Patent 7102980 was granted and assigned to Konica on September, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An objective lens of an optical pickup apparatus converges a divergent light flux onto an information recording surface. The following conditional formula is satisfied:|δSA1/δU|·|δU|+|δSA2/δT|·|δT|≦0.07 λrmswhere λ represents a wavelength of a light source, δSA1/δU represents a change of a spherical aberration for an object-to-image distance change δU (|δU|≦0.5 mm) and δSA2/δT represents a change of spherical aberration for a temperature change δT (|δT|≦30° C.), the object-to-image distance is a distance between the light source (a light emitting point) and the information recording surface.