Translating apparatus for an optical pickup device

Details Translating apparatus for an optical pickup device Translating apparatus for an optical pickup device

1992-08-20

1994-04-26

Bertsch, Richard A.

Dynamic information storage or retrieval

Dynamic mechanism subsystem

Having power driven transducer assembly

369219, 74 8917, G11B 1900

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053073398

ABSTRACT:
A translating apparatus for an optical pickup device comprises an optical pickup device for radiating an optical disc with a light beam, a rack member attached to the optical pickup device, a supporting device having a guide portion for guiding the optical pickup device along a diametrical direction of the optical disc, and a translating device including a gear attached to the supporting device and meshed with the rack member, a drive apparatus for rotating the gear and a releasing mechanism for releasing the gear and the rack from being meshed with each other when the optical pickup device is translated beyond a predetermined translating range.

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Patent Abstracts of Japn, vol. 9, No. 86 (P-349)(1809), 16 Apr. 1985 & JP-A-59 215 081 (Olympus Kogaku Kogyo K.K.), 3 Dec. 1984.

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