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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. 16, 2001

Filed:

Oct. 16, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Lieu-Kim Dang, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;

Christoph Dietrich, Villingen, DE;

Hartmut Richter, Villingen, DE;

Heinz-Joerg Schroeder, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;

Assignee:

Deutsche Thomson-Brandt GmbH, Villingen-Schwennigen, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/00 ;
Abstract

A dual wavelength optical pickup head in which as many same parts as possible are used as well to direct light beams incident than light beams reflected from a reflective layer of an optical disk. The reuse of as many parts as possible allows to and a second wavelength emitted by a first and a second light source to an optical disk, a dual focus lens objective for focusing said light beams on a layer of said optical disk and a single detector which allows to detect light beams of either said first or said second wavelength.


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