APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR READING AND/OR WRITING INFORMATION AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A STEPPING MOTOR

WIPO Patent Application WO2006079983

A8

Disclosed is an apparatus for reading and/or writing information from/to an information carrier ( 1 ), comprising a motor ( 2 ) for rotating the information carrier ( 1 ); pick-up unit ( 3 ) for directing a radiation beam ( 8 ) on the information carrier ( 1 ); traverse means having a permanent magnet stepping motor ( 6 ) for moving said pick-up unit from one read/write position on the information carrier to another read/write position; stepping motor driving means ( 7 ) for supplying said stepping motor with driving currents for coils in the stepping motor which generate magnetic fields, wherein the stepping motor driving means ( 7 ) has an open loop driving mode at which the read/write positions correspond to rest positions of the stepping motor ( 6 ) at which the magnetic fields generated by at least two coils ( 23, 34 ) in the stepping motor counteract each other. The inventor has surprisingly observed that the positioning accuracy at rest positions at which the magnetic fields generated by at least two coils counteract each other, is higher than at rest positions where these magnetic fields do not counteract each other. An explanation for this behavior is as follows. A permanent magnet stepping motor has, as the name implies, a permanent magnet rotor. The coils in the permanent magnet stepper motor generate an magnetic field when a current is applied to them. The coils are winded around iron core(s) which improve the magnetic field(s). The iron in the magnetic magnetic system of a permanent magnet stepper motor as used in optical drives is on the edge of saturation when no magnetic field is generated by the coils. The extra magnetic field generated by the current through the coils will modulate this saturation more when the magnetic fields are in the same direction, and less when the magnetic field counteract each other. If the iron is more saturated, the position accuracy will diminish. Therefore, at rest positions where the magnetic fields counteract each other, the saturation will be less and the position accuracy will be better.

HEZEMANS CEES (NL)

PCT/IB2006/050273

December 07, 2006

January 25, 2006

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KONINKL PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV (NL)
HEZEMANS CEES (NL)

G11B7/085

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