Patents by Inventor Thomas C. Burgo

Thomas C. Burgo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7120097
    Abstract: A laser beam recording system for exposing a photoresist master disc having a photoresist layer formed over a substrate for making a hybrid optical recording disc having a read only (ROM) portion and a writable portion, including a first optical modulator for modulating an intensity of a first laser beam having a wavelength selected to provide activating radiation to expose a pattern in the photoresist layer formed over the substrate of the master disc between a lower intensity for exposing a groove in the photoresist layer and a higher intensity for exposing the groove and a pattern of depressions in the groove in the photoresist layer; and a second optical modulator for frequency-modulating an intensity-modulated second laser beam with a wobble-frequency to cause the exposed groove to be a continuously frequency-modulated groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Bruce Ha, Thomas C. Burgo
  • Patent number: 6480462
    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 d2 of the depression in the groove in the read-only area is in a range greater than 170 nm and less than 350 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Bruce Ha, James A. Barnard, Thomas C. Burgo
  • Publication number: 20010005357
    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 d2 of the depression in the groove in the read-only area is in a range greater than 170 nm and less than 350 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2000
    Publication date: June 28, 2001
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Bruce Ha, James A. Barnard, Thomas C. Burgo
  • Patent number: 6212158
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Bruce Ha, James A. Barnard, Thomas C. Burgo