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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/100 ;
Abstract
To inspect a disc-shaped recording medium accurately, promptly and nondestructively, a laser light emitted from a laser generator is irradiated through an optical fiber a rotatable diffusion plate and an objective lens to the surface of a disc A solid-state image sensing device detects a return component of the light, reflected from the surface of the disc A processor processes the output image from the solid-state image sensing device to inspect the configuration of the signal recording surface of the disc