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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1997
Yukio Miyazaki, Saku, JP;
Masaru Ikebe, Saku, JP;
Takateru Satoh, Saku, JP;
Mitsuo Watanabe, Komoro, JP;
Haruo Shiba, Komoro, JP;
Toshihiko Ishida, Komoro, JP;
TDK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cleaning disc cartridge capable of concurrently cleaning both a magnetic head of a magneto-optical disc apparatus and an optical lens thereof without causing any error in reading of a signal. A rotating disc is provided on one surface thereof opposite to a magnetic head of the apparatus with a head cleaning member and on the other surface thereof opposite to an objective lens of the apparatus with lens cleaning members. The rotating disc includes a disc body which is provided with an inventory region defined on an inner peripheral side of a lens cleaning member arrangement region, a reproduction-only region defined on an outer peripheral side of the lens cleaning member arrangement region, and an information recording and reproducing region outside the reproduction-only region.