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Composite tracking servo system for optical disc apparatus with track offset correction

US4866688A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 17, 1986
Grant dateSep 12, 1989
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Expiry dateDec 17, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B7/00745
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A tracking servo system includes in addition to a composite servo system composed of a push-pull track deviation detecting loop operative with pregrooves formed in an optical disc and a wobbling track deviation detecting loop operative with intermittently provided wobbled tracking marks, an offset correcting loop for detecting offset component possibly produced due to tilt, deformation and eccentricity of a recording medium or change in optical and mechanical parameters in the course of time lapse to drive forcibly a light spot by applying an electrical offset to cancel out the offset component. In the offset correcting loop, light reflected by wobbled tracking marks provided intermittently or mirror areas formed by interrupting intermittently the pregroove is utilized for detecting the offset component.

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