JP2005116115A - Optical disk recording and reproducing device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical disk recording and reproducing device which can be constituted without occupying much space even if a print mechanism performing print for a print plane of the optical disk is provided, which can be sufficiently miniaturized and produced at a lower cost. <P>SOLUTION: A printer head 7 performing print for a print plane of the optical disk D is integrated with an optical pickup module 5, it is attached to supporting bars 14, 15 included in a movement mechanism of the optical pickup module 5. Thereby, the printer head 7 is moved utilizing the movement mechanism at the time of printing for the print plane of the optical disk D, and printing for the print plane is performed. a space of the print mechanism can be constituted without occupying much space by integrating the printer head 7 and the pickup module 5, and the device can be sufficiently miniaturized. As the movement mechanism of the optical pickup module is used as that of the printer head. cost reduction can be realized. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

The present invention relates to an optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus that records information on an optical disk or reproduces information on an optical disk, and more particularly to an optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus that can also print an image on a printing surface of an optical disk.

Conventionally, CD (compact disc) and DVD (digital versatile disc)
In such an optical disc, one side is used as a recording surface for recording and reading information, and the other side is generally used as a printing surface for printing a title and the like. CD and D
In the case of VD or the like, generally, a large printing apparatus is used to publish a large amount of the same design. In such a case, a large printing device is not necessary, and a small printer is desired.
JP-A-5-238005 JP 2001-67756 A

Therefore, in the prior art of Patent Document 1, an ink jet device is provided so as to face the label surface (printing surface) of the optical disc, and printing is performed on the label surface of the optical disc by ejecting ink from the ink jet device. However, an extra space is required for installing the ink jet device. Therefore, the main body of the optical disk recording / reproducing device is increased by the amount provided with the ink jet device, and the size of the device cannot be sufficiently reduced. There is a problem that it is difficult to reduce costs.

In the prior art of Patent Document 2, a recording unit for performing printing on the printing surface of the optical disk is provided. In this case as well, an extra space for providing the recording unit is required, which reduces the size of the apparatus. However, there is a problem that it cannot be sufficiently achieved and it is difficult to reduce the cost.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and even if a printing mechanism for performing printing on the printing surface of an optical disk is provided, it can be configured without taking up much space. An object of the present invention is to provide an optical disc recording / reproducing apparatus that can be sufficiently reduced in size and can be reduced in cost.

In order to achieve the above object, the invention of claim 1 is an optical pickup module that emits laser light for recording / reproducing information on an optical disc and receives reflected light from the optical disc and outputs it as an electrical signal. In an optical disc recording / reproducing apparatus for recording information on an optical disc or reproducing information recorded on an optical disc, it is integrated with the optical pickup module and attached to a moving mechanism of the optical pickup module. A printer head having a printer nozzle disposed opposite to the printing surface of the optical disc, data input means for inputting print image data to be printed on the printing surface of the optical disc, and print image data input by the data input means And a memory for storing print images from the memory during the printing process. Printer head control means for reading data, converting the data into ink jet control data corresponding to the circumferential direction of the optical disc, and controlling the printer nozzles of the printer head based on the ink jet control data. An optical disc recording / reproducing apparatus is provided.

In this configuration, image data created by a personal computer or the like is input from the data input means, and the image data input to the data input means is stored in the memory. Next, the printer head control means reads the image data to be printed from the memory during the printing process, converts this image data into ink jet control data corresponding to the circumferential direction of the optical disk, and based on this ink jet control data, Control printer nozzles. Thereby, ink is ejected from the printer nozzle onto the printing surface of the rotating optical disk, and an image is printed on the printing surface.

According to this configuration, since the printing mechanism is configured to include the printer head that is integrated with the optical pickup module, is attached to the moving mechanism of the optical pickup module, and has the printer nozzle arranged to face the printing surface of the optical disc, The printing mechanism can be configured without taking up much space, and thus the apparatus can be sufficiently downsized. Further, since the moving mechanism of the optical pickup module also serves as the moving mechanism of the printer head, the cost can be reduced accordingly.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an optical pickup module that emits a laser beam for recording / reproducing information to / from an optical disc, receives reflected light from the optical disc, and outputs it as an electrical signal. In an optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus that records information on an optical disk or reproduces information recorded on an optical disk, a printer head that performs printing on the printing surface of the optical disk is provided in a moving mechanism of the optical pickup module, thereby Provided is an optical disc recording / reproducing apparatus that performs printing on the printing surface by moving the printer head using the moving mechanism when printing on the printing surface.

In this configuration, at the time of printing on the printing surface of the optical disk, the printer head is moved using the moving mechanism to perform printing on the printing surface, so that it can be configured without taking up much space on the printing mechanism. Therefore, it is possible to sufficiently reduce the size of the apparatus. Further, since the moving mechanism of the optical pickup module also serves as the moving mechanism of the printer head, the cost can be reduced accordingly.

In the invention of claim 3, since the printer head in the invention of claim 2 is integrated with the optical pickup module, is attached to the moving mechanism of the optical pickup module, and has a printer nozzle disposed opposite to the printing surface of the optical disk. The printing mechanism can be configured without taking up much space, and can contribute to downsizing of the apparatus. Since the moving mechanism of the optical pickup module also serves as the moving mechanism of the printer head, it can contribute to cost reduction accordingly.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the second or third aspect of the present invention, data input means for inputting print image data to be printed on the printing surface of the optical disc, and print image data input by the data input means. And a print image data is read from the memory during the printing process on the printing surface, the data is converted into inkjet control data corresponding to the circumferential direction of the optical disc, and the data is converted based on the inkjet control data. Since the printer head control means for controlling the printer nozzles of the printer head is provided, image data created by a personal computer or the like can be input from the data input means, and the image data input to the data input means is stored in the memory it can. The printer head control means reads image data to be printed from the memory at the time of printing processing, converts the image data into ink jet control data corresponding to the circumferential direction of the optical disc, and based on the ink jet control data, the printer head printer By controlling the nozzle, an image can be printed on the printing surface of the rotating optical disk.

As described above, according to the present invention, a printer head that is integrated with an optical pickup module, is attached to a moving mechanism of the optical pickup module, and has a printer nozzle disposed opposite to a printing surface of the optical disc, and printing of the optical disc A data input means for inputting print image data to be printed on the surface, a memory for storing the print image data input by the data input means, and reading the print image data from the memory during the printing process;
Since the data is converted into ink jet control data corresponding to the circumferential direction of the optical disk, and the printer head control means for controlling the printer nozzles of the printer head based on the ink jet control data, the printing mechanism space is reduced. Therefore, the apparatus can be sufficiently downsized. Further, since the moving mechanism of the optical pickup module also serves as the moving mechanism of the printer head, the cost can be reduced accordingly.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a printer head for performing printing on the printing surface of the optical disc is provided in the moving mechanism of the optical pickup module, whereby the moving mechanism is used to perform the printing on the printing surface of the optical disc. Since the printer head is moved and printing is performed on the printing surface, the printing mechanism can be configured without taking up much space, and thus the apparatus can be sufficiently downsized. Further, since the moving mechanism of the optical pickup module also serves as the moving mechanism of the printer head, the cost can be reduced accordingly.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an optical disc recording / reproducing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, an optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus emits a laser beam for recording / reproducing information to / from an optical disk, receives reflected light from the optical disk and outputs it as an electrical signal, and an optical disk. An information recording / reproduction control circuit 6 for controlling the optical pickup module 5 for recording information and reproducing information from the optical disk, a spindle motor 3 for rotating the optical disk, and driving control of the spindle motor 3 A disk rotation control circuit 4 for controlling the rotation of the optical disk, a sledge motor 1 for moving the optical pickup module 5 in the radial direction of the optical disk,
A sledge motor control circuit 2 that controls the drive of the sledge motor 1 is provided.

The optical disc recording / reproducing apparatus stores a user operation unit 10 having a plurality of keys for performing operations relating to recording and reproduction, and stores image data and music data to be recorded on the optical disc, or on the printing surface of the optical disc. Data is input / output between a memory 11 for storing print image data to be printed and a personal computer, and image data, music data, or print image data from the personal computer is written in the memory 11. A data input / output interface 12 is provided.

Further, the optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus is integrated with the optical pickup module 5, is attached to the moving mechanism of the optical pickup module 5, and has a printer head 7 having a printer nozzle arranged opposite to the printing surface of the optical disk, and a memory during the printing process. And a printer head control circuit 8 that reads print image data from the printer 11, converts the data into ink jet control data corresponding to the circumferential direction of the optical disk, and controls the printer nozzles of the printer head 7 based on the ink jet control data. ing.

The optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus includes a microcomputer 9 for controlling the entire system. The microcomputer 9 includes a sledge motor control circuit 2, a disk rotation control circuit 4, an information recording / reproduction control circuit 6, and a printer head control circuit. 8, the user operation unit 10 and the like are connected.

FIG. 2 is a plan view for explaining the configuration of the optical pickup module 5 and the printer head 7, and FIG. 3 is a perspective view for explaining the configuration of the optical pickup module 5 and the printer head 7. 4 is a side view for explaining a state in which ink is ejected from the printer nozzle 7a of the printer head 7. FIG. As shown in FIG. 4, when printing, the optical disk D is set on a tray (not shown) so that the printing surface Db opposite to the recording surface Da faces the printer head 7 side.

As shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, the printer head 7 having the printer nozzle 7 a disposed so as to face the printing surface Db of the optical disc D is integrated with the optical pickup module 5, and the optical pickup module 5 and the printer head 7 are integrated. It is fixed to the frame 13. The frame 13 is attached to the support bars 14 and 15, and is configured so that the optical pickup module 5 and the printer head 7 can move in the radial direction of the optical disk D by a moving mechanism including the support bars 14 and 15. The moving mechanism is interlocked with a sledge motor 1 (see FIG. 1) via a gear (not shown) or the like, and the support rods 14 and 15 are moved in the radial direction of the optical disk D by the rotation of the sledge motor 1. It has become. Therefore, the optical pickup module 5 and the printer head 7 move in the radial direction of the optical disc D during recording or reproduction or printing.

One end of an ink supply pipe 7 b is connected to the printer nozzle 7 a of the printer head 7, and the other end of the ink supply pipe 7 b is connected to an ink cartridge 17 via a pump 16. At the time of printing, the pump 16 is driven, and the ink in the ink cartridge 17 is sucked out by the pump 16 and supplied to the printer nozzle 7a through the ink supply pipe 7b. This
Ink is ejected from the printer nozzle 7 a toward the printing surface Db of the optical disk D.

When recording / reproducing the optical disc D, the recording surface Da of the optical disc D is used in the usual way.
Printed surface D, which is the surface of the optical disc D
When printing on b is used, the printing surface Db is used toward the optical pickup module 5 side, that is, toward the printer head 7 side. With such a mechanism, not only the use of a normal optical disk, but also the printer head 7 can move the optical pickup module 5 and the optical disk D.
It is possible to print on the optical disk D using the rotation mechanism.

Here, an operation when an image is printed on the printing surface Db of the optical disc D will be described. First, the user uses a personal computer (not shown) or the like to print the print surface Db of the optical disc D.
An image to be printed is created and this image data is input from the data input / output interface 12. The image data input to the data input / output interface 12 is stored in the memory 11.

Next, the printer head control circuit 8 reads out image data to be printed from the memory 11 during the printing process, converts this image data into ink jet control data corresponding to the circumferential direction of the optical disc D, and based on the ink jet control data. The printer nozzle 7a of the printer head 7 is controlled. At the time of this printing process, it is necessary to rotate the optical disk D and move the printer head 7 in the radial direction of the optical disk D, so the microcomputer 9 controls the disk rotation control circuit 4 and the sledge motor control circuit 2, Spindle motor 3 and sledge motor 1 are rotated.

During the printing process, the optical disk D is rotated by the spindle motor 3, the printer nozzle 7a of the printer head 7 is positioned with respect to the printing surface Db of the optical disk D, and the rotation of the optical disk D is temporarily stopped. While rotating D again, the printer head 7
Ink is ejected from the printer nozzle 7a toward the printing surface Db of the optical disc D, and printing for one round of a predetermined width of the optical disc D is performed. After the printing for one round is completed, the printer nozzle 7a is positioned again, and similarly, printing for one round of the predetermined width of the optical disk D is performed. By repeating such printing processing, an image created by a personal computer or the like is printed on the printing surface Db of the optical disc D.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the printer that is integrated with the optical pickup module 5, is attached to the support rods 14 and 15 (moving mechanism) of the optical pickup module 5, and is disposed to face the printing surface Db of the optical disc D. Since the printing mechanism is configured by including the printer head 7 having the nozzles 7a, the printing mechanism can be configured without taking much space, and thus the apparatus can be sufficiently downsized. Further, since the moving mechanism of the optical pickup module 5 also serves as the moving mechanism of the printer head 7, the cost can be reduced accordingly.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. FIG. 3 is a plan view for explaining a configuration of an optical pickup module and a printer head in the embodiment. It is a perspective view for demonstrating the structure of an optical pick-up module and a printer head in the said embodiment. FIG. 3 is a side view for explaining a state in which ink is ejected from a printer nozzle of the printer head in the embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

D optical disk Db printing surface 5 optical pickup module 7 printer head 7a printer nozzle 8 printer head control circuit (printer head control means)
11 Memory 12 Data input / output interface (including data input means)
14,15 Support rod (included in moving mechanism)

Claims (4)

An optical pickup module that emits laser light for recording / reproducing information to / from an optical disc and receives reflected light from the optical disc and outputs it as an electrical signal is used to record information on the optical disc, In an optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus for reproducing recorded information, a printer head having a printer nozzle integrated with the optical pickup module, attached to a moving mechanism of the optical pickup module, and disposed opposite to a printing surface of the optical disk A data input means for inputting print image data to be printed on the printing surface of the optical disc, a memory for storing the print image data input by the data input means, and a print image from the memory at the time of print processing. Read the data and read the data from the optical disc Converted to an inkjet control data corresponding to the direction, the optical disc recording and reproducing apparatus is characterized in that a printer head control means for controlling the printer nozzles of the printer head based on the ink jet control data. An optical pickup module that emits laser light for recording / reproducing information to / from an optical disc and receives reflected light from the optical disc and outputs it as an electrical signal is used to record information on the optical disc, In an optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus that reproduces recorded information, a printer head that performs printing on the printing surface of the optical disk is provided in the moving mechanism of the optical pickup module, so that when printing on the printing surface of the optical disk, An optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus, wherein the printer head is moved using the moving mechanism to perform printing on the printing surface. 3. The optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the printer head has a printer nozzle that is integrated with the optical pickup module, is attached to a moving mechanism of the optical pickup module, and is disposed to face the printing surface of the optical disk. apparatus. Data input means for inputting print image data to be printed on the print surface of the optical disc, a memory for storing print image data input by the data input means, and printing from the memory during the printing process on the print surface Printer head control means for reading image data, converting the data into ink jet control data corresponding to the circumferential direction of the optical disk, and controlling printer nozzles of the printer head based on the ink jet control data. The optical disk recording / reproducing apparatus according to claim 2 or 3, wherein

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