Abstract:
An object of the invention is to provide a disc autochanger without any disc reversing mechanism by using on A-side recording and reproducing apparatus and a B-side recording and reproducing apparatus while using a sheet-like optical disc in which both surfaces can be recorded and reproduced. The disc autochanger is constituted by a cartridge storing a plurality of sheet-like optical discs in which both surfaces are recorded and reproduced in a state of putting in a tray, the A-side recording and reproducing apparatus in which a moving table of an A-side recording and reproducing portion is arranged in an upper side of a tray take-out mechanism and a moving table of a cap is provided in a lower side thereof, and the B-side recording and reproducing apparatus in which a moving table of a B-side recording and reproducing portion is arranged in a lower side of the tray take-out mechanism and a moving table of a cap is provided in an upper side thereof. Accordingly, since it is possible to alternately supply the sheet-like optical discs in which both surfaces are recorded and reproduced to the A-side and B-side recording and reproducing apparatuses from the cartridge, it is possible to record and reproduce continuously and in parallel.
Abstract:
A reproducing apparatus for a magneto-optical recording medium has, at one end of a swing arm, a magneto-optical head provided with a slider and a solid immersion lens. A reproducing light beam-detecting system is installed to the other end of the swing arm. During reproduction on a magneto-optical recording medium, an alternating magnetic field is applied while radiating a reproducing light beam which is power-modulated to have a low power and a high power in synchronization with a reproducing clock. The reproducing light beam having the low power causes transfer of a magnetic domain in the information-recording layer to the reproducing layer and magnification thereof. The reproducing light beam having the high power extinguishes the magnified magnetic domain. Minute magnetic domains can be individually reproduced at high C/N.
Abstract:
Disclosed are a reproducing method and a reproducing apparatus capable of performing reproduction with a wide power margin, as well as a recording method and a recording apparatus preferably used for super high density recording. A recording and reproducing apparatus 101 principally comprises a magnetic field-applying unit, a laser beam-radiating section, and a signal processing system. A magnetic coil 29, which is provided for the magnetic field-applying unit, is arranged so that its axis of magnetic field generation 102 is oblique to a surface of an information-recording medium 100. A reproducing magnetic field is applied in an oblique direction to the surface of the information-recording medium 100 by using the magnetic coil 29 while radiating a reproducing light beam to the medium by using the laser beam-radiating section. Accordingly, the leak magnetic field in the in-plane direction from a recording magnetic domain in a recording layer is amplified. The inversion of magnetization in a reproducing layer tends to occur, and the reproducing power margin is widened. The recording and reproducing apparatus 101 is also capable of recording information. An extremely minute recording magnetic domain can be formed in the recording layer of the information-recording medium.
Abstract:
An optical magnetic recording medium includes a first magnetic film for holding information in a status of either an upward or a downward magnetization, a second magnetic film closely adjacent to the first magnetic film and an in-plane magnetization film positioned between the first and second magnetic films, the in-plane magnetization film having such a characteristic that its magnetic characteristics are switched between a first temperature range and a second temperature range. The in-plane magnetization film is kept within the first temperature range at a room temperature and, at the time of an information reproduction, the in-plane magnetization film is locally heated to the second temperature range by an irradiation of an energy beam so that information on the recording layer is copied to the reproduction layer, and the copied information is observed.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording media with a magnetic film made from at least two layers stacked via a non-magnetic intermediate layer, wherein the magnetic film is formed on a structure control underlayer situated on a non-magnetic substrate. A magnetic recording system is also disclosed which includes this magnetic recording media and a magnetic recording head for recording on and reading back from the magnetic recording media. The system further includes a disk drive system, which generates relative motion between the magnetic recording media and the magnetic recording head, and an actuator which determines an appropriate location, on the magnetic recording media, over which the head should be located.
Abstract:
The optical head is arranged such that a semiconductor laser and a photodetector are formed via a buffer layer on the same substrate; and an opening portion is formed in the substrate under the semiconductor laser and the photodetector. This optical head is further arranged by that the opening portion is filled with a first transparent layer; a diffraction grating is formed on a lower surface of the first transparent layer; a second transparent layer is stacked on a lower surface of the first transparent layer; and a condenser lens is formed on a lower surface of the transparent layer. In this optical head, laser light emitted from the semiconductor laser is penetrated through the substrate, the first transparent layer, the diffraction grating, and the second transparent layer, and condensed toward a place just under the condenser lens by the condenser lens, thereby forming a light spot on an optical storage medium positioned apart from the condenser lens, whereas reflection light reflected from the optical storage medium is penetrated through the condenser lens and the second transparent layer, diffracted by the diffraction grating toward a light receiving plane of the photodetector, and further penetrated through the first transparent layer to be received by the photodetector.
Abstract:
A data recording apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first type data and a second type data, and a recording unit configured to record the first type data or the second type data acquired by the acquisition unit in a recording medium. The recording unit refers to a first pointer which indicates a logical position regarding the first type data in the recording medium to determine a position to start recording the first type data based on the logical position indicated by the first pointer. The recording unit refers to a second pointer which indicates a logical position regarding the second type data in the recording medium to determine a position to start recording the second type data based on the logical position indicated by the second pointer.
Abstract:
An information recording and reproducing apparatus that is smaller in size, high in disk exchange speed, loaded with optical disks and large in capacity is provided by providing an information recording and reproducing apparatus comprising a cartridge loaded with optical disks, a head for recording information on and reproducing information from one of the optical disks, a spindle for rotating the optical disk, and a first robot arm for carrying the optical disk between the cartridge and the spindle, the first robot arm being variable in length, the cartridge being expandable and contractible in a direcition perpendicular to the surface of the optical disk.
Abstract:
An object of the invention is to provide an extremely large capacity disc cartridge which can avoid a head crush and a disc crush and has a high reliability, and a recording and reproducing apparatus for the same. In the invention, there is employed a disc driving method of recording and reproducing a disc substrate (a flexible recording disc) having a low rigidity on the basis of a non-contact mode while rotating at a high speed, having a step of rotating a standstill disc, a step of moving sliders (rotation stabilizing plates) for inhibiting a surface vibration (a vertical vibration) close to both surfaces of the disc from both sides of the disc by using an air flow, at a time when a rotating speed is increased and the surface vibration of the disc is reduced, a step of controlling the rotating speed to a predetermined rotating speed for recording and reproducing after stabilizing the surface vibration so as to record and reproduce, a step of returning the rotating speed to the rotating speed at a time of moving the rotation stabilizing plates close to the disc after finishing the recording and reproducing, a step of moving the stabilizing plates from the disc surface, and a step of stopping the rotation.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium comprises an information-recording film and a ferromagnetic film on a substrate. The information-recording film is composed of, for example, an amorphous ferrimagnetic material having perpendicular magnetization. Further, the ferromagnetic film is composed of a magnetic material which has saturation magnetization larger than that of the information-recording film. Accordingly, the leak magnetic flux from the ferromagnetic film is larger than that from the information-recording film. The magnetic recording medium and a magnetic recording apparatus are obtained, which are excellent in thermal stability and which are preferred to perform super high density recording.