Patents by Inventor Mitsuo Shiba

Mitsuo Shiba 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: 5526341
    Abstract: A test disk having defect patterns uniformly arranged in recording areas is produced by a production method including: producing a stamper having a plurality of data pits in accordance with test data signals recorded on the test disk; radiating laser light to the stamper by using a laser system so that a plurality of small patterns are produced at laser-light exposed portions along first lines on the stamper, to form interruptions, which interrupt the data pits on the stamper, in accordance with the small patterns; and performing injection molding with plastic material to produce a disk based on the stamper, so that the disk has interruptions corresponding to the interruptions of the stamper, and the interruptions of the disk are included in a recording layer of the disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuo Shiba, Yoshio Yahagi