Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for fabricating a multi-layer information recording medium including a substrate, plural information recording layers placed on the aforementioned substrate, resin intermediate layers placed between adjacent information recording layers and a resin protective layer placed on all the information recording layers at the side opposite from the aforementioned substrate, the apparatus including an ejecting unit including ink jet nozzles operable to drip minute resin liquid drops onto the aforementioned substrate or the aforementioned information recording layers; and a control unit operable to control the aforementioned ejecting unit, whereby resin layers which form said resin intermediate layers or said resin protective layer are formed on the aforementioned substrate or the aforementioned information recording layers.

Abstract: A substrate formed of an organic-inorganic hybrid material and provided with a reinforcement member in an inner periphery portion is used, as a signal transfer substrate, in a method for procuring a multilayer information recording medium having “n” information recording layers (“n” is an integer of two or more), the method including: applying an ultraviolet curable resin on a “k”th information recording layer (“k” is an integer of from 1 to (n?1)); bonding the signal transfer substrate having a signal surface including a concavo-convex shaped signal portion, to the applied resin, with the signal surface facing the resin; curing the resin by applying an ultraviolet ray to the resin from the substrate side while the substrate is bonded to the resin; and peeling the substrate from the cured resin by warping the inner periphery portion of the substrate. This method enables the signal transfer substrate to be used repeatedly.

Abstract: A multi-layer information recording medium comprising a substrate that has an inner circumference and an outer circumference, three or more information recording layers and resin layers disposed between the information recording layers, wherein positions of the ends on the inner circumference side of the resin layers are different from each other in at least one combination of two neighboring resin layers, and the end on the inner circumference side of at least one of the resin layers is covered by another resin layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a multilayer information recording medium including at least two information recording portions and a resin layer interposed between the information recording portions, both of which are disposed on a signal substrate. The method includes a first process of forming a predetermined information recording portion on one principal surface of the signal substrate and a second process of passing a part of a resin-containing coating, which is supplied on a screen having an application region with a plurality of first pores and a removal region with a plurality of second pores, through the first pores by sliding a squeegee on the screen so as to form a coating layer on the predetermined information recording portion, and curing the resin contained in the coating layer so as to form the resin layer. The first process and the second process are carried out respectively a predetermined number of times.

Abstract: The invention provides a multilayer information recording medium manufacturing method, a multilayer information recording medium manufacturing apparatus, and a multilayer information recording medium that enable to make a distance from a light incident surface of the multilayer information recording medium to a farthest information recording layer thereof uniform within a plane of the medium.

Abstract: A method for producing a multilayer information recording medium the method including: holding a substrate; feeding a resin onto the substrate; and removing the excess resin by moving a squeegee throughout the entire surface of the substrate. The substrate may have a resin-coated region, onto which the resin is to be applied, and a non-resin-coated region, onto which the resin is not to be applied. In this case, the resin-coated region has a smaller contact angle with the resin than the non-resin-coated region. The method for producing a multilayer information recording medium may further include, prior to feeding a resin onto the substrate, subjecting a specified area of the substrate to an oil repellent treatment to increase the contact angle of the specified area with the resin.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an information recording medium may used for manufacturing the information recording medium which has a recording layer and a resin layer that may be provided in contact with the recording layer. In the method, the resin layer is made of at least two kinds of ultraviolet curing resins. First resin layer is formed by screen printing. Second resin layer is formed on the first resin layer as to compensate a surface property. Consequently, a surface nature of the resin layer can be improved.

Abstract: There is provided a manufacturing method for an optical information recording medium having three information recording layers, two intermediate layers, and one light transmitting layer, the method includes: providing a first UV curable resin on a first information recording layer; forming a first intermediate layer by curing the first UV curable resin by performing first-time UV irradiation to irradiate the first UV curable resin with UV light emitted from above the first UV curable resin at a first dose; providing a second information recording layer on the first intermediate layer; providing a second UV curable resin on the second information recording layer; forming a second intermediate layer by curing the second UV curable resin by performing second-time UV irradiation to irradiate the second UV curable resin with UV light emitted from above the second UV curable resin at a second dose; providing a third information recording layer on the second intermediate layer; providing a third UV curable resin on

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a multilayer information recording medium including at least two information recording portions and a resin layer interposed between the information recording portions, both of which are disposed on a signal substrate. The method includes a first process of forming a predetermined information recording portion on one principal surface of the signal substrate and a second process of passing a part of a resin-containing coating, which is supplied on a screen having an application region with a plurality of first pores and a removal region with a plurality of second pores, through the first pores by sliding a squeegee on the screen so as to form a coating layer on the predetermined information recording portion, and curing the resin contained in the coating layer so as to form the resin layer. The first process and the second process are carried out respectively a predetermined number of times.

Abstract: In a process for producing a multilayered information recording medium of the present invention, a process for forming a second signal substrate (110) serving as a resin layer provided between a first thin film layer (102), which is a first information recording layer, and a second thin film layer (108), which is a second information recording layer, includes the steps of: (I) applying a liquid resin (104) onto the first information recording layer; (II) placing, on the resin (104), a signal transfer substrate (105) having a signal surface with a shape of projections and depressions; (III) curing the resin (104) while the signal transfer substrate (105) is placed on the resin (104); and (IV) separating the signal transfer substrate (105) from the resin (104).

Abstract: The recording/reproducing quality of a multilayer optical information recording medium deteriorate not only due to interference from other layers caused by light converging on other information layers but also due to stray light converging on the surface of a protective layer and stray light that does not converge on other information layers but rather returns to an optical head through the same optical path as the reproducing signal. The thickness composition of intermediate layers (106, 107, and 108) and the protective layer (109) in a four-layer optical information recording medium are set so as to eliminate the influence of interference caused by stray light from other layers reflected up to three times.

Abstract: An inkjet coating device, which applies a radioactive-ray curable resin to a subject, while moving either the subject or an inkjet head relative to the other, includes an inkjet head provided with an inkjet unit having an inkjet nozzle for ejecting droplets of the radioactive-ray curable resin and a radioactive-ray irradiation unit that is placed on the rear side of the inkjet unit in a moving direction relative to the subject so as to be spaced therefrom with a predetermined distance, and irradiates the radioactive-ray curable resin coated onto the subject with radioactive rays; and a driving unit that moves the inkjet head relative to the subject.

Abstract: A multi-layer information recording medium comprising a substrate that has an inner circumference and an outer circumference, three or more information recording layers and resin layers disposed between the information recording layers, wherein positions of the ends on the inner circumference side of the resin layers are different from each other in at least one combination of two neighboring resin layers, and the end on the inner circumference side of at least one of the resin layers is covered by another resin layer.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for producing a multilayer information recording medium having at least two information recording layers, in which a resin layer is formed between each pair of the information recording layers, the method including: holding a substrate; feeding a resin onto the substrate; and removing the excess resin by moving a squeegee throughout the entire surface of the substrate so that the interval between the bottom surface of the squeegee and the surface of the substrate is kept constant. The substrate may have a resin-coated region, onto which the resin is to be applied, and a non-resin-coated region, onto which the resin is not to be applied. In this case, the resin-coated region has a smaller contact angle with the resin than the non-resin-coated region.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a multilayer information recording medium including at least two information recording layers and a resin layer disposed between the information recording layers that are adjacent to each other includes a first process of filling a resin-containing coating in openings of a screen, electrically charging one of the resin-containing coating filled in the openings of the screen and a predetermined information recording layer using a charging apparatus, followed by applying the resin-containing coating filled in the openings of the screen to the predetermined information recording layer without allowing the screen and the predetermined information recording layer to contact each other, and curing a resin contained in the applied resin-containing coating so as to form the resin layer, and a second process of forming another information recording layer on the resin layer.

Abstract: In producing a stamper for molding an optical disc, a master disc which can be obtained from the steps of forming a thermosensitive material layer capable of acting as a negative type by a laser beam on a substrate, irradiating a laser beam to predetermined areas of the thermosensitive material layer so as to partially perform exposure and wet-etching the partially exposed thermosensitive material layer so as to form a fine pits-and-bumps pattern is used as a stamper for injection molding machine. Therefore, minute pits each having a size smaller than the spot of the laser beam of optical limit are formed, thereby providing a stamper with the small number of deficiencies.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a multilayer information recording medium including a signal substrate, at least two information recording portions disposed on the signal substrate and a resin layer disposed between the information recording portions adjacent to each other is provided. The method includes forming the resin layer, and in the forming of the resin layer, a resin-containing coating is applied onto the signal substrate except for edge portions and of the signal substrate through openings of a screen, the signal substrate and a signal transfer substrate are attached to each other via the applied resin-containing coating at a pressure lower than atmospheric pressure, a resin contained in the applied resin-containing coating is cured to form the resin layer, and then the signal transfer substrate is peeled off from the resin layer.