Method of recycling disk recording medium and apparatus for recovering metal reflective film
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsTetsuya Komine, Hidemi Tomita, Mari Ichimura
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Abstract
A method of recycling a disk recording medium includes the steps of retaining the disk recording medium in a liquid medium, the disk recording medium having a layered structure including a substrate, a dye layer, a reflective film, and a protective layer; radiating ultrasonic waves onto the disk recording medium such that the substrate and the reflective film are separated from each other; and bringing a solution into contact with the substrate separated from the reflective film such that the dye layer is separated from the substrate in order to recover the substrate, the solution dissolving the dye layer.
Claims8
A method of recycling a disk recording medium comprising the steps of:
- retaining said disk recording medium in a liquid medium, said disk recording medium having a layered structure comprising a substrate, a dye layer, a reflective film, and a protective layer;
- radiating ultrasonic waves onto said disk recording medium such that said substrate and said reflective film are separated from each other;
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- bringing a solution into contact with said substrate separated from said reflective film such that said dye layer is separated from said substrate in order to recover said substrate, said solution dissolving said dye layer.
A method for recovering a metal reflective film, said metal reflective film being formed in a disk recording medium, said method comprising the steps of:
- placing said recording medium in a liquid medium in a container;
- applying vibration onto said recording medium placed in said liquid medium in order to separate said metal reflective film from said recording medium and to recover said metal reflective film into said liquid medium;
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- removing said separated metal reflective film in said liquid medium from said liquid medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.