US 5,309,415 AGranted

Information recording method for overwriting a magneto-optic recording medium with two intensities of light beams

AssigneeMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsKoichi Takeuchi, Osamu Ito, Kyosuke Yoshimoto, Kunimaro Tanaka, Isao Watanabe, Kazuhiko Tsutsumi, Ryuichirou Arai, Yoshihiro Kiyose, Kazuhiko Nakane, Teruo Furukawa, Masayoshi Shimamoto, Yoshiyuki Nakai

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Abstract

Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for improving accuracy of recording and reproducing information onto and from a magneto-optic recording information medium. In the first method, a width of a mark formed by a relatively low intensity light beam between two kinds of light beam intensities used for recording information is made larger than a sum of a track land width and the maximum track offset of the light beam, thereby the mark formed by the relatively low intensity light beam covers the track land portion in its full width. In the first apparatus, a reflected light beam from the magneto-optic recording information medium is split into a reflected beam for information reproducing and a reflected beam for tracking and focusing servos at the reproducing, thereby the apparatus can remove part being affected by the track groove portion from the reflected light beam for information reproducing. In the second method and apparatus, an intensity ratio of the two kinds of intensities of light beams used for information recording is controlled in such a manner that a mark width formed by the relative low intensity light beam is wider than a mark width formed by the relative high intensity light beam.

Claims7

Dependent claims

An information recording method comprising the steps of:

providing a magneto-optic recording information medium which has a plurality of laminated magnetic layers with vertical magnetic anisotropy, the plurality of laminated magnetic layers including a first layer which keeps its direction of magnetization constant and does not exhibit flux reversal at recording and reproducing, and the plurality of laminated magnetic layers further including a second layer which holds information recorded in the second layer as a sequence of first portions having an initial magnetization direction and second portions having a magnetization direction differing from the initial magnetization direction, the magneto-optic recording medium further having a track with a land portion the land portion defined by groove portions elongated on both sides of said land portion;
representing information to be recorded as two kinds of light beams of different intensities;
projecting said two kinds of light beams substantially onto said land portion of said track so as to cause some portions of said track to assume the initial magnetization direction and to cause other portions of said track to assume the magnetization direction differing from the initial magnetization direction;
and
controlling the intensity of said two kinds of light beams in such a manner that each of the portions of said track caused to assume the initial magnetization direction extends across the land portion at least to the groove portions, and is larger than each of the portions of said track caused to assume the magnetization direction differing from the initial magnetization direction in said second layer.

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A method for recording binary data on a magneto-optic recording medium, said medium having a track with a land portion, the land portion bounded by groove portions elongated on both sides of the land portion, said medium having a plurality of magnetic layers at said land portion of said track, one of which holds recorded binary data as a sequence of first regions having an initial magnetization direction and second regions having a non-initial magnetization direction, comprising the steps of:

representing said binary data to be recorded as two kinds of light beams of different intensities, one of said different intensities sufficient to cause said one magnetic layer to assume said initial magnetization direction and another of said different intensities sufficient to cause said one magnetic layer to assume said non-initial magnetization direction;
projecting said two kinds of light beams substantially onto said first and second regions on said land portion of said track;
and
controlling said different intensities of said two kinds of light beams such that each of said first regions assuming said initial magnetization in response to said one of said different intensities extends across the land portion at least to the groove portions, and is larger than each of said second regions assuming said non-initial magnetization in response to said other of said different intensities and further such that each of said first region extends at least to the groove portions.

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Facts

Application: 07/734,963Filed 24 Jul 1991 · division
Priority: 26 Jul 1990
Granted: 3 May 1994
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G11B 11/10517
Characterised by the transducing operation to be executed: overwriting or erasing
G11B 7/0901
With provision for moving the light beam or focus plane for the purpose of maintaining alignment of the light beam relative to the record…
G11B 11/10586
Record carriers characterised by the selection of the material or by the structure or form: characterised by the selection of the material
G11B
Information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer