Abstract:
An information recording apparatus irradiates a recording light, such as a laser light, on a recording medium, such as various kinds of optical discs, and records information. A recording pulse signal is generated based on a recording signal corresponding to the information to be recorded. The recording pulse signal is also called “strategy signal”, and the signal includes driving pulses which drive a light source for forming a recording mark on the recording medium. As to the recording light such as the laser light, the high frequency signal is superimposed for decreasing occurrence of noise due to mode hopping. The high frequency signal is generated as a digital signal, and the signal is added to the recording pulse signal to generate a driving pulse signal. Then, the light source is driven and the recording light is emitted. By generating the high frequency signal as the digital signal, it is possible to control a frequency and a phase thereof with high accuracy.
Abstract:
A recording medium includes pairs of groove tracks and land tracks having periodically formed bent portion provided side by side on a substrate, a plurality of land prepits previously formed on the land tracks and carrying information about the groove tracks, and a recording layer formed on at least the groove tracks and the land tracks. The land prepits have a radius of mean curvature smaller than a radius of mean curvature of sides of the groove tracks in land-prepit absent regions of the land prepits and are defined by curved surfaces continuously extending from the sides of the groove tracks. Those sides of the groove tracks which face the continuous curved surfaces of the land prepits are curved surfaces that stricture the groove tracks. The depth of the land prepit is larger than that of the groove track.
Abstract:
An information reproducing apparatus (1) is provided with: a detecting device (11) for irradiating an information. recording medium with laser light (LB) and detecting reflected light as a detection signal, the information recording medium including a first recording layer (L0) and a second recording layer (L1); a high pass filter (14) for performing a filtering process on the detected detection signal; and a reproducing device (15, 16) for performing a reproduction process of the filtered detection signal to reproduce the data, the high pass filter attenuates a fluctuation component of the detection signal, caused by a relative eccentricity between the first recording layer and the second recording layer, by a first attenuation amount (34dB) or more.
Abstract:
An information recording medium is provided with: a first recording layer in which one portion of record information including predetermined data can be recorded, the predetermined data being (i) capable of setting a recording layer close to a physically or optically recorded state, and (ii) capable of setting the recording layer close to a buffer state for finalizing; and a second recording layer in which another portion of the record information can be recorded by laser light transmitted through the first recording layer, the information recording medium is provided with a management area in which management information can be recorded, the management information including (iii) identification information indicating whether or not there is a predetermined data recording area in which the predetermined data can be recorded, (iv) position information of the predetermined data recording area, and (v) attribute information of the predetermined data recording area.
Abstract:
The natural vibration frequency of a roll resonance which does not occur since the engine rotation number is high in a normal operation range of an engine is detected at the time of engine start or stop when the engine rotation number is lower than the normal operation range, and thus the natural vibration frequency of the roil resonance can be detected with a good accuracy. A current is generated by an electromotive force of an actuator of the active vibration isolation support device excited by the engine immediately before stopping its rotation, and the frequency of the current is used to detect the natural vibration frequency of the engine, and the roll resonance of the engine is suppressed by controlling the operation of the active vibration isolation support device at the time of engine start based on the natural vibration frequency, thereby not only eliminating the need of a specific frequency detection sensor, but also effectively reducing the vibration at the time of engine start when the roll resonance becomes strong.
Abstract:
A solenoid driving device with excellent electric power efficiency which drives and controls an actuator including a solenoid and an active vibration isolating support device which includes the solenoid driving device are disclosed. The solenoid driving device includes a booster circuit which boosts a battery voltage, and driving circuits which an actuator with the electric power supplied and boosted by the booster circuit. ACM_ECU200A including a micro computer calculates the magnitude of the vibration of the engine, an engine vibration cycle and a phase lag to obtain the drive frequency of the actuator in the vibration state estimating unit and the phase detecting unit. A booster circuit controlling unit of the micro computer determines the target voltage based on the drive frequency. The target voltage is input to the booster circuit, and the booster circuit supplies the required electric power to the driving circuits at the target voltage.
Abstract:
An information reproducing apparatus (1) is provided with: a detecting device (11) for irradiating an information recording medium with laser light (LB) and detecting reflected light as a detection signal, the information recording medium including a first recording layer (L0) and a second recording layer (L1); a high pass filter (14) for performing a filtering process on the detected detection signal; and a reproducing device (15, 16) for performing a reproduction process of the filtered detection signal to reproduce the data, the high pass filter attenuates a fluctuation component of the detection signal, caused by a relative eccentricity between the first recording layer and the second recording layer, by a first attenuation amount (34 dB) or more.
Abstract:
An information recording apparatus (300) is for recording record information onto an information recording medium (100) provided with: a first area (112) to record therein the record information; and a second area (111) in which the record information is prerecorded as embossed pits, the information recording apparatus is provided with: a recording device (353) for recording the record information into the first area; a detecting device (354) for detecting that the record information is mistakenly recorded in the second area; and an erasing device (352) for erasing the mistakenly recorded record information.
Abstract:
A tilt of a light beam to be radiated onto an information recording disk is corrected without using a dedicated tilt sensor. The correction is performed based on the characteristic that an offset amount between a tilt amount maximizing an RF signal amplitude and a further tilt amount maximizing an LPP signal amplitude is constant and independent of positions on the same disk. A pre-pit signal indicative of an existence/nonexistence of a pre-pit formed on the disk is produced from returned light of the light beam, while an RF signal is produced from bits of information recorded on the disk on the basis of the returned light. An optimum tilt-correcting amount is decided by making use of a relationship between the pre-pit signal and the RF signal at a particular tilt amount. The tilt amount is corrected using the optimum tilt-correcting amount.
Abstract:
An AR measuring apparatus receives the reflection light of an optical beam irradiated on an optical recording medium having a recording surface on which pre-pits are repeatedly formed between tracks by means of a first light receiving surface and a second light receiving surface, obtains a push-pull signal based on the difference between light receiving signals from the first and second light receiving surfaces, collects sample data by sampling the push-pull signals for a predetermined period of time, repeats the sampling for the predetermined period of time by a plurality of times, determines whether or not each data value corresponding to a pre-pit position of the sample data by the plurality of times is obtained by a predetermined number of times or greater, and when data values obtained by the predetermined number of times or greater are determined, calculates as an aperture ratio, a ratio between the minimum value and the maximum value of values corresponding to a pre-pit component of the data values obtained by the predetermined number of times or greater.