# US 7,407,698 B2 · Flexible optical disk > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 7,407,698 B2 - Document ID: US7407698B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 10/872,514 - Filed: 2004-06-22 - Published: 2004-11-18 - Granted: 2008-08-05 - Earliest claimed: 2003-05-07 - Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd. - Inventors: Shozo Murata; Nobuaki Onagi; Yasutomo Aman - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7407698B2 ## CPC - G11B 7/256: of layers improving adhesion between layers - G11B 7/24: Record carriers characterised by shape, structure or physical properties, or by the selection of the material (characterised by the arrangement of information on the carrier G11B7/007) - G11B 7/253: of substrates - G11B 7/26: Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture of record carriers - G11B 7/263: {Preparing and using a stamper, e.g. pressing or injection molding substrates (production of optical record carriers, e.g. optical discs B29D17/005)} - G11B 7/2534: polycarbonates [PC] - G11B 7/2535: polyesters, e.g. PET, PETG or PEN - G11B: INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER (recording measured values in a way that does not require playback through a transducer G01D9/00; recording or playback apparatus using mechanically marked tape, e.g. punched paper tape, or using unit records, e.g. punched or magnetically marked cards G06K; transferring data from one type of record carrier to another G06K1/18; circuits for coupling output of reproducer to radio receiver H04B1/20; gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers or circuits therefor H04R) ## Abstract A flexible optical disk, includes a disk substrate, wherein a rigidity of the disk is equal to or more than 5 Pa and equal to or less than 5000 Pa where the rigidity is defined as Young's modulus of the disk×(thickness of the disk/radius of the disk)3. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A flexible optical disk, comprising: a disk substrate; wherein a rigidity of the disk substrate is equal to or more than 5 Pa and equal to or less than 5000 Pa where the rigidity is defined as Young's modulus of the disk substrate×(thickness of the disk substrate/radius of the disk substrate)3, wherein the Young's modulus and an internal loss (internal friction) of the disk is defined by a characteristic vibration method that is a dynamic measurement method and a cantilever resonance method, wherein the internal loss is defined based on a distribution of a characteristic frequency by a ratio of a frequency and a half value thickness, and wherein the internal loss (Q−1=(fU−fL)/(″3×f)) is equal to or more than 0.001 and equal to or less than 0.3 where the characteristic frequency is defined as f, a frequency at a side where the half value thickness is high is defined as fU, and a frequency at a side where the half value thickness is low is defined as fL. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The flexible optical disk as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rigidity of the disk substrate is equal to or more than 20 Pa. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The flexible optical disk as claimed in claim 1, wherein a transferring layer is formed adjacent the disk substrate. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The flexible optical disk as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rigidity of the disk substrate is equal to or more than 5 Pa and equal to or less than 550 Pa. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The flexible optical disk as claimed in claim 4, wherein the rigidity of the disk substrate is equal to or more than 20 Pa. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The flexible optical disk as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rigidity of the disk substrate is controlled by a thickness of the disk substrate. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The flexible optical disk as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rigidity of the disk substrate is controlled by the Young's modulus of the disk substrate. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The flexible optical disk as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rigidity of the disk substrate is controlled by a material of the disk substrate. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The flexible optical disk as claimed in claim 1, wherein the internal loss of the disk is controlled by the thickness of the disk substrate so as to be equal to or more than 0.001 and equal to or less than 0.3. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The flexible optical disk as claimed in claim 1, wherein the internal loss of the disk is controlled by the Young's modulus of the disk substrate so as to be equal to or more than 0.001 and equal to or less than 0.3. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The flexible optical disk as claimed in claim 1, wherein the internal loss of the disk is controlled by the Young's modulus of the disk substrate so as to be equal to or more than 0.001 and equal to or less than 0.3. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The flexible optical disk as claimed in claim 1, wherein a film substrate whose thickness dispersion in any 1/100 circumferential section in a circumferential direction at an any radial position is equal to or less than 0.1 μm, is used for the disk substrate of the flexible optical disk. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The flexible optical disk as claimed in claim 1, wherein one surface or both surfaces of a film substrate has high surface energy. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The flexible optical disk as claimed in claim 13, wherein a film substrate surface is treated so that the surface energy of one side surface or both sides surfaces of the film substrate is high, thereby allowing easy adhesion to the film substrate surface. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The flexible optical disk as claimed in claim 14, wherein a film substrate surface is treated with polyester. ### Claim 16 (depends on 3) The flexible optical disk as claimed in claim 3, wherein the transferring layer is formed adjacent a film substrate, and wherein a material of the transferring layer where an uneven minute pattern of a stamper is transferred is a photopolymer material not having a cross-linked structure at the time of curing. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The flexible optical disk as claimed in claim 16, wherein the photopolymer material is a single functional acryletemonomer material. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The flexible optical disk as claimed in claim 17, wherein a material whose curing shrinkage is equal to or less than 10% is used as the single functional acryletemonomer material. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) The flexible optical disk as claimed in claim 1, wherein the disk is a surface recording type, and a pre-format pattern surface of the disk, where recording or reproducing is done, is provided at a pick up side of the disk.