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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 10, 1996
Keisuke Takuma, Yokohama, JP;
Tsutami Misawa, Yokohama, JP;
Kenichi Sugimoto, Yokohama, JP;
Taizo Nishimoto, Kamakura, JP;
Takeshi Tsuda, Yokohama, JP;
Hideki Umehara, Yokohama, JP;
Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an optical recording medium having a recording layer, a reflective layer and a protective layer on a substrate, wherein a quinophthalone compound represented by the following formula (1) is contained in the above recording layer. The use of the quinophthalone compound or a mixture of the quinophthalone compound and a photoabsorbing compound having an absorption maximum in a wavelength falling in a range of 550 to 900 nm in the recording layer makes it possible to provide an interchangeable optical recording medium not only capable of recording and reproducing with a laser having a wavelength falling in a range of 480 to 600 nm, but is also capable of recording and reproducing with red lasers having wavelengths of 630 nm and 680 nm and a near infrared laser having a wavelength of 780 nm. ##STR1##