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Circuit for remote-scanning audio or video disk player for contactless scanning with coarse and fine drive mechanisms for radial servo readjustment

US4794579A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 4, 1986
Grant dateDec 27, 1988
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Expiry dateNov 4, 2006

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B7/0953
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In order to obtain perfect scanning of audio and/or video disks through application of contactless scanning with a coarse and fine drive system for radial servo readjustment, the fine drive optimum working point is reached through a correct interaction of coarse and fine drive, even in the case of different large radial eccentricity amplitudes. This is achieved through adjustment of the coarse drive, using a comparator, as a threshold value detector, and through an evaluation of the pulse sequences occurring at the comparator output. A radial-error signal for the coarse drive is obtained from a control parameter for the fine drive. The coarse drive is started by pulses when the pulses obtained from a radial-error signal exceed a predetermined pulse-to-interval ratio.

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