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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:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/00 ;
Abstract
This optical disk device includes an objective lens ( ) for condensing radiated light from a light source on an optical disk ( ), an optical detecting unit for detecting reflected light from the optical disk ( ), and a control unit for performing the tracking control and/or the tilt control of the objective lens ( ) by utilizing the output from the optical detecting unit, in which the control unit uses the off-track quantity and/or the tilt quantity of the objective lens ( ) when performing the above described control.