JP4001298B2 - Optical disk drive - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an optical pickup for irradiating a light spot to a flexible sheet-like optical disc having an information recording area on its surface for recording / reproducing, and a spindle motor for driving the optical disc to rotate. The present invention relates to an optical disc drive device provided with

  In recent years, there has been a demand for optical discs to record large volumes of digital data, such as the start of digitization of television broadcasts. Of the methods for increasing the density of optical discs, the basic method is to reduce the spot diameter of light for recording / reproduction.

  For this reason, it is effective to shorten the wavelength of light used for recording / reproduction and to increase the numerical aperture NA of the objective lens. As for the wavelength of light, a wavelength near 780 nm of near infrared light is used for CD (compact disk), and a wavelength of about 650 nm of red light is used for DVD (digital versatile disk). Recently, a blue-violet semiconductor laser has been developed, and it is expected that a laser beam of around 400 nm will be used in the future.

  As for the objective lens, it was less than NA0.5 for CD, but it is about NA0.6 for DVD. In the future, it is required to further increase the numerical aperture (NA) to NA or more 0.7. However, increasing the NA of the objective lens and shortening the wavelength of light also increase the influence of aberrations when focusing light. Therefore, the margin for the tilt of the optical disk is reduced. Further, since the depth of focus is reduced by increasing the NA, the focus servo accuracy must be increased.

  Furthermore, since the distance between the objective lens and the recording surface of the optical disk is reduced by using a high NA objective lens, it is necessary to reduce the surface blur of the optical disk before the focus servo at the start is pulled in. The objective lens and the optical disc may collide, causing a pickup failure.

  As a short-wavelength, high-NA high-capacity optical disk, for example, as shown in Non-Patent Document 1, a recording film is formed on a substrate that is as thick and rigid as a CD, and recording / reproducing light is used as the substrate. A system has been proposed in which recording / reproduction is performed on a recording film through a thin cover layer without passing through the thin cover layer.

The present inventors have already applied Japanese Patent Application No. 2001-228943 to a thin optically flexible sheet by applying a stabilization technique using Bernoulli's law to an optical disk composed of a flexible thin sheet, thereby reducing the surface blur and producing a high NA lens. Have proposed an optical disc and an optical disc drive system that provide the accuracy in the focusing direction required for the optical disc.
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  However, in the technique disclosed in Japanese Patent Application No. 2001-228934, chucking to the spindle motor in the rotational drive unit of the flexible optical disc is performed by using the central hole formed in the central portion of the optical disc as the spindle portion of the spindle motor. It is done by inserting it into. For this reason, when the optical disk is repeatedly attached to and detached from the spindle motor, the optical disk is composed of a thin sheet, so that the mechanical strength is weak, the change with time occurs, the accuracy of the center hole decreases, and this increases the amount of eccentricity. There is a problem that good recording / reproduction cannot be performed.

  In order to avoid deformation in the central hole, it is conceivable to provide a chucking hub at the center of the optical disk or to attach a reinforcing ring, but the hub or ring increases the thickness of the entire optical disk. Become. However, an increase in the thickness of a thin and flexible optical disk is not preferable because it increases the thickness of the disk cartridge or the drive when a large number of data is stored in the disk changer to increase the amount of data. . Further, the bonding of the hub to the center portion of the optical disk takes time for centering, increasing the man-hours for manufacturing the disk and increasing the cost.

  An object of the present invention is to eliminate the eccentricity of an optical disc during recording / reproduction by using a thin optical disc having a configuration in consideration of prevention of eccentricity with respect to a chucking portion in view of the problems of the prior art. An optical disk drive apparatus is provided.

  In order to achieve the above object, the invention described in claim 1 uses a flexible sheet-like optical disk having an information recording area on the surface and having a non-perforated flat surface at the center of the disk. An optical disc drive apparatus comprising an optical pickup that irradiates the optical disc with a light spot for reproduction and a spindle motor that rotationally drives the optical disc, wherein both the front and back surfaces of the disc center portion are clamped by a clamper member It is characterized in that it is directly pinched and chucked. With this configuration, it is only necessary to clamp the optical disk with a clamper member at the time of chucking, and there is no need to form a central hole in the optical disk as in the past, and the loading operation of the same optical disk can be performed. Even if it is repeated, damage to the optical disc can be prevented, and durability and reliability are improved. .

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided the optical disk drive device according to the first aspect, further comprising an arc-shaped jig that is bonded to the outer periphery of the optical disk and performs coarse eccentricity correction of 10 μm or more of the optical disk. According to the configuration, the imbalance correction and the eccentricity removal of the optical disk can be performed at the same time, so that stable recording / reproduction at the time of high-speed rotation of the optical disk becomes possible.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the optical disk drive device according to the first or second aspect, an alternating current synchronized with the rotation period of the spindle motor is applied to the tracking drive current for driving the optical pickup in the tracking direction. The present invention is characterized in that a means for removing the influence is provided. With this configuration, the tracking operation during high-speed rotation of the optical disc can be further stabilized, the high-speed limit of recording / reproduction can be increased, and the drive device It is strong against disturbances such as vibration. Furthermore, since the alternating current that is the basis for the eccentricity removal control is set to the same frequency as that of the spindle motor drive current, the generation of the eccentricity removal control signal is simplified.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the optical disk drive device according to the third aspect, the disk eccentricity correction data is detected at the center of the disk in order to set the magnitude and phase of the tracking drive current for removing the eccentricity. The tracking error signal detected from the groove or pit row in the optical disc provided with the groove or pit row for use is used. With this configuration, the signal for decentering control is the pickup signal from the information recording surface of the optical disc. Since it is obtained independently, it contributes to stable tracking without being affected by factors such as the disk rotation speed or recording / reproducing position.

  As described above, according to the optical disk drive device according to the present invention, the both sides of the disk at the center of the disk can be directly sandwiched and chucked by the clamper member, so that the optical disk is sandwiched by the clamper member during disk chucking. Therefore, it is not necessary to form a central hole in the optical disc as in the prior art, and even if the loading operation of the same optical disc is repeated, the optical disc can be prevented from being damaged, and the durability and reliability can be improved.

  Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a flexible sheet-like optical disk for explaining an embodiment of the optical disk of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is an optical disk driving apparatus for explaining an embodiment of the optical disk driving apparatus of the present invention. It is a schematic block diagram.

  In FIG. 1, the optical disc 1 is not provided with a central hole, a hub or the like in the central portion unlike the conventional optical disc, and the central mirror surface portion 2, the eccentricity measurement region 3, the data region from the central portion toward the outer periphery. (Information recording area) 4 and outer peripheral mirror surface part 5 are formed in order. Tracks such as grooves and pit rows are formed concentrically or spirally in the eccentricity measurement region 3 on the inner periphery of the optical disc 1. The track pitch in the eccentricity measurement region 3 is wider than the information track formed in the data region 4 and is about 0.7 μm or more. This is because, in an optical disc using blue light and a high NA lens, the pitch of information tracks is usually 0.6 μm or less, so that a tracking error signal from the data area 4 may not be obtained sufficiently. For this reason, since there is a problem in detecting the eccentricity of the optical disk by the tracking error signal from the data area 4, the eccentricity measuring area having the track pitch is used in order to reliably obtain the tracking error signal. 3 is provided.

  In FIG. 2, 10 is a spindle motor, 11 is a lower clamper fixed to the upper part of the spindle 12 of the spindle motor 10, 13 is an upper clamper provided on a spindle 15 suspended from a body case 14 so as to be movable up and down, A light 16 includes an objective lens 16a and moves in the radial direction of the optical disc 1 to write (record) information on the data area 4 of the optical disc 1 and / or read (reproduce) the written information. A pickup 17 is placed opposite to the optical pickup 16 via the optical disk 1, and when the optical disk 1 is rotating, a stabilizing guide member 18 that generates aerodynamic force that prevents surface vibration of the optical disk 1 according to Bernoulli's law. Is a chucking portion of the optical disc 1 received by the outer peripheral edge portion of the optical disc 1 (clamping position by the clampers 11 and 13). A suppressing outer edge supporting jig eccentricity al.

  FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of the upper and lower clampers. In the upper clamper 13, a permanent magnet 20 is provided, and a support shaft 15 is loosely fitted at the center. In the lower clamper 11, a permanent magnet 21 is provided on the upper side, and an electromagnet 22 that generates a magnetic pole when energized is provided on the lower side.

  In the embodiment of the above configuration, as shown in FIG. 2, when the optical disc 1 is inserted into the main body case 14 of the driving device, the electromagnet 22 of the lower clamper 11 is energized and repels the permanent magnet 20 of the upper clamper 13. And the upper and lower clampers 11 and 13 are separated from each other to form a gap that allows the optical disc 1 to be inserted. By this insertion, the outer circumferential arc jig 18 receives the outermost circular arc portion of the optical disc 1. As a result, positioning from the chucking portion of the optical disk 1 (preventing eccentricity during rotation) is performed. Thereafter, when the electromagnet 22 of the lower clamper 11 is turned off, the upper and lower clampers 11 and 13 are installed in the polarities to which the permanent magnets 20 and 22 are attracted to each other. Cinch (chuck). By this disc clamp, the center hole is not centered in the disc as in the prior art, and the stresses are dispersed because the clampers 11 and 13 are surface bearings. Therefore, even with a thin sheet disk, good chucking can be maintained many times, and durability of each part can be maintained over a long period of time.

  After chucking, the spindle motor 10 rotates at a specified rotational speed. At this time, the optical pickup 16 is moved to the eccentricity measuring region 3 on the inner periphery of the optical disc 1 to focus. Since tracks such as grooves and pit rows in the eccentricity measurement region 3 are formed with a wide track pitch, a tracking error signal with a large amplitude can be obtained. If there is an eccentricity, the light spot of the light beam emitted from the optical pickup 16 crosses the track of the eccentricity measurement region 3 many times, so that a tracking error signal as shown in FIG. 4 is obtained. Reducing eccentricity means lowering the frequency of the tracking error signal.

  Further, since the maximum component of eccentricity is always a component synchronized with the rotation speed of the spindle motor 10, the objective lens 16a provided in the optical pickup 16 is locked with the frequency and phase of the spindle motor 10 to obtain a phase angle. Eccentricity can be reduced by limiting to the optimum point.

  Therefore, while monitoring the frequency of the tracking error signal, an eccentricity correction alternating current is superimposed on the tracking actuator of the optical pickup 16 to eliminate the influence of the eccentricity. An alternating current that is completely equal to the spindle motor rotation frequency from the control signal of the spindle motor 10 is used as the eccentricity correction signal.

  The eccentricity correction operation will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  First, the optical pickup 16 is moved to the eccentricity measurement region 3 on the inner periphery of the optical disc 1 (S1), focused (S2), and zero crossing (the number of times the light spot crosses) based on the tracking error signal for the track in the eccentricity measurement region 3. (S3), and an AC component synchronized with the rotation speed of the spindle motor 10 is superimposed on the tracking drive current of the optical pickup 16 (S4). If the number of zero crossings is a predetermined number (three in this example is a reference) (Yes in S5), the tracking servo is applied assuming that there is no eccentricity (S6).

  However, when the number of zero crossings is greater than the predetermined number (No in S5), the phase of the correction AC signal superimposed on the tracking current is divided into arbitrary angles (for example, in increments of 10 ° from 0 ° to 350 °). The zero cross is counted in the same manner as described above at the phase angle (S7), and locked to the phase where the amount of eccentricity is minimized (S8). Thereafter, the amount of correction current superimposed on the tracking current is arbitrarily divided so that the amount of eccentricity is minimized (for example, in increments of 5 μm from 5 to 60 μm), and the zero cross is counted in the same manner as described above (S9). Is controlled to minimize the eccentricity (S10).

  Hereinafter, the eccentric control is referred to as feed forward. By repeating the loop of the flowchart several times, the influence on the tracking operation due to the eccentricity of the disk can be practically eliminated.

  The eccentric state does not change unless the optical disk 1 is chucked again. Therefore, as long as the optical disk 1 is first chucked and used as it is, the eccentricity correction distance can be changed even if the rotational speed or the radial position used is changed. There is no need to change the value and phase angle.

  If the eccentricity detection is performed in the data area 4 of the optical disc 1, the current optical disc has a small information track groove pitch and only a small tracking error signal can be obtained. However, as in the configuration of this embodiment, the eccentricity measurement for detecting the eccentricity is performed. Providing the region 3 eliminates this problem.

  As described above, in the present embodiment, firstly, centering (rough decentering) with the outer periphery receiving jig using the outermost shape of the optical disc 1 having flexibility, and second, the decentering measurement region. 3, the center of the hub or the center of the disc is centered on the optical disc 1 as in the prior art by using a two-stage decentration reduction measure of superimposing the eccentricity correction current on the tracking current of the optical pickup 16 by the eccentricity detection signal (tracking error signal) in FIG. Even without a hole, good tracking without eccentricity is possible.

  Hereinafter, specific examples will be described as examples. In the following description, members corresponding to those already described are assigned the same reference numerals, and detailed description thereof is omitted.

Example 1
6A is a diagram showing the configuration of the flexible disk of Example 1, and FIG. 6B is an enlarged cross-sectional view showing the cross-sectional configuration at the circled portion in FIG. 6A.

  In FIG. 6A, the optical disc 1 has a diameter of 120 mm and a thickness of 75 μm, and the sheet base material 25 is made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET). An information recording area (data area 4 in FIG. 1) is formed in a radius range of 24 to 58 mm. A groove having a groove width of 0.3 μm, a groove pitch of 0.6 μm, and a groove depth of 65 nm is formed therein. The grooves are formed by a thermal transfer method in which a high-temperature stamper is pressed against a PET sheet.

As shown in FIG. 6B, on the PET sheet of the sheet base material 25, Ag 30 nm, Si ₃ N ₄ 5 nm, Tb ₂₁ Fe ₇₁ Co ₈ (mol%) 10 nm, Si in this order on the sheet by sputtering. A recording film 26 of ₃ N ₄ 30 nm was formed, and a DLC protective film of 10 nm was further formed thereon by CVD to produce a flexible sheet-like optical disc.

  Further, the radius less than 22.7 mm is a clamp area (central mirror surface portion 2 in FIG. 1), and the radius from 22.7 mm to 24 mm is an eccentricity measurement area (eccentricity measurement region 3 in FIG. 1), and the groove width is 0.4 μm. , A groove for detecting eccentricity having a groove pitch of 1.0 μm and a depth of 65 nm is formed. Further, the radius of 58 mm to 60 mm is the outer peripheral mirror surface portion in FIG.

  The optical disk drive has the configuration shown in FIG. 2, and the optical pickup 16 has a wavelength of 405 nm and NA of 0.85. Since the stabilization guide member 17 does not cause a large amplitude surface shake of 100 μm or more, the structure of the actuator of the optical pickup 16 has a stroke amount of ± 50 μm in the focus direction. Therefore, the servo stability to a high linear velocity is superior to that for conventional DVD.

  FIGS. 7A and 7B are configuration diagrams for explaining the configuration and operation of the outer periphery receiving jig that receives the outer periphery of the optical disc in the first embodiment and performs centering, 30 is a jig housing, and 31 is a jig. An outer periphery receiving jig 32 provided on the tool housing 30 so as to be laterally movable, 32 is a stopper for preventing the outer periphery receiving jig 31 from protruding to the outside, and 33 is a stopper opposite to the stopper 32. A spring urged in a direction 34 is an actuator composed of a solenoid device or the like that operates to bring the outer periphery receiving jig 31 into contact with the stopper 32 against the urging force of the spring body 33. A plurality of units with the actuator 34 are installed between the jig housing 30 and the outer periphery receiving jig 31.

  The outer periphery receiving jig 31 is formed so that one side 31a matches the outer peripheral shape of the optical disk 1. When the flexible sheet-like optical disk 1 is inserted into the optical disk driving device, FIG. It is pushed in by a disk loader (not shown) until it contacts one side 31a of the outer periphery receiving jig 31 shown in a). Here, the pressing force is once weakened to release the bending of the optical disc 1. Then, the optical disk 1 returns to its original state by its own spring force, and eccentricity removal is performed, whereby positioning (centering) defined on the outer periphery of the disk is performed.

  Note that if the optical disc 1 is rotated at the position shown in FIG. 7A where the outer periphery receiving jig 31 removes the eccentricity, there is a possibility that the outer periphery receiving jig 31 slides between the outer periphery receiving jig 31 and the optical disc 1. After the centering is completed, the outer periphery receiving jig 31 is preferably moved to a position as shown in FIG. 7B away from the spindle 12 of the spindle motor 10.

  In this example, when the disk shown in FIG. 7A is inserted, the actuator 34 is energized and turned on, and the outer periphery receiving jig 31 is pushed out by the actuator 34 so as to be in contact with the stopper 32. The location is restricted. Further, the movement of the outer periphery receiving jig 31 to the steady position shown in FIG. 7B after the end of the disk centering is restored not by turning off the driving force of the actuator 34 but by the urging force of the spring 33. By doing.

  Even if the centering is performed in this manner to remove the disk eccentricity, the residual deflection of the optical disk 1 and the eccentricity due to the error between the groove in the data area 4 and the disk molding outer mold remain. In this state, the optical disc 1 is sandwiched and fixed by a pair of upper and lower clampers 11 and 13.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the clampers 11 and 13 have a cylindrical shape with an upper clamper 13 having a diameter of 19 mm and a height of 4 mm, an outer material is ABS resin, and a permanent magnet 20 is provided inside. The permanent magnet 20 is a disk having a diameter of 15 mm and a thickness of 2 mm, and has a polarity direction that attracts the permanent magnet 21 provided in the lower clamper 11. The lower clamper 11 has the same diameter as the upper clamper 13 and a diameter of 19 mm. A permanent magnet 21 and an electromagnet 22 are provided inside. In an off state in which no current flows through the electromagnet 22, the optical disk 1 is strongly sandwiched by the attractive force of the permanent magnet 20 and the permanent magnet 21. By energizing the electromagnet 22, a repulsive force greater than the attractive force of the permanent magnet 20 and the permanent magnet 21 is generated between the permanent magnet 20.

  After chucking the optical disc 1, an eccentricity correction current is superimposed on the tracking actuator of the optical pickup 16. For the eccentricity correction, it is necessary to deal with three elements of the frequency component, the phase, and the amplitude of the eccentricity.

  Here, since the main component of the eccentricity is derived from the rotation of the optical disc 1, the frequency component of the eccentricity is considered to be the disc rotational speed itself. Then, the elements to be considered can be reduced to two elements of phase and amplitude.

  Therefore, an AC signal having the same frequency as the rotation cycle of the spindle motor 10 is applied to the tracking control signal of the optical pickup 16. The amount of eccentricity to be corrected is substantially proportional to the amount of current. The relationship between the absolute value (μm) and the current (mA) of the amount to be corrected for each number of rotations is mapped as data (table data) in advance and stored in a CPU (Central Processing Unit) that is a control means. is there. The correction current amount is determined based on this table data.

  The same applies to the phase, and the relationship between the angle of the spindle 12 and the correction phase angle is mapped in advance, and in which angle direction of the spindle 12 is decentered, which current phase angle is 1: 1. Can be determined in advance. This can be obtained by mapping while evaluating a reference disk whose amount of eccentricity is known on a test spin stand.

  After the above process, the optical pickup 16 is sought with respect to the optical disc 1 to perform focusing and tracking operations. Since the tracking error signal of the data area 4 is not used for calculating the amount of eccentricity, the servo operation of the data area 4 can be started after substantially eliminating the eccentricity. Accordingly, even when the tracking servo margin is small with a narrow track pitch in the data area 4, stable servo can be applied.

The loading operation of the optical disc 1 in the optical disc drive apparatus is summarized as follows.
1. Move the outer periphery receiving jig 31 to the disk receiving position.
2. Insert the optical disk 1 up to the outer periphery receiving jig 31 with a disk loader.
3. After the optical disc 1 is abutted against the outer periphery receiving jig 31, the holding force of the disc loader is once weakened to release the bending of the optical disc 1.
4). The optical disk 1 is chucked by the clampers 11 and 13 on the spindle 12.
5). Return the outer periphery receiving jig 31 to its original position,
6). The optical disk 1 is rotated by a spindle motor 10 and stabilized.
7). The optical pickup 16 is moved 22.7 mm in the radial direction from the center of the optical disk 1 (to reach the eccentricity measurement region 3), and the focus servo is locked.
8). Based on the tracking error signal in the eccentricity measurement area 3, the amount and direction of the disk eccentricity are obtained, and the correction current is added to the tracking drive current of the optical pickup 16,
9. Lock track servo,
10. The optical pickup 16 is moved to the vicinity of 22.7 mm which is the first address part in the eccentricity measurement area 3, and the disk management information is read.
11. The operation of moving the optical pickup 16 to a desired recording or reproducing position in the data area 4 and starting the reproducing or recording operation is performed while being controlled by the CPU.

  In this example, recording / reproduction was performed at a disc rotation speed of 6000 rpm with the optical pickup 16 having a wavelength of 405 nm and NA of 0.85. As a result, since the large eccentricity is removed in advance by the outer periphery receiving jig 31, and because the disk is thin and flexible, the imbalance of the disk is small, and abnormal vibration is not observed even at a high speed of 6000 rpm. Did not occur.

  In the eccentricity measurement region 3, random data was recorded at a density of 0.4 μm / bit by 1-7 modulation only in the groove portion. The recording power was 4.5 mW, binary modulation was performed, and the reproduction power was 0.3 mW. In the eccentricity measurement region 3, since recording / reproduction was performed at a low density, the signal quality was good and the jitter was less than 6%.

  In the data area 4, random digital data was recorded and reproduced with 1-7 modulation at a recording density equivalent to 0.16 μm / bit. The recording power was 4.5 mW, binary modulation was performed, and the reproduction power was 0.3 mW. As a result, good signals were obtained for both the land and the groove, and the jitter between the data and the clock was 8% or less.

  When this optical disk drive is used as a storage device of an actual computer, directory information is recorded in the eccentricity measurement area 3. As a result, the tracking servo can be locked immediately after the eccentricity is removed and the directory can be reproduced, so that the preparation for recording / reproduction is completed immediately.

  Further, since the signal quality of the directory is good, read retry is reduced, the rising speed of recording or reproduction is high, and the reliability is improved.

  The relationship between the current superimposed for the eccentricity correction and the distance between the actual correction amounts is a three-dimensional map of the current, the eccentric distance, and the disk rotational speed. Therefore, two-dimensional mapping is performed with the number of rotations during the eccentricity correction operation being fixed for each pickup. The eccentricity correction is performed at the rotation speed, and then the desired rotation speed is set. In this example, the eccentricity correction operation was performed at 2000 rpm.

  As a guideline for the completion of the eccentricity correction, as shown in FIG. 5, the zero cross count of the tracking error signal is set to 3 or less per rotation, for example, which is different depending on the track pitch formed in the eccentricity measurement region 3. . If the track pitch is wide, the eccentricity becomes large even with the same zero cross count.

  In this embodiment, since the track pitch of the eccentricity measurement region 3 is 1 μm, if the zero cross is 3 or less, the amount of eccentricity is considered to be 5 μm or less. With this setting, tracking with a groove pitch of 0.6 μm can be performed without any problem. Since the data recording is land / groove recording, the track pitch of the recording data is 0.3 μm, but on the tracking servo, the groove pitch is a problem, and an error signal equivalent to 0.6 μm is obtained. If it becomes 10 μm or less, sufficiently stable tracking servo can be applied up to a disk rotation speed of about 7000 rpm.

(Example 2)
As Example 2, the flexible optical disc 1 has a diameter of 96 mm, a thickness of 50 μm, and the base material is polycarbonate. There is a data area (information report recording area) 4 in the disk radius range of 24 to 45 mm. In this area, grooves are formed with a groove width of 0.12 μm, a groove pitch of 0.33 μm, and a groove depth of 65 nm. The grooves were formed by a thermal transfer method in which a high-temperature stamper was pressed against a polycarbonate sheet.

On the polycarbonate sheet, a recording film of Ag 40 nm, ZnS—SiO ₂ 8 nm, Ag ₁ In ₅ Sb ₇₀ Te ₂₁ Ge ₃ (mol%) 10 nm, ZnS—SiO ₂ 50 nm is formed in this order from the top of the sheet by sputtering. Then, a UV curable resin was spin-coated with 3 μm thereon and cured to produce a flexible disk.

  The disc radius (within 21 mm) is the clamp area (central mirror surface portion 2). The radius from 22.7 mm to 23.5 mm on the inner circumference side of the disk is the eccentricity measurement region 3, and an eccentricity detection groove having a groove width of 0.6 μm, a groove pitch of 1.2 μm, and a depth of 65 nm was formed.

  The optical disk 1 having the above-described configuration was placed on a turntable and initialized with a high-power laser. Others are the same as in the first embodiment.

  The optical pickup 16 had a wavelength of 405 nm and NA of 0.85, and recording or reproduction was performed only on the groove portion.

  This optical disk 1 also rotated stably even at a rotational speed of 6000 rpm, and tracking could be performed without abnormality. In this embodiment, the groove pitch is narrow. For example, although Example 1 is 0.6 μm, in Example 2, it is 0.33 μm, which is about half. For this reason, the signal amplitude of the tracking error is extremely small in the data area 4. However, in the second embodiment, as in the first embodiment, since the groove pitch is wide in the eccentricity measurement region 3, a large tracking error signal can be obtained, so that the eccentricity correction can be performed with extremely high accuracy and stability. Therefore, tracking is stable even after moving to the data area after the eccentricity correction.

  In Example 2, random digital data was recorded and reproduced by modulating 1-7 random digital data at a disk radius of 40 mm, a disk rotation speed of 3000 rpm, a linear velocity of 12.5 m / s, and a recording density equivalent to 0.13 μm / bit. . The recording power was 4.5 mW, the erasing power was 2.4 mW, the bottom power was ternary modulation of 0.1 mW, and the reproducing power was 0.25 mW. According to this, a good signal was obtained for the groove, and a good result was obtained with a data and clock jitter of 8% or less.

(Example 3)
An optical disk similar to that of Example 2 was produced except that only the eccentricity measurement area was different.

  That is, the disk radius in the eccentricity measurement region 3 was 22.7 mm to 23.1 mm, which was a read-only phase pit having a pit width of 0.6 μm, a track pitch of 1.0 μm and a depth of 65 nm. In this area, disc management information is recorded in advance as read-only information.

  Further, an eccentricity detection groove having a groove width of 0.6 μm, a groove pitch of 1.0 μm, and a depth of 65 nm was formed from 23.2 mm to 23.5 mm of the disk radius in the eccentricity measurement region 3. This area is an area for recording management information such as directory information of recorded signals.

  Since the eccentricity measurement region 3 is configured in this manner, the recording condition is already recorded as a reproduction pit, so that it can be reproduced immediately with good signal quality and low error. It is possible to immediately determine the target optical disk in a cartridge in which a plurality of sheet-shaped optical disks are stored, and preparation for recording is completed immediately. Can do.

(Example 4)
In Example 4, the flexible sheet-like optical disk was 30 mm in diameter, 50 μm in thickness, and the base material was PET. On the PET sheet, by sputtering, a recording film of Ag 30 nm, Si ₃ N ₄ 5 nm, Tb ₂₁ Fe ₇₁ Co ₈ (mol%) 10 nm, Si ₃ N ₄ 30 nm was formed in this order from the sheet. A DLC protective film having a thickness of 10 nm was formed thereon by CVD to produce a flexible disk.

  In this optical disc 1, there is a data area 4 in a radius range of 5 mm to 28.5 mm, and grooves are formed in the data area 4 with a groove width of 0.3 μm, a groove pitch of 0.6 μm, and a groove depth of 65 nm. The grooves were formed by a thermal transfer method in which a high-temperature stamper was pressed against a PET sheet.

  The radius within 3 mm is a clamp area (central mirror surface portion 2), and the disk inner radius radius from 3.3 mm to 4.6 mm has a groove width of 0.6 μm, a groove pitch of 1.2 μm, a depth as an eccentricity measurement region 3 A groove for detecting the eccentricity of 65 nm was formed.

  The optical disk 1 having the above configuration was stable when subjected to focusing and tracking servo after Bernoulli stabilization at a rotational speed of 8000 rpm and a radius of 6 mm. Accordingly, random digital data was modulated and recorded / reproduced with 1-7 modulation at a recording density equivalent to 0.16 μm / bit. The recording power was 4 mW, binary modulation, and the reproduction power was 0.2 mW.

  Although the rotation speed was 8000 rpm, imbalance and eccentricity were both small, and the reproduction or recording operation was good. Good signals were obtained for both land and groove, and the jitter of data and clock was as good as 8% or less.

(Comparative example)
As a comparative example, an optical disk having a diameter of 120 mm, a thickness of 75 μm, and a sheet base material made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) was prepared. Further, a data area was formed in a disk radius range of 24 to 58 mm, and a through hole having a diameter of 15 mm for chucking was punched and formed at the center with an accuracy of 5 μm or less in eccentricity. This through hole is the same chucking hole as conventional CD and DVD. The grooves in the data area were formed by a thermal transfer method in which a high-temperature stamper was pressed against a PET sheet.

On the sheet made of PET, a recording film of Ag 30 nm, Si ₃ N ₄ 5 nm, Tb ₂₁ Fe ₇₁ Co ₈ (mol%) 10 nm, Si ₃ N ₄ 30 nm is formed in order on the sheet by sputtering, A DLC protective film having a thickness of 10 nm was formed thereon by CVD to obtain a flexible sheet disk.

  This sheet disk was attached to a spin stand having a tapered cone-shaped chuck similar to the DVD standard, and a clamp for disk chucking was attached by pressing from above. The disc is clamped by the upper and lower clamps. This is the same as the conventional DVD.

  In this state, the sheet-like disk is rotated at a rotational speed of 5000 rpm, and a portion having a radius of 40 mm is stabilized by Bernoulli's theorem using a stabilizing guide member as shown in FIG. I applied focusing and tracking servo. In this state, the sheet-like disk is in a state with little eccentricity, so that the servo can be applied very stably. At this time, the feedforward control was not applied to the tracking, but only the feedback.

  Then, the sheet-like disk was again withdrawn from the pickup, the spindle was stopped, and the sheet-like disk was removed from the spindle motor spindle. Thereafter, the attachment / detachment of the spindle was repeated 100 times. Then, focusing and tracking were tried again with an optical pickup at a rotational speed of 5000 rpm at a position of a radius of 40 mm on the sheet-like disk. As a result, there was no problem with the focus servo, but there were many residual errors in the tracking servo, and the tracking was unstable and almost lost. The disc eccentricity reached 100 μm. This is thought to be because the accuracy of the center hole (through hole) for chucking is reduced and the amount of eccentricity is increased by repeating chucking. There is a problem with the durability of the disc.

  On the other hand, if feedforward control is used as in the embodiments and examples of the present invention, it can withstand a certain degree of disk eccentricity. However, in the case of a thin sheet disk having a through hole without a hub as in the comparative example, By repeating the chucking operation, not only the eccentricity increases, but there is a possibility that the part may be broken.

  Therefore, as long as the chucking by the through hole is used, it is considered essential to provide a hub or the like in the sense of reinforcement, which complicates the disc manufacturing process and increases the thickness of the entire sheet-like disc. become.

The perspective view which shows the sheet-like optical disk which has flexibility for describing embodiment of the optical disk of this invention 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an optical disk drive device for explaining an embodiment of the optical disk drive device of the present invention. Configuration diagram of upper and lower clampers in this embodiment The figure which shows the waveform of an example of the tracking error signal for demonstrating this embodiment Flowchart related to eccentricity correction operation in this embodiment (A) is a figure which shows the structure of the flexible disc in Example 1 of this invention, (b) is an expanded sectional view which shows the cross-sectional structure in the circled part of (a). 1 is a configuration diagram for explaining the configuration and operation of an outer periphery receiving jig that receives an outer periphery of an optical disc and performs centering in Embodiment 1 of the present invention

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Optical disk 2 Center mirror surface part 3 Eccentricity measurement area | region 4 Data area 5 Outer periphery mirror surface part 10 Spindle motor 11 Lower clamper 13 Upper clamper 14 Main body case 16 Optical pick-up 17 Stabilization guide member 18 Perimeter receiving jigs 20, 21 Permanent magnet 22 Electromagnet

Claims (4)

  Using a flexible sheet-shaped optical disc having an information recording area on the surface and having a disc-free central portion and a flat surface, the optical disc is irradiated with a light spot for recording and / or reproduction. An optical disk drive apparatus comprising an optical pickup to be performed and a spindle motor for rotationally driving the optical disk, wherein the back and front surfaces of the center of the disk are directly sandwiched by a clamper member for chucking.   2. The optical disk drive device according to claim 1, further comprising an arc-shaped jig which is bonded to the outer periphery of the optical disk and corrects an eccentricity of 10 [mu] m or more of the optical disk.   3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means for removing an influence of eccentricity by applying an alternating current synchronized with a rotation period of the spindle motor to a tracking drive current for driving the optical pickup in a tracking direction. Optical disk drive device. The groove or pit in the optical disc provided with a groove or pit row for detecting disc eccentricity correction data in the center of the disc for setting the magnitude and phase of the tracking drive current for removing eccentricity 4. The optical disk drive device according to claim 3, wherein a tracking error signal detected from the column is used.

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