Abstract: An optical recording medium is disclosed. The optical recording medium includes an optical disk substrate. A control layer is formed on the optical disk substrate. The control layer includes a control track provided with a tracking control signal. A photosensitive material is formed on the control layer capable of forming a recording track as a result of a change in an optical property of the photosensitive material that is responsive to a specific light beam radiation. The optical property of all the recording tracks on a predetermined circumference of the optical disk substrate is entirely changed in advance.

Abstract: Pits are exposed and formed on a resist master disc by an electron beam recorder. A leading end and a trailing end of each pit are substantially the same form. The electron beam recorder includes: an electron beam source that discharges electron beams; a voltage controller that generates voltages based on a predetermined information signals; control electrodes that deflect the electron beams based on the voltages; a shield plate having a passing position to pass the electron beams and a shielding position to shield the electron beams; and a turntable that carries and rotates the disc. The voltage controller controls the voltages applied to the control electrodes to substantially equalize a first velocity of the electron beams to travel from a first shielding position to the passing position with a second velocity of the electron beams to travel from the passing position to a second shielding position.

Abstract: Pits are exposed and formed on a resist master disc by an electron beam recorder. A leading end and a trailing end of each pit are substantially the same form. The electron beam recorder includes: an electron beam source that discharges electron beams; a voltage controller that generates voltages based on a predetermined information signals; control electrodes that deflect the electron beams based on the voltages; a shield plate having a passing position to pass the electron beams and a shielding position to shield the electron beams; and a turntable that carries and rotates the disc. The voltage controller controls the voltages applied to the control electrodes to substantially equalize a first velocity of the electron beams to travel from a first shielding position to the passing position with a second velocity of the electron beams to travel from the passing position to a second shielding position.

Abstract: The invention provides: an optical recording medium having the changeability and compatibility of media and a large capacity in three dimensions; an optical pickup apparatus for the same and a control apparatus for the same.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing optical disk substrates whereby grooves and pits of optical disk substrates are formed highly accurately and finely, so that resulting optical disks can be of large-capacity and reduced in noise level. A coat of an organic material is provided on a substrate which is to be a master, on which a mask material is patterned as an etching mask. After the coat of the organic material is etched, the mask material is removed, whereby a master is obtained. A metallic coat is formed to the master. A metallic main body portion is integrally formed on the metallic coat. A metallic portion comprising the metallic coat and metallic main body portion is separated from the master. A metallic stamper is thus formed.

Abstract: A disk of the present invention includes a first storage area for reproducing data and a second storage area for recording and reproducing data, the number of sectors in each track in the first and second storage areas close to each other is larger in the first storage area than in the second storage area, and leading edges of sectors in each track in the first storage area are aligned in at least one line in a radius direction.

Abstract: A disk of the present invention includes a first storage area for reproducing data and a second storage area for recording and reproducing data, the number of sectors in each track in the first and second storage areas close to each other is larger in the first storage area than in the second storage area, and leading edges of sectors in each track in the first storage area are aligned in at least one line in a radius direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical disk 9 with a duplication preventing function, reproducing system 47 for the optical disk 9, optical disk reproducing method, method of fabricating an optical disk original record, and illegal program operation stopping method. An area in which a CP signal 24 is recorded is made after a signal having a constant pattern in the optical disk, the CP signal 24 being produced such that the center of an eye pattern is shifted from the center of the amplitude. In the reproducing system, CP signal arrangement information 25 or a CP preceding signal 26 is detected, before an offset voltage is applied to a threshold value to be used in demodulating an RF signal into a digital signal so that the threshold value varies, thus normally reproducing the signal in which center of the eye patter is shifted from the center of the amplitude. The reproducing system has a function whereby the reproduction is stopped when a predetermined offset signal is not reproduced.

Abstract: A method of producing a microscopic structure by anisotropic etching, in which ion etcing is conducted by irradiating an ion beam emitted by an ion source over a workpiece while a direction of progress of the ion etching is being changed.

Abstract: In a plasma surface treating method, a sample to be treated is supported on a first electrode within a vacuum vessel and a second electrode is caused to confront the first electrode. Active species of negative ions are then generated by means of a direct current glow discharge produced in an abnormal glow discharge region and are subsequently impinged upon a surface of the sample to induce a chemical reaction with the sample.

Abstract: A reproducing method for the V-shape groove optical disk is disclosed in which three laser beams are irradiated on a disk, and the reflected laser beams are focused on three light receiving units through object lens. The laser beams irradiated on two light receiving units are used for reproducing signal. Each of the two light receiving units has a light receiving segment which receives a portion of the reflected light beam which is greater than a half of the total reflected light so that a quality of the reproduced signal is improved.

Abstract: In a plasma surface treating method, a sample to be treated is supported on a first electrode within a vacuum vessel and a second electrode is caused to confront the first electrode. Active species of negative ions are then generated by means of a direct current glow discharge produced in an abnormal glow discharge region and are subsequently impinged upon a surface of the sample to induce a chemical reaction with the sample.

Abstract: An optical data medium is disclosed from which information recorded to the surface is reproduced by focusing a laser thereon and reading the light reflected from the data surface. The medium includes a first transparent layer having a top data surface for carrying data, and a second transparent layer having a bottom data surface for carrying data. A semi-transparent layer is inserted between the first and second transparent layers. When the laser is focused on the top data surface, the data carried therein is reproduced, and when the laser is focused on the bottom data surface, the data carried therein is reproduced.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical disk 9 with a duplication preventing function, reproducing system 47 for the optical disk 9, optical disk reproducing method, method of fabricating an optical disk original record, and illegal program operation stopping method. An area in which a CP signal 24 is recorded is made after a signal having a constant pattern in the optical disk, the CP signal 24 being produced such that the center of an eye pattern is shifted from the center of the amplitude. In the reproducing system, CP signal arrangement information 25 or a CP preceding signal 26 is detected, before an offset voltage is applied to a threshold value to be used in demodulating an RF signal into a digital signal so that the threshold value varies, thus normally reproducing the signal in which center of the eye patter is shifted from the center of the amplitude. The reproducing system has a function whereby the reproduction is stopped when a predetermined offset signal is not reproduced.