Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a coated product with increased stiffness to reduce the chipping after manufacturing and several days of storage, and before wrapping. A coated product such as confectioneries such as chewing gum, medicines and medicinal tablets wherein the product is coated with a coating composition comprising hydrogenated indigestible starch syrup as a binding agent.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium has a substrate, and an optical reflection layer, an optical recording layer containing an organic dye, an interlayer, and a cover layer formed in this order on the substrate. The interlayer contains a sputtered Nb2O5—Al203-based composite oxide having an Nb2O5 content of more than 50 mol % and less than 60 mol %.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a coated product with increased stiffness to reduce the chipping after manufacturing and several days of storage, and before wrapping. A coated product such as confectioneries such as chewing gum, medicines and medicinal tablets wherein the product is coated with a coating composition comprising hydrogenated indigestible starch syrup as a binding agent.

Abstract: A condition of a recording pulse comprising a top pulse and a following pulse is determined in a predetermined order. In some embodiments, an mT pulse condition is first determined by test recordings with various power and pulse conditions, involving an inspection of recording quality; then an m?T/(n?m)T ratio is determined by test recording under the mT pulse condition fixed; and finally an nT pulse is configured based on the ratio. A phase shift can be corrected by test recording with the nT pulse.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium that has satisfactory main information recording characteristics and in which burst cutting area (BCA) marks can be formed without damaging a protective layer or a light-transmitting layer is provided. In forming the light-reflecting layer by vapor deposition, sputtering, ion-plating, or the like, part of the region is masked so as to make the thickness and/or material of the light-reflecting layer in a main information recording region where main information is recorded different from that of the light-reflecting layer in a BCA equivalent region. As a result, burst cutting of the light-reflecting layer in the BCA equivalent region becomes easier than in the main information recording region.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium includes a substrate having a through-hole provided at the central portion thereof and a guiding groove provided on a surface at the light-incident side; a reflective layer provided on the surface of the substrate having the guiding groove; a recording layer provided on the reflective layer and made of an organic substance containing a dye; and a light-transmissive cover layer provided on the recording layer, wherein the cover layer is made of a curable resin, and a modulus of elasticity of at least a portion of the cover layer facing the recording layer is in the range of about 34 MPa to about 96 MPa at 25° C.

Abstract: In a write-once optical information recording medium including a substrate, a groove-shaped track such as a guiding groove, and an optical recording layer containing an organic dye material and disposed on the guiding groove, wherein information is recorded by irradiating a short-wavelength laser beam from a surface of the optical recording layer opposite the substrate, and the information can be reproduced by reading a change in the reflected light of a short-wavelength laser beam after the information recording, an unrecorded portion of the optical recording layer has a lower reflectance than a pit portion formed after recording to a portion of the optical recording layer, the optical recording layer has a refractive index n in the range of about 1.2 to about 2.1 before recording and an extinction coefficient k in the range of about 0.01 to about 0.7 before recording, and n+k is in the range of about 1.4 to about 2.1.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium having a disk-shaped substrate formed with spiral grooves on one main surface, and having an optical reflection layer formed with grooves at the surface corresponding to the grooves of the substrate for reflecting a laser beam, an optical recording layer, a protective layer, and an optical transparency layer in this order on the main surface thereof. The optical information recording medium has a main information area and a sub-information area to the inner circumferential side thereof, in which the track pitch TrB of the grooves in the sub-information area is about 0.32 ?m or less, and the depth D of the grooves and the half-band width W of the grooves satisfy a relation represented by: W?2D+70, whereby the difference between the reflectivity at the land surface and the reflectivity at the groove surface in the sub-information area can be restricted to less than 30%, thereby preventing occurrence of mis-decipherment for BCA marks.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to appropriately cope with a tears type mark occurring in, for example, an organic dye write-once disk. A playback signal distortion compensation method is a method for compensating a distortion in a playback signal of data recorded in an optical disk, and includes the steps of: specifying part of a playback signal of a mark having a length equal to or larger than a predetermined length; and, if a specific amplitude level value that will not appear in an ideal signal is detected in the specified part of the playback signal at specific sampling timing, setting the amplitude level values detected at the specific sampling timing and predetermined sampling timing alike to predetermined level values based on the ideal signal. Owing to the compensation of the amplitude levels, a transition of amplitude level values in the signal can be approached to a transition thereof in the ideal signal. Consequently, degradation of a bit error rate can be hindered.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium is provided having a superior jitter property even when an organic substance is used for a recording layer. The optical information recording medium has a substrate having a penetrating hole in a central portion thereof and a spiral pre-groove provided in one surface of the substrate, a reflection layer provided on the surface of the substrate in which the pre-groove is provided, a recording layer which is provided on the reflection layer and which is composed of an organic substance including a dye, and a light transmissive cover layer provided on the recording layer. In the optical information recording medium, the cover layer has an elastic modulus of 40 MPa or less at 25° C. in an interface region facing the recording layer.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium comprises at least a substrate on which a groove is formed in a recording area, a recording layer comprising an organic dye, and a reflective layer. The recording area has a preformat area and a data area, and the groove in the preformat area is narrower or shallower than that in the data area.

Abstract: The present invention provides a low-cost method for production of isoglucose comprising indigestible dextrin with a high value of use in foods and beverages. This method comprises the following step (A) and at least one of the subsequent steps (B) and (C). (A) steps of acting glucoamylase on pyrodextrin comprising digestion-resistant components and hydrolyzing the digestible components in glucose, (B) step of adding fructose, (C) step of converting a portion of the glucose produced into fructose by means of glucose isomerase.

Abstract: A linear opto-frequency chirp amount variable apparatus using a dielectric multilayer film mirror, which does not require the optical axis to be realigned each time the amount of a chirp is to be varied includes a pair of opposed, parallel, dielectric, multilayer film mirrors, and a movable mirror between the dielectric multilayer film mirrors. The movable mirror is inclined so that oblique, incident light, projected into the space between the two dielectric multilayer film mirrors, is reflected between them a plurality of times and then is reflected by the movable mirror into a direction parallel to the dielectric multilayer film mirror surfaces and in an incidence plane defined by the incident light and a plane-normal to each dielectric multilayer film mirror and toward the incident light. Moving the movable mirror forwards and backwards, parallel to the multilayer film mirrors changes the amount of a chirp.

Abstract: It is an object of certain inventive aspects to provide a recording condition closer to an optimum even for a medium unknown to a drive, and more particularly, to provide means for obtaining a preferable recording condition even for a high-speed recording in which conducting a test recording is difficult. In order to accomplish the object, a power and a phase of a recording pulse are simultaneously corrected at predetermined timing, depending on a recording speed or a recording position such as an inner or outer circumference. For instance, a phase shift ?Phase generated due to a continuing recording from an inner circumference to an outer circumference at ×2 speed is corrected simultaneously with a correction of a power shift at the timing when a recording speed is changed from ×2 to ×4. For the other recording speed, in the same manner as above, a power and a phase shift are simultaneously corrected at every time when a recording speed is changed.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a recording condition closer to an optimum even for a medium unknown to a drive, and more particularly to provide a method especially effective when applied to code identification methods, such as PRML, wherein codes are identified based on amplitude information of an RF signal. In order to accomplish the object, an RF signal received from a photo-receiving part 108 of a pickup is converted into sampling data by an A/D converter 300, and a Viterbi decoder 302 performs code determination using the sampling data. Codes included in a reproduction signal are then determined by synchronizing recording pulses with the reproduction signal using the result of the code determination. Then, the result is used to specify a part to be detected in the codes, and finally an amplitude of the specified part is detected.

Abstract: A water-soluble dietary fiber-containing composition comprises a water-soluble dietary fiber material and a thickening polysaccharide in a mixing ratio, by mass, ranging from 95:5 to 80:20 and has a solubility, in water at 30° C., of not more than 80%. The composition may be prepared by a method comprising the steps of dissolving, in water, a water-soluble dietary fiber material and a thickening polysaccharide such that the mixing ratio of the former to the latter, by mass, ranges from 95:5 to 80:20 and then drying the resulting aqueous solution.

Abstract: The present invention enables a recording condition closer to an optimum to be obtained even for media unknown to a drive. The present invention provides a method that is especially effective for the case where it is applied to a code identification scheme, such as PRML in which code identification is performed on the basis of information on the amplitude of an RF signal. A condition for a recording pulse comprised of a top pulse, an intermediate pulse and a last pulse is configured in a predetermined order, that is, a reference condition is first determined by a test recording involving an examination of recording quality and changes in conditions for a power and a pulse width, then a condition for the last pulse is determined by a test recording using the reference condition, and subsequently a condition for the intermediate pulse is determined using the reference condition and the last pulse.

Abstract: A linear opto-frequency chirp amount variable apparatus using a dielectric multilayer film mirror which does not require the optical axis to be realigned each time the amount of a chirp is to be varied, comprises a pair of dielectric multilayer film mirrors (2) and (2) arranged so that their mirror surfaces (2a) and (2a) extends parallel, and are opposed, to each other, and a movable mirror (4) disposed in a space defined between the dielectric multilayer film mirrors (2) and (2).

Abstract: It is an object to provide optical information recording media enabling the recording at high speeds and high densities, such as onto DVD-R discs or similar, of optical information, optimizing the shape of meandering land pre-pits 21, increasing clearness of diffraction of laser light 9 by the land pre-pits 21 to obtain a satisfactory land pre-pit signal, and simultaneously reducing RF readout errors for recorded pits and readout errors for land pre-pits 21, focusing on optimization of the size of the inside protruding portion 23 and outside protruding portion 25 relative to the spot 9S of the laser light 9 with respect to the shape and size of the land pre-pits 21, and when e is the base of natural logarithms, the media is characterized in that the inside edge portions 22 of the inside protruding portion 23 and the outside edge portions 24 of the outside protruding portion 25 of the land pre-pits 21 are positioned within the range of the spot diameter E2 in the 1/e2 portion of the Gaussian energy distributio

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to improve a margin to meet good recording quality by conducting a realtime correction of a recording condition of a medium with different recording characteristics for inner and outer circumferences. To accomplish the object, control factors for power and a pulse width are independently detected and corrected using an mT pulse having a length of m?T as a pulse for power control and an nT pulse having a length of n?T as a pulse for pulse width control; more specifically, power correction for mT pulse and pulse width correction for nT pulse are conducted in realtime, wherein a recording pulse stream including the mT pulse and nT pulse is irradiated onto a medium 500 by a recording laser beam 20A as well as pits and spaces formed by irradiation of the recording pulse stream are reproduced by a reproducing laser beam 20E to detect the effects of power and pulse width variations independently.