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Information recording medium
Assignee: Toshiba Corp
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Filing: 1992-02-03
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Granted: 1993-08-24
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Expires: 2012-02-03
Abstract
Abstract An information recording medium of this invention comprises a plurality of concentric tracks or a spiral track, having a plurality of recording tracks for recording information, and record pits formed on the recording tracks, said record pits being formed at a predetermined pitch on an innermost recording track, and said record pits being formed in accordance with movement of a position of a target recording track from the innermost track toward an outermost track, while gradually increasing the predetermined pitch at a rate less than that at which linear velocity increases when said information recording medium is rotated at a constant velocity.
Inventors
- 👤 Tomohisa Yoshimaru
- 👤 Tsuneshi Yokota
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-02 22:26
CPC Classifications
G; G11; G11B; G11B7/00; G11B7/007; G11B7/00745; G11B20/00; G11B20/10; G11B20/12; G11B20/1217; G11B20/1258; G11B20/18; G11B20/1866
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim
104 words
An information recording medium, comprising: a disk-shaped base plate; a metal coat film provided on the base plate; a plurality of tracks provided on the metal coat film, said plurality of tracks having one of a spiral form and a concentric form; and a plurality of record marks provided in a predetermined portion of each of the tracks, a pitch of the record marks being uniform within each track, the pitch increasing as the radius of the track increases at a rate less than that at which linear velocity increases between the tracks when the disk base plate is rotated at a constant velocity.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
104 words
An information recording medium, comprising: a disk-shaped base plate; a metal coat film provided on the base plate; a plurality of tracks provided on the metal coat film, said plurality of tracks having one of a spiral form and a concentric form; and a plurality of record marks provided in a predetermined portion of each of the tracks, a pitch of the record marks being uniform within each track, the pitch increasing as the radius of the track increases at a rate less than that at which linear velocity increases between the tracks when the disk base plate is rotated at a constant velocity.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
36 words
The information recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined portion is a header portion of each of the tracks in which address data of the track is recorded by a plurality of record marks.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
43 words
The information recording medium according to claim 1, wherein thepitch of the record mark on a track having a radius of 2r is larger than a pitch L of the record mark on a track having a radius r and smaller than 2L.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
31 words
The information recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the innermost track further includes an area in which data relating to change of the pitch of the record mark is stored.
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