Sony Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Toshiyuki Kase

Kunio Nakazato

Norikatsu Inoue

Kazutaka Noborimoto

An information recording and reproducing system comprises a host device, and an information recording and reproducing device connected with the host device via a host interface. The host device includes a control-command issuing unit issuing a control command to the information recording and reproducing device. The control command causes a data-recording interrupting-resuming unit of the information recording and reproducing device either or not to perform the interruption and resumption of the recording. The information recording and reproducing device includes a data-recording interruption-resumption control unit controlling the data-recording interrupting-resuming unit either or not to perform the interruption and resumption of the recording, according to the control command received from the host device. The interruption and resumption of the recording is performed by linking an end point of data upon the interruption with a start point of the data upon the resumption so as to maintain a continuity of the data.

Information recording and reproducing system enabling a selection of whether or not to perform an interruption and resumption of a data-recording

A position detecting apparatus comprising a magnet secured to a movable body (lens holder) which is movable along a shaft body when the shaft body is inserted, the magnet having polarity which is alternately magnetized at a predetermined interval, and a magneto-resistance effect element which is positioned and fixed so as to be confronted to the magnet at a predetermined gap interval by an MR holder with the shaft body being used as a securing position reference, and the magneto-resistance effect element serving to obtain a position detection signal for the movable body through variation of a resistance value thereof which is caused by magnetic field of the magnet through movement of the movable body.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Toshiyuki Kase