Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Toshiaki Kashihara

Yuji Takahashi

Ichiro Kawamura

Yoshio Hata

Keisuke Ito

Yoshihiro Okino

Noboru Yamada

Rie Kojima

Keiichiro Horai

Kiyoshi Tanii

An optical information recording medium having a recording layer for inducing a reversible phase change by irradiation with energy beam. The recording layer contains Te, Ge, Sb, and N, and the concentration of the N being contained is in a range of about 0.1% by atom to about 10% by atom. In this constitution, an excellent repeated recording and erasing performance is obtained.

Optical information recording medium and method of manufacturing the same

A disk cartridge (21) for loading on a flat tray (1) included in a disk loading apparatus. Recesses (29) are provided on the back side of the disk cartridge near the rear end (27a) thereof, and projections (16) are provided on the tray for judging whether the disk cartridge is loaded properly on the tray. In addition, notches (30) are formed on the right (27d) and left (27c) sides of the disk cartridge between the recesses and the rear end thereof for engagement with an automatic cartridge-changer.

Disk cartridge with judging recesses

A disk cartridge (21) for loading on a flat tray (1) included in a disk loading apparatus, wherein positioning holes (28) are provided at the rear end (27a), on a peripheral side, of the disk cartridge, and protrusions (18) are formed on the tray providing for a rigid positioning of the cartridge in order to fix the cartridge at the specified position on the tray. In addition, a groove (32) is formed on the face side and on the back side of the cartridge extending in a lateral direction, and a resin flow inlet (33) is provided at the rear end (27a) to improve the productability of a thin portion (26) of the cartridge.

Disk cartridge with positioning hole

A flat tray (1) for receiving a disk cartridge (21) for a disk loading apparatus, wherein positioning holes (28) are provided at the rear end (27a), on a peripheral side, of the disk cartridge, and protrusions (18) are formed on the tray providing for a rigid positioning of the cartridge in order to fix the cartridge at the specified position on the tray. The protrusions (18) may be made of leaf springs that are formed with one end curved. When the disk cartridge (21) is pushed into the tray (1), the curved portions of the protrusions match the positioning holes (28) on the disk cartridge.

Tray with positioning protrusion for loading a disk cartridge

A disk cartridge (21) for loading on a flat tray (1) included in a disk loading apparatus, wherein an inclined groove (32) is formed on the face side (22a) and the back side (22b) of the disk cartridge to extend in the moving direction of the shutter (23). A resin flow inlet (33) is provided at the rear end (27a) to improve the productability of the thin part of the cartridge. The inclination of the groove enables to detect when a wrong side of the disk cartridge is put on the tray.

Disk cartridge with an inclined groove

To present a stable tracking signal with less change, in a recording medium possessing a discontinuous control information recording region of track groove and a data region by a continuous track. The track pitch of a preliminarily recorded control information pit portion region 3 is set larger than the track pitch of a data recording region 2 which is a continuous groove in a disk 1, and the tracking signal modulation degree of the both regions is nearly same, so that stable recording and reproducing may be realized.

Optical information recording medium

A device for producing information recording disks comprises a stamper mount for placing a stamper thereon, a stamper-fixing shaft for fixing the stamper, and a pressing plate for pressing a backing plate toward the stamper after a liquid resin is injected in the space between the backing plate and the stamper. Injection is effected via a passage made at the center of the stamper mount, and the injected resin is stretched outwardly radially by pressing the backing plate. An ultraviolet ray is irradiated to the stretched resin through the backing plate to harden the resin. An injection valve movably received in the stamper-fixing shaft may be used so that uninjected resin is prevented from being hardened. The injection valve may have a center projection as well as a flange portion at its top so that machining for making a center hole of the disk is unnecessary. The periphery of the flange portion may be wetted by the resin before the backing plate is placed on the flange portion. The stretching speed of the resin is controlled so that air bubbles are prevented from being taken into the resin. The stamper may be attracted by magnetic forces to the stamper mount. A stamper having a fixing ring at its center may be used so that eccentricity is avoided.

Device for producing an information recording disk

Provided is an information recording medium manufacturing device of the type in which a radiation curable layer-forming liquid resin is injected into a gap between a planar stamper carrying an information recording signal pattern to be transcribed and a planar flexible carrier member having at least one signal pattern carrying surface through means, for injecting the liquid resin, then the liquid resin is uniformly developed all over the surface of the carrier member by pressing a holding plate against the carrier member, and is set by irradiating radiant rays so as to form a transfer layer, thereby to obtain an information recording medium by separating from the stamper the carrier member united with the transfer layer. According to the present invention, the information recording medium manufacturing device further comprises means for shifting the stamper from a carrier member mounting section, sequentially through a radiation curable liquid resin injecting and pressing section and a radiant ray irradiating section, to a carrier member separating section, and then returning the same to the carrier member separating section.

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Osaka, Japan

Toshiaki Kashihara