Abstract: An identification label includes: at least one piece of identification information; and a label characteristic value used to designate a characteristic of a shape or a state. At least one piece of identification information and the label characteristic value are associated with each other.

Abstract: A hologram recording medium having two or more images recorded therein, wherein when substantially collimated light is incident along a first direction on the hologram recording medium, a first image is reproduced with the intensity of light diffracted in the hologram recording medium maximized in a predetermined direction, when substantially collimated light is incident along a second direction on the hologram recording medium, a second image is reproduced with the intensity of light diffracted in the hologram recording medium maximized in the predetermined direction, and a full width at half maximum of a reproduction angle of at least either of the diffracted light intensities of the first and second images is 8° or smaller.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an object lens drive device adapted for moving an object lens in a focus direction of optical axis direction and in a tracking direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, and includes a fixed position provided in such a manner that a supporting shaft is projected, a movable portion comprised of an object lens, and a bobbin adapted so that the object lens is attached and a hole through the supporting shaft is inserted is formed, the bobbin being supported movably along the supporting shaft and rotatably with the supporting shaft being as center, a drive portion including a magnet portion provided at either one of the fixed potion and the movable portion, and a coil portion provided at the other portion to move the movable portion along the supporting shaft to thereby move the object lens in the focus direction, and to rotate the bobbin with the supporting shaft being as center to thereby move the object lens in the tracking direction, and supporting means includi

Abstract: The present invention relates to an objective lens driver including: a support base formed of a magnetic material, comprising a base portion, a support shaft projected from the base portion, and a pair of yokes respectively projected in the same direction as the support shaft from both side edges of the base portion and located oppositely to each other with the support shaft therebetween, the yokes having opposed surfaces to which magnets are fitted; and a movable portion supported on the support shaft of the support base so as to be turnable around the axis of the support shaft and slidable in the axial direction of the support shaft, holding an objective lens having an optical axis substantially coinciding with the axial direction of the support shaft, and comprising a focusing coil supplied with a driving current at the time of focusing control of laser light radiated onto a disk type recording medium through the objective lens, and at least a pair of tracking coils supplied with a driving current at the t

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an object lens drive device adapted for moving an object lens in a focus direction of optical axis direction and in a tracking direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, and includes a fixed position provided in such a manner that a supporting shaft is projected, a movable portion comprised of an object lens, and a bobbin adapted so that the object lens is attached and a hole through the supporting shaft is inserted is formed, the bobbin being supported movably along the supporting shaft and rotatably with the supporting shaft being as center, a drive portion including a magnet portion provided at either one of the fixed potion and the movable portion, and a coil portion provided at the other portion to move the movable portion along the supporting shaft to thereby move the object lens in the focus direction, and to rotate the bobbin with the supporting shaft being as center to thereby move the object lens in the tracking direction, and supporting means includi

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an object lens drive device adapted for moving an object lens (21) in a focus direction of optical axis direction and in a tracking direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, and comprises a fixed portion (10) provided in such a manner that a supporting shaft (14) is projected, a movable portion (11) comprised of an object lens (21), and a bobbin (16) adapted so that the object lens (21) is attached and a hole (18) through the supporting shaft is inserted is formed, the bobbin (18) being supported movably along the supporting shaft and rotatably with the supporting shaft being as center, a drive portion including a magnet portion provided at either one of the fixed portion and the movable portion, and a coil portion (22) provided at the other portion to move the movable portion along the supporting shaft to thereby move the object lens in the focus direction, and to rotate the bobbin with the supporting shaft being as center to thereby move the object lens in t

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an object lens drive device adapted for moving an object lens (21) in a focus direction of optical axis direction and in a tracking direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, and comprises a fixed portion (10) provided in such a manner that a supporting shaft (14) is projected, a movable portion (11) comprised of an object lens (21), and a bobbin (16) adapted so that the object lens (21) is attached and a hole (18) through the supporting shaft is inserted is formed, the bobbin (18) being supported movably along the supporting shaft and rotatably with the supporting shaft being as center, a drive portion including a magnet portion provided at either one of the fixed portion and the movable portion, and a coil portion (22) provided at the other portion to move the movable portion along the supporting shaft to thereby move the object lens in the focus direction, and to rotate the bobbin with the supporting shaft being as center to thereby move the object lens in t

Abstract: The present invention relates to an objective lens driver including: a support base formed of a magnetic material, comprising a base portion, a support shaft projected from the base portion, and a pair of yokes respectively projected in the same direction as the support shaft from both side edges of the base portion and located oppositely to each other with the support shaft therebetween, the yokes having opposed surfaces to which magnets are fitted; and a movable portion supported on the support shaft of the support base so as to be turnable around the axis of the support shaft and slidable in the axial direction of the support shaft, holding an objective lens having an optical axis substantially coinciding with the axial direction of the support shaft, and comprising a focusing coil supplied with a driving current at the time of focusing control of laser light radiated onto a disk type recording medium through the objective lens, and at least a pair of tracking coils supplied with a driving current at the t

Abstract: A disk device includes a base that has a support shaft and magnets, and a movable unit that is supported on the support shaft rotatably about the shaft and slidably along the shaft and that has a focusing coil and a tracking coil. The movable unit is constituted in such a way that its first member and its second member are joined together. Provided on the first member are a holder part that holds an objective lens and a supported cylinder part that is supported by the support shaft. Provided on the second member are end part wind-around parts around which are wound the end part of the focusing coil or the end part of the tracking coil, and a coil bobbin part. The first member is formed of a material having greater rigidity and slidability than the second member, and the second member is formed of a non-electrically-conductive material having greater heat resistance than the first member.

Abstract: A disk device includes a base that has a support shaft and magnets; a movable unit that is supported on the support shaft rotatably about the support shaft and slidably along the support shaft, holds an objective lens, and has a focusing coil and a tracking coil, and magnetic members that are formed in linear shape and are attached to the movable unit, and hold the movable unit in a neutral position in a focusing direction and in a tracking direction by attraction of the magnet members to the magnets. The device is used for receiving a disk recording medium for recording or playback by transmitting laser light through an objective lens held by the movable unit.

Abstract: A disk accommodating housing and a recording apparatus which can protect written data in a divisional data area of a recording medium with certainty where the data should not be erased inadvertently or in error are disclosed. A recording medium having first and second areas is accommodated in the housing which has an indicator for indicating one of first, second and third modes. The recording apparatus detects the mode indicated by the indicator and operates in accordance with the mode. In the first mode, writing or erasing operations into or from the first and second areas of the recording medium by a recording head are enabled; in the second mode, a writing operation into the first area is enabled while a writing operation into the second area is inhibited; and in the third mode, writing operations into both of the first and second areas are inhibited.

Abstract: Laser light beams from first and second laser light sources 11 and 12 having different wavelengths are synthesized by a dichroic mirror 16 and irradiated on a magneto-optical disc 20 as a recordable disc and the reflected light is separated into the laser light of the first and second wavelengths. In respect of the laser light of the first wavelength, the phase difference between the P- and S-polarization components produced by the dichroic mirror 16 is compensated by a phase compensation plate 32 and the P-and S-polarization components are separated from each other by a polarization beam splitter 36 so as to be received by photodetector elements 37 and 38, respectively.

Abstract: A disk recording and reproducing apparatus using two light beams has a disk driving section for loading a disk-shaped record medium having recording tracks and for rotating the disk-shaped record medium, an optical system having a light beam generating source, a light beam splitting device for splitting a light beam to provide at least a main beam and a sub beam, an optical path forming device for respectively causing the main beam and the sub beam to become incident on two adjacent recording tracks in the disk-shaped record medium loaded on the disk driving section and a photo-detecting device for detecting the condition that at least the sub beam from the disk-shaped record medium loaded on the disk driving section is affected by the recording track.

Abstract: A disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a cover mounted on a main body for movement between open and closed positions, a disk presser unit operably mounted on the cover of the apparatus such that it cooperates with a spindle drive unit for holding the disk, a holder cover attached to the cover for movement therewith, and a controller to control the holder to permit movement of the disk presser when the cover is in the closed position, so that when the spindle unit and disk table are moved radially relative to the disk, the presser unit is moved as well.

Abstract: In an apparatus for reproducing digitized signals recorded in successive, substantially circular tracks on a rotated disc by means of a pickup of the optical type which, in a normal scanning state, scans the tracks in succession; a first or prepare-to-play command signal causes the pickup to reproduce the digitized signals for a predetermined interval corresponding to more than one of the tracks on the disc starting from a desired position on such one track and the digitized signals reproduced in that predetermined interval are stored, desirably in a random access memory (RAM), whereupon a standby state of the pickup is established in which the pickup traces a closed loop on the rotated disc within a range corresponding to the previously mentioned predetermined interval.

Abstract: An apparatus for playing information recorded on a disc in substantially circular tracks on the latter includes a device for rotating the disc; a pickup for reproducing the information recorded on the disc; a tracking control circuit for adjusting the tracking position of the pickup in forward and reverse transverse directions with respect to the tracks; and a circuit operative through the tracking control circuit for selectively establishing a slow-playback mode and a reverse slow-playback mode in each of which, after the pickup reproduces a respective first predetermined number of the tracks while moving in the forward transverse direction, the tracking position of the pickup is moved in the reverse transverse direction a respective second predetermined integral number of tracks, the second predetermined number of tracks being less than twice the first predetermined number of tracks.