IP Library Granted Patent US 7,911,931
Granted Patent B2
US 7,911,931 · App. 12/647,029 · Granted Mar 22, 2011

Optical information recording medium, and substrate and manufacturing method for the optical information recording medium

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Patent No.
US 7,911,931
App. No.
12/647,029
Granted
Mar 22, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

In an optical disk including at least a rewritable phase change material and comprising a recording layer having a reflectivity of more than 15%, an address output value as an address pit signal component occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be 0.18 though 0.27 or a numerical aperture of an address pit signal occupying in a reproduced signal in a non recording state is prescribed to be more than 0.3.

Claims (32)

1. An optical information recording medium comprising:

a substrate formed with an area having sinusoidally deflected grooves and address pits scattered and allocated between said grooves, and

a recording layer having reflectivity of more than 15%,

wherein an output value of address pit as a signal component of address pit occupying in a reproduced signal under a not recorded condition in said area is within a range of 0.18 to 0.27, and

wherein an area of recording mark on the recording layer to be recorded with information is in a low reflectivity and areas other than said area of recording mark are in a high reflectivity.

2. A reproducing method for reproducing an optical information recording medium, said optical information recording medium comprising:

a substrate formed with an area having sinusoidally deflected grooves and address pits scattered and allocated between said grooves, and

a recording layer having reflectivity of more than 15%,

wherein an output value of address pit as a signal component of address pit occupying in a reproduced signal under a not recorded condition in said area is within a range of 0.18 to 0.27, and

wherein an area of recording mark on the recording layer to be recorded with information is in a low reflectivity and areas other than said area of recording mark are in a high reflectivity,

wherein said reproducing method reproduces an optical information recording medium by irradiating a laser beam stopped down by an objective lens on said recording layer,

wherein a wavelength of the laser beam is 650 nm, and

wherein a numerical aperture of the objective lens is 0.6.

3. A reproducing method for reproducing an optical information recording medium, said optical information recording medium comprising:

a substrate formed with an area having sinusoidally deflected grooves,

a recording layer having reflectivity of more than 15%, and a transmission layer having a thickness of 0.1 mm,

wherein an area of recording mark on the recording layer to be recorded with information is in a low reflectivity and areas other than said area of recording mark are in a high reflectivity,

said reproducing method reproducing said optical information recording medium by irradiating a laser beam stopped down by an objective lens on said recording layer,

wherein a wavelength of the laser beam is 405 nm, and wherein a numerical aperture of the objective lens is 0.85.

4. A recording method for recording an optical information recording medium, said optical information recording medium comprising:

a substrate formed with an area having sinusoidally deflected grooves and address pits scattered and allocated between said grooves, and

a recording layer having reflectivity of more than 15%,

wherein an output value of address pit as a signal component of address pit occupying in a reproduced signal under a not recorded condition in said area is within a range of 0.18 to 0.27,

said recording method recording information on the recording layer as a recording mark by irradiating a laser beam stopped down by an objective lens on said recording layer,

wherein a recording mark is recorded on said recording layer in such a manner that an area of the recording mark is in a low reflectivity and areas other than said area of the recording mark is in a high reflectivity.

5. A recording method for recording an optical information recording medium, said optical information recording medium comprising:

a substrate formed with an area having sinusoidally deflected grooves,

a recording layer having reflectivity of more than 15%, and a transmission layer having a thickness of 0.1 mm,

said recording method recording information on the recording layer as a recording mark by irradiating a laser beam stopped down by an objective lens on said recording layer,

wherein a recording mark is recorded on said recording layer in such a manner that an area of the recording mark is in a low reflectivity and areas other than said area of the recording mark is in a high reflectivity,

wherein a wavelength of the laser beam is 405 nm, and

further wherein a numerical aperture of the objective lens is 0.85.

Assignments (1)
MERGER Recorded Apr 6, 2012
From: VICTOR COMPANY OF JAPAN, LTD.
To: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
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