Patent ID: 7057157

Claim:
A disk inspection apparatus for irradiating an inspection light on a surface of a rotating disk and inspecting surface conditions of the disk based on a reflected light, said disk inspection apparatus comprising: a turning table for rotating the disk; a photosensor body disposed opposite to the surface of the disk; and a transfer means for reciprocally transferring the photosensor body in a direction perpendicular to a rotating direction of the disk along the surface of the disk; wherein the photosensor body comprises a plurality of fiber array, each constructed by arranging a plurality of separate sensor units as multi-channels, wherein each of the sensor units comprises: a light-applying fiber, a light-receiving fiber which is bundled with the light-applying fiber to form a fiber bundle consisting of one light-applying fiber and one light-receiving fiber, a laser beam source to emit the inspection light to the light-applying fiber, a photosensor to receive the reflected light via the light-receiving fiber, and an objective optical system provided at a front end of the fiber bundle, and wherein the sensor units of the fiber arrays are arranged in respective lines such that positional phases of adjacent fiber arrays are shifted with respect to the surface of the disk.