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Details
Inventors: Sugiyama, Toshio; Suenaga, Hideo;
Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP)
Primary Examiner: Cardillo, Jr.; Raymond F.
Assistant Examiner: Garland; Steven R.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Antonelli, Terry & Wands

An optical disc apparatus arranged so that a light beam from a laser light source is focused by an object lens and irradiated on an optical recording medium having thereon a mirror surface and tracks of a plurality of pits for recording data, and that a reflected beam from the recording medium is irradiated on an optical detector from which a signal on the recording medium is reproduced for maintaining a position of said object lens at an optical center axis by a tracking servo. The optical detector includes at least two adjacent photoelectric transducers providing outputs indicative of the reflected beam incident thereon, a device for producing a signal indicative of a difference between the outputs from the transducers, and a position detector for detecting the position of the object lens in a direction perpendicular to the tracks in cooperation with said difference producing device. The position detector includes a sampling arrangement for sampling the difference signal when the light beam is irradiated only on a non-pit portion of said mirror surface. Further, the optical detector includes a feedback loop for positioning the object lens at the optical center axis when the tracking servo is not properly operated at the time of accessing or by external disturbance.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is an object of this invention to provide an access system which can remove the vibration of the object lens in the tracking direction which occurs upon movement of the pickup.
It is another object of this invention to provide an optical disc driving apparatus which can prevent the vibration of the object lens mounted on the pickup by detecting the position of the lens without addition of the position sensor to the actuator.
The number of additional circuits are desired to be as small as possible.
According to this invention, together with the access operation of the lens made under the condition in which the tracking servo is cut off once, the light beam projected on the optical detector, when moved due to the inertia of the lens and the actuator having the lens mounted thereon, is detected and thereby the tracking servo system is operated to actuate a servo for prevention of vibration of the object lens.
The optical detector is divided at least in connection with the information tracks into sub-detectors which are arranged apart from the conjugate point relative to the image of the disc track so that the displacement of the lens is detected by using the movement of the beam associated with the displacement of the lens in the tracking direction on the detector.



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