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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 12, 2016
Applicant:

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Kazuo Momoo, Osaka, JP;

Yuichi Takahashi, Nara, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/0045 (2006.01); G11B 20/18 (2006.01); G11B 20/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 20/1879 (2013.01); G11B 7/0045 (2013.01); G11B 20/10305 (2013.01);
Abstract

The recording and reproducing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a light source; an optical system configured to divide a beam from the light source, and to form a first optical spot and a second optical spot on a recording medium; a recording circuit configured to drive the light source and to modulate a light amount of the light source, and further to record the information on the recording medium by the first optical spot by modulating the light amount of the light source based on information; and an evaluation circuit configured to evaluate the information recorded on the recording medium by reproducing by the second optical spot in a period in which the recording circuit causes the light source to emit the beam at a constant light amount.


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