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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2010
Yorio Takahashi, Ehime, JP;
Yorio Takahashi, Ehime, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention avoids a case in which a pickup lens and a lens protector come into contact with a structure of a disk cartridge and are damaged. When an operation distance is short and there is a disk cartridgeand the disk cartridgeis not an exclusive cartridge, a moving range of the pickupis restricted or an actuating operation thereafter is stopped depending upon whether the optical disk mediumloaded into the optical disk apparatus is an optical disk medium having a short operation distance, whether there is a disk cartridge, and whether a structure of the disk cartridgeis prevented from coming into contact with a pickup lens or the lens protector which is exclusive for the optical disk medium having the short operation distance.
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