Patent 7407698 was granted and assigned to RICOH COMPANY,LTD. on August, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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.