Disk recording and reproducing apparatus

• US 6,324,134 B1
• Filed: 08/04/1999
• Issued: 11/27/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Seiko Instruments Incorporated (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Instruments Incorporated (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Segawa, Yutaka, Muto, Ikuo, Shimada, Akira, Ohtachi, Yoshinobu, Namiki, Hirotaka
• Primary Examiner(s): EDUN, MUHAMMAD N
• Application Number:
  US09/368,116
• Time in Patent Office: 846 Days
• Field of Search: 369/44.32, 369/44.27, 369/44.28, 369/47.1, 369/47.36, 369/47.37, 369/47.38, 369/47.4, 369/47.43, 369/53.1, 369/53.19, 369/53.37, 369/44.14
• US Class Current: 369/44.32
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/2009 Turntables, hubs and motors for disk drives; Mounting of motors in the drive means for clamping of disk to turntable G11B17/022 and subgroups
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/095 specially adapted for discs, e.g. for compensation of eccentricity or wobble

Abstract

Conventional disk recording and reproducing apparatuses have addressed a shortcoming that they cannot correct squareness errors and misalignments caused by the warpage of a disk and the eccentricity of the center hole of the disk and of the center of curvature of signal tracks. To overcome this shortcoming, a disk recording and reproducing apparatus of the present invention comprises: magnetic bearing means capable of supporting a rotary body and adjusting a relative position of the rotary body; a pickup for irradiating, with a laser beam, a recording surface of a disk mounted on a table arranged on the rotary body and receiving the laser beam reflected by the recording surface; detection means for calculating a relative positional relationship between the disk and a focal position of the laser beam based on a signal from the pickup; and control means for adjusting the position of the rotary body by controlling the magnetic bearing means.

Claims

1. A disk recording and reproducing apparatus comprising:

a motor;

a rotary body driven by the motor to undergo rotation;

a table supported by the rotary body to undergo rotation therewith;

magnetic bearing means for supporting the rotary body and adjusting a relative position of the rotary body;

a pickup for irradiating with a laser beam a recording surface of a disk mounted on the table arranged on the rotary body and receiving the laser beam reflected by the recording surface;

detection means for calculating a relative positional relationship between the disk and a focal position of the laser beam based on a signal output by the pickup; and

control means for adjusting the position of the rotary body by controlling the magnetic bearing means in accordance with an output of the detection means.

2. A disk recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 1;

wherein the detection means comprises squareness detection means for detecting a squareness formed by an optical axis of the laser beam irradiated by the pickup with respect to a predetermined range of the recording surface of the disk, and the control means adjusts a tilt of the rotary body by controlling the magnetic bearing means so that the squareness detected by the squareness detection means is maintained within a prescribed tolerance.

3. A disk recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 1;

wherein the detection means includes squareness detection means for detecting a squareness formed by an optical axis of the laser beam irradiated by the pickup with respect to a predetermined range of the recording surface of the disk, and misalignment detection means for detecting a distance between an extension of a locus of movement of the optical axis of the laser beam accompanied with a movement of the pickup toward a center of a curvature of signal tracks on the recording surface of the disk, and the control means adjusts the relative position of the rotary body by controlling the magnetic bearing means so that both the squareness detected by the squareness detection means the the distance detected by the misalignment detection means are maintained within prescribed tolerances.

4. A disk recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 1;

wherein the control means adjusts the position of the rotary body in an axial direction thereof by controlling the magnetic bearing means in such a manner that the recording surface of the disk coincides with the focal position of the laser beam irradiated by the pickup.

5. A disk recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 1;

wherein the magnetic bearing means has at least one of an electromagnet and a permanent magnet for magneticlaly adjusting the position of the rotary body in the axial direction thereof.

6. A disk recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 1;

wherein the magnetic bearing means comprises at least one of electromagnets and permanent magnets arranged at two different positions along an axial direction of the rotary body for magnetically adjusting the position of the rotary body in at least one of an axial direction and a radial direction thereof.

7. A disk recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 6;

further comprising rotation means for rotating the rotary body between the electromagnets or permanent magnets constituting the magnetic bearing means, the electromagnets or permanent magnets being arranged at two different places in the axial direction of the rotary body for magnetically adjusting the position of the rotary body in at least one of an axial direction and a radial direction thereof.

8. A disk recording and reproducing apparatus according to claim 7;

wherein the magnetic bearing means magnetically adjusts the position of the rotary body at least in at least one of the axial direction and the radial direction thereof by generating a rotating force as a result of a magnetic force generated by an armature winding of the rotation means being out of balance.

9. A disk playing apparatus comprising:

a motor;

a rotary member driven by the motor to undergo rotation;

a disk support member fixed to the rotary member to undergo rotation therewith;

a magnetic bearing for supporting the rotary member and adjusting a relative position thereof in at least one of an axial and a radial direction thereof;

a reading device for reading data from a disk mounted on the disk support member; and

a circuit for supplying a control signal to the magnetic bearing to maintain the rotary member at a desired orientation with respect to the reading device.

10. A disk playing apparatus according to claim 9;

wherein the circuit comprises detection means for calculating a relative positional relationship between the disk and a focal position of the beam based on a signal output by the reading device, and control means for adjusting the position of the rotary body by controlling the magnetic bearing in accordance with an output of the detection means.

11. A disk playing apparatus according to claim 9;

wherein the reading device comprises a pickup for irradiating a surface of a disk mounted on the table with a laser beam and receiving a beam reflected by the surface.

12. A disk playing apparatus according to claim 11;

wherein the circuit comprises squareness detection means for detecting squareness of an optical axis of the laser beam irradiated by the reading device with respect to a predetermined range of the recording surface of the disk, and control means for adjusting a tilt of the rotary member by controlling the magnetic bearing so that the squareness detected by the squareness detection means is maintained within a prescribed range.

13. A disk playing apparatus according to claim 11;

wherein the circuit comprises squareness detection means for detecting squareness formed by an optical axis of the laser beam irradiated by the reading device with respect to a predetermined range of the recording surface of the disk, misalignment detection means for detecting a distance between an extension of a locus of movement of the optical axis of the laser beam accompanied with a movement of the reading device toward a center or curvature of signal tracks on a surface of the disk, and control means for adjusting the relative position of the rotary member by controlling the magnetic bearing so that both the squareness detected by the squareness detection means and the distance detected by the misalignment detection means are maintained within prescribed ranges.

14. A disk playing apparatus according to claim 11;

wherein the circuit includes control means for adjusting the position of the rotary member in an axial direction by controlling the magnetic bearing so that the recording surface of the disk coincides with the focal position of the laser beam irradiated by the pickup.

15. A disk playing apparatus according to claim 11;

wherein the magnetic bearing comprises at least one of an electromagnet and a permanent magnet for magnetically adjusting the position of the rotary member in an axial direction thereof.

16. A disk playing apparatus according to claim 11;

wherein the magnetic bearing comprises at least one of plural electromagnets and permanent magnets arranged at different positions is an axial direction of the rotary member for magnetically adjusting an angle of tilt of the rotary member with respect to the reading device.

17. A disk playing apparatus according to claim 16;

further comprising rotation means for rotating the rotary body between the electromagnets or permanent magnets of the magnetic bearing.