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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2010

Filed:

Mar. 06, 2008
Applicants:

Masanobu Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;

Motoki Kato, Kanagawa, JP;

Wilhelmus Jacobus Van Gestel, Heeze, NL;

Kaoru Murase, Nara, JP;

Yoshiho Gotoh, Osaka, JP;

Miyuki Sasaki, Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Masanobu Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;

Motoki Kato, Kanagawa, JP;

Wilhelmus Jacobus Van Gestel, Heeze, NL;

Kaoru Murase, Nara, JP;

Yoshiho Gotoh, Osaka, JP;

Miyuki Sasaki, Osaka, JP;

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Congested rewriting in the same area is to be evaded to suppress the tendency towards occurrence of defective areas. When a streamhas been recorded, the last written address, representing the last written position, is stored. When recording a streamnext, recording is started directly following the position indicated by the last written address for the stream. The last written address, corresponding to the last address of the recording position, is stored. If the streamis erased for recording a stream, recording is started not at a position directly following the last written address of the stream, but from a position directly following the last written address of the stream. When the streamhas reached the end of a recording area, the next following data is recorded as from a position directly following the stream


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