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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2002
Applicant:
Takumi Matsui, Hachioji, JP;
Inventor:
Takumi Matsui, Hachioji, JP;
Assignee:
Konica Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An optical pickup apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information for an optical information recording medium having a plurality of information recording layers, comprising: a light source to emit a light flux; and a converging optical system to converge the light flux emitted from the light source onto each information recording layer of the plurality of information recording layers. The converging optical system converges a light flux having an image side-numerical aperture of 1.0 or more onto the each information recording layer so as to conduct recording and/or reproducing information for the each information recording layer.