Patent ID: 7018697

Claim:
An optical recording medium comprising: a substrate; and a light transmitting layer having a thickness smaller than that of the substrate, wherein a material of the substrate is an olefin maleimide copolymer, the olefin maleimide copolymer is a copolymer comprising: at least one kind of an N-phenyl-substituted maleimide unit represented by the general formula (I), at least one kind of an N-alkyl maleimide unit represented by the general formula (II), and an α-olefin unit represented by the general formula (III), and wherein a copolymer composition is such that a total content of (I) and (II) is in a range of 30 to 98 mol % and a content of (III) is in a range of 70 to 2 mol %, and a weight-average molecular weight relative to polystyrene is in a range of 1×10 3 to 5×10 6 where R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 4 , R 5 , R 6 , R 7 , R 8 , R 9 and R 10 are independently hydrogen, halogen, a carboxylic acid, or a straight-chain or branched alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, and R 11 , R 12 , and R 13 are independently hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbons.