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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiroshi Miyazawa, Tokorozawa, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Kenwood, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/00 ;
Abstract
The size of a collimator lens is reduced to make compact an optical pickup device. The collimator lens has a size which allows an object lens to receive collimated light on the whole surface thereof. Although the objective lens is displaced in a radial direction R (perpendicular to a track) by track servo control, it is not displaced in a tangential direction T (track direction). Therefore, the length of the collimator lens in the tangential direction T can be made shorter than that in the radial direction R.