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Apparatus for manufacturing disc medium

US5289231A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 18, 1992
Grant dateFeb 22, 1994
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Expiry dateDec 18, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03F7/70366
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

This specification discloses a method of and an apparatus for manufacturing a disc medium which utilize the projection exposure technique of a stopper for lithography, rotate a circular photosensitive substrate which provides the disc medium at the same speed as a circular reticle having a pattern of information tracks while rotating the reticle, and irradiate the reticle with illuminating light of a slit-like shape or a sectoral shape extending in the diametrical direction of the circular reticle to thereby effect rotation scan exposure.

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