Abstract: The present invention provides a hologram recording method which enables obtaining floating and high-quality images which can be stereoscopically viewed from wide viewing angles of 360° in a low-cost and simple production method and to provide a hologram recording apparatus and a hologram recording medium. Thus, the present invention relates to a hologram recording method which includes irradiating a coherent object beam virtually simultaneously to almost all the surface of a recording object to make the reflected object beam from the surface incident on a photosensitive surface of a photosensitive material, making a coherent reference beam incident on the opposite surface of the photosensitive material with respect to the photosensitive surface to generate interference fringes by the object beam and the reference beam, and recording the interference fringes on the photosensitive material, and a hologram recording medium and a hologram recording apparatus using the method.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical disc and a method for transporting a multi-layered optical disc are provided. When adhering the sheet and the disc substrate, after the adhesive is supplied to the outer side of the groove on the disc substrate, the sheet is loaded on the disc substrate. The adhesive is pressed to extend to the groove. At this timer, because the surplus adhesive is blocked when flowing into the groove, the surplus adhesive does not overflow easily toward the inner side of the groove. In addition, even if the adhesive overflows toward the inner side of the groove the adhesive is kept between the non-adhered portion of the sheet and the disc substrate, preventing the adhesive from moving to the disc surface. The non-adhered portion is cut by the cutting blade after the adhesive is completely cured, and then removed from the disc substrate.

Abstract: A recordable digital video disc preferably employable for information recording method using a laser beam having a wavelength of 600–700 nm, composed of a transparent disc substrate provided with a spiral pregroove, a recording dye layer placed in the pregroove, and a light-reflecting layer, arranged in order, wherein the recording dye layer has a thickness in the range of 40% to 90% of a thickness corresponding to an optical path which gives the first minimum reflectance, the optical path giving the first minimum reflectance being determined from a reflectance curve which is prepared using recordable digital video discs composed of the same disc substrate, the same recording dye layer having varying thickness, and the same light-reflecting layer.

Abstract: A disk-shaped optical information recording medium comprising a recording layer, a barrier layer, a pressure sensitive adhesive layer or an adhesive layer, and a cover sheet in this order on a substrate, and having a central hole, a track pitch of 300 to 600 nm and a groove depth of 40 to 150 nm, for recording and playing back information by being irradiated with a laser light at a wavelength of 500 nm or less, wherein the substrate and the barrier layer are closely adhered via the pressure sensitive adhesive layer or the adhesive layer at a region including a portion of an inner circumference vicinity and an outer circumference vicinity, and the maximum value for the radial length of the closer adhesion region is at least 0.4 mm.

Abstract: A disk-shaped optical information recording medium comprising a recording layer, a pressure sensitive adhesive layer or an adhesive layer, and a cover sheet in this order on a substrate, and having a central hole, a track pitch of 300 to 600 nm and a groove depth of 40 to 150 nm, for recording and playing back information by being irradiated with a laser light at a wavelength of 500 nm or less, wherein the substrate and the cover sheet are closely adhered via the pressure sensitive adhesive layer or the adhesive layer at a region including a portion of an inner circumference vicinity and an outer circumference vicinity, and the maximum value for the radial length of the closer adhesion region is at least 0.4 mm.

Abstract: A method for producing an optical information recording medium includes the steps of: coating a solution for forming a dye recording layer onto a surface of a rotating disc-shaped resin substrate; and discharging a cleaning solution from a nozzle onto a peripheral edge to remove the dye recording layer from the peripheral edge, wherein discharge of the cleaning solution is initiated 1.0 to 300 seconds after completion of the coating, and the nozzle is disposed on a plane that extends in a normal line direction of the substrate and includes a straight line representing a discharge direction of the cleaning solution, so that an angle defined by the discharge direction and the normal line is 0 to 60°.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical information recording medium that has on a substrate a pit or recording layer and a cover layer in this order and in which laser light is irradiated from a cover layer side to perform both recording and reproducing or either one of recording and reproducing, wherein a surface on which the laser light is irradiated of the cover layer has a projected portion having a height in the range of 3 to 90 ?m; a manufacturing method of the optical information recording medium wherein the projected portion in the optical information recording medium is disposed by means of a printing method; and an optical information recording method wherein, in the case of the optical information recording medium having a recording layer, laser light having a wavelength in the range of 100 to 600 nm is irradiated from a cover layer side and causes the recording layer to physically or chemically change to record.

Abstract: An optical information-recording medium capable of information recording at high density requiring no pre-writing, and capable of obtaining a pre-pit signal without any practical problems even when the depths are identical of a pre-pit and a pre-groove is provided. The optical information-recording medium is capable of recording and reproducing information by irradiation of a laser in which at least pre-pits 10 and pre-grooves 20 are formed, the laser wavelength is 600 nm or less, and a width of the pre-pit 10 is larger than a width of a pre-groove 20.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium, including: a substrate; a code information recording layer provided on the substrate for recording code information; a visible information recording layer provided on the side of the substrate opposite the code information recording layer for recording visible information; and at least one selected from a character and a mark, which is provided on the side on which the visible information recording layer is provided and allows the determination of whether or not recording to the visible information recording layer is permitted.

Abstract: A disk-shaped optical information recording medium comprising a recording layer, a pressure sensitive adhesive layer or an adhesive layer, and a cover sheet in this order on a substrate, and having a central hole, a track pitch of 300 to 600 nm and a groove depth of 40 to 150 nm, for recording and playing back information by being irradiated with a laser light at a wavelength of 500 nm or less, wherein the substrate and the cover sheet are closely adhered via the pressure sensitive adhesive layer or the adhesive layer at a region including a portion of an inner circumference vicinity and an outer circumference vicinity, and the maximum value for the radial length of the closer adhesion region is at least 0.4 mm.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical recording medium including a recording layer in which major information and sub-information are recorded, wherein the sub-information is recorded with the use of a long-wavelength laser light having a wavelength longer by 30 nm or more than a short-wavelength laser used to record the major information, and an area where the sub-information is recorded has a level of absorbance of the long-wavelength laser light of 0.05 or more. The invention also relates to an information recording method using the optical recording medium including a recording layer in which major information and sub-information are recorded, wherein the major information is recorded with the use of a short-wavelength laser light having a wavelength of 500 nm or less, and the sub-information is recorded with the use of the long-wavelength laser.

Abstract: Two substrates are simultaneously produced by an injection molding apparatus, and the injection-molded substrates are alternately arranged and cooled by a cooling apparatus. The cooling apparatus has a feed screw mechanism for feeding the alternately arranged substrates in one direction while cooling air is being applied to the substrates. An information recording medium which includes a substrate is manufactured on a production line having a single injection molding apparatus for simultaneously injection-molding two substrates and four dye solution coating machines for forming a dye recording layer for recording information on each of the substrates.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an information medium having a printable layer comprising at least a base layer and an ink-receiving layer adjacent to the base layer, characterized in that the surface roughness Ra at the surface of the base layer is 0.05 ?m or greater, and the ink-receiving layer is formed by thermally hardening a composition comprising a cation-modified acrylic copolymer, a polyvinylacetal resin, an epoxy compound and hydrophobic fine particles, the thickness of the ink-receiving layer being 30 ?m to 60 ?m.

Abstract: A disk-shaped optical information recording medium comprising a recording layer, a pressure sensitive adhesive layer or an adhesive layer, and a cover sheet in this order on a substrate, and having a central hole, a track pitch of 300 to 600 nm and a groove depth of 40 to 150 nm, for recording and playing back information by being irradiated with a laser light at a wavelength of 500 nm or less, wherein the substrate and the cover sheet are closely adhered via the pressure sensitive adhesive layer or the adhesive layer at a region including a portion of an inner circumference vicinity and an outer circumference vicinity, and the maximum value for the radial length of the closer adhesion region is at least 0.4 mm.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing an information-recording medium comprising, on a substrate, a dye recording layer capable of recording information, the method comprising the step of drying the substrate formed with the dye recording layer by allowing clean air to flow while rotating the substrate at a high speed; wherein an intake for introducing the clean air is narrowed by arranging a lid having a circular opening at a central portion, at an opening disposed at an upper portion of an apparatus for rotating the substrate at the high speed.

Abstract: There are provided an information recording medium which permits accurate tracking servo, and a method for recording and reproducing for an information recording medium which allows recording and reproducing of a signal at a favorable S/N by carrying out at least one of information recording and information reproduction while accurately performing tracking servo. A magneto-optic disk includes a magnetic recording layer for magnetically recording information. The magnetic recording layer is in advance magnetized for concentrically or spirally around the center of the disk in such a manner that magnetized regions are disposed such that adjacent regions are magnetized in different directions and alternately arranged in the radial direction of the disk. Accordingly, tracking can be continuously performed and accurate tracking servo can also be performed.

Abstract: Two substrates are simultaneously produced by an injection molding apparatus, and the injection-molded substrates are alternately arranged and cooled by a cooling apparatus. The cooling apparatus has a feed screw mechanism for feeding the alternately arranged substrates in one direction while cooling air is being applied to the substrates. An information recording medium which includes a substrate is manufactured on a production line having a single injection molding apparatus for simultaneously injection-molding two substrates and four dye solution coating machines for forming a dye recording layer for recording information on each of the substrates.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing an information-recording medium comprising, on a substrate, a dye recording layer capable of recording information, the method comprising the step of drying the substrate formed with the dye recording layer by allowing clean air to flow while rotating the substrate at a high speed; wherein an intake for introducing the clean air is narrowed by arranging a lid having a circular opening at a central portion, at an opening disposed at an upper portion of an apparatus for rotating the substrate at the high speed.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium including a substrate having a groove that has a track pitch of 200 to 400 nm and a depth of 10 to 150 nm, the substrate having successively disposed thereon a light-reflective layer, a recording layer and a cover layer, wherein information is recordable and reproducible by irradiating a laser beam having a wavelength of 500 nm or less from a side of the medium disposed with the cover layer, and the light-reflective layer contains aluminum or an aluminum alloy.

Abstract: The present invention provides an information medium comprising a substrate having successively disposed thereon an undercoat layer and a colorant receiving layer, wherein the colorant receiving layer comprises at least fine particles, polyvinyl alcohol, a boron compound and a mordant, and the diffusion reflectance of the undercoat layer is 10% or more; and an information medium comprising a substrate having disposed thereon a colorant receiving layer, wherein the colorant receiving layer is formed by successively applying a first coating solution and a second coating solution which are different from each other.