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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:
Feb. 19, 2002

Filed:

Jul. 16, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:

Sohmei Endoh, Miyagi, JP;

Katsuhiko Ohtomo, Miyagi, JP;

Mitsuo Arima, Miyagi, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/24 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/24 ;
Abstract

In an optical recording medium having formed along recording tracks thereon pits indicative of information signal, a ratio Pw/Tp where Pw is the width of the pit and Tp is the pitch of the tracks is within a range of 0.4 to 0.55. The push-pull method or differential push-pull method is adopted for tracking servo control of the optical recording medium.


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