INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS

摘要

A highly reliable hybrid card and a recording/reproducing apparatus to be used with such a hybrid card are provided. An information recording medium has a size of a credit card and comprises a transparent substrate, an optical recording layer, an IC chip and an antenna coil for an information exchanging operation of at least either recording information on the IC chip or reproducing information stored in the IC chip without bringing the IC chip and the information recording/reproducing apparatus into direct mutual contact and the transparent substrate, the optical recording layer and the antenna coil are arranged in the above listed order.