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Optical pick-up actuator

US6574052B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 3, 2001
Grant dateJun 3, 2003
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Expiry dateAug 21, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B7/093
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An optical pick-up actuator includes a lens holder suspended in a magnetic field by a suspension wire and having tracking and focusing coils and objective lens, a magnet for generating a magnetic field crossing other magnetic field generated by a electric current along tracking and focusing coils so as to drive the objective lens in focusing and tracking directions in suspended state, a frame for supporting the lens holder by the suspension wire, a yoke for securing the frame by a shaft, pairs of tilting coils mounted at both end portion of the frame for driving the lens holder in suspended state by suspension wires by rotating the frame in a predetermined direction on the axis of the shaft, and pairs of tilting magnets arranged so as to correspondingly face the tilting coils.

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