US 2006/0133234 A1Published application

Optical disc apparatus

AssigneeFunai Electric Co., Ltd.

InventorTsutomu Inada

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Abstract

An optical disc apparatus includes a servo gain adjuster, which includes a disturbance signal supplying unit that generates plural disturbance signals of different frequencies and supplies them in sequence to a servo loop, a gain characteristic measuring unit that measures a deviation of a servo gain characteristic of the servo loop based on each disturbance signal passed through the servo loop, an average gain characteristic calculating unit that calculates the average of deviations of plural servo gain characteristics measured by the gain characteristic measuring unit in response to the plural disturbance signals supplied from the disturbance signal supplying unit, and a gain adjustment amount determining unit that determines an amount of adjustment to the servo gain of the servo loop based on the average of the deviations of the servo gain characteristics that is calculated by the average gain characteristic calculating unit. The optical disc apparatus can provide stable adjustments to the servo gain of the servo control that causes the focused spot of light to follow the recording track of an optical disc.

Claims4

Dependent claims

An optical disc apparatus comprising:

a light emitting element that emits light for recording and/or reading information on an optical disc;
an objective lens for focusing the light emitted from the light emitting element onto the optical disc;
an actuator that moves the objective lens;
a light receiving element that receives the light focused through the objective lens onto the optical disc and reflected from the optical disc to convert the light into an electric signal for output;
a servo controller that generates a drive signal for the actuator based on the output signal from the light receiving element and drives the actuator by the drive signal to move the objective lens such that the focused spot of the light focused onto the optical disc follows a recording track of the optical disc;
and
a servo gain adjuster that supplies a disturbance signal to a servo loop to adjust a servo gain of the servo loop based on the disturbance signal passed through the servo loop, the servo loop including the objective lens, the actuator, the light receiving element, and the servo controller,
wherein the servo gain adjuster supplies plural disturbance signals of different frequencies to the servo loop and adjusts the servo gain of the servo loop based on the plural disturbance signals passed through the servo loop.

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