Optical Head Servo System Structure Patents (Class 369/44.14)
  • Patent number: 11921224
    Abstract: A system includes at least one sensing unit, the sensing unit including a sensing element. The system includes at least one spatial Lorentz filter coupled to the sensing element. The spatial Lorentz filter (SLF) includes an input coupled to the sensing element and an analog to digital converter (ADC) providing a filtered output signal. The sensing unit is connected to a processor configured for determining velocity or position with respect to a magnetic field and/or a geographic position by processing SLF output signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ARCHAIUS INC.
    Inventor: Frederick Vosburgh
  • Patent number: 11848496
    Abstract: A communication device includes a system board that includes a plurality of chips. Each chip in plurality of chips includes a plurality of antennas. A system cover coupled to system board includes a plurality of lenses. Each lens is configured to cover an antenna of plurality of antennas as a radome enclosure. Each lens includes a base, and a first tubular membrane coupled to base. A second membrane coupled to first tubular membrane. First tubular membrane and Second membrane cause the lens to have a bell shape. A support structure coupled to first tubular membrane. Support structure facilitates coupling of plurality of lenses to system cover. Each chip comprises a feeder array that further comprises a plurality of antenna elements that are positioned at a proximal distance from base of a lens, A distribution of a gain of input RF signals is substantially equalized across plurality of antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Movandi Corporation
    Inventors: Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Alfred Grau Besoli, Seunghwan Yoon, Farid Shirinfar, Sam Gharavi, Michael Boers, Maryam Rofougaran, Enver Adas, Kartik Sridharan
  • Patent number: 11715884
    Abstract: A communication device includes a system board that includes a plurality of chips. Each chip in plurality of chips includes a plurality of antennas. A system cover coupled to system board includes a plurality of lenses. Each lens is configured to cover an antenna of plurality of antennas as a radome enclosure. Each lens includes a base, and a first tubular membrane coupled to base. A second membrane coupled to first tubular membrane. First tubular membrane and Second membrane cause the lens to have a bell shape. A support structure coupled to first tubular membrane. Support structure facilitates coupling of plurality of lenses to system cover. Each chip comprises a feeder array that further comprises a plurality of antenna elements that are positioned at a proximal distance from base of a lens, A distribution of a gain of input RF signals is substantially equalized across plurality of antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Movandi Corporation
    Inventors: Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Alfred Grau Besoli, Seunghwan Yoon, Farid Shirinfar, Sam Gharavi, Michael Boers, Maryam Rofougaran, Enver Adas, Kartik Sridharan
  • Patent number: 11698249
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high-stability nano-radian-order angle measuring method and device based on drift value feedback, belonging to the technical field of precision measurement and the field of optical engineering. The device consists of LED light sources, convex lenses, multi-slit diaphragms, beam splitters, deflecting mirrors, steering mirrors, a collimator objective set, linear array CCDs, a four-quadrant position detector and a plane mirror. The method includes: enabling two paths of measuring light beams to carry angle change information of a measured object, respectively forming respective images on two sensors, and calculating a pitch angle and a yaw angle of the measured object relative to an optical axis by using positions of the two images so as to achieve the detection capability on the angle change of the measured object. While a focal distance of the objective is greatly improved by using the collimator objective set, the linear array CCDs are used as sensors to improve a measuring range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jiubin Tan, Jian Shi, Yang Yu
  • Patent number: 11586144
    Abstract: A printing device (106) includes a laser source and a LCOS-SLM (Liquid Crystal on Silicon Spatial Light Modulator). The printing device generates a laser control signal and a LCOS-SLM control signal. The laser source (110) generates a plurality of incident laser beams based on the laser control signal. The LCOS-SLM (112) receives the plurality of incident laser beams, modulates the plurality of incident laser beams based on the LCOS-SLM control signal to generate a plurality of holographic wavefronts (214,216) from the modulated plurality of incident laser beams. Each holographic wavefront forms at least one corresponding focal point. The printing device cures a surface layer or sub-surface layer (406) of a target material (206) at interference points of focal points of the plurality of holographic wavefronts. The cured surface layer of the target material forms a three-dimensional printed content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Dualitas Ltd
    Inventor: Brian Mullins
  • Patent number: 11335831
    Abstract: An optical device case (100A) of an embodiment includes: a light-transmitting window member (20A); and a housing (10) which has a space for accommodating a light-receiving element and/or a light-emitting element (OE), wherein the window member (20A) includes a light-transmitting member (22), a polymer film (50) provided on an outer surface of the light-transmitting member (22), the polymer film (50) having a moth-eye structure at its surface, a contact angle of the surface with respect to water being not less than 140°, and a resistance heater (24) provided on an inner surface of the light-transmitting member (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, GEOMATEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Hayashi, Hiroyuki Sugawara
  • Patent number: 10862384
    Abstract: A linear actuator includes: a coil that is movably provided; a coil yoke that is provided to move integrally with the coil; a first side yoke portion that extends outside of the coil; a second side yoke portion that is surrounded by the coil, extends, and is opposed to the first side yoke portion; and a magnet that forms a magnetic field between the first side yoke portion and the second side yoke portion. The coil yoke extends along an axis of the coil. The first side yoke portion and the second side yoke portion have a first hold portion and a second hold portion, the support portion supporting the coil yoke in a stop position and having magnetic polarities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsushi Ishizaka
  • Patent number: 10855898
    Abstract: A lens apparatus includes an imaging optical system, a movable member holding at least one of lenses and configured to move in a direction including a component perpendicular to an optical axis of the imaging optical system, a fixed member whose movement in the direction is restricted, a coil provided at one of the movable member and the fixed member, a magnet provided at the other of the movable member and the fixed member, and a first shield member configured to cover at least a part of the coil as viewed in a direction parallel to the optical axis and as viewed in the direction perpendicular to the optical axis. At least a part of the first shield member being arranged closer to an image plane than the coil, and a predetermined conditional expression is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Nakahara, Shu Ito, Takahiro Hatada
  • Patent number: 10675715
    Abstract: A semiconductor element manufacturing method according to the invention is such that a focal spot form of a laser light is an ellipse, and irradiation with the laser light is concentrated on a projected division line of an interface between a semiconductor substrate and a fixing sheet, which is a vaporizing pressure confining sheet, and vaporizing pressure generated by the irradiation is confined between the semiconductor substrate and the fixing sheet, and caused to act as a bending force on the semiconductor substrate, and an initial crack is extended. Because of this, energy of the laser light can be reduced, heat damage to an element region of the semiconductor substrate and debris can be reduced, and a division face with good flatness can be stably obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Hirano, Katsumi Ono
  • Patent number: 10547391
    Abstract: This optical module has a photoelectric conversion device including a light emitting element, and an optical receptacle for optically coupling an end face of an optical transmission body connected thereto and a light receiving face of a light receiving element. The optical receptacle includes a first optical face on which light emitted from the end face of the optical transmission body is incident, and a second optical face for emitting, toward the light receiving face of the light receiving element, the light incident on the first optical face. An irradiation spot of emitted light from the second optical face on a virtual plane including the light receiving face of the light receiving element is sufficiently large to encompass the entire light receiving face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: ENPLAS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shimpei Morioka, Ayano Kon
  • Patent number: 10313590
    Abstract: A drive device includes a noise signal calculation unit, a signal correction unit, and a drive controller. The noise signal calculation unit calculates a noise signal corresponding to a magnetic flux generated from a current flowing through a drive coil. The signal correction unit corrects a detection signal detected by a detector based on the noise signal. The drive controller controls a drive signal to be applied to the drive coil based on a corrected signal obtained by the signal correction unit. The noise signal calculation unit acquires an amplitude of a predetermined frequency band including a frequency of a high-frequency drive signal, and calculates the noise signal included in the detection signal based on the acquired amplitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10204735
    Abstract: An electromagnet includes a stacked body formed by stacking and thermocompression-bonding a plurality of insulating base materials having thermoplasticity and including wound linear conductors which define a spiral coil. In a region of each of the insulating base materials surrounded by each of the wound linear conductors, each of low mobility members is formed of a material having mobility lower than that of the insulating base materials at a temperature upon thermocompression-bonding of the insulating base materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Nishino, Kuniaki Yosui
  • Patent number: 10175500
    Abstract: An optical image anti-shake device, defined with an X-axis, a Y-axis and a Z-axis, includes a casing, a movable member and a base. A suspension mechanism furnished inside the optical image anti-shake device includes a movable-member support and a suspension module. A first surface of the movable-member support is connected to the movable member. The suspension module suspends the movable-member support together with the movable member inside an inner compartment formed between the casing and the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: TDK Taiwan Corp.
    Inventor: Jin Yu Lee
  • Patent number: 9800128
    Abstract: A linear DC motor having first and second drive coils and first and second drive magnets arranged in a symmetrical state in relation to a motor central axis that passes through a sliding member in which a lens is mounted. The first and second coils on a moveable side are positioned to both the left and right sides of the sliding member. The first and second drive coils are designed to be independent without being affected by the shape, size, arrangement position, and the like of the sliding member, a linear guide, and a detection part. The first and second drive coils have high rigidity and do not deform when the sliding member slides. Accordingly, it is possible to obtain a linear DC motor that has a highly rigid moveable part and performs positioning action with high responsiveness and high precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Toshiki Maruyama, Tomoki Terashima
  • Patent number: 9747938
    Abstract: A disc recorder and player apparatus includes a plurality of recorder and player subsystems, a disc motor, and a controller. Each of the recorder and player subsystems includes a pickup and a traverse motor. When one of the recorder and player subsystems writes or reads data on or from a first track on the disc recording medium, the controller prohibits the other of the recorder and player subsystems from writing and reading data on and from a second track on the disc recording medium as well as moving the pickup to the second track, the second track being at a position different from a position of the first track, and the second track being to be accessed at a rotational speed different from a rotational speed for the first track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiichi Igami, Takeo Oosaki, Eiji Ueda
  • Patent number: 9549109
    Abstract: A camera lens module according to an embodiment of the present invention is configured to include an optical image stabilizing carrier for accommodating a lens barrel; an autofocus carrier for mounting the optical image stabilizing carrier; a rolling unit for supporting a plane motion orthogonal to the optical axis of the optical image stabilizing carrier with respect to the autofocus carrier; a base for accommodating the autofocus carrier which mounts the optical image stabilizing carrier to advance and retreat the autofocus carrier in an optical axis direction; an optical image stabilizer driving unit; and an autofocus driving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Jahwa Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee Seung Kim, In Soo Kim, Yo Han Noh
  • Patent number: 9465231
    Abstract: A lens driving device and a method of manufacturing the device include a driving device having a lens with an optical axis, a focusing coil disposed at a periphery of the lens with respect to the optical axis, a vibration correction coil set comprising a plurality of coils and disposed on a flat surface perpendicular to the optical axis, and a plurality of magnets disposed at the periphery of the lens with respect to the optical axis, with each magnet having a first surface facing the focusing coil and a second surface facing a corresponding one of respective coils of the vibration correction coil set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.
    Inventors: Chao-Chang Hu, Yi-Ho Chen
  • Patent number: 9360655
    Abstract: A lens barrel includes at least one lens, the optical axis of the lens; the first frame (the fixed frame 900) having the first restricting portion (901, 902) and having an approximately cylindrical shape about the optical axis; the second frame (1000) having the cam groove (1036) and having an approximately cylindrical shape about the optical axis; the third frame (510) having the guide portion (511) which restricts inclination thereof with respect to the first contact portion (514) and the optical axis and having an approximately cylindrical shape about the optical axis; the drive arm (520) having a cam follower (523), the second restricting portion (524, 525) and the second contact portion (526), and having an approximately arcuate shape constituted of a portion of a circular cylinder about the optical axis or an approximately plate shape; the guide shaft (601) for guiding the guide in a movable manner in the optical axis direction; and the spring (603).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Uno, Atsushi Hasegawa, Manabu Kobayashi, Hiroyasu Fujinaka
  • Patent number: 9250414
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lens driving apparatus. The lens driving apparatus includes a base formed at a center thereof with a first opening; a housing coupled with the base and having a second opening corresponding to the first opening; a yoke installed on the base and including a horizontal plate having a third opening corresponding to the first opening and a vertical plate protruding upward from the horizontal plate; a bobbin movably installed in the yoke and coupled with a lens module; a coil fixedly disposed around the bobbin; a plurality of magnets provided at the vertical plate of the yoke to face the coil; and a spring installed on at least one of upper and lower portions of the yoke to return the bobbin, which has moved up due to interaction between the magnet and the coil, to its initial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang Ok Park, Sang Jun Min, Sang Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 9064506
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information recording and reproducing apparatus including, a focus control module, an objective lens control module, a calculation module, and a tracking control module. If, detection the recording marks line, to focus a laser light of a second wavelength to the recording layer through an objective lens and to operation a recording layer tracking control using a tracking error signal taken out from a second reflected light and a laser light of a first wavelength to a track groove through the objective lens and to operation a guide layer tracking control to control the objective lens using a tracking error signal taken out from a first reflected light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hideaki Okano, Kazuo Watabe, Chikara Tanioka, Akihito Ogawa, Takashi Usui, Kazuaki Doi
  • Patent number: 9063353
    Abstract: A plasmonic optical device is provided operating in near ultra violet (UV) and visible wavelengths of light. The optical device is made from a substrate and nanoparticles. The nanoparticles have a core with a negative real value relative permittivity of absolute value greater than 10 in a first range of wavelengths including near UV and visible wavelengths of light, and a shell with an imaginary relative permittivity of less than 5 in the first range of wavelengths. A dielectric overlies the substrate, and is embedded with the nanoparticles. If the substrate is reflective, a reflective optical filter is formed. If the substrate is transparent, the filter is transmissive. In one aspect, the dielectric is a tunable medium (e.g., liquid crystal) having an index of refraction responsive to an electric field. The tunable medium is interposed between a first electrode and a second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Akinori Hashimura, Douglas Tweet, Apostolos Voutsas
  • Patent number: 9047883
    Abstract: An optical pickup device includes a single objective lens that focuses a light beam to irradiate an optical disk, and an objective lens actuator that drives the objective lens. The objective lens actuator includes a lens holder that holds the objective lens. Two gaps (Ga, Gb) are formed between the lens holder and the objective lens. In an xy plane in which the center of the objective lens is defined as an origin, the tracking direction is defined as an y axis, and the tangential direction of tracks of the optical disk is defined as an x axis, the gap (Ga) is positioned at least in the first quadrant of the xy plane, and the gap (Gb) is positioned at least in the third quadrant of the xy plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanji Wakabayashi, Kouji Ieki
  • Publication number: 20150117172
    Abstract: An optical pickup includes a pair of first tracking coils near the center of the lens holder in the tracking direction on one side of the holder; a pair of first magnets facing the first tracking coils and near the outer sides of the holder in the tracking direction; a pair of second tracking coils near the outer sides of the holder on another side of the holder; and a pair of second magnets facing the second tracking coils and near the center of the holder. The vertical electromagnetic force F in each of the first tracking coils is larger than the vertical electromagnetic force f in each of the second tracking coils. A distance K between the action center of the force F and the support center of the movable part is shorter than a distance k between the action center of the force f and the support center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Tatsuya YAMASAKI, Katsuhiko KIMURA, Ryuichiro MIZUNO
  • Patent number: 8995241
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an apparatus for driving a voice coil motor actuator providing a driving signal to a coil for controlling a position of a lens barrel in which a magnet is equipped. The apparatus includes a plurality of hall sensors configured to detect the position of the lens barrel in which the magnet is equipped, and a voice coil motor driving integrated circuit configured to provide the driving signal to the coil based on outputs from the plurality of hall sensors and a received target position. The plurality of hall sensors are embedded in the voice coil motor driving integrated circuit along a moving direction of the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd., Zinitix Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoon Heo, Hee Soo Yoon, Seog Jin Hong, Won Seob Oh, Kyoung Won Hyun, Shin Young Cheong, Ga Eun Kang, Sung Sig Kim, Yong Joon Park
  • Patent number: 8879374
    Abstract: Provided are an objective lens driving unit that maintains the electrical connection between suspension wires and winding bosses. The objective lens driving unit includes a plurality of winding bosses disposed at a side of the frame, each having a projection formed at its end and extending in a direction in which a suspension wire extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korea Corporation
    Inventors: Jae-kuon Yun, Chan-ik Lee, Won-seok Choi
  • Patent number: 8861320
    Abstract: Provided is a lens driving unit for an optical pickup and an optical disc drive that employs the lens driving unit. The lens driving unit includes a lens frame in which an object lens and a plurality of driving coils are installed, and a plurality of suspension wires connected to the driving coils. The lens frame also includes a plurality of winding posts disposed on opposing sides of the lens frame and extending in a direction in which the suspension wires extend. According to various examples, coil ends of the driving coils are wound around the winding posts to electrically connect the driving coils to the suspension wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korea Corporation
    Inventors: Young-bin Lee, Seok-gyun Lee
  • Patent number: 8854934
    Abstract: There is provided an recording apparatus including a light irradiation unit, a reference-plane tracking control unit, a recording unit that executes recording on the recording medium by independently modulating first and second recording beams when the recording beams radiated by the first and second objective lenses are designated as the first and second recording beams, respectively, a recording-layer tracking control unit that performs tracking control of the first objective lens based on reflected light of a first servo beam and tracking control of the second objective lens based on reflected light of a second servo beam when the servo beam radiated by the first objective lens is designated as the first servo beam and the servo beam radiated by the second objective lens is designated as the second servo beam, and a control unit that controls the reference-plane tracking control unit, the recording-layer tracking control unit, and the recording unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Ando, Junichi Horigome
  • Patent number: 8773960
    Abstract: Provided is a photodetector unit including a photodetector integrated circuit (PDIC). The photodetector may reduce a height of a conventional optical pickup by improving the input/output terminals of the PDIC and accordingly improving the contact points and wires of a corresponding printed circuit board (PCB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korea Corporation
    Inventor: Young-taek Kim
  • Patent number: 8743668
    Abstract: In an optical pickup equipped with a semiconductor laser, electro-optical components such as a lens, and an objective lens drive device, the objective lens drive device includes objective lenses, a holder holding the objective lenses, a focusing coil, and tracking coils. The focusing coil is wound in parallel to the optical surface of the objective lens, and formed in a parallelogram shape having inclined portions provided near the tracking coils. The two tracking coils are placed on diagonal portions of the lens holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Media Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sato, Hidenao Saito, Jun Hato, Ryuichiro Mizuno, Katsuhiko Kimura, Seiichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20140126341
    Abstract: A lens driving device includes a lens holder that holds a lens, a driving portion that drives the lens holder through a magnetic force produced using a coil and a magnet, and a guide shaft that supports the lens holder movably. When moving the lens holder to a target position, an AC voltage is applied to the coil over a specific interval from a beginning of movement of the lens holder. Further, an amplitude of the AC voltage is reduced stepwise with the passage of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Harada, Taishi Morita, Yuji Ishihara
  • Patent number: 8692983
    Abstract: Present novel and non-trivial optical, laser-based measuring systems and method are disclosed. An optical, laser-based, or LIDAR measuring apparatus is comprised of a radiation receiver/transmitter, a beam-forming optical element, a beam steering device comprised of a deviation optical element and at least one actuator used to steer the deviation optical element in response to drive signal(s) from a processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark D. Chapman, Wyatt L. Hendrick, Paul N. Smith, Howard Fein
  • Publication number: 20140078874
    Abstract: A method is provided for controlling movement of a tape in a data storage and retrieval system having a tape roller servo subsystem for controlling movement of a tape, and a head servo subsystem for controlling position of a head element mounted on a rotatable carriage unit. The method includes receiving, from the head servo subsystem, a head element position feedback signal at the tape roller servo subsystem; and controlling movement of the tape by the tape roller servo subsystem based, at least in part, on the head element position feedback signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Carl T. Madison, Timothy C. Ostwald
  • Patent number: 8675458
    Abstract: In connecting flexible printed circuits, a structure with improved connection strength of the connection portion is provided. In this structure in which a first flexible printed circuit and a second flexible printed circuit are connected to each other, a through-hole is provided on the second flexible printed circuit, and a resin member passes through the through-hole and is adhered to the wires of a connection surface of the first flexible printed circuit and the side of the second flexible printed circuit opposite to the connection surface, whereby impact is absorbed by the elasticity of the resin; as for the first flexible printed circuit, adhesion is performed on a metal in a wiring layer with high adhesion strength, while as for the second flexible printed circuit, adhesion is performed on the back side upon which no peeling stress is exerted, improving joining strength to prevent peeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Media Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rika Nomura, Hiroaki Furuichi, Eiji Tsubono, Shoji Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8643964
    Abstract: A lens driving device, which movably supports a lens assembly along a direction of an optical axis of a lens, includes an actuator base disposed to a lower side of the direction of the optical axis, a lens holder made of a ferromagnet that is disposed to an upper side of the actuator base and which has a tubular portion for holding the lens assembly, a ring-shaped driving coil fixed to the lens holder so as to be positioned around the tubular portion, a yoke covering the lens holder so as to be apart from the driving coil and to oppose to the lens holder in a state where the driving coil is sandwiched therebetween, and a guide arrangement guiding the lens holder along the direction of the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomohiko Osaka
  • Patent number: 8619520
    Abstract: Provided is a lens driving unit for an optical pickup and an optical disc drive employing the lens driving unit. First and second driving coils are directly wound around a coil winding unit included in the lens frame, which is different from a conventional lens frame in which a driving coil is manufactured as a separate element and is separately attached to a lens frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korea Corporation
    Inventors: Young-bin Lee, Soo-hyun Baek
  • Patent number: 8605557
    Abstract: An optical pickup which excels in assembly workability and which can increase the drive force generated in a focusing coil is provided. The optical pickup has an objective lens, a lens holder holding the objective lens, and a first and a second focusing coil wound around the lens holder. The first focusing coil includes an upper part wound about a central axis extending in parallel with an optical axis of the objective lens and a lower part connected to the upper part. The second focusing coil includes an upper part wound, in a wiring system separate from the first focusing coil, about a central axis extending in parallel with the optical axis of the objective lens and a lower part connected to the upper part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Media Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kimura, Hidenao Saito, Jun Hato
  • Patent number: 8599659
    Abstract: Provided are an objective lens holder and the like which prevent a wire formed into tracking coils from being loosened. Tracking coils are respectively attached to bobbins provided to sidewalls of an OBL lens holder. In addition, a conducting wire hook portion is formed by projecting a part of a sidewall portion near one of the bobbins, and a conducting wire is hooked round this conducting wire hook portion. Similarly, another conducting wire hook portion is provided to a sidewall portion near another one of the bobbins, and the conducting wire formed into the corresponding tracking coil is hooked round this conducting wire hook portion. This prevents the conducting wire from being loosened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Noboru Tajiri, Mitsuhiko Uchida, Shingo Matsuzaki
  • Patent number: 8588044
    Abstract: Circuitry for controlling mode selection of a CD/DVD reader is described. In one embodiment, the CD/DVD reader has a first device having at least one analog output, a second device having at least one digital input and at least one analog input, and an interface circuit coupling the analog output of the first device to the digital input and the analog input in the second device. The interface circuit includes a circuitry to use a single control signal from the analog output of the first device to control the digital input and the analog input in the second device. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: CSR Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Yan Zhu, BoWen Chen, ZengLian Liu, YaHui Dong
  • Patent number: 8582402
    Abstract: An optical recording medium in which recording is performed by a recording device that is configured such that tracking servo control of recording light is performed by irradiating the recording light and ATS light for an adjacent track servo and by an adjacent track servo based on reflected light of the ATS light, wherein while a recording layer in which a mark is formed according to an irradiation of the recording light is included, a mark row is formed in advance by a pitch that is twice a distance between an irradiation spot of the recording light and an irradiation spot of the ATS light or greater in the recording layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Horigome
  • Patent number: 8576676
    Abstract: A flexible cable is provided. The flexible cable includes a base film having a band shape, a plurality of wiring layers disposed on the base film and extending in one direction, and a plurality of elasticity-adjusting patterns attached to a portion of the base film and partially adjusting the elasticity of the flexible cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korea Corporation
    Inventors: Young-bin Kim, Young-sun Jung
  • Patent number: 8553508
    Abstract: A focus servo control device includes a first detector, first controller, second detector, and second controller. The first detector detects a first focus error signal. The first controller controls the objective lens based on the first focus error signal, so that a focal point of the first laser agrees with the guide layer. The second detector detects a second focus error signal. The second controller changes a relative distance between the focal point of the second laser and the focal point of the first laser, so that the focal point of the second laser agrees with a target recording/reproducing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takashi Usui, Kazuo Watabe, Hideaki Okano, Chikara Tanioka, Akihito Ogawa, Kazuaki Doi
  • Patent number: 8547808
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical pickup actuator which includes a plurality of objective lenses for converging a light on an optical recording medium, a lens holder for holding the objective lenses, a suspension wire for holding the lens holder and projections provided at the lens holder, wherein the projections are provided at the periphery of the objective lens and at least one of the projections is provided on the upstream side of the insertion direction of the optical recording medium. A slope for guiding the optical recording medium upward at the time of inserting the optical recording medium is provided on the side surface of each of the projections. Thus, even when the optical recording medium is inserted so as to slide on the upper surface of a pickup cover, the end portion of the outer periphery of the optical recording medium contacts with the slope provided at the projection and slides to thereby push down the optical pickup actuator in the elevational direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Hideru Gotoh
  • Patent number: 8547809
    Abstract: There is a need to prevent a possible erroneous detection of an off-track condition during recording to an optical disk. The above need can be addressed by, for example, determining an off-track condition has occurred when a light spot is located at least half-way from the track being recorded toward another track adjacent the track being recorded, and stopping a recording operation. In another example, the above need can be addressed by determining that off-track has occurred based on an output of a first off-track detector which detects that the light spot is off the track based on a wobble signal, an output of a second off-track detector which detects that the light spot is off the track based on a tracking error signal, and an output of a zero-cross detector which detects that the tracking error signal crosses zero based on an output of the tracking error signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Imagawa, Yoshinori Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8537643
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a light source chip for a thermally assisted head comprises steps of (a) providing a light source bar with a surface coating formed thereon; (b) forming several blind holes on the predetermined positions of the light source bar by etching, the blind hole having a top hollowed on the surface coating and a bottom hollowed on the light source bar, and the blind hole having a first biggest width at its top; (c) cutting the light source bar along every two adjacent blind holes by a cutting machine. The cutting machine has a cutting means with a second biggest width that is smaller than the first biggest width of the blind hole, thereby cutting down an individual light source chip without contacting the side edges of the blind hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryuji Fujii, Tai Boon Lee, Hideki Tanzawa, Yasuhiro Konakawa
  • Publication number: 20130235708
    Abstract: A system and method for providing direct read after write functionality in an optical data storage device include an optical head having a first coherent light source modulated at higher power during writing of data to the optical medium and a second coherent light source operating in a continuous wave mode at lower power while the first coherent light source is writing data. Optic components combine light from the first and second light sources and focus light from the first coherent light source to a first spot of a selected track on the optical medium and focus light from the second coherent light source to a second spot on the selected track downstream from the first spot relative to movement direction of the optical medium to read and verify the data directly after writing during the write process rather than in a separate verification process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Scott D. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20130229897
    Abstract: Provided is a photo detecting element including a body with an optical sensor and an amplification unit for amplifying a signal output from the optical sensor. The photo detecting element includes a driving voltage port that applies a driving voltage to the amplification unit, a ground port that provides a ground for the amplification unit, and a plurality of output ports interposed between the driving voltage port and the ground port, and outputting a signal received from the amplification unit. The driving voltage port, ground port, and plurality of output ports are disposed on the same one side of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korean Corporation
    Inventors: Jung-bae Oh, Jin-ho Jeong
  • Patent number: 8518748
    Abstract: A method and system for providing a laser diode submount for use in an energy assisted magnetic recording disk drive are described. A portion of a silicon substrate is removed, forming trenches therein. Each trench has sidewalls, surrounds a silicon island corresponding to a laser diode submount, and corresponds to a thickness of the laser diode submount. The silicon island has a top surface and a facets corresponding to the trench sidewalls. Insulator(s) for the top surface and facets of the silicon island are provided. Metallization is provided on the top surface and facets of the silicon island. A first portion of the metallization on the top surface corresponds to under bump metal (UBM) for solder pad(s). A second portion of the metallization corresponds to electrical traces. Solder pad(s) are provided on the UBM. The silicon island is released from the silicon substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Western Digital (Fremont), LLC
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Zongrong Liu, Pezhman Monadgemi
  • Patent number: 8520482
    Abstract: In an optical tape drive system, a movable planarizer subsystem includes a tape planarizer support structure for supporting an optical tape planarizer. The support structure is moveable between an operational position and a non-operational position. The movable planarizer subsystem also includes an actuator for moving the support structure and the optical tape planarizer between the operational position and the non-operational position. The operational position of the support structure positions the optical tape planarizer to permit reading/writing of information from/to an optical tape via an optical pickup unit (OPU), and the non-operational position of the support structure positions the optical tape planarizer to permit passage of a tape leader through the tape drive system without damage to the OPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Faramarz Mahnad
  • Patent number: 8520479
    Abstract: An objective lens driving unit is provided and includes a moving structure having an objective lens and a plurality of driving coils, a permanent magnet and a yoke structure to correspond to the driving coils, a wire holder coupled to the yoke structure and having a plurality of wiring layers buried in a portion of the wire holder, and a plurality of suspension wires to connect the plurality of driving coils to the plurality of wiring layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Young-bin Lee, Min-soo Kang
  • Patent number: 8520487
    Abstract: An element holding device of the present invention includes: a guide portion engaging with a guide shaft; a lens fixing portion on which to fix a collimator lens; an arm portion; an insertion portion having a hole portion in which to insert a guide shaft; a wire fixing portion made by protruding a side surface of the insertion portion in a ?Y direction; and a wire fixed on the wire fixing portion. A bent portion being a leading end portion of the wire is housed in a slit. Thereby, excess deformation of a contact portion is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignees: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., SANYO Optec Design Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Hashimoto, Koichi Matsuyama