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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:
Dec. 17, 1991
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yoshitaka Takahashi, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroshi Koide, Machida, JP;
Hiroshi Gotoh, Kawasaki, JP;
Masami Emoto, Yokohama, JP;
Syuichi Honda, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369112 ; 369 13 ; 369110 ; 369116 ; 360 59 ; 360114 ;
Abstract
An optical pickup device for recording, reproducing or erasing an information, comprises a sole semiconductor laser beam source for emitting a luminous flux, a polarizer for receiving the luminous flux emitted from the sole semiconductor laser beam source and dividing the received luminous flux into a plurality of luminous fluxes, and a sole object lens for receiving a plurality of the divided luminous fluxes and converging each of a plurality of the received luminous fluxes on small spots on an optical information recording medium, respectively.