JPH11142773A - Galvano-mirror - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To unnecessitate a preload spring, etc., and to make the mirror small in size by comprising the rotary shaft of a movable part mounting a deflection mirror of a center pin on the fixing side and a bearing on the side of movable part and pressing the center pin into the bearing by the attraction force of a ring-like permanent magnet freely slidably supporting the center pin. SOLUTION: The rotary shaft of a movable part 100 to which a deflection mirror 26 is attached is composed of center pins 122, 124 interposing the movable part 100 and provided on the fixing side and bearing parts 106, 108 receiving these tip parts on the side of movable part 100. A chip 160 made of a permanent magnet is fixed on the vertex part of the upper center pin 122 formed by a non-magnetic material, the upper center pin 122 is mounted to a stator 150 by inserting the upper center pin 122 through a holding ring 130 and a permanent magnet 140 magnetized in the radial direction is engaged with the inside of the holding ring 130. Consequently, the chip 160 is attracted toward the central part in the vertical direction of the permanent magnet 140 by magnetic flux generated in the upper center pin 122 and energizing force downward is generated in the upper center pin 122.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a galvanomirror, and more particularly to a galvanomirror suitable for fine movement tracking of an optical information recording / reproducing apparatus.

[0002]

Recently, the areal recording density is 1
Magneto-optical disk devices exceeding 0 Gbit / (inch) ² are being developed. In this apparatus, the angle of incidence of a laser beam on an objective optical system provided at the end of a coarse movement arm that rotates, for example, in a direction intersecting the track of the magneto-optical disk is finely adjusted by a deflecting means such as a galvanometer mirror. It is considered that tracking is accurately performed at a narrow track pitch level of, for example, 0.34 μm. By the way, as a galvo mirror usually used for such a coarse movement arm, there is a pivot support type, but in this type, a pressurizing spring for smoothly operating a movable portion is provided in the axial direction of the galvanometer mirror. There was a limit to miniaturization.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned background, and a first aspect of the present invention is to move a movable portion having a deflection mirror attached thereto by electromagnetic driving around a rotation axis. A galvanomirror for rotating the movable part by a predetermined angle range, wherein the movable part is provided with two center pins provided on the fixed side with the movable part interposed therebetween, and the movable pins respectively receiving the tip ends of these center pins. And one of the center pins is formed of a non-magnetic material, and the other end of the center pin opposite to the side in contact with the bearing is made of a ferromagnetic material or a permanent magnet. The center pin is slidably supported in the axial direction via a ring-shaped permanent magnet, and the center pin is slidable by the attraction force of the ring-shaped permanent magnet on the action portion. Characterized in that so as to press axially relative to the bearing and Pin.

[0004]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS First, near field recording (NFR: near) has been proposed in response to a demand for an external storage device accompanying the progress of hardware and software related to a computer in recent years, particularly, a demand for a large storage capacity. field recordin
g) An outline of a magneto-optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus using a recording / reproducing method called a technique will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 is an overall schematic diagram of the optical disk device. An optical disk 2 is mounted on a rotating shaft of a spindle motor (not shown) in the disk drive device 1. On the other hand, a rotating (coarse movement) arm 3 for reproducing or recording information on the optical disk 2 is mounted so as to be parallel to the recording surface of the optical disk 2. This rotating arm 3
Is rotatable about a rotation shaft 5 by a voice coil motor 4. A floating optical head 6 having an optical element mounted thereon is mounted on a tip of the rotating arm 3 facing the optical disk 2. In addition, the rotating arm 3
A light source module 7 having a light source unit and a light receiving unit is disposed in the vicinity of the rotation shaft 5 and is configured to be driven integrally with the rotating arm 3.

FIGS. 2 and 3 illustrate the distal end portion of the rotating arm 3, and particularly illustrate the floating optical head 6 in detail. The floating optical unit 6 is attached to the flexure beam 8 and is arranged to face the optical disc 2. The flexure beam 8 is fixed to the rotating arm 3 at the other end, and presses the floating optical unit 6 at the distal end portion in a direction in which the floating optical unit 6 comes into contact with the optical disc 2 by the elastic force of the flexure beam 8.

The floating optical unit 6 includes a floating slider 9, an objective lens 10, and a solid immersion lens (S
IL) 11 and a magnetic coil 12, and functions to converge a parallel laser beam 13 emitted from the light source module 7 onto the optical disc 2. A rising mirror 31 is fixed to the tip of the rotating arm 3 to guide the laser beam 13 to the floating optical unit 6. Objective lens 1 by rising mirror 31
The laser light flux 13 incident on 0 is converged by the refraction of the objective lens 10. A solid immersion lens (SIL) 11 is disposed near the light-collecting point.
The convergent light is applied to the optical disc 2 as finer evanescent light 15.

A magnetic coil 12 for recording in a magneto-optical recording system is formed around a solid immersion lens (SIL) 11 facing the optical disk 2. It can be applied on the surface. This evanescent light 1
5 and the magnetic coil 12 enable high-density recording and reproduction on the optical disk 2. The floating optical unit 6 floats by a very small amount due to the airflow generated by the rotation of the optical disk 2 and follows the surface runout of the optical disk 2. For this reason, focus control (focus servo) of the objective lens, which is required in the conventional optical disk device, is not required.

The light source module 7 mounted on the rotating arm 3 and the light beam guided to the floating optical unit 6 will be described in detail below with reference to FIGS. The rotating arm 3 has a floating type optical unit 6 mounted at the tip and a driving coil 1 for driving a voice coil motor 4 at the other end.
6 is fixed. The drive coil 16 is a flat coil, and is inserted and arranged in a magnetic circuit (not shown) with a gap. The rotating shaft 5 and the rotating arm 3 are provided with a bearing 17,
When the current is applied to the drive coil, the rotation arm 3 can be rotated about the rotation shaft 5 by the electromagnetic action with the magnetic circuit.

The light source module 7 mounted on the rotating arm 3 has a semiconductor laser 18, a laser drive circuit 19,
Collimating lens 20, composite prism assay 21, laser power monitor sensor 22, reflection prism 2
3, a data detection sensor 24 and a tracking detection sensor 25 are arranged. The laser beam in a divergent beam state emitted from the semiconductor laser 18 is converted into a parallel beam by the collimating lens 20. The cross-sectional shape of the parallel light beam is an elliptical shape due to the characteristics of the semiconductor laser 18, and it is inconvenient to narrow the light beam onto the optical disk 2 minutely. Therefore, the cross-sectional shape of the parallel light beam is shaped by making the parallel light beam having an elliptical cross section emitted from the collimating lens 20 enter the composite prism assay 21.

The entrance surface 21a of the composite prism assay 21
Has a predetermined slope with respect to the incident optical axis. By refracting the incident light, the cross-sectional shape of the parallel light beam can be shaped from an oval shape to a substantially circular shape. The shaped laser beam travels through the complex prism assay 21 and enters the first half mirror surface 21b. The first half mirror surface 21b transmits information obtained from the optical disk 2 to the data detection sensor 24 and the tracking detection sensor 25.
However, on the outward path, it serves to separate the light beam to the laser power monitor sensor 22 for detecting the output power of the laser emitted from the semiconductor laser 18.

Since the laser power monitor sensor 22 outputs a current proportional to the intensity of the received light, the output of the semiconductor laser 18 can be stabilized by feeding back this output to a laser power control circuit (not shown). . The laser beam 13 having a substantially circular cross-sectional shape and emitted from the composite prism assay 21 is applied to the deflecting mirror 26, and the traveling direction of the laser beam 13 is changed. The deflecting mirror 26 is attached to a galvano motor 27 having a rotation center about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the paper, and can deflect the laser beam 13 by a small angle in a direction parallel to the plane of the paper.

The galvano motor 27 is provided with a deflection mirror position detection sensor 28 for detecting the rotation angle of the deflection mirror 26. The laser beam 13 reflected by the deflecting mirror 26 is transmitted to the first relay lens 29 and the second relay lens 29.
After passing through a relay lens (imaging lens) 30, the light is reflected by a rising mirror 31 and reaches the floating optical unit 6. The first relay lens 29 and the second relay lens 30 make the relationship between the reflection surface of the deflecting mirror 26 and the pupil surface (principal plane) of the objective lens 10 arranged in the floating optical unit 6 into a conjugate relationship. That is, a relay lens optical system is formed. That is, when the condensed beam on the optical disk 2 is slightly deviated from a predetermined track, the deflecting mirror 26 is slightly rotated to tilt the laser beam 13 incident on the objective lens 10 to move the focal point on the optical disk 2. Correction. However, when performing focus correction with this method,
If the optical distance between the deflecting mirror 26 and the objective lens 10 is long, the amount of movement of the laser beam 13 incident on the objective lens 10 increases, and it may not be possible to enter the objective lens 10.

In order to avoid such a phenomenon, the first relay lens 29 and the second relay lens 30
The relationship between the reflection surface of the deflecting mirror 26 and the pupil surface of the objective lens 10 is set to be a conjugate relationship, and even if the deflecting mirror 26 rotates, the laser beam 13 incident on the objective lens 10 does not move, Tracking control is made possible. The access operation over the inner circumference / outer circumference of the optical disk 2 is performed by rotating the rotating arm 3 by the voice coil motor 4, and only minute tracking control is performed by rotating the deflection mirror 26.

The return laser beam 13 reflected from the optical disk 2 and returning returns to the deflecting mirror 2 in a direction opposite to the forward path.
The reflected light is incident on the composite prism assay 21.
Thereafter, the light is reflected by the first half mirror surface 21b and travels to the second half mirror surface 21c. The second half mirror surface 21c generates transmitted light directed to the tracking detection sensor 25 and reflected light directed to the data detection sensor 24, and separates the laser beam on the return path. The laser beam transmitted through the second half mirror surface 21c is applied to the tracking detection sensor 25, and outputs a tracking error signal.

On the other hand, the laser beam reflected by the second half mirror surface 21c is polarized and separated by the Wollaston prism 32, converted into convergent light by the condensing lens 33, and then reflected by the reflecting prism 23 to be detected by the data detection sensor. 24. The data detection sensor 24 has two light receiving areas, and receives two polarized beams polarized and separated by the Wollaston prism 32 to read data information recorded on the optical disk 2 and output a data signal. To be precise, the tracking error signal and the data signal are generated by a head amplifier circuit (not shown) and sent to a control circuit or an information processing circuit.

Next, a configuration for rotating the deflecting mirror 26 in the galvano motor 27 will be described. FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view showing a galvano motor 27 (a unit including the deflection mirror 26: a so-called galvano mirror). The deflecting mirror 26 is held by a mirror holder 100, and the mirror holder 100 is
0. The description of the coils and magnets for driving the deflection mirror 26 to rotate is omitted.

The mirror holder 100 includes a stator 150
Are sandwiched from both sides in the vertical direction in the figure by a pair of center pins 122 and 124 attached to the pair. A pair of center pins 12 is provided on the upper and lower surfaces of the mirror stator 100.
Bearings 106,1 which are conical holes for receiving 2,124
08 is formed. A pair of center pins 122, 1
The deflection mirror 26 is rotatably supported about a predetermined rotation axis (referred to as the Z axis) by the bearing 24 and the bearings 106 and 108. The deflecting mirror 26 has a mirror surface 26a.
Is attached to the mirror holder 100 so as to be orthogonal to an axis (referred to as Y axis) orthogonal to the rotation axis Z.

The lower center pin 124 of the pair of center pins 122 and 124 is press-fitted and fixed to the stator. On the other hand, the upper center pin 122 is attached to the stator 150 while being inserted through the holding ring 130 having a flange shape. A permanent magnet pair 140 (described later) is fitted inside the retaining ring 130.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view and a side sectional view showing the upper center pin 122 and the permanent magnet pair 140. The upper center pin 122 is made of a non-magnetic material, specifically, a non-magnetic stainless steel or ceramic. A tip 160 made of a permanent magnet is fixed to the top of the upper center pin 122. The tip 160 is magnetized such that the upper side has an N pole and the lower side has an S pole. Note that the chip 160 may be made of a ferromagnetic material instead of a permanent magnet.

The permanent magnet pair 140 is formed by combining two arc-shaped permanent magnets 142 and 144 in a ring shape. The permanent magnets 142, 144 are magnetized in the radial direction,
Each is configured to have the same magnetization direction. Here, the inner side in the radial direction of the permanent magnets 142 and 144 is the N pole, and the outer side in the radial direction is the S pole.

FIG. 8 is a side sectional view showing the upper center pin 122 and the permanent magnet pair 140. As shown in FIG. Upper center pin 1
22 is mounted such that the tip 160 is located slightly above the permanent magnets 142, 144. At this time, a magnetic flux distribution is generated inside the upper center pin 122 as shown by an arrow in the figure. Due to this magnetic flux, the tip 160 is drawn toward the vertical center of the permanent magnets 142 and 144. That is, a downward urging force is generated in the upper center pin 122.

With this structure, the center pin 122, 124 can be used for the mirror holder 10 with a simple structure.
It is possible to obtain a pressurization for inserting zero. That is, the configuration of the galvano motor can be simplified and downsized as compared with the case where the pressurized spring is provided on the stator 150.

FIG. 9 is a side sectional view showing a galvano motor according to the second embodiment. In the second embodiment, the holding ring 130 is provided with upper and lower two permanent magnet pairs 240 and 250. 10 and 11 are a perspective view and a sectional view showing the upper center pin 122 and the permanent magnet pairs 240 and 250. As shown in FIG. 10, each permanent magnet pair 24
0 (250) denotes two arc-shaped permanent magnets 242, 2
44 (252, 254) in a ring shape. The permanent magnets 242, 244 (252, 254) are magnetized in the radial direction and are configured to have the same magnetization direction. Here, the permanent magnets 242, 244 (2
52, 254) is the north pole and the outside in the radial direction is the south pole.

As shown in FIG. 11, the upper center pin 1
The chip 22 is provided with a chip 260 made of a permanent magnet. The tip 260 is disposed so as to be located substantially at the center of the pair of permanent magnets 240 and 250 in the vertical direction, and is magnetized so that the upper side is an N pole and the lower side is an S pole. Accordingly, a magnetic flux distribution is generated above and below the upper center pin 122 with the chip 160 interposed therebetween, as indicated by arrows in the figure. That is, the tip 260 receives a repulsive force from the upper permanent magnet pair 240 and an attractive force from the lower permanent magnet pair 250. Note that the chip 260 may be made of a ferromagnetic material.

With this configuration, according to the second embodiment, it is possible to increase the pressurizing force for sandwiching the mirror holder 100 between the center pins 122 and 124.

[0027]

As described above, according to the galvanomirror of the present invention, since a pressurizing spring or the like is not required, the configuration of the galvanomirror can be made simple and small.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a basic configuration of a magneto-optical disk device according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a distal end portion of a rotating arm.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view showing a floating optical unit.

FIG. 4 is a plan view showing a deflection mirror and a floating optical unit.

FIG. 5 is a side sectional view of a rotating arm.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a galvano motor according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing an upper center pin and a permanent magnet pair of FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a sectional view showing an upper center pin and a permanent magnet pair of FIG. 6;

FIG. 9 is a perspective view showing a galvano motor according to a second embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing an upper center pin and a permanent magnet pair in FIG. 9;

FIG. 11 is a sectional view showing an upper center pin and a permanent magnet pair of FIG. 9;

[Explanation of symbols]

 26 Deflection mirror 27 Galvano motor 100 Mirror holder 101, 102 Coil 106, 108 Bearing part 122, 124 Center pin 130 Retaining ring 140 Permanent magnet pair 142, 144 Permanent magnet 160 Chip

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A galvanomirror for rotating a movable part, to which a deflection mirror is attached, by electromagnetic driving within a predetermined angle range around a rotation axis, wherein the rotation axis of the movable part is sandwiched between the movable part on a fixed side. Two center pins provided, and two bearings provided on the movable portion side for receiving the respective tip portions of the center pins, and one center pin is formed of a non-magnetic material, and An action portion made of a ferromagnetic material or a permanent magnet is provided at an end opposite to the side in contact with the bearing, and the center pin is slidably supported in the axial direction via a ring-shaped permanent magnet, A galvanomirror, wherein the slidable center pin is pressed against the bearing in the axial direction by an attraction force of a ring-shaped permanent magnet to the operating portion.