Optical pickup device
AssigneePioneer Corporation
InventorsNorio Matsuda, Yoshitaka Ono
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Abstract
An optical pickup device, which can effectively prevent occurrence of trouble in recording and reproducing of information due to the fact that an objective lens for each optical beam is contaminated while not adding unnecessary parts and while reducing a cost, is provided. An optical pickup device (P1) which performs the recording or reproducing of information in or from an optical disc (13) by using an optical beam (B) or (D), comprises: objective lenses (11) and (12) on which cleaning films which are activated by radiation of the optical beam (B) and clean their surfaces are formed in an optical path, and a control unit (15) for setting an optical path of the optical beam (B) in such a way that the optical beam (B) reflected by the optical disc (13) is radiated on the objective lens (12).
Claims5
An optical pickup device which performing at least one of recording or reproducing of information in or from a recording medium by using an optical beam, comprising:
- two collecting devices, corresponding to two optical beams which have frequencies different from each other, on which cleaning films, which are activated by radiation of a first optical beam of the two optical beams and clean the two collecting devices, are formed;
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- a setting device which sets an optical path of the first optical beam in such a way that the first optical beam reflected by the recording medium is radiated on a second collecting device of the two collecting devices corresponding to a second optical beam of the two optical beams other than the first optical beam.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.