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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 1990

Filed:

Nov. 02, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:

Naoki Masaki, Saitama, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369 32 ; 358907 ; 360 7804 ; 369 33 ; 369 45 ; 369 54 ;
Abstract

In an optical disk player including a focus servo system for forming a data detection light spot on a recording disk and a tracking servo system for producing a tracking error signal to control the position of the light spot relative to a recording track, an address search method is provided in which the movement of the light spot is controlled according to a track pulse formed according to the level of the tracking error signal. When it is determined that no track pulse has been produced for a predetermined period of time, the track jumping operation of the light spot is suspended and the abnormal condition of the focus servo system corrected. Track jumping can then be recommenced.


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