Access and tracking device for an optical disc
US5617402A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 14, 1994 |
| Grant date | Apr 1, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 14, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG11B7/0935
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present invention relates to various improvements to a device for access and tracking to a track carried by an information medium, the information being readable and/or recordable optically by a focused radiation, this track forming, on the medium, regularly-spaced or variably spaced revolutions, the revolutions forming a spiral or having the form of concentric circular elements, the device comprising an optical head (1) with optical axis A orthogonal to the plane of the medium, a fixed magnetic circuit comprising at least one core (7) secant to the set of revolutions of the track, in the gap of which two coils (14, 15) move permitting respectively track access and radial tracking to be achieved, as well as focusing of the radiation onto the track, the optical head and the two coils being fixed rigidly to one another in such a way as to form a single compact mobile unit. According to one improvement, the two coils (14, 15) are set in a symmetric arrangement, the desired movement being obtained by addition of forces (F, F') induced by the currents flowing in the coils.
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