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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2001
Applicant:
Tamotsu Iida, Ibaraki, JP;
Inventor:
Tamotsu Iida, Ibaraki, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi Maxell, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A disc-shaped optical record carrier includes a first area having a spiral track extending in a first direction from an inner side on the disc, and a second area having a spiral track extending in a second direction opposite to the first direction, from an outer side on the disc located on the same plane as the first area on the disc, wherein one of the first and second areas is assigned a recordable area and the other is assigned a read only area.