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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:
Jul. 06, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 28, 1998
Konica Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an optical pick-up apparatus having a laser beam source and an objective lens to converge the luminous flux from the laser beam source onto the information recording surface of an optical information recording medium through a transparent substrate of the optical information recording medium such as CDs or DVDs, and specifically relates to a technology to move a divergence degree changing means such as a collimator lens or the like, in the direction of the optical axis, and/or to a technology to move the laser beam source in the direction of the optical axis, corresponding to the thickness of the transparent substrate of the optical information recording medium, in order to read information from plural types of optical information recording mediums having different transparent substrate thickness.
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