Patent ID: 8001559
Filing Date: 2011-08-16
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An optical information recording medium, comprising: a disc-shaped substrate; an information recording layer formed over a recording/reproducing-side main surface of the substrate; a light transmitting layer formed over the information recording layer; and a protecting layer formed to cover the light transmitting layer and at least one part of a side end surface perpendicular to the main surface of the substrate, wherein at least the part of the side end surface is covered with the protecting layer for covering the recording/reproducing-side main surface, and the surface of the protecting layer covering at least the part of the side end surface has a larger surface roughness than that of the surface of the protecting layer covering the recording/reproducing-side main surface, wherein at least the part of the side end surface has a larger static friction coefficient than that of the surface over the recording/reproducing-side main surface, and wherein the static friction coefficient of at least the part of the side end surface is determined as follows: the recording medium is held on the part of the side end surface at two points opposite to each other across the center of the recording medium so as to sandwich the recording medium at load of about 5.0 N, and simultaneously a tensile force is applied to the center of the recording medium from a direction perpendicular to a line connecting the two points, and the static friction coefficient is the tensile force measured at a time when the substrate starts to move from a state in which the substrate stands still.