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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 09, 1998
Kenji Nagashima, Suita, JP;
Akihiro Sakaguchi, Kawachinagano, JP;
Hiroshi Gotou, Munakata, JP;
Youichi Saitou, Hirakata, JP;
Matushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An optical head device of the present invention includes: a semiconductor laser for emitting a light beam; a first optical element for converting the light beam emitted from the semiconductor laser into collimated light having an elliptic beam shape; shaping means for shaping the beam shape of the collimated light from an ellipse to a circle; and a second optical element for directing the collimated light having the beam shape which has been shaped into a circle onto an optical information recording medium. The semiconductor laser is located so that a short axis direction of the ellipse is substantially parallel to a rotation axis direction of the optical information recording medium.