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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 1989
Filed:
Mar. 24, 1988
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A retract device includes a signal instruction circuit for providing the number of tracks to be traversed, the access start instruction, and the retract instruction and the reference voltage generating circuit responsive to these instructions to provide the residual track number and the carriage moving signal and operates such that, immediately before the drive device is to stop operating a carriage having an optical head mounted thereon is moved by an access operation from a track to a first predetermined position according to the access start instruction, and is then moved from the first predetermined position to a second predetermined position according to the retract instruction at a predetermined reference speed.