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Device for initializing an optical disc

US5852595A · kind A · utility

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7Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateApr 25, 1997
Grant dateDec 22, 1998
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Expiry dateApr 25, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B7/14
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A device capable of initializing an optical disc in high-speed and accurate manner includes a moving table (106) movable in the radius direction of a optical disc (101) to which first and second photo head moving sections (107) and (108) are fixed. A laser beam (131) emitted from a fixed section (105) is branched into two erasing beams through a beam splitter (136) and a reflection mirror (138), and the erasing beams are irradiated on the optical disc (101) from respective objective lenses (142) and (152). The erasing beam are of sizes that can erase a plurality of tracks simultaneously. The moving table (106) advances by a plurality of tracks to thereby initialize the plurality of tracks at once.

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