Patents by Inventor Kazuyo Umezawa

Kazuyo Umezawa 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: 8154970
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koji Takazawa, Seiji Morita, Kazuyo Umezawa, Naoki Morishita, Yasuaki Ootera, Hideo Ando, Naomasa Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8149672
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koji Takazawa, Seiji Morita, Kazuyo Umezawa, Naoki Morishita, Yasuaki Ootera, Hideo Ando, Naomasa Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8149674
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koji Takazawa, Seiji Morita, Kazuyo Umezawa, Naoki Morishita, Yasuaki Ootera, Hideo Ando, Naomasa Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8142981
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a write-once type information storage medium comprises an organic dye based recording material having sensitivity at a wavelength of 405 nm and at a recording wavelength in the range of 600 nm to 700 nm, wherein, when absorbance of a maximum absorption wavelength in the vicinity of 405 nm is defined as 1, the absorbance is 5% or more at any wavelength in the range of 600 nm to 700 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hideo Ando, Seiji Morita, Koji Takazawa, Yasuaki Ootera, Naoki Morishita, Kazuyo Umezawa
  • Patent number: 8142693
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, letting Vf be a maximum voltage value level within the range of a frequency 60 to 170 times the rotational speed of a stamper and Vave be the average sum signal voltage value of a data recording portion in the sum signal of a voltage signal when the data recording portion is irradiated with a laser having a wavelength of 450 nm or less and an NA of 0.6 or more, whether Vf and Vave meet Vf/Vave<7.7×10?4 . . . (1) is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuyo Umezawa, Seiji Morita, Masatoshi Sakurai
  • Patent number: 8137894
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a storage medium includes a transparent resin substrate having a concentric or spiral groove and a recording film formed on the groove on the transparent resin substrate, a recording mark being formed by irradiation of a laser beam, wherein a reproduction durability count in a case where reproduction is continuously carried out by a laser beam is 1,000,000 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Seiji Morita, Koji Takazawa, Kazuyo Umezawa, Hideo Ando, Yasuaki Ootera, Naoki Morishita, Naomasa Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8139459
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koji Takazawa, Seiji Morita, Kazuyo Umezawa, Naoki Morishita, Yasuaki Ootera, Hideo Ando, Naomasa Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120063290
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention, to provide a recording method and a storage medium for BCA data with high reliability for a storage medium and a method for reproducing BCA data from the storage medium, and an information recording apparatus and an information reproducing apparatus. In a conventional optical disk, low reliability data is recorded in a data area of BCA. Thus, the thickness of a film material for use in a recording layer oriented to BCA data or close to the inner periphery of the storage medium in the vicinity thereof is formed in uniform thickness by using a substrate of the storage medium, the substrate being formed by being suctioned by means of adsorbing mechanisms formed in an arc shape so as to integrated two of the adsorbing mechanisms to be adjacent to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koji Takazawa, Seiji Morita, Yasuaki Ootera, Hideo Ando, Naoki Morishita, Kazuyo Umezawa
  • Patent number: 8134899
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koji Takazawa, Seiji Morita, Kazuyo Umezawa, Naoki Morishita, Yasuaki Ootera, Hideo Ando, Naomasa Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120026854
    Abstract: An optical recording medium including a plurality of recording layers to record/reproduce information using light with a predetermined wavelength, the information being recorded on one of the recording layers using a mark and a space, wherein a channel clock period T is provided for recording the mark on one of the recording layers. A plurality of pulses, including a last pulse arranged at an end of the pulses, are used to record the mark with length 3T, the mark being recorded with a condition that a width of the last pulse is minimum OT and maximum 1.10T, in which a first subsequent level lower than a peak power level of the last pulse is arranged next to the last pulse, and a second subsequent level lower than the peak power level but higher than the first subsequent level is arranged next to the first subsequent level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventors: Kazuyo UMEZAWA, Seiji Morita, Koji Takazawa, Naomasa Nakamura, Naoki Morishita, Shinichi Katsuda
  • Publication number: 20120026851
    Abstract: An optical recording medium including a plurality of recording layers to record/reproduce information using light with a predetermined wavelength, the information being recorded on one of the recording layers using a mark and a space, wherein a channel clock period T is provided for recording the mark on one of the recording layers. A plurality of pulses, including a last pulse arranged at an end of the pulses, are used to record the mark with length 3T, the mark being recorded with a condition that a width of the last pulse is minimum 0T and maximum 1.10T, in which a first subsequent level lower than a peak power level of the last pulse is arranged next to the last pulse, and a second subsequent level lower than the peak power level but higher than the first subsequent level is arranged next to the first subsequent level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventors: Kazuyo UMEZAWA, Seiji Morita, Koji Takazawa, Naomasa Nakamura, Naoki Morishita, Shinichi Katsuda
  • Patent number: 8070968
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, this invention uses an ultraviolet-curable resin material for pattern transfer containing 80 to 95 wt % of isobornyl acrylate, 1 to 20 wt % of trifunctional acrylate, and 0.5 to 6 wt % of a polymerization initiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuyo Umezawa, Seiji Morita, Masatoshi Sakurai
  • Patent number: 8059523
    Abstract: An optical recording medium including a plurality of recording layers to record/reproduce information using light with a predetermined wavelength, the information being recorded on one of the recording layers using a mark and a space, wherein a channel clock period T is provided for recording the mark on one of the recording layers. A plurality of pulses, including a last pulse arranged at an end of the pulses, are used to record the mark with length 3T, the mark being recorded with a condition that a width of the last pulse is minimum 0T and maximum 1.10T, in which a first subsequent level lower than a peak power level of the last pulse is arranged next to the last pulse, and a second subsequent level lower than the peak power level but higher than the first subsequent level is arranged next to the first subsequent level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuyo Umezawa, Seiji Morita, Koji Takazawa, Naomasa Nakamura, Naoki Morishita, Shinichi Katsuda
  • Publication number: 20110222381
    Abstract: Manufacturing of a higher quality write-once type multilayer optical disc is facilitated. The optical disc includes a plurality of recording layers in which recording or reproduction is carried out by a blue or blue-violet laser beam of a wavelength of about 405 nm. Each of the recording layers includes a recording layer which uses an organic dye. The plurality of recording layers includes a layer in which a groove pattern around a recording mark is deformed when information is recorded, and a layer in which the groove pattern around the recording mark is not deformed when information is recorded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasuaki Ootera, Kazuyo Umezawa, Koji Takazawa, Naoki Morishita, Hideo Ando, Seiji Morita, Naomasa Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110212287
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a write-once type information storage medium using a recording material which has a low to high characteristic that a light reflectivity in a recording mark increases with respect to a non-recording area and which has a recording characteristic in accordance with a principle of recording without substrate deformation, wherein the recording material includes at least an organic metal complex, and wherein the organic metal complex includes a center metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Inventors: Hideo ANDO, Seiji Morita, Koji Takazawa, Yasuaki Ootera, Naoki Morishita, Kazuyo Umezawa
  • Publication number: 20110207050
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a write-once type information storage medium comprises a recording layer which is formed by mixing a plurality of organic dye based recording materials whose molecular weights are different from each other, and wherein a mixture ratio of organic dye based recording materials whose molecular weight is small is larger than a mixture ratio of organic dye based recording materials whose molecular weight is large.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Hideo ANDO, Seiji MORITA, Koji TAKAZAWA, Yasuaki OOTERA, Naoki MORISHITA, Kazuyo UMEZAWA
  • Publication number: 20110199881
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: Koji TAKAZAWA, Seiji Morita, Kazuyo Umezawa, Naoki Morishita, Yasuaki Ootera, Hideo Ando, Naomasa Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110199873
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: Koji Takazawa, Seiji Morita, Kazuyo Umezawa, Naoki Morishita, Yasuaki Ootera, Hideo Ando, Naomasa Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110199871
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: Koji TAKAZAWA, Seiji Morita, Kazuyo Umezawa, Naoki Morishita, Yasuaki Ootera, Hideo Ando, Naomasa Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110202944
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical recording medium is provided in which interlayer crosstalk is low and in which stable and high-quality recording characteristics can be obtained. To this end, an optical recording medium comprises a first recording part which includes a first recording layer and a first light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side closer to a light receiving surface, and a second recording part which includes a second recording layer and a second light reflecting layer and which is disposed on a side farther from the light receiving surface, the first recording part and the second recording part being stacked, wherein the thickness of the second light reflecting layer is larger than the thickness of the first light reflecting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: Koji TAKAZAWA, Seiji Morita, Kazuyo Umezawa, Naoki Morishita, Yasuaki Ootera, Hideo Ando, Naomasa Nakamura