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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 09, 1996
Shingo Sagata, Tamana, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
It is an object to provide an optical disk driving method and apparatus with the consumption power reduced. The optical disk driving apparatus includes a synchronizing clock generator 6 for generating a clock in synchronism with a reproduced signal, a synchronized state discriminator 17 for deciding if the frequency of the reproduced signal is within a synchronized range, and a spindle controller 18a for controlling the spindle to be stopped from being driven and thus left running by inertia when the frequency of the reproduced signal is decided to be within the synchronized range, but controlling the spindle to be driven so that the frequency of the reproduced signal can be pulled in the synchronized range immediately before the frequency of the reproduced signal goes out of the synchronized range. A spindle controller 18b in another example of the invention, when the frequency of the reproduced signal is decided to be out of an allowable synchronized range, controls the spindle motor 2 to be driven by the driving output with its peak-to-peak value and driving time changed in accordance with the current revolution rate so that the frequency of the reproduced signal can be pulled in the allowable synchronized range.