Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a package of a volatile substance, which comprises a bag having a volatile substance with an antibacterial action enclosed therein, and a case having the bag enclosed therein, wherein the case is allowed to have a size and shape complying with the amount of a volatile substance having permeated the bag so that the shape of the case can be adapted to the volumes and shapes of various air conditioners, while the volatile substance can be volatilized at a predetermined rate.

Abstract: There is provided a low-cost and reliable optical pickup device, wherein an objective lens is in contact with an adhesive at least one or more portions and fixed to the adhesive and also the height of the adhesive for fixing the objective lens is higher than the surface of the objective lens or the end of the objective lens, thereby a sufficient adhesive strength is secured between the objective lens and a member to which the objective lens is adhered and further this adhesive serves also as a disc protector.

Abstract: An objective lens actuator 25, for driving an objective lens 1 for focusing lights upon a recoding surface of an optical disc, comprises a moving part 2, which comprises the objective lens 1 and a coil; a magnet, which is fixed on a yoke and drives the moving part 2; a plural number of elastic support parts, each of which supports the moving part 2 at an end thereof; a first fixing portion 5a and a second fixing portion 5b, which fix other ends of the plural number of elastic support parts 4 and are disposed opposite to each other in a focus direction; and a moving mechanism 6, which is provided on the first and second fixing portion 5a and 5b, so that the first and second fixing portions 5a and 5b can move in the focus direction, relatively, and thereby providing the objective lens actuator 25 enabling to reduce the dynamic relative tilt between the optical disc and the objective lens 1 (i.e.

Abstract: An object lens drive unit in which an undesired displacement or inclination of an object lens with respect to an optical disc is reduced. The position at which a lens holder for the object lens is supported by a pair of rod-shaped elastic support members in the focusing direction substantially coincides with the center of the tracking coil in the focusing direction.

Abstract: In an object lens actuator, stiffness of a lens holder is improved and the higher order resonance frequency is sufficiently increased. The stiffness of the lens holder is improved by providing a flat plate perpendicular to the focusing direction between the side wall of a lens holding part and the outer sidewall along the tracking direction at approximately the middle of both ends of the lens holder along the focusing direction.

Abstract: An optical pickup, mounting a lens actuator 101 thereon, the lens actuator comprises: a lens 1 having an optical axis in direction in parallel with an optical disc; a holder 2, which holds the lens thereon; a first guide shaft 3 holding the holder, so as to regulate the holder to change a position thereof, into an inner surface direction of a surface having the optical axis of the lens as a normal line vector thereof; a second guide shaft 4, which regulates the holder to change the position thereof, into a normal line vector of an optical disc; and a reed screw, which moves the holder into direction of the optical axis of the lens, wherein a distance between the optical axis of the lens and the optical disc, a distance between a central axis of the first guide shaft and the optical disc, and a distance between a central axis of the second guide shaft and the optical disc are lager than a distance between a central axis of the reed screw and the optical disc.

Abstract: An objective lens actuator that can accommodate higher density and speed is provided by improving frequency characteristics of an objective lens. The objective lens actuator includes an objective lens, a cylindrical lens holder that holds the objective lens, and a reinforcement part disposed in an opening opposite to the objective lens of the lens holder. The reinforcement part has a size that occupies one third to one half of the cylindrical wall of the lens holder from the end of an aperture along the optical axis. In this range, the high order resonance frequencies of the lens holder can be increased, and therefore, it is possible to obtain an objective lens actuator that can minimize the vibration amplitude at the high order resonance frequencies.

Abstract: Cellulose granules small enough such that they can be retained in a cigarette filter and capable of carrying sufficient amounts of volatile functional substance and vaporizing it easily. The cellulose granules are obtained from an extrusion granulating step and a spheronizing step, with smaller variability in particle diameter than that of conventional cellulose granules. Cellulose fibers with an average fiber length of 0.1 mm to 0.5 mm and an average polymerization degree of 400 to 1200 are used.

Abstract: The invention can obtain an excellent linear property in a focusing direction and a tracking direction and can obtain a stable operation, in an objective lens driving means of an optical pickup. In an optical pickup reading and writing an information with respect to an optical disc by using an objective lens, a movable portion mounting the objective lens thereon is supported by a support member constituted by a pair of flexible printed circuit boards respectively curved in opposite directions in a parallel direction to an optical axis of the objective lens so as to be movable with respect to a fixed portion, in both side surfaces of the movable portion facing with holding the objective lens therebetween.

Abstract: The present invention provides an object lens actuator, an optical pickup, and an optical disk drive, which can increase the size of the object lens actuator driving a lens holder in the tangential tilt direction, and drive and control the lens holder with a small amount of drive current. An object lens actuator comprising a lens holder having an object lens and a first coil; a first magnet fixed to a yoke; plural elastic support parts for supporting said lens holder with a first fulcrum; a moving part for supporting said elastic support parts with a second fulcrum different from said first fulcrum, and a fixed part having a moving mechanism for moving said moving part, wherein said first coil and said first magnet constitute a first magnetic circuit, said first magnetic circuit makes said lens holder movable in a focusing direction, a tracking direction and a radial tilt direction of an optical disk for read/write, and said moving mechanism makes said moving part movable.

Abstract: A liquid containing a hydrophilic polymer is applied by spreading or impregnation to a porous sheet comprising paper or a nonwoven fabric containing not less than 30% by weight and not more than 100% by weight of hydrophilic fiber to provide a hydrophilic polymer-processed sheet of which the surface and/or the interior of the porous sheet is filled with the hydrophilic polymer, which is made insoluble to water. This sheet is used as a sheet for a total heat exchanger which has higher conductivity of sensible heat and latent heat than conventional sheet for a total heat exchanger that uses a moisture permeable membrane.

Abstract: In an optical pickup, it is configured such that a first and a second thrust bearings of a motor rotation shaft, a lens holder to be moved in a thrust direction by the motor rotation shaft, and a preload unit which exerts preload of the thrust direction on the lens holder are included, and the second thrust bearing can adjust a position in the thrust direction. In addition, the first and second thrust bearings and the motor rotation shaft are made of conductor, and the optical pickup is manufactured by including the processes of: moving the second thrust bearing in a direction approaching to the motor rotation shaft till electrical continuity between the first thrust bearing and the second thrust bearing is obtained using an electrical continuity checker; subsequently moving the second thrust bearing in a direction departing from the motor rotation shaft; and subsequently fixing the second thrust bearing to the base.

Abstract: In a lens actuator on which a first lens and a second lens are mounted, since the first lens and the second lens are disposed side by side, a problem is involved such that the lens actuator is bulky. The present invention provides a lens actuator comprising a first lens and a second lens having different optical paths, disposed between a light emitting element and an object lens, a holder for holding the first lens and second lens such that the optical axes of the first lens and second lens are parallel to each other, and a driving mechanism for driving the first lens and second lens each in the optical axis directions, wherein the first lens and second lens have respective outer periphery parts respectively outside the effective diameter, and the outer periphery parts of the first lens and the second lens are disposed to be partially overlapped with each other when viewed from the first lens and second lens optical axis direction.

Abstract: It is an object of this invention to increase the rigidity of a movable part and decrease its weight. An objective lens driving apparatus has an objective lens which focuses light on the recording surface of an optical disk. The objective lens is driven by focusing coils in directions approaching and receding from the optical disk and is driven by tracking coils in the radial direction of the optical disk. The objective lens is held by a lens holder. A projecting part projecting outward from the outer side surfaces of the lens holder is formed around the entire peripheral edge of the bottom surface of the lens holder.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a package of a volatile substances which comprises a bag having a volatile substance with an antibacterial action enclosed therein, and a case having the bag enclosed therein, wherein the case is allowed to have a size and shape complying with the amount of a volatile substance having permeated the bag so that the shape of the case can be adapted to the volumes and shapes of various air conditioners, while the volatile substance can be volatilized at a predetermined rate.

Abstract: An aspect of the invention provides an optical pickup in which an optical axis is not displaced even if ambient temperature is changed. The optical pickup of the invention has an optical unit and an optical pickup case. The optical unit has a lens member having an optical axis, and the optical axis of the lens member is offset to one side from the center of the optical unit. The optical pickup case holds the optical unit from both sides. A thermal expansion amount of the optical unit is absorbed by compression amounts of a first adhesive and a second adhesive such that the optical axis of the lens member is not displaced when the optical unit is thermal expanded.

Abstract: The invention provides an objective lens driving apparatus in which an efficiency of a magnetic circuit is improved by making a magnetic flux density distribution of the objective lens driving apparatus close to symmetrical. An objective lens driving apparatus has an objective lens, a tracking coil driving the objective lens in a tracking direction, a focusing coil driving the objective lens in a focusing direction, and a yoke arranged so as to oppose to the tracking coil and having a permanent magnet attached thereto. The yoke has a bottom plate portion and an outer yoke bent approximately perpendicularly to the bottom plate portion from an outer edge portion of the bottom plate portion, has a first yoke having an opening formed in a center portion thereof, and a second yoke having a bottom plate portion and an inner yoke bent approximately perpendicularly to the bottom plate portion from an inner edge portion of the bottom plate portion, and having an opening formed in a center portion thereof.

Abstract: In an optical pickup, it is configured such that a first and a second thrust bearings of a motor rotation shaft, a lens holder to be moved in a thrust direction by the motor rotation shaft, and a preload unit which exerts preload of the thrust direction on the lens holder are included, and the second thrust bearing can adjust a position in the thrust direction. In addition, the first and second thrust bearings and the motor rotation shaft are made of conductor, and the optical pickup is manufactured by including the processes of: moving the second thrust bearing in a direction approaching to the motor rotation shaft till electrical continuity between the first thrust bearing and the second thrust bearing is obtained using an electrical continuity checker; subsequently moving the second thrust bearing in a direction departing from the motor rotation shaft; and subsequently fixing the second thrust bearing to the base.

Abstract: In a lens actuator on which a first lens and a second lens are mounted, since the first lens and the second lens are disposed side by side, a problem is involved such that the lens actuator is bulky. The present invention provides a lens actuator comprising a first lens and a second lens having different optical paths, disposed between a light emitting element and an object lens, a holder for holding the first lens and second lens such that the optical axes of the first lens and second lens are parallel to each other, and a driving mechanism for driving the first lens and second lens each in the optical axis directions, wherein the first lens and second lens have respective outer periphery parts respectively outside the effective diameter, and the outer periphery parts of the first lens and the second lens are disposed to be partially overlapped with each other when viewed from the first lens and second lens optical axis direction.

Abstract: An objective lens actuator that can accommodate higher density and speed is provided by improving frequency characteristics of an objective lens. The objective lens actuator includes an objective lens, a cylindrical lens holder that holds the objective lens, and a reinforcement part disposed in an opening opposite to the objective lens of the lens holder. The reinforcement part has a size that occupies one third to one half of the cylindrical wall of the lens holder from the end of an aperture along the optical axis. In this range, the high order resonance frequencies of the lens holder can be increased, and therefore, it is possible to obtain an objective lens actuator that can minimize the vibration amplitude at the high order resonance frequencies.