focusing direction; and a plurality of tracking coils mounted outside the lens holder, interposed between the magnets and wound around respective axes transverse to the focusing direction. The magnetic fields of the magnets are guided by outer yokes partially encompassing the magnets and inner yokes positioned within the focusing coil and the tilting coils.

Optical pickup actuator and optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus having the same

An actuator used with an optical pickup includes: a base on which a holder is fixed; a lens holder in which a plurality of installation holes are formed such that a plurality of objective lenses to record and/or reproduce optical discs having different recording densities are installed at different heights; a support member, which movably supports the lens holder, having one end coupled to the lens holder and the other end coupled to the holder; and a magnetic circuit which drives the lens holder in focusing and tracking directions. The plurality of installation holes include a first installation hole in which a first objective lens for at least one type of low density optical disc is installed, and a second installation hole in which a second objective lens for a higher density optical disc than the low density optical disc is installed. When a working distance of the first objective lens for the low density optical disc installed in the first installation hole is represented as WD, and a working distance of the second objective lens for the high density optical disc installed in the second installation hole is represented as WD, the first and second installation holes are provided so that the first and second objective lenses are installed to satisfy the Equation:WD1&#x2267;WD2, The second installation hole is located in a more outer circumference of the optical disc than the first installation hole.

Actuator having a plurality of objective lenses installed in a lens holder used with an optical pickup

An optical pickup apparatus includes an objective lens that focuses light on an optical recording medium; an actuator that drives the objective lens in a direction of an optical axis of the objective lens toward or away from an optical recording medium in response to an input voltage applied to the actuator; an actuator driven distance sensor that senses a distance the actuator moves according to time or the input voltage applied to the actuator; an input voltage calculator that calculates an input voltage to be applied to the actuator that compensates for a hysteresis phenomenon that occurs during movement of the actuator based on the distance sensed by the actuator driven distance sensor; and a controller that controls operation of the actuator according to the input voltage calculated by the input voltage calculator.

Optical pickup apparatus and controlling method thereof

An optical pickup actuator is provided. The actuator comprises a bobbin, on which one or more objective lenses are mounted for allowing light to be incident onto an optical information storage medium, and which is supported by a support member to be movable in relation to a base. The actuator also comprises a magnetic circuit for independently driving the bobbin in focusing and tilt directions.

Optical pickup actuator and optical recording/reproducing apparatus

An optical pickup of an optical recording and reproducing apparatus includes a plurality of object lenses used to record and or reproduce information from/to various types of optical recording media of different recording densities; an actuator driving the object lenses in a focusing direction and supporting the object lenses to have rolling during movement in the focusing direction; and a pickup base installed to movably go and return in a radial direction of an optical recording medium, and the actuator forming a predetermined angle with respect to the pickup base.

Optical pickup for an optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus including an actuator forming a predetermined angel with respect to the pickup base

An optical pickup actuator comprises a lens holder having an object lens which focuses a laser beam onto an optical information storage medium mounted thereon. In the optical pickup actuator the lens holder is movably supported by a support member with respect to a base. The optical pickup actuator also comprises a magnetic circuit to drive the lens holder in a focusing direction and a tilt direction independently.

Optical pickup actuator and optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus

An optical pickup actuator, including a lens holder movably installed on a base, and mounted with an objective lens to transmit an incident light to an optical information recording medium, and a magnetic circuit to independently drive the lens holder in a focusing direction, a tilting direction and a tracking direction, respectively.

An optical pickup actuator including a blade supported by a plurality of suspensions to be movable with respect to a base and a magnetic circuit to drive a movable part including the blade, a method of manufacturing the optical pickup actuator, an optical pickup employing the optical pickup actuator, and an optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus employing the optical pickup. The movable part includes a weight center adjusting element of the movable part in order to induce a radial rolling operation in a direction in which an optical axis of an objective lens is perpendicular to an information storage surface of an information storage medium, during a focusing operation in a high frequency band above the first resonant frequency of the optical pickup actuator. The method of manufacturing the optical pickup actuator includes checking the direction of radial rolling for each focusing driving frequency and adjusting the center of weight of the movable part when the direction of radial rolling is not the desired direction, and the center of weight of the movable part is adjusted until radial rolling is induced in a direction in which an optical axis of an objective lens is perpendicular to an information storage surface of an information storage medium.

Optical pickup actuator, method of manufacturing the optical pickup actuator, and optical pickup employing the optical pickup actuator, and optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus employing the optical pickup

An actuator for an optical pick-up, including: a holder fixed to a base; a bobbin capable of accommodating a plurality of objective lenses for recording and/or reproducing information onto and/or from optical discs with different recording densities; a suspension for connecting the bobbin and the holder, and supporting the bobbin to be movable; and a magnetic circuit for driving the bobbin in focusing, tilting, and tracking directions, wherein the magnetic circuit includes a plurality of focusing/tilting coils installed in the bobbin to be in correspondence to the plurality of lenses, and driving the bobbin in at least one of focusing and tilting directions; a plurality of magnets having the focusing/tilting coils therebetween, in which same polarities of the magnets make one pair; and tracking coils supported by the bobbin, and generating a driving force to drive the bobbin in the tracking direction.

Optical pick-up actuator and method, and reproducing and/or recording apparatus with same

An optical pickup actuator and a method of assembling the same is provided. The method of assembling the optical pickup actuator comprises the steps of providing a blade having at least one objective lens mounting area and an aberration correcting mechanism mounting area, arranging an objective lens in the objective lens mounting area, positioning an aberration correcting mechanism in the aberration correcting mechanism mounting area such that the central point of the aberration correcting mechanism coincides with the central point of the objective lens, tuning the aberration correction mechanism, and adhering the aberration correcting mechanism using an adhesive.

Optical pickup actuator having aberration correcting mechanism and method of assembling the same

An actuator used with an optical pickup includes: a base on which a holder is fixed; a lens holder in which a plurality of installation holes are formed such that a plurality of objective lenses to record and/or reproduce optical discs having different recording densities are installed at different heights; a support member, which movably supports the lens holder, having one end coupled to the lens holder and the other end coupled to the holder; and a magnetic circuit which drives the lens holder in focusing and tracking directions. The plurality of installation holes include a first installation hole in which a first objective lens for at least one type of low density optical disc is installed, and a second installation hole in which a second objective lens for a higher density optical disc than the low density optical disc is installed. When a working distance of the first objective lens for the low density optical disc installed in the first installation hole is represented as WD, and a working distance of the second objective lens for the high density optical disc installed in the second installation hole is represented as WD, the first and second installation holes are provided so that the first and second objective lenses are installed to satisfy the Equation: WD&#x3e;WD, a separation distance between the optical disc and the second objective lens=WD+&#x3b1;, where, &#x3b1;=IWD&#x2212;WD|&#xd7;(0.1-1.0). The second installation hole is located in a more outer circumference of the optical disc than the first installation hole.

Actuator used with an optical pickup

An optical pickup apparatus including a swing arm pivotably installed in a tracking direction with respect to a disc, and an optical pickup unit supported by the swing arm and driven in a focusing direction, wherein the optical pickup unit includes a laser diode, an objective lens to focus light emitted from the laser diode on a recording surface of the disc, and a heat sink plate to dissipate heat generated from the laser diode, wherein the heat sink plate is provided close to the disc so as to be directly exposed to wind generated during rotation of the disc.

Optical pickup apparatus

A compatible optical pickup compatibly using a high density recording medium and at least one low density recording medium, includes an objective lens to form a light spot suitable for use on a recording surface of the high density recording medium by focusing a corresponding incident light beam with a high NA suitable for the high density recording medium and a light spot suitable for use on another recording surface of the low density recording medium by focusing another corresponding incident light beam, and an actuator provided to apply tilt to the objective lens. The light beam for the low density recording medium is incident on the objective lens as a divergent beam. When the objective lens is shifted in a radial direction, a tilt is applied to the objective lens corresponding to the shift.

Compatible optical pickup applying tilt to objective lens in proportion to radial movement of objective lens

An optical pickup including an optical member which inhibits interference light reflected from an adjacent layer from being received by a photodetector when an optical information storage medium includes a plurality of recording layers on at least one side thereof. The optical pickup suppresses a photodetector, especially first and second sub-photodetectors of the photodetector, from receiving the interference light reflected from the adjacent layer.

Optical pickup

An actuator of an optical disk system and an apparatus producing a signal for driving the actuator, the actuator including a light source, with which information is recorded on or reproduced from an optical disk surface. In the actuator, an inner focusing coil and an outer focusing coil are installed near an inner boundary and an outer boundary, respectively, of the optical disk surface. A first signal wire is connected to a first port of the inner focusing coil and transmits an inner coil signal. A second signal wire is connected to a first port of the outer focusing coil and transmits an outer coil signal. A common signal wire is connected to a second port of the inner focusing coil and a second port of the outer focusing coil and transmits a common reference signal. Thus, a simple, inexpensive 8-wire actuator can be obtained.

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Seok-jung Kim