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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bruce Ha, Webster, NY (US);
James A. Barnard, Scottsville, NY (US);
Thomas C. Burgo, Brockport, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/24 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/24 ;
Abstract
A hybrid optical recording disc having a substrate and a recording layer disposed over the substrate, the substrate having a read-only (ROM) area in which a groove is modulated by depressions in the substrate and a recordable area in which the groove from the read-only area extends into the substrate in the recordable area. The groove in the read-only area forming wobbling tracks having a depth greater than 170 nm and wherein the depth d of the depression in the groove in the read-only area is in a range greater than 170 nm and less than 350 nm.