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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical information recording medium realizing high reflectance and a high degree of modulation in high speed recording of an 8× or higher speed while maintaining sufficient recording characteristics in low speed recording at a 1× to about 4× speed and having high robustness to light and heat. SOLUTION: The heat mode write-once type optical information recording medium includes: a transparent substrate; a recording layer containing a dye; and a reflective layer. The recording layer contains an organic dye (preferably an oxonol dye) as a main component, and the medium has an optimum recording power of at least 25 mW when recorded at a linear velocity v (m/sec) with a laser beam having a wavelength of 600 to 700 nm, the optimum recording power being defined as a recording power (Po) at which a jitter in recording 8/16 modulation signals is lowest and being represented by equation 1 in which P1 is the optimum recording power in recording at a linear velocity of 3.5 (m/sec). COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical information recording method having a low LPP error rate even when recording is performed at a ≥14 m/s linear recording speed. SOLUTION: In the optical information recording method by which information is recorded at a ≥14 m/s linear recording speed to an optical information recording medium having a recording layer containing a dye on a substrate, the dye has an endothermic peak, preferably a ≥10 μVs/mg endothermic peak when the dye is analyzed by a differential thermal analysis under a nitrogen stream. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical information recording medium which contains coloring matters in a recording layer and can record and reproduce information by irradiation of laser from the light transmission layer side and can have a large capacity. SOLUTION: The optical information recording medium has at least a light reflection layer, a recording layer, and the light transmission layer in order on a substrate, and the recording layer contains coloring matters, and the dissolution rate of the coloring matters to the light transmission layer is
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical recording medium capable of forming a visible image having satisfactory visibility by using a laser beam and to provide a method for manufacturing the same. SOLUTION: In the optical recording medium having an information recording layer and an image recording layer on a first substrate in this order and a second substrate on the image recording layer, the surface on the image recording layer side of the second substrate is roughened. The method for manufacturing the optical recording medium includes a surface roughening process for roughening the surface of the second substrate on which the information recording layer is to be formed, an image recording layer forming process for forming the image recording layer on the roughened surface of the second substrate, an information recording layer forming process for forming the information recording layer on the first substrate and a laminating process for laminating the first and the second substrates to each other. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing method of an optical recording medium capable of securing reproducibility of recording and reproducing characteristics even when a coating liquid for forming a recording layer containing a plurality of similar coloring matters is reused and efficiently realizing reduction of the manufacturing cost. SOLUTION: In the manufacturing method of the optical recording medium having a recording layer on a substrate, containing the plurality of coloring matters having maximum absorption wavelengths whose differences are within 30 nm, when the recording layer is formed, the coating liquid for forming the recording layer is applied by a spin coating method, the coating liquid for forming the recording layer or the coloring matters dispersed by a spin coater are recovered, the recovered coating liquid or the coloring matters are diluted by the solvent identical with the solvent of the coating liquid to form a diluted liquid, component concentration of the diluted liquid is analyzed by using a liquid chromatography satisfying the following conditions (A) and (B) and a solution obtained by adjusting the component concentration of the diluted liquid based on the result of analysis is reused. (A) A wavelength between the maximum absorption wavelength on the shortest wave side and the maximum absorption wavelength on the longest wave side is designated as an HPLC detection wavelength. (B) A sample injection quantity is set to ≥10 μl. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide coloring matter for an optical information recording medium which realizes a high reflectance and a high-modulation degree even in four-speed or more high-speed recording, while maintaining excellent recording characteristics in low-speed recording of about 1 to double-speed, and of which the real part n of the complex refractive index is large and the imaginary part k is about equal to or smaller than it. SOLUTION: This optical information recording medium contains the coloring matter having two or more chromophores in the molecule and these chromophores are connected without mediated by a conjugated bond. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical recording medium small in recording characteristic difference betwean an inner circumferential side and an outer circumferential side, and to provide a method for producing the medium. SOLUTION: The method for producing the optical recording medium includes: a step of coating a dye solution on a substrate by a spin coating method to form a dye recording layer, wherein the substrate is rotated at a rotation speed lower than during a period from the beginning to the end of the supply of the dye solution in the sequence from beginning to the end of the supply of the dye solution. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a good-looking optical recording medium of a stuck-together type in which at least a reflective layer and an adhesive layer are arranged in this order outside the periphery of a center hole on a transparent substrate having the center hole, and the adhesive layer is stuck with great strength to another substrate having the same shape as the transparent substrate or another layer having almost the same shape as the transparent substrate. SOLUTION: In the optical recording medium, the other adhesive layer is formed on the substrate between the edge part of the center hole and either the inner peripheral edge part of a region forming the reflective layer or the peripheral edge part of a region forming the adhesive layer whichever located near the center hole. It is desirable that the other adhesive layers are formed at the whole periphery of the center hole in a state of contact with the periphery . COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a dye having high recording sensitivity and high-speed recording suitability in use for an optical recording medium, a dye having low jitter in recording reproduction of an optical information medium and high light fastness and wet-heat fastness and a dye having high solubility in a coating solution and high solution stability in a coating solution with time. SOLUTION: The heptamethine oxonol dye has a structure represented by formula (I). The optical information medium contains the heptamethine oxonol dye. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing an optical recording medium for manufacturing the optical recording medium which has low noise level and has good recording and reproducing characteristics. SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing the optical recording medium includes a step of discharging and applying a dye solution onto a substrate by a spin coating method to form a dye recording layer, wherein the substrate is rotated at a rotation speed of 400rpm or higher during a period from the beginning to the end of the discharge of the dye solution. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO