Abstract: A rewritable phase-change optical recording medium is provided, which includes a substrate, a first information layer, a spacer layer, a second information layer, and a cover layer. The second information layer includes a recording film containing Sb as a main component and V or V and In as second components. When an amorphous mark formed in the recording film is irradiated with a reproduction beam, crystallization of the amorphous mark occurs only in a central portion in the width direction of the amorphous mark. The width direction is orthogonal to the scanning direction of the laser beam. The recording film is formed of a material that exhibits a change in degree of modulation of 5% or less when recorded information is repeatedly reproduced. The change in degree of modulation is a change from when the number of times of reproduction is 100,000 to when it is 400,000.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for recording data in an optical recording medium which can record data in a write-once type optical recording medium at a high linear recording velocity using a laser beam whose recording power is set low.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for recording data in an optical recording medium which can record data in a write-once type optical recording medium at a high linear recording velocity using a laser beam having a low recording power.

Abstract: An optical recording medium includes an information layer having a recording film. The recording film contains Sb of 79 atomic % to 95 atomic % and Ge of 5 atomic % to 21 atomic % as main components, and is formed of a phase change material which does not contain the elements in the sixteenth group of the periodic table.

Abstract: An optical recording medium includes a substrate, a first recording layer formed on the substrate and containing an element selected from the group consisting of Si, Ge, C, Sn, Zn and Cu as a primary component, and a second recording layer located in the vicinity of the first recording layer and containing Al as a primary component, the optical recording medium being constituted to be irradiated by a laser beam projected onto the side opposite from the substrate and the total thickness of the first recording layer and the second recording layer being equal to or thinner than 40 nm. According to the thus constituted optical recording medium, it is possible to decrease a noise level and improve a C/N ratio in a reproduced signal.

Abstract: A rewritable phase-change optical recording medium is provided, which includes a substrate, a first information layer, a spacer layer, a second information layer, and a cover layer. The second information layer includes a recording film containing Sb as a main component and V or V and In as second components. When an amorphous mark formed in the recording film is irradiated with a reproduction beam, crystallization of the amorphous mark occurs only in a central portion in the width direction of the amorphous mark. The width direction is orthogonal to the scanning direction of the laser beam. The recording film is formed of a material that exhibits a change in degree of modulation of 5% or less when recorded information is repeatedly reproduced. The change in degree of modulation is a change from when the number of times of reproduction is 100,000 to when it is 400,000.

Abstract: A dashboard of a vehicle includes an accommodation unit provided at a longitudinal end of the dashboard and positioned adjacent to a door and a side mirror located outside the door adjacent to the accommodation unit, the accommodation unit configured to receive an article, and the accommodation unit including a lid, wherein the lid is configured to stand up adjacent to the side mirror when in an open position.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for recording data in an optical recording medium which can form a recording mark having desired length and width in a write-once type optical recording medium. The method for recording data in an optical recording medium according to the present invention is constituted so as to project a laser beam whose power is modulated by a pulse train pattern onto an optical recording medium including a substrate, a first recording layer, a second recording layer and a light transmission layer 16 wherein a recording pulse of the pulse train pattern is divided into (n?1) divided pulses and the power of the laser beam is set to a recording power Pw at the peak of each of the divided pulses, set to a second bottom power Pb2 at a portion immediately after a last divided pulse and set to a first bottom power Pb1 at other intervals where Pb1 is higher than Pb2.

Abstract: An optical recording medium is provided which includes two or more information layers in which an Sb-based eutectic material is used as the material for a recording film of a translucent information layer. There is also provided a recording film material for the optical recording medium. The translucent information layer is configured to include a recording film formed of a phase change material SbxGeyInz containing Sb, Ge, and In in an atomic ratio of x:y:z, where 5?y?15 and 4?z?15 are satisfied. The recording film further includes Te in an atomic ratio of a, provided that x+y+z+a=100 and 4?a?15 are satisfied. An interface layer formed of a ZrO2—Cr2O3 film having a thickness of 2 nm or more and 10 nm or less is provided on the laser beam incident side of the recording film. When the compositional ratio of the ZrO2—Cr2O3 film is given by ZrO2:Cr2O3=B:C (mol %), 20?B?90, 10?C?80, and B+C=100 are satisfied.

Abstract: A next-generation optical recording medium has two or more information layers which include a translucent information layer. The translucent information layer has a recording film and an interface layer, provided adjacent to the recording film on the side of the light incident surface. The recording film is made of a phase change material having SbxTeyGez elements and elemental ratios. Y satisfies 5?y?15 and z satisfies 5?z?15. When In having an elemental ratio of a is further added and x+y+z+a=100 holds, a satisfies 4?a?15. The interface layer comprises of ZrO2—Cr2O3 film thickness of which is in a range of from 2 nm to 10 nm. When ZrO2:Cr2O3?C:D (mol %), the compositional ratios ZrO2 and Cr2O3 in the ZrO2—Cr2O3 film, holds, the C satisfies 20?C?90, and the D satisfies 10?D?80, and the C and the D satisfy C+D=100. The ZrO2 is stabilized ZrO2 which contains Y2O3, when ZrO2:Y2O3=(100-X):X (mol %), the compositional ratios ZrO2 and Y2O3 in the stabilized ZrO2, holds, the X satisfies 2?X?10.

Abstract: In an evaluation device and an evaluation system, the level of base power is set higher than that in an optimal recording condition at a set room temperature and lower than the level of bias power. In particular, the level of the base power is set so that the jitter value of a recording mark and a blank, which is formed in a required high temperature environment, during reproduction in the high temperature environment becomes minimum. By evaluating the recording characteristic of a recording mark and a blank formed by irradiation of recording laser light in the form of a pulse train, the recording characteristic of an optical recording medium in high-speed recording in high temperature environment is evaluated.

Abstract: An optical information medium having a light transmission layer obtained by curing a composition containing a urethane di(meth)acrylate (A) of the formula (I) and the other urethane di(meth)acrylate (B), and having a tensile elastic modulus of 600 to 1300 MPa at 25° C. and a light transmittance of 80% or more at wavelength of 400 nm (in the formula, R1=an alicyclic diisocyanate residue, R2=an alkylene group or an organic group containing a cycloalkyl group or ester bond, R3=H or methyl group.

Abstract: A method for recording data in an optical recording disc including a substrate and a recording layer formed on the substrate and containing a phase change material as a primary component is constituted so that data can be recorded therein and data recorded therein can be erased by projecting thereonto at a high linear velocity equal to or higher than a predetermined linear velocity a laser beam whose power is modulated in accordance with a pulse train pattern including a plurality of kinds of unit pulse train patterns each having at least recording pulses whose levels are set to a recording power and bottom pulses whose levels are set to a bottom power onto the recording layer and forming a plurality of recording marks having different lengths in the recording layer, wherein among the plurality of kinds of unit pulse train patterns used for forming recording marks having different lengths those other than the unit pulse train pattern used for forming the shortest recording mark are determined so that they inc

Abstract: An optical information recording medium which makes it possible to reduce the noise level, improve the C/N ratio and store record data for a long time period. An optical information recording medium has a recording layer formed on a substrate, for having a laser beam irradiated thereto for recording and reproduction of record data. The recording layer includes a first sub-recording film and a second sub-recording film. The first sub-recording film is formed of a first material containing Si as the main component. The second sub-recording film is formed of a second material containing Al as the main component and having Au added thereto, and disposed in the vicinity of the first recording film. The laser beam is irradiated to the recording layer via a light transmitting layer formed in a manner covering the recording layer side.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium which is capable of performing high-density recording of record data, and storing the recorded data for a long time period such that the recorded data can be normally reproduced during the long time period. An optical information recording medium has a recording layer formed on a substrate, for having a laser beam irradiated thereto for recording and reproduction of record data. The recording layer includes a first sub-recording film and a second sub-recording film. The first sub-recording film is formed of a first material containing Si as the main component. The second sub-recording film is formed of a second material containing Cu as the main component and having Au added thereto, and disposed in the vicinity of the first recording film.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium which makes it possible to reduce the noise level and improve the C/N ratio. An optical information recording medium has a recording layer formed on a substrate, for having a laser beam irradiated thereto for recording and reproduction of record data. The recording layer includes a first sub-recording film and a second sub-recording film. The first sub-recording film is formed of a first material containing Si as the main component. The second sub-recording film is formed of a second material containing Zn as the main component and having Cu added thereto, and disposed in the vicinity of the first recording film. The laser beam is irradiated to the recording layer via a light transmitting layer formed in a manner covering the recording layer side.

Abstract: A conventional mechanical precision measuring device is used effectively in the measurement of the eccentricity of a high density optical disc. A DVR optical disc 2 comprises a pattern 4 of fine depressions and protrusions conformed to the intended format of the disc (a first depressions and protrusions: pits and/or grooves) formed within an information recording area 6 of the disc, as well as a pattern 8 of fine depressions and protrusions for measuring the eccentricity (a second depressions and protrusions), which is formed in an area other than the information recording area 6, and is formed in accordance with a CD format having lower recording density than that of the format defined for the DVR optical disc 2. By using this pattern 8 of fine depressions and protrusions for mechanical detection, conventional mechanical precision measuring devices designed for the CD family can be used as it is, for measuring the eccentricity (mechanical precision) of the DVR optical disc 2.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for discriminating an optical recording medium and a method for discriminating an optical recording medium which can reliably discriminate the kind of an optical recording medium even in the case where the optical recording medium to be discriminated is formed with periodical undulation in the circumferential direction thereof. The apparatus for discriminating an optical recording medium according to the present invention includes a first electrode 11, a second electrode 12, an alternate current signal generation circuit 13 for applying an alternate current A to the first electrode 11, a detection circuit 14 for detecting a level of an alternate current B appearing at the second electrode 12, and a control circuit 15 for controlling the operations of the alternate current signal generation circuit 13 and the detection circuit 14.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for determining a pattern for modulating the power of a laser beam which can determine a pattern for modulating the power of a laser beam so that data can be recorded in a write-once type optical recording medium with a laser beam having a low recording power at a high linear recording velocity.

Abstract: An optical recording medium is provided, which has reduced degradation in jitter caused by manufacturing variations of a semiconductor laser emitting laser beams or variations in output power of laser beams, and which dissipates heat in the recording layer during recording by laser beams to increase the power margin of the laser beam providing playback jitter values at a certain level or less. An optical recording medium 10 has a support substrate 12, on which formed are a reflective film 16, a second dielectric layer 18, a recording layer 20, a first dielectric layer 22, a heat sink layer 24, and a light-transmitting layer 26. The heat sink layer 24 is formed of a material having a thermal conductivity within a certain range, e.g., alumina, to dissipate heat through the heat sink layer 24 when the heat is generated by a laser beam incident from the light-transmitting layer 26, thereby preventing an increase in temperature of the recording layer 20.