IP Library Granted Patent US 9,324,357
Granted Patent B2
US 9,324,357 · App. 13/824,001 · Granted Apr 26, 2016

Optical recording medium production device and production method

Inventors: Yuuki Tokunaga (Okayama, JP); Takehiko Toyota (Okayama, JP); Tatsuyuki Harada (Okayama, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
G11B7/266B08B5/02G11B7/265
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Patent No.
US 9,324,357
App. No.
13/824,001
Granted
Apr 26, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A recording medium production device includes a substrate positioning pin vertically movable that performs positioning to a center-hole of a substrate; a substrate holding portion that performs positioning of substrate using the substrate positioning pin to hold the substrate; a cleaner having a gas ejection portion that ejects gas toward the surface of the substrate held by the substrate holding portion, and a gas suction portion that suctions gas; and a substrate positioning pin fixing portion that can press the substrate positioning pin downward. The fixing portion is configured so as not to contact an inner circumferential side surface of the center-hole of substrate. The substrate positioning pin fixing portion descends inside the center-hole of substrate held by the substrate, and presses and fixes the substrate positioning pin. Then the cleaner performs ejection and suction of gas.

Claims (16)

1. An optical recording medium production device in which an information signal layer is provided on a substrate, comprising:

a substrate positioning pin vertically movable that performs positioning to a center hole of the substrate;

a substrate holding portion that performs the positioning of the substrate using the substrate positioning pin to hold the substrate;

a cleaner having a gas ejection portion that ejects gas toward a surface of the substrate held by the substrate holding portion, and a gas suction portion that suctions the gas; and

a substrate positioning pin fixing portion that can press the substrate positioning pin downward, and is configured so as not to come into contact with an inner circumferential side surface of the center hole of the substrate;

wherein the substrate positioning pin fixing portion descends inside the center hole of the substrate held by the substrate holding portion so as to form a gap in the vicinity of the inner circumferential side surface of the center hole of the substrate, and presses and fixes the substrate positioning pin, and in the state, the cleaner performs the ejection and suction of the gas.

2. The production device according to claim 1 , wherein the substrate positioning pin fixing portion has a columnar shape, and a diameter of a circular cross section thereof is smaller than a diameter of a circular cross section of the substrate positioning pin.

3. The production device according to claim 1 ,

wherein in the state where the substrate positioning pin fixing portion descends inside the center hole of the substrate held by the substrate holding portion so as to form the gap in the vicinity of the inner circumferential side surface of the center hole of the substrate, and presses and fixes the substrate positioning pin,

a part of the gas ejection portion and a part of the gas suction portion of the cleaner can move up to an inner position from the inner circumferential side surface of the substrate held by the substrate holding portion.

4. The production device according to claim 1 , wherein the cleaner and the substrate positioning pin fixing portion are integrally configured.

5. The production device according to claim 1 , wherein one of the substrate positioning pin and the substrate positioning pin fixing portion is made of a magnetic field generating body, and the other is made of a magnetic body.

6. The production device according to claim 1 , wherein both the substrate positioning pin and the substrate positioning pin fixing portion are each made of a magnetic field generating body.

7. The production device according to claim 1 , wherein the substrate positioning pin fixing portion fixes the substrate positioning pin by vacuum suction in a state where the substrate positioning pin is pressed.

8. The production device according to claim 1 , wherein the cleaner performs the ejection and the suction of the gas to a surface side on which the information signal layer is provided.

9. The production device according to claim 1 , wherein the cleaner performs the ejection and the suction of the gas to a printing surface side of the optical recording medium.

Assignments (3)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ERRONEOUSLY FILED APPLICATION NUMBERS 13/384239, 13/498734, 14/116681 AND 14/301144 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 034194 FRAME 0143. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Dec 24, 2020
From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 056788/0362 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 10, 2014
From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 034194/0143 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 31, 2013
From: TOKUNAGA, YUUKI; TOYOTA, TAKEHIKO; HARADA, TATSUYUKI
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 030518/0452 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2010-227100 · Oct 7, 2010 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20130196058A1 · Aug 1, 2013