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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 1988
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1987
Jinsei Miyazaki, Hirakata, JP;
Eiji Ando, Katano, JP;
Kimiaki Yoshino, Yawata, JP;
Kazuhisa Morimoto, Settsu, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An optical recording medium is prepared by the use of spiropyrane whose molecular structure contains an alkyl chain having at least 10 more carbon atoms, and by the use of an LB film method or a spin coating method. This recording medium is of a structure wherein when irradiated with the UV, the spiropyrane is photo-isomerized to photomerocyane and, thereafter, when subsequently heated at 35.degree. to 40.degree. C. for 15 minutes, a J-aggregate of the photomerocyane is formed in very stabilized form. When the recording medium is irradiated with light of wavelength of visible spectrum, the color is bleached with the information consequently recorded. The optical recording medium herein disclosed is rewritable and can retain the recorded information for 5,000 hours or more.