G11B 7/082
Aligning the head or the light source relative to the record carrier
Official title: {Aligning the head or the light source relative to the record carrier otherwise than during transducing, e.g. adjusting tilt set screw during assembly of head}
G11B7/082 (Aligning the head or the light source relative to the record carrier) appears on 140 US grants and 175 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
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- Tilt adjusting apparatus and optical disc drive using the same28 Aug 2014US 2014/0245330 A1Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korea Corporation
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical pickup with a compact design66US 5,724,337 ATDK Corporation · 1998
- Tilt angle adjustable mechanism for compact disc recording/reproducing device36US 5,982,735 AIndustrial Technology Research Institute · 1999
- Skew adjustment mechanism for an optical pick-up used in an optical disc drive31US 6,449,238 B2Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd. · 2002
- Optical disk apparatus with pickup tilt adjusting mechanism and entertainment apparatus26US 6,667,944 B2Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. · 2003
- Objective lens posture adjusting mechanism for optical pickup21US 5,508,851 AKabushiki Kaisha Kenwood · 1996