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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2004
Applicant:
Hiroshi Maegawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroshi Maegawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., , JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides an optical pickup device that is resistant to noise in a signal or an RF signal outputted from each light receiving member. Current signals outputted from the light receiving members are converted into voltage signals by I/V converters. The voltage signals are then added up by an adder, and then the added voltage signal is attenuated by an attenuator, so as to obtain an RF signal having the same signal level as the voltage signal outputted from each I/V converter. The RF signal is then transmitted from the optical pickup device to a circuit substrate through a signal line.