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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 31, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Takayuki Nomoto, Tsurugashima, JP;
Assignee:
Pioneer Electronic Corporation, Tokyo-to, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3692754 ; 3692751 ;
Abstract
An optical disk includes: an information recording surface on which a laser light is irradiated; and information pits arranged on the information recording surface and including a plurality of shapes each corresponding to information to be recorded, each of the shapes having different lengths in at least one of a radial direction of the disk and a circumferential direction of the disk and a depth d substantially satisfying the following relationship with a wavelength .lambda. of the laser light: