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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 1997
Filed:
Jan. 30, 1996
Hideaki Miyahara, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ATF error signal is formed from a reproduction RF signal and supplied to an ATF discriminating unit 4 through an A/D converter by an ATF error arithmetic operation unit 1. The presence or absence of an ATF component is discriminated and supplied to a clog discrimination processing unit 5 by the ATF discriminating unit 4. The ATF discrimination processing unit 5 determines that a head clog has occurred in the case where the ATF component exists and the RF signal which is supplied from an RF discriminating unit 9 doesn't exist. A head cleaning is executed by controlling a loading motor 16 by a motor driver 14 on the basis of a cleaning process control 11 and making a head cleaning mechanism 17 operative.