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US 2006/0143636 A1Published application
Optical reading/writing apparatus and method
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorYun Shin
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Abstract
There is provided an optical reading/writing apparatus. The optical reading/writing apparatus includes an object lens barrel for mounting an object lens, an SIL (solid immersion lens) barrel for mounting an SIL, the SIL barrel being separated from the object lens barrel, and a movement control unit for selectively aligning the SIL with the object lens according to a type of an optical storage medium.
Claims16
An optical reading/writing apparatus comprising:
- an object lens barrel for mounting an object lens;
- an SIL (solid immersion lens) barrel for mounting an SIL, the SIL barrel being separated from the object lens barrel;
- and
- a movement control unit for selectively aligning the SIL with the object lens according to a type of an optical storage medium.
1 more element
An optical reading/writing apparatus comprising:
- an object lens barrel for mounting an object lens;
- an SIL (solid immersion lens) barrel for mounting an SIL, the SIL barrel being provided with a beam-passing aperture and separated from the object lens barrel;
- and
- a movement control unit for reciprocating the SIL barrel according to a type of an optical storage medium.
1 more element
An optical reading/writing apparatus comprising:
- an object lens barrel for mounting an object lens;
- an SIL (solid immersion lens) barrel for mounting an SIL, the SIL barrel being provided with a beam-passing aperture and separated from the object lens barrel;
- and
- a movement control unit for rotating the SIL barrel according to a type of an optical storage medium.
1 more element
An optical reading/writing method comprising:
- identifying information of an optical storage medium loaded;
- and
- selectively aligning an SIL between an object lens and the optical storage medium loaded according to a type of the optical storage medium loaded.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.