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Optical disc having oscillating land and grooves

US6167022A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 21, 1999
Grant dateDec 26, 2000
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Expiry dateSep 21, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B2220/211
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

One or more optical discs, each having a ROM field having information with a length of at least one track formed in convex and concave pit rows, and a rewritable field capable of rewriting the information with a length of at least one track, an information unrecorded field having a length of at least one track located between the ROM field and rewritable field, the rewritable field having a spiral or concentric guide track oscillating in a radial direction, the ROM field having spiral or concentric convex and concave pit rows, and at least a part field at the rewritable field side of the information unrecorded field has a transition field having a spiral or concentric guide track oscillating in the radial direction continuously or intermittently and a track pitch To of the ROM field and a track pitch Tw between grooves and lands of the rewritable field have values such that To>Tw.

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