Patent ID: 7733748

Claim:
An optical disk apparatus, comprising: a disk motor, which is configure to drive an optical disk, rotationally; an optical pickup, which is configured to irradiate a laser beam upon an information recording surface of the optical disk, which is rotationally driven by said disk motor, to record data thereon, and to reproduce recorded data by detecting a signal from reflection light; a portion, which is configured to move said optical pickup into a radial direction of the optical disk, as well as, to control irradiation of the laser beam upon said optical disk; a portion, which is configured to control strength of the laser beam irradiated from said optical pickup; a detector, which is configured to detect a tilt condition of said optical pickup from the signal obtained from the light reflected upon said optical disk; a portion, which is configured to control a tilt angle of said optical pickup; and a controller, which is configured to control at least said laser beam strength control portion and said tilt angle control portion, and thereby controlling recording power when recording information onto the optical disk by said laser beam strength control portion, wherein said recording operation is interrupted when satisfying a predetermined condition within a continuous recording operation, to determine the recording power when conducting the recording next, from the recording condition just before an interruption, and thereby starting the recording at the recording power determined just after said interruption, and said controller adjusts the tilt angle of said optical pickup by said tilt angle control portion, when said recording power determined when interrupting said recording operation exceeds a predetermined threshold value.