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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:
Oct. 20, 1998

Filed:

Feb. 05, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:

Isao Kimura, Tokyo, JP;

Shinichi Tanaka, Kamakura, JP;

Hiroyuki Oshikiri, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369 59 ; 369 58 ; 369 50 ;
Abstract

An optical disk apparatus has a data recording circuit for recording user data in a data portion of a sector on an optical disk. The optical disk is formed with a plurality of tracks in a concentric circular shape or spiral shape on the surface thereof and is possible of data write based on a sector unit. Each track is segmented into a plurality of sectors. The apparatus also has a detection circuit for detecting a resynchro pattern recorded together with user data from a regenerative signal obtained from the data portion of a sector before recording user data in the sector, a count circuit for counting a number of resynchro patterns detected, and an overwrite preventive circuit for stopping recording data on the sector when a count value of the count circuit is not less than a predetermined value.


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