Patents Assigned to Toshiba-Emi Limited
  • Patent number: 6267578
    Abstract: In a bonded optical disk comprising two base disks which are bonded together by UV-setting adhesive, one or two of the base disks are provided with a projection located inside the adhesive application starting position in order to maintain the distance between bonded surfaces of the base disks at a predetermined thickness for the adhesive layer. A mold for molding above base disks is also provided. The thickness of the UV-setting adhesive is easily held at a predetermined thickness by the projection located inside the starting position. Therefore steady mass production of bonded optical disks with uniform adhesive layer thickness is made possible with easier management of the adhesive layer thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: Toshiba-Emi Limited
    Inventor: Keiji Kakinuma
  • Patent number: 6078561
    Abstract: In a bonded optical disk comprising two base disks which are bonded together by UV-setting adhesive, one or two of the base disks are provided with a projection located inside the adhesive application starting position in order to maintain the distance between bonded surfaces of the base disks at a predetermined thickness for the adhesive layer. A mold for molding above base disks is also provided. The thickness of the UV-setting adhesive is easily held at a predetermined thickness by the projection located inside the starting position. Therefore steady mass production of bonded optical disks with uniform adhesive layer thickness is made possible with easier management of the adhesive layer thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Toshiba-EMI Limited
    Inventor: Keiji Kakinuma
  • Patent number: 6019863
    Abstract: Indication members provided around a central hole in a disk does not adversely affect reference surfaces to be clamped, and clear, stable indication is maintained. For this purpose, first and second optical disks having annular light transmissive disk substrates with a common central hole, one surface of each of which light transmissive disk substrates is provided with a reflection film, are attached to each other as one body with an adhesive layer interposed therebetween, such that the reflection films opposed each other, thereby forming a compound optical disk. Label members are provided from the reflection film side by printing or attachment on flat portions surrounding the central hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba-Emi Limited
    Inventors: Hideyuki Irie, Takeshi Hagio, Minami Amano, Mikio Mori, Takashi Tomita, Keiji Kakinuma
  • Patent number: 5982737
    Abstract: In an optical disk, a display area is formed between the circumference of a recorded area and the circumference of the maximum area to which a recorded area can be provided. A reflective layer is formed covering the recorded area 3 and covering the display area forming a transparent display area at least in part of the display area. And to the transparent display area, a print layer is provided. According to this composition, there is provided the transparent display area without the reflective layer in the optical disk with a recorded area of a small diameter. Therefore, discrimination of the size or diameter of a record area of 12 cm CDs is made easier, and the print layer provided to the transparent display area can be seen from both sides of the optical disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Toshiba-Emi Limited
    Inventors: Ryoju Takagishi, Ryouhei Yoshihara
  • Patent number: 5961777
    Abstract: The method and apparatus of making a bonded disk according to this invention is intended to produce bonded disks in a large number at low cost, wherein a bonding strength is not reduced when the inner bonding surface is recessed for title display, it is not deformed easily when stored or left at a high temperature for a long period of time, at least one disk of the paired one-sided disks is formed with a recess for title display where is connected to the stamper clamp groove, a title consisting of desired letters and patterns is printed with an ink on the recess of the one-sided disk, the bonding surface of at least one disk of the paired one-sided disks is applied with a thermoplastic bonding agent while a liquid type reaction setting bonding agent is applied to the recess and the stamper clamp groove of the one-sided disk, and the paired one-sided disks are stacked to bring their bonding surfaces in contact with each other and press them together to form a single bonded disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Toshiba-Emi Limited
    Inventor: Keiji Kakinuma
  • Patent number: 5956317
    Abstract: A composite optical disk structure includes a first transparent disk plate having a first center hole, a first stamper clamp groove and a first information recording area on its one main surface; a second transparent disk plate having a second center hole having a diameter equal to that of the first center hole, a second stamper clamp groove and a second information recording area on its one main surface; a transparent adhesive sandwiched between the first and second transparent disk plates to bond the one main surfaces of them; and a mechanism formed between the one main surfaces for preventing the transparent adhesive from leaking our into the center holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Toshiba-Emi Limited
    Inventors: Takeshi Komiyama, Makoto Hamamura
  • Patent number: 5728250
    Abstract: The method and apparatus of making a bonded disk according to this invention is intended to produce bonded disks in a large number at low cost, wherein a bonding strength is not reduced when the inner bonding surface is recessed for title display, it is not deformed easily when stored or left at a high temperature for a long period of time, at least one disk of the paired one-sided disks is formed with a recess for title display where is connected to the stamper clamp groove, a title consisting of desired letters and patterns is printed with an ink on the recess of the one-sided disk, the bonding surface of at least one disk of the paired one-sided disks is applied with a thermoplastic bonding agent while a liquid type reaction setting bonding agent is applied to the recess and the stamper clamp groove of the one-sided disk, and the paired one-sided disks are stacked to bring their bonding surfaces in contact with each other and press them together to form a single bonded disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Toshiba-EMI Limited
    Inventor: Keiji Kakinuma
  • Patent number: 5725093
    Abstract: A disk case has a pocket-shaped case body for accommodating a disk. Tongue pieces are provided at one edge of the case body, at the centers of opposite halves of the periphery of a disk insertion inlet thereat. These tongue pieces are formed so that one end of each is aligned with a corresponding end of the other at a first position of the end of the disk insertion inlet, and overlap or cross each other on the outside of the periphery. The respective other ends of the tongue pieces coincide with a pair of opposite edges of the case body. Perforations are provided along the boundary between each of the tongue pieces and the case body. The tongue pieces can be torn at these perforations to be separated from the case body. The disk case thus formed has a simple structure, can be easily sealed and appended to a book, and prevents a disk from moving in the case after being placed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Toshiba-EMI Limited
    Inventors: Toshitsugu Yamaguchi, Ryouju Takagishi, Akihito Nakabayashi, Yoshiyuki Shimoi
  • Patent number: 5649346
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for an ink jet printer head, includes the steps of: cutting a plurality of channels for forming a plurality of ink chambers, on the upper surface of a substrate composed of a plurality of layers including at least one piezoelectric member polarized across its thickness; forming a pattern resist film covering a portion of the upper surface of the substrate except electrode forming portions on the inner surfaces of the channels and wiring pattern forming portions on the substrate; performing a process for adsorption of Pd on the electrode forming portions and the wiring pattern forming portions after forming the pattern resist film, for example, by performing a sensitizing process of adsorbing Sn on the substrate and next substituting Pd for the Sn, or by performing a catalyzing process of adsorbing a complex compound of Pd on the substrate and next performing an accelerating process of metallizing the complex compound of Pd; separating the pattern resist film; immersing the substrate fro
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha TEC, Toshiba-EMI Limited
    Inventors: Kazushige Katsuumi, Toshio Miyazawa, Toshihilo Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 5590451
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for an ink jet printer head, includes the steps of cutting a plurality of channels for forming a plurality of ink chambers, on the upper surface of a substrate including at least one piezoelectric member polarized across its thickness; adsorbing Sn on the upper surface of the substrate including the inner surfaces of the channels; forming a pattern resist film on the upper surface of the substrate on which the Sn has been absorbed adsorbing Pd as a catalyst core for electroless plating on the electrode forming portions and the wiring pattern forming portions; separating the pattern resist film; immersing the substrate from which the pattern resist film has been separated into a plating liquid to deposit plating on the electrode forming portions and the wiring pattern forming portions; and mounting on the substrate a top plate for covering upper openings of the channels and a nozzle plate for covering front openings of the channels to form the above ink chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha TEC, Toshiba-Emi Limited
    Inventors: Kazushige Katsuumi, Toshio Miyazawa, Toshihiro Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 5301404
    Abstract: A method of producing a printer head wherein a substrate including at least one piezoelectric member polarized in its thickness direction is formed. A plurality of grooves and a plurality of posts are alternately defined in the substrate. A pre-processing solution is allowed to flow along the grooves at the following relative velocity so as to effect pre-processing when the velocity of the pre-processing solution for electroless plating relative to an object to be plated is V, the height of each of electrodes formed on the internal surfaces of the grooves is H, the width of each groove is W and a contact angle at which the pre-processing solution is brought into contact with the internal surfaces of the grooves is .theta..VW.sup.2 (1+cos.theta. )/H.sup.2 >0.6 mm/sThereafter, the substrate is immersed in an electroless plating solution to form the electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Assignees: Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd., Toshiba-Emi Limited
    Inventors: Kuniaki Ochiai, Shigeo Komakine, Toshihiro Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 4519008
    Abstract: A method of recording visual information such as words of a song in an audio recording medium and reproducing the same is provided. Picture information obtained through a TV camera is quantized into pulse signals. Using these pulse signals, a sine wave signal having an audio frequency band is modulated. Further, synchronizing signals are added to the modulated signal at predetermined intervals to form a character signal. Said character signal is recorded in one of the two channels of an audio recording medium where as a musical accompaniment is recorded in another channel. When played, such character signal is reproduced on a display screen such that a user can read the words to sing the song to the simultaneously reproduced accompaniment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1985
    Assignee: Toshiba-EMI Limited
    Inventors: Tsutomu Takenouchi, Tsunehiko Nagasawa, Masatada Nanasawa