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Optical pickup device

US6266314A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 26, 1997
Grant dateJul 24, 2001
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Expiry dateSep 26, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B2007/0006
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An optical pickup device has a single light beam path in which at least one or either of a plurality of kinds of light beams (different from each other in, for example, wavelength) for respective recording densities and/or recording-medium-thicknesses proceeds toward a surface of an optical recording medium and proceeds to a light beam detector after being reflected by the surface.

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