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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. 25, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 21, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428 641 ; 428 642 ; 428 644 ; 428 645 ; 428913 ; 369 4411 ; 369 4414 ; 369112 ; 3692751 ; 3692752 ; 3692754 ; 369283 ; 43027012 ; 43027013 ; 4304951 ; 430945 ;
Abstract
A recording and reproducing medium includes: at least one recording and reproducing layer; and a heating layer which receives light for writing data, converts a part of energy of the light into heat, and selectively heats a desired portion of the recording and reproducing layer, thereby changing optical characteristics of the desired portion, wherein the heating layer converts the part of energy of the light into the heat by a surface plasmon resonance phenomenon.