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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 1982
Filed:
Mar. 03, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard S Crandall, Princeton, NJ (US);
Allen Bloom, East Windsor, NJ (US);
Assignee:
RCA Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369111 ; 346 / ; 3461351 ; 369275 ; 369284 ;
Abstract
A reversible optical recording medium is comprised of an electrically conductive layer overlain by a thermoplastic layer containing a light absorptive compound selected from the group consisting of metal complexes of substituted ethylene dithiols having the structure ##STR1## where M is Pt, Pd, or Ni and R and R' are independently alkyl, phenyl or substituted phenyl groups. Information is recorded by sequentially charging the recording medium and then heating it above its softening temperature by absorption of the recording light beam in the thermoplastic layer.