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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:
May. 21, 2002

Filed:

Jun. 09, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:

Satoshi Yamashita, Kawasaki, JP;

Yasuaki Morimoto, Kawasaki, JP;

Motohiro Ito, Kawasaki, JP;

Assignee:

Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;

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

An optical storage unit which uses a light beam to record information on and/or reproduce information from a recording medium. The recording medium is provided with at least one land and at least one groove, and information is recorded in plural sectors in each of the land(s) and groove(s). The optical storage unit includes an optical phase adjuster for adjusting a phase of a polarization component of the light beam reflected from the recording medium based on a track type determination of a target address. An optical pickup is provided for reproducing information recorded on the recording medium using the phase-adjusted polarization component of the light beam.


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