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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 04, 1999
Yoshinobu Ohtachi, Narashino, JP;
Hirotaka Namiki, Narashino, JP;
Akira Shimada, Narashino, JP;
Yutaka Segawa, Narashino, JP;
Ikuo Muto, Narashino, JP;
Seiko Instruments Inc., , JP;
Abstract
Conventional disk recording and reproducing apparatuses have addressed a shortcoming that they cannot correct squareness errors and misalignments caused by the warpage of a disk and the eccentricity of the center hole of the disk and of the center of curvature of signal tracks. To overcome this shortcoming, a disk recording and reproducing apparatus of the present invention comprises: magnetic bearing means capable of supporting a rotary body and adjusting a relative position of the rotary body; a pickup for irradiating, with a laser beam, a recording surface of a disk mounted on a table arranged on the rotary body and receiving the laser beam reflected by the recording surface; detection means for calculating a relative positional relationship between the disk and a focal position of the laser beam based on a signal from the pickup; and control means for adjusting the position of the rotary body by controlling the magnetic bearing means.