Process for producing optical disks

• Main Authors: SHIRAISHI, HIROSHI, HORIGOME, SHINKICHI, MIYAMURA, YOSHINORI, KATO, KEIZO, ANZAI, YUMIKO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 12.05.1993
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING; INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RELATING TO PARTICULARARTICLES; INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES B29B, B29C OR B29D, RELATING TO MOULDING MATERIALS; INFORMATION STORAGE; INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORDCARRIER AND TRANSDUCER; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCESIN A PLASTIC STATE; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; TRANSPORTING; WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL

In a process for producing optical disks comprising the steps of subjecting the photoresist layer (3) on a substrate (1) formed of silicon, quartz, glass or a metal to light exposure, developing and etching treatments to obtain a stamper (6) and then duplicating an information pattern for an optical disk from the stamper (6) obtained above to a transparent substrate by using a UV curable resin to prepare a replicated substrate of an optical disk, a large number of stampers (6) can be prepared in a short time by conducting the light exposure (7) either by contacting the mask side surface of a substrate (1) provided with a photomask having an information pattern for an optical disk to the photoresist side surface of said substrate having the photoresist layer (3) or by noncontact projection, and a rapid replication of large quantities of replicated substrates becomes possible by using a large number of stampers (6) thus prepared.