Abstract: A writing-system comprises a first and a second writing-device, and is connected to an information-processor-apparatus that obtains unwritten-data from the first and the second writing-devices when a notification is received, the notification indicating that the unwritten-data is generated while writing data on a recording-medium used by either of the writing-devices, wherein the first writing-device comprises a first writing-unit, when the unwritten-data is generated while writing data on a recording-medium, transmits to the information-processor-apparatus, dummy information for inhibiting the unwritten-data to be obtained by the information-processor-apparatus, and writes the unwritten-data to a memory-unit, the recording-medium and the memory-unit are included in a cartridge accommodated in the first writing-device, and the second writing-device comprises a second writing-unit that writes, on the recording-medium, the unwritten-data stored in the memory-unit when the cartridge is moved from the first writi

Abstract: A recording apparatus including a recording unit that performs recording on a recording medium; a transporting unit capable of transporting the recording medium; a first guide member and a second guide member disposed facing the first guide member having an section of a transport path of the recording medium disposed therebetween; and an optical sensor including a light-emitting portion and a light-receiving portion and having an optical axis that traverses the transport path of the recording medium between the first and second guide members. At least one of the light-emitting portion and the light-receiving portion projects from an outer side of the transport path towards the first guide member. The first guide member has a cutout having an opening where the light-emitting portion or the light-receiving portion is disposed. The opening is covered with a sheet member except for an area where the optical axis of the optical sensor extends.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a system and method for providing an automated imaging system comprising an illumination source, a phosphorescent imaging target, and an optical imaging sensor for receiving luminance information emitted from the phosphorescent imaging target.

Abstract: A cassette casing 1 has a front lid 5 on its front surface side and a shutter plate 6 retreating on the upper surface of the cassette casing 1 in the way of sliding correspondingly with the operation of the front lid 5 being open and retreated from a mouth. In order to prevent a rectangular display label 8 from being fitted on the upper surface which is the passage for movement of the shutter plate 6 of the cassette casing 1, the edge on a side opposite to the front lid 5 of the shutter plate 6 and the edge of the cassette casing against which that edge of the shutter abuts are each made into a curvilinear configuration to have thereby made the passage 9 for movement of the shutter meander.

Abstract: The recording medium cartridge includes a cartridge case containing a recording medium and a noncontact-type memory having an IC section for storing information and performing signal processing and an antenna section for transmitting and receiving signals. In one cartridge, the antenna section of the memory is placed in a region furtherest from metallic parts. In other cartridge, the memory is mounted in an accommodation portion recessed one step relative to a surrounding portion, in such a way that a portion of an inner wall of a real area for accommodating a magnetic tape corresponding to the recording medium is formed, in such a position as to be exposed when the cartridge is loaded into a drive, or in recess formed in an outer surface of a case. The cartridge label is attached to the cartridge and contains the noncontact-type memory.

Abstract: A crosstalk canceler includes: unit for obtaining signals of a target track and at least one track neighboring to the target track formed on an optical disc on which crosstalk detection signals are recorded; unit for generating timing signal indicating periods of the crosstalk detection signals; unit for multiplying the signal of the neighboring track by a coefficient to produce a multiplied signal; unit for subtracting the multiplied signal from the signal of the target track to output an output signal; unit for detecting levels of the output signal at the periods of the crosstalk detection signals; and unit for accumulating the levels and outputting the accumulated levels as the coefficient.

Abstract: M-ary angle modulation is used to record digital data at high density on a disk. In one embodiment, data symbols are encoded by assigning each data symbol a phase representation in terms of a carrier signal, the disk is physically altered in such a manner as to represent the carrier signal, and, at defined intervals, a phase angle of the carrier signal is changed by one of M of possible phase increments, where M equals two to the power of a number of data bits in a data symbol. M data bits are therefore recorded per each of the defined intervals. In another embodiment, a frequency of the carrier signal is changed to have one of M possible frequencies.

Abstract: Means for reducing the effects of vertical perturbations of a phonograph disc surface resulting from disc and/or playback system mechanical imperfections. Such imperfections are compensated by closed loop and/or open loop means wherein the deviations of the record path are detected and employed to minimize the effects of the mechanical imperfections.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of making an optically recorded information medium which permits the reduction of the number of the processing steps and the reproduction of the recorded medium at a reasonable cost and in large quantities. The method comprises the steps of preparing a recording medium which comprises a substrate (16), a light reflecting layer (17) and a recording layer (18), recording information by exposing the recording layer to ultraviolet rays, cutting the recording medium to make an information stripe (23), and fixing the information stripe on a supporting plate (24). When the recording layer is exposed, the recording medium is forwarded intermittently for repeating exposure. The supporting plate may preferably be in the form of a rigid card, and a transparent protective film may optionally be provided on the recording layer.

Abstract: A process and an apparatus are specified for recording a digital signal onto a recording carrier (4), in particular a signal for recording in compact disc data format, in which an engraving or cutting stylus (2) is pressed substantially by dead weight alone against the recording carrier (4) and, in operating mode, describes a path which lies beneath the undeformed surface of the recording carrier (4) during an indentation to be engraved and on or above the undistorted surface of the recording carrier (4) between two indentations, the common center of gravity position of the engraving stylus (2) and positioning element (1) connected rigidly to it remaining substantially stable in position.

Abstract: A cutting machine for cutting pits on a laser disc master comprising a disc signal source with a RAM and a series of shift registers; a machine unit having a servo-rotary shaft for mounting a master disc; a servo-horizontally moving shaft perpendicular to the rotary shaft; a deviation sensor mounted on the horizontally moving shaft perpendicular to the master disc; and a diamond cutting tool controlled by a signal-source-controlled piezoelectric driver. It also comprises a computer unit, which includes a disc signal control interface, and machine unit control interfaces. The rotation error of the machine unit can modulate the signal output speed of the signal source.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for recording information wherein an information-containing surface relief image is mechanically micromachined into a recording medium formed of a copper/oxygen amalgam containing 8 to 11 atomic weight percentage of oxygen and having a grain size of 500 Angstroms or less and wherein the amalgam has a hardness of 250 to 320 on the Knoop hardness scale.

Abstract: A device for removing a chip produced during cutting of information into a record carrier, particularly a metallic record carrier, wherein the cut chip is removed by means of suction air and the magnitude or pressure of this suction air is controlled in dependence on the depth recording component of the recording.

Abstract: An epoxy composition derived from tetraglycidated methylene dianiline cured with a methylated maleic acid adduct of phthalic anhydride has a high glass-transition temperature and a low curing temperature and when cured has very high bond strength. This epoxy can be used to bond a diamond cutterhead stylus to a piezoelectric element.

Abstract: A cured multi-component epoxy composition made from a high molecular weight diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A, a second diglycidyl ether, a high molecular weight polyamide-amine curing agent, and an accelerator, is an excellent damping material and can be used in a cutterhead assembly for the manufacture of high-density information discs.

Abstract: Apparatus for recording an information signal on a metallic record carrier. The information is impressed on the carrier by cutting a groove therein by means of a stylus, the groove being characterized at each point by a slope or modulation pitch angle. The stylus has a longitudinal axis, a leading edge substantially parallel to this axis and a trailing edge. The angle between the longitudinal axis of the stylus and a normal to the surface of the record carrier is greater than 10.degree. and not more than a value which would make the angle between the trailing edge of the stylus and the surface of the record carrier less than the maximum modulation pitch angle. The stylus is movably attached to a fixed structure by a mounting member and is electromagnetically excited by a driving member to shape the grooves in the record carrier in accordance with the information signal.

Abstract: A surface acoustic wave recording device is constructed for use in recording video signals in the surface of a master substrate. The device includes a pyramidal-shaped tip having a plurality of transducer electrodes for launching surface acoustic waves on the surfaces of the device structure. Surface acoustic waves launched from the plurality of transducers are focused at the apex of the record device. A stylus, for example, of diamond, affixed to the apex of the pyramidal structure vibrates in consonance with the signal to be recorded to cut the video signals into the surface of the master substrate.

Abstract: A surface acoustic wave record stylus is constructed from a support having a surface for propagating surface acoustic waves. A circular-shaped interdigital transducer launches the surface acoustic waves onto the support surface. The shape of the interdigital transducer is such that the surface acoustic waves are focused to a diamond stylus positioned at the center of the circular transducer.

Abstract: A multi-electrode array deposited on a piezoelectric substrate is driven by a traveling-wave voltage generated from a wave delay generating device, such as a tapped coaxial cable. Suitably delayed and phased voltages are fed to each electrode in the array. Surface acoustic waves are excited on the surface of the piezoelectric substrate. The surface acoustic waves travel through the array in proper phase with the exciting signal supplied to the electrodes. The surface acoustic waves pick up energy as they travel along the surface. Such a structure has a number of advantages over the prior art conventional interdigital transducers. For example, they exhibit broad bandwidth characteristics, have high conversion efficiency and are generally free of spurious signals. These advantages make them well suited for application to video disc cutterheads.

Abstract: A gimballed air puck is used in a video disc mastering system for controlling the depth to which an electromechanical stylus cuts into a metal substrate surface. Air is directed through the air puck toward the substrate surface to maintain the cutting stylus at a given cutting depth. The air puck is gimballed or swivelled to permit the cutting stylus to follow the undulating surface of the substrate during the mastering operation.

Abstract: Measuring instrument which extracts and directly displays the vertical tracking angle of a phonograph pickup during playback of a known test record signal, and which also has the capability of measuring and directly displaying tracing distortion.

Abstract: An engraving head incorporates a shaft which is supported for high frequency oscillation by axially spaced metal spring elements, and the shaft is acted upon by improved dampening means to minimize undesirable transverse and transient vibrations. A diamond cutting stylus is carried by a holder mounted within an arm projecting from the shaft by means which facilitate convenient removal and resharpening of the stylus. A diamond guide shoe has a flat face which engages the surface to be engraved adjacent the stylus and is supported by means which may be conveniently adjusted without rotation to obtain precision alignment of the face with the surface. A diamond deburring or shaving element has a shearing edge adjacent the stylus and is also supported for convenient angular adjustment to obtain precise alignment. The entire engraving head is pivotally supported by leaf springs and is raised and lowered by power operated means.

Abstract: A cutterhead assembly suitable for forming a topographic signal representative pattern in a recording media, such as a disc substrate, is constructed having a base member, a piezoelectric element and a cutting stylus. The piezoelectric element in this structure is asymmetrically assembled to the base member to reduce phase modulation of the recorded signal which would otherwise occur from the transverse motion of the stylus during the cutting operation.

Abstract: A disk mastering preview system utilizes an original audio signal from an audio source for previewing signals to be recorded by a disk lathe. Delayed audio signals corresponding to the original audio signals are produced for recording by the disk lathe a predetermined time delay thereafter. The original audio signals are sampled periodically by a sample and hold circuit to produce analog sample signals indicative of the signals sampled. An analog to digital converter converts the analog sample signals to corresponding digital sample signals. Successive digital sample signals are written into successively addressed memory locations and read out an adjustable predetermined number of memory addresses subsequently. A digital to analog converter converts the digital sample signals read out of memory into analog signals for recording. The predetermined number of addresses is set in a time delay register which produces a signal indicative of the number.

Abstract: A diamond stylus for electromechanically recording short wavelength video signal information in a metal disc master is supported in a cutterhead suspension apparatus. A set of parallel spring steel suspension members are used to mount a cutting stylus assembly including the diamond stylus to an electromechanical recording lathe. A cutterhead suspension velocity control apparatus couples the cutterhead suspension apparatus to the main frame of the electromechanical recording lathe. When the cutterhead suspension is lowered onto the disc master surface the velocity control apparatus controls the rate at which the cutterhead suspension descends to the disc master surface.

Abstract: A monitoring circuit for monitoring and measuring the mechanical characteristics of a piezoelectric video disc recording cutterhead takes the form of a bridge network. The motional charge or motional current, which are related to the mechanical characteristics of the cutterhead, is measured by providing signals of a first polarity to one leg of the bridge and signals of a polarity opposite to the first to another leg of the bridge.One leg of the bridge includes the cutterhead and a sensing capacitor connected in series while the other leg includes the sensing capacitor and a balancing capacitor connected in series. When the capacitance value of the balancing capacitor is properly chosen, the voltage drop across the sensing capacitor is proportional to certain mechanical characteristics of the cutterhead (e.g., displacement).

Abstract: A surface acoustic wave (SAW) pickup and record stylus is constructed from an elongated substrate which supports the propagation of SAW. The substrate is tapered to a tip at one end and a fan-shaped interdigital electrode structure having curved fingers is formed thereon. During operation in the pickup mode a beam of SAW is focused to the tip of the stylus which is arranged in contact with a record medium. During playback, the beam reflected by the record medium generates a signal in the interdigital electrode of the stylus representative of the acoustic conditions at the stylus tip and, correspondingly, of the information recorded on the record medium surface. In the record mode the stylus is brought into contact with a record medium. During recording, the input power applied to the interdigital electrode is increased to effect a deformation of the surface of the record medium representative of the information to be recorded.