Patents by Inventor Yoshikazu Mitsui
Yoshikazu Mitsui has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 7855940Abstract: A pickup lens with a phase compensator is composed of a condenser lens and a phase compensator. At least one surface of the condenser lens has a step-like annular zone structure to compensate wavefront aberration generated when recording and reproducing data on an information recording medium having a substrate thickness of t1 with a laser beam having a wavelength ?1 and wavefront aberration generated when recording and reproducing data on an information recording medium having a substrate thickness of t2 with a laser beam having a wavelength ?2. The phase compensator compensates wavefront aberration generated when recording and reproducing data on an information recording medium having a substrate thickness of t3 with a laser beam having a wavelength ?3.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2009Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Koichiro Wakabayashi, Keiko Hirao, Mitsuhiro Miyauchi, Yutaka Makino, Yasuyuki Sugi, Yoshikazu Mitsui
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Publication number: 20090285080Abstract: A pickup lens with a phase compensator is composed of a condenser lens and a phase compensator. At least one surface of the condenser lens has a step-like annular zone structure to compensate wavefront aberration generated when recording and reproducing data on an information recording medium having a substrate thickness of t1 with a laser beam having a wavelength ?1 and wavefront aberration generated when recording and reproducing data on an information recording medium having a substrate thickness of t2 with a laser beam having a wavelength ?2. The phase compensator compensates wavefront aberration generated when recording and reproducing data on an information recording medium having a substrate thickness of t3 with a laser beam having a wavelength ?3.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2009Publication date: November 19, 2009Applicant: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Koichiro WAKABAYASHI, Keiko Hirao, Mitsuhiro Miyauchi, Yutaka Makino, Yasuyuki Sugi, Yoshikazu Mitsui
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Patent number: 7586815Abstract: A pickup lens with a phase compensator is composed of a condenser lens and a phase compensator. At least one surface of the condenser lens has a step-like annular zone structure to compensate wavefront aberration generated when recording and reproducing data on an information recording medium having a substrate thickness of t1 with a laser beam having a wavelength ?1 and wavefront aberration generated when recording and reproducing data on an information recording medium having a substrate thickness of t2 with a laser beam having a wavelength ?2. The phase compensator compensates wavefront aberration generated when recording and reproducing data on an information recording medium having a substrate thickness of t3 with a laser beam having a wavelength ?3.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2005Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Koichiro Wakabayashi, Keiko Hirao, Mitsuhiro Miyauchi, Yutaka Makino, Yasuyuki Sugi, Yoshikazu Mitsui
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Publication number: 20080181090Abstract: An objective lens optical system includes a light beam splitting element and an objective lens and is configured to focus a light beam with a wavelength ? on an information recording surface of a first optical recording medium as a dual/double layer disc having a transparent substrate with a thickness t1 and to focus a light beam with a wavelength ? on an information recording surface of a second optical recording medium as a dual/double layer disc having a transparent substrate with a thickness t2 (t1<t2). The light beam splitting element is sectioned into regions that are designed to focus a light beams on an information recording surface of either one of the first optical recording medium and the second optical recording medium. Either one region has a negative or positive power so that a light focus position of a light beam having passed through the first region by the objective lens and a light focus position of a light beam having passed through the second region by the objective lens are different.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2007Publication date: July 31, 2008Applicant: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Mitsuhiro Miyauchi, Koichiro Wakabayashi, Yoshikazu Mitsui, Tomonori Kanai, Yasuyuki Sugi
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Publication number: 20080106997Abstract: An objective lens optical system focuses a light beam with a wavelength ?1 on an information recording surface of a first optical recording medium including a transparent substrate with a thickness t1, a light beam with the wavelength ?1 on an information recording surface of a second optical recording medium including a transparent substrate with a thickness t2, and a light beam with a wavelength ?3 on an information recording surface of a third optical recording medium including a transparent substrate with a thickness t3, by using a refraction action. Sectioning the area of the objective lens optical system is applied to a compatible technique for the same wavelengths, and generating an aberration for canceling a chromatic aberration caused by a difference in wavelength ? of the light beam is applied to a compatible technique for different wavelengths.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2007Publication date: May 8, 2008Applicant: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Tomonori Kanai, Takesuke Maruyama, Koichiro Wakabayashi, Yoshikazu Mitsui, Mitsuhiro Miyauchi, Yasuyuki Sugi
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Publication number: 20080019256Abstract: There is provided an optical pickup system which includes a first light source emitting first light having a wavelength ?1, a second light source emitting second light having a wavelength ?2 longer than the wavelength ?1, a third light source emitting third light having a wavelength ?3 longer than the wavelength ?2, and an objective lens focusing the first light on an information recording surface of a first optical recording medium, focusing the second light on an information recording surface of a second optical recording medium, and focusing the third light on an information recording surface of a third optical recording medium. In the optical pickup system, at least one lens surface of the objective lens is divided into a plurality of concentric sections with an optical axis, having a step at each boundary between the sections, each of the sections has a different aspherical shape and m1>m2>0 and ?0.060?m3??0.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2007Publication date: January 24, 2008Applicant: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Mitsuhiro Miyauchi, Koichiro Wakabayashi, Yoshikazu Mitsui, Yasuyuki Sugi, Yutaka Makino
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Publication number: 20060098564Abstract: An information-recording medium of write once or rewritable type designed to have narrow tracks is provided, in which the wobble signal amplitude is scarcely fluctuated by crosstalk. The medium includes recording tracks formed in a spiral form and meandering at a predetermined wobble cycle T, and a plurality of zones constituting each of the recording tracks, each of the zones having a principal area formed to have a predetermined wobble phase. A relationship of T>80b holds between the wobble cycle T and a channel bit length b of recording data. The wobble phase of one of the recording tracks is adjusted so that an average phase difference d is d>?/2 between the wobble phase in the principal area in the zone and a wobble phase of an area in the recording track disposed adjacently on an inner circumferential side or an outer circumferential side of the principal area, in relation to all of the recording tracks disposed adjacently in the radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2005Publication date: May 11, 2006Applicant: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Toshinori Sugiyama, Reiji Tamura, Tamotsu Iida, Yoshikazu Mitsui
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Publication number: 20060083122Abstract: A pickup lens with a phase compensator is composed of a condenser lens and a phase compensator. At least one surface of the condenser lens has a step-like annular zone structure to compensate wavefront aberration generated when recording and reproducing data on an information recording medium having a substrate thickness of t1 with a laser beam having a wavelength ?1 and wavefront aberration generated when recording and reproducing data on an information recording medium having a substrate thickness of t2 with a laser beam having a wavelength ?2. The phase compensator compensates wavefront aberration generated when recording and reproducing data on an information recording medium having a substrate thickness of t3 with a laser beam having a wavelength ?3.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2005Publication date: April 20, 2006Applicant: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Koichiro Wakabayashi, Keiko Hirao, Mitsuhiro Miyauchi, Yutaka Makino, Yasuyuki Sugi, Yoshikazu Mitsui