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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 1990
Filed:
Apr. 22, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Keiji Nakatsu, Amagasaki, JP;
Masaharu Ogawa, Amagasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369 32 ;
Abstract
In an optical disk drive apparatus for driving an optical disk having tracks for recording information, an optical head focuses a light beam onto a spot on a track on the optical disk, and an actuator moves the optical head, thereby causing the spot of the light beam to move from its current track to a target track in order to access the target track. A track counter counts the tracks moved by the spot of the light beam. The counting of tracks is disabled for an interval at the start of each track access operation to prevent miscounting caused by jitter that occurs when initiating a track access operation.