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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:
Jan. 06, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 18, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hideyoshi Horimai, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ; G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369 59 ; 3692753 ; 3692754 ;
Abstract
There is provided an optical recording medium including a first pit string having a succession of pits and mirror surface sections, which first pit string is formed on one side of a track center as a reference, and a second pit string having pits and mirror sections, reversed in their array from the pits and the mirror surface sections of the first pit string. A laser beam is radiated onto the track center for accessing information signals represented by the pits and the mirror surface sections. There are also provided a recording device and a reproducing device for such optical recording medium.