Abstract:
A magnetic recording media includes a toroidal substrate, a surface thereof is divided into a recording area located in a central part between an outer peripheral edge and an inner peripheral edge, edge areas located within 100 μm or more and 2,000 μm or less from the outer and inner peripheral edges, respectively, and adjacent areas located between the edge areas and the recording area, respectively, a magnetic film on the substrate, and a protective film on the magnetic film, in which the magnetic film is thinner in the edge areas than that in the adjacent areas, and at least a part of the protective film in the edge areas is thicker than that in the adjacent areas.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a patterned magnetic recording medium includes coating a magnetic film with a resist which is decomposed by exposure to electromagnetic radiation or an electron beam to have a low molecular weight, forming a pattern on the resist by an imprinting method, transferring the pattern to the magnetic film by using the resist having the pattern formed thereon as a mask, and removing the resist by exposing the resist to the electromagnetic radiation or the electron beam.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a patterned substrate used for a magnetic recording media having discrete tracks includes patterns of protrusions and recesses processed thereon, and a texture structure formed on each of the recesses.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording apparatus has a magnetic recording media including a substrate having protrusions and recesses corresponding to a servo zone and a data zone and a magnetic layer deposited thereon, and a read/write head including a pair of magnetic shields and a giant magnetoresistive element, in which a track pitch of the media ranges 20 to 300 nm, a linear velocity of the magnetic recording media is 11 m/s, and a distance m from the magnetic shield to the magnetic layer on the protrusions of the media and a distance d between the magnetic layer on the protrusions and that on the recesses in the servo zone of the media are satisfies the condition that the value of d/m is 0.2 or more and 3 or less.
Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes forming patterns having protrusions and recesses of a ferromagnetic material onto a recording track section and a servo section on a substrate, forming a flattening film, a top surface of which is higher than that of the protrusion of the ferromagnetic material, onto the ferromagnetic material, and performing ion beam etching onto the flattening film up to a top surface of the protrusion of the ferromagnetic material, and determining an end point of flattening etching on the basis of a change in the total number of incident particles by means of an ion counter installed so as to be at an angle θ with respect to a perpendicular direction to the substrate in accordance with a material of the flattening film.
Abstract:
A hard multilayer coating that is to be disposed on a body, including: (a) a first coating layer disposed to be held in contact with the body, the first coating layer consisting of TiAlCrX1-aNa (wherein “X” represents carbon or oxygen, and “a” represents a mixed crystal ratio satisfying 0.5≦a≦1); (b) a second coating layer disposed on the first coating layer, the second coating layer being provided by a mixture layer consisting of TiAlCrX1-bNb (wherein “b” represents a mixed crystal ratio satisfying 0.5≦b≦1) and TiAl(SiC)X1-cNc (wherein “c” represents a mixed crystal ratio satisfying 0.5≦c≦1), or provided by a multilayer including a first sublayer consisting of the TiAlCrX1-bNb and a second sublayer consisting of the TiAl(SiC)X1-cNc, which are alternately superposed on each other; and (c) a third coating layer disposed on the second coating layer and constituting an outermost layer of the hard multilayer coating, the third coating layer consisting of TiAl(SiC)X1-dNd (wherein “d” represents a mixed crystal ratio satisfying 0.5≦d≦1).
Abstract translation:要设置在主体上的硬质多层涂层,包括:(a)设置成与本体保持接触的第一涂层,由TiAlCrX 1-a N组成的第一涂层 (其中“X”表示碳或氧,“a”表示满足0.5 <= a <= 1的混合晶体比)。 (b)设置在第一涂层上的第二涂层,第二涂层由由TiAlCr x 1-b N b b组成的混合层提供(其中“b” “表示满足0.5 <= b <= 1)和TIAL(SIC)X 1-c N C c的混合晶体比(其中”c“表示混合晶体比 满足0.5≤c<= 1),或由包括由TiAlCr x 1-b N b B组成的第一子层的多层构成,以及由TiAl (SiC)X 1-c N C c C,其彼此交替重叠; 和(c)设置在第二涂层上并构成硬质多层涂层的最外层的第三涂层,由TiAl(SiC)X 1-n N d(其中“d”表示满足0.5 <= d <1的混合晶体比)。
Abstract:
A recording medium includes a substrate, and a recording layer formed on the substrate having (a) a recording track band, and (b) recording cells regularly arrayed in the recording track band to form a plurality rows of sub-tracks. The recording cells included in each sub-track are formed apart from each other at a pitch P in the track direction. Nearest neighboring two recording cells, each positioned on adjacent two sub-tracks in the track band, are formed apart from each other at a pitch P/n in the track direction, where 2≦n≦5.
Abstract:
A process of manufacturing a coated body including a substrate and a hard coating disposed on the substrate, wherein the hard coating has (a) a surface smoothed to have a roughness with maximum height Rz of not larger than 1.2 μm, and (b) recesses each of which has a size of 0.5–6.0 μm and is formed in the surface, the process including a surface smoothing step of smoothing a surface of the hard coating by using abrasive particles such that the smoothed surface has the roughness with the maximum height Rz of not larger than 1.2 μm and such that the recesses each having the size of 0.5–6.0 μm are formed in the surface of the hard coating, wherein each of the abrasive particles used in the surface smoothing step is provided by a spherical-shaped core body made of a rubber and having a particle size of 0.1–2.0 mm, and hard abrasive grains each having a size of #3000–#10000 and adhering to an outer surface of the spherical-shaped core body.
Abstract:
A recording medium includes a substrate, and a recording layer formed on the substrate having (a) a recording track band, and (b) recording cells regularly arrayed in the recording track band to form a plurality rows of sub-tracks. The recording cells included in each sub-track are formed apart from each other at a pitch P in the track direction. Nearest neighboring two recording cells, each positioned on adjacent two sub-tracks in the track band, are formed apart from each other at a pitch P/n in the track direction, where 2≦n≦5.
Abstract translation:记录介质包括基板和形成在基板上的记录层,具有(a)记录轨道带,以及(b)定期排列在记录轨道带中的记录单元以形成多行子轨道。 包括在每个子轨道中的记录单元以轨道方向上的间距P彼此分开地形成。 最靠近的两个记录单元分别位于轨道带中相邻的两个子轨道上,以轨道方向上的间距P / n彼此分开,其中2 <= n <= 5。
Abstract:
A magnetic recording media includes a servo region including a preamble region and a burst region and having marks of a magnetic film, and a data region having discrete tracks of the magnetic film. The burst region includes a signal section and a non-signal section, the signal section including rectangular marks of the magnetic film, in-plane geometry of which is a rectangle, formed in a periodic pattern in a track direction, and the non-signal section including marks of the magnetic film having a pattern different from the pattern of the rectangular marks in the signal section.