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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8158276 | FePtP-alloy magnetic thin film Disclosed are magnetic thin films, sputtering targets and vapor deposition materials, each of which is composed of 40-60 at % of Pt, 40-60 at % of Fe, 0.05-1.0 at % of P and furthermore depending on the occasions, 0.4-19.5 at % of Cu and/or Ni. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8119266 | Magnetic recording medium substrate, magnetic recording medium, method for manufacturing magnetic recording medium substrate, and method for manufacturing magnetic recording medium Provided are a magnetic recording medium substrate whereupon a magnetic layer can be regularly formed in a recording area, a magnetic recording medium and a method for manufacturing the magnetic recording medium substrate. A plurality of recording areas wherein the ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 7993766 | Perpendicular magnetic recording medium and method for fabricating the same A magnetic recording medium is provided in the present invention. The magnetic recording medium including a substrate; a base layer disposed on the substrate; an intermediate layer disposed on the base layer; and a recording layer disposed on the intermediate layer ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7923136 | Magnetic recording medium and method of manufacturing the same According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes magnetic patterns made of a ferromagnetic recording layer containing Co, and a nonmagnetic layer which separates the magnetic patterns and has a lower Co concentration than the magnetic patterns. ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7732071 | Perpendicular magnetic recording system with patterned medium and manufacturing process for the medium A patterned perpendicular magnetic recording medium of the type that has spaced-apart pillars with magnetic material on their ends and with nonmagnetic trenches between the pillars is made with a method that allows use of a pre-etched substrate. The substrate has a ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7713641 | Magnetic material and antenna device A magnetic material includes a substrate and a composite magnetic film formed on the substrate. The composite magnetic film comprises a plurality of columnar members formed on the substrate and having a longitudinal direction perpendicular to a surface of the substr... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7608348 | Magnetic medium for storing information Magnetic medium for storing information, includes at least two materials A and B which are connected with one another, material A being a hard magnetic material, wherein material B is a material which exhibits metamagnetic behavior in a magnetic field, the metamagne... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7419730 | Magnetic recording disk with antiferromagnetically coupled master layer including copper An antiferromagnetically coupled (AFC) magnetic recording medium with an AFC master layer comprising at least two magnetic layers with the top magnetic layer including copper is described. The slave layer is separated from the master layer structure by a nonmagnetic... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7368187 | Thermally stable low noise magnetic recording media A magnetic recording medium which is thermally stable and produces low media noise. By providing a plurality of intermediate layers made of a CoCr alloy of which saturation magnetic flux densities are controlled within a predetermined range, the magnetic recording m... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7323259 | Multilayer perpendicular media with high-boron or high-carbon additives to CoCr films Carbon or boron is added into the CoCr layers of a multiplayer perpendicular magnetic media structure to reduce media noise. The perpendicular magnetic media structure has sharp interfaces between Co-alloy layers and Pd or Pt layers and significantly reduced exchang... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7314675 | Magnetic media with high Ms magnetic layer Magnetic recording media having a magnetic layer, wherein the magnetic layer comprises a continuous matrix material and a separate portion that is different from the matrix is disclosed. The matrix comprises a non-ferromagnetic material that is non-ferromagnetic in ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7289298 | Perpendicular magnetic recording medium, method for manufacturing the same, and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus Disclosed is a magnetic recording medium which includes a substrate, an underlayer, and a perpendicular magnetic recording layer, and in which this perpendicular magnetic recording layer contains magnetic crystal grains and a matrix surrounding the magnetic crystal ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286324 | Cobalt-platinum or iron-plantinum magnetic material containing 1% to 40% Cu, Ni or B A CoPt- or FePt-alloy magnetic material in which a temperature to transform into an L10-ordered alloy is reduced and magnetic anisotropy energy is controlled, and a method for manufacturing the magnetic material are provided. In a CoPt- or FePt-alloy magn... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7270897 | Magnetic recording medium, method of manufacturing the same medium and magnetic disc drive A higher value of an anistropic magnetic feild can be acquired by using a magnetic material where Cr is not added as a material of a magnetic layer on which magnetic data is recorded. A magnetic recording medium can be manufactured through the processes of laminatin... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7270898 | Polycrystalline structure of ordered alloy and method of making the same Magnetic crystalline grains are spaced from each other on a base layer a polycrystalline structure. The magnetic crystalline grains are made of an ordered alloy. The ordered alloy serves to ensure the crystalline magnetic anisotropy energy larger than that of Co all... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7242553 | Substrate for magnetic recording medium When a soft magnetic layer for a double layer type perpendicular magnetic recording medium is formed by a plating method, there is the problem of the occurrence of an isolated pulse noise called spike noise so that signal reproduction characteristics are lost. In or... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241471 | Magnetic recording medium and method of fabricating the same A method of fabricating a low-noise, high-output and large-capacity magnetic recording medium compatible with the AIT3 format in which a metal magnetic film is formed by the vacuum evaporation process under supply of oxygen is disclosed. In the vacuum evaporation pr... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241519 | Magnetic recording medium with columar magnetic layer Provided is a magnetic recording medium capable of achieving higher density recording. The magnetic recording medium comprises a magnetic layer formed on a non-magnetic base through vacuum oblique evaporation. The magnetic layer includes a plurality of columns in wh... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7217468 | Magnetic recording medium and method of fabricating the same A method of fabricating a low-noise, high-output and large-capacity magnetic recording medium compatible with the AIT3 format in which a metal magnetic film is formed by the vacuum evaporation process under supply of oxygen is disclosed. In the vacuum evaporation pr... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7195827 | Perpendicular magnetic recording medium A perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, an underlayer formed on the substrate, and containing at least one element selected from the group A consisting of Pt, Pd, Rh, Ag, Au, Ir and Fe, and at least one element or compound selected from the g... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7186471 | Chemically ordered, cobalt-three platinum alloys for magnetic recording A magnetic recording layer having polycrystalline chemical ordered (COX)3Pt or (COX)3PtY alloys. The additive X comprises Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Ge, Nb, Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Cd, In, Sn, Hf, Ta, W, Re, Os, B, or C, or any combination ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7166261 | Method of patterning products using chemical reaction A method of patterning magnetic material includes forming a ferromagnetic material layer containing one element selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co and Ni on a substrate, selectively masking a surface of the ferromagnetic material layer, and making nonferro... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7160636 | Ferrite thin film, method of manufacturing the same and electromagnetic noise suppressor using the same A ferrite film is formed by regularly arranging constituents such as magnetized grains or one analogous to that. In the ferrite film, the constituents have at least one of the uniaxial anisotropy and the multiaxial anisotropy. The ferrite film has the magnetic aniso... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158346 | Heat assisted magnetic recording film including superparamagnetic nanoparticles dispersed in an antiferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic matrix Heat assisted magnetic recording systems with composite recording films are disclosed. The magnetic recording films include superparamagnetic nanoparticles dispersed in an antiferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic matrix. The matrix provides antiferromagnetic coupling with... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7157162 | Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus A magnetic recording medium having a substrate, an under-layer formed on the substrate, a magnetic layer formed on the substrate and a protective layer formed on the magnetic layer. The magnetic layer comprises Co, Cr and Pt with a thickness being from 10 nm to 22 n... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7153597 | Magnetic recording media having chemically modified patterned substrate to assemble self organized magnetic arrays A data storage medium is provided according to the present invention for magnetic recording. The data storage medium includes a substrate having a locking pattern etched therein defining patterned regions. The patterned regions are chemically modified by depositing ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7087325 | Magnetic recording medium and production process thereof The present invention relates to a magnetic recording medium, which has excellent magnetic characteristics. The present invention also relates to a method for producing a magnetic recording medium where a plurality of targets are repeatedly sputtered several times i... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7070869 | Magnetic component The invention relates to an element, comprising a substrate with a surface roughness of less than 5 nm, with saturated bonds on the surface and an MPt3 film applied to at least one side of the substrate, with a magnetic anisotropy perpendicular to the pla... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7041394 | Magnetic recording media having self organized magnetic arrays A magnetic recording disc is provided according to the present invention for magnetic recording. The magnetic recording disc includes a disc substrate having a locking pattern etched therein. Chemically synthesized iron-platinum particles are provided in the locking... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7029773 | Method and system for magnetic recording using self-organized magnetic nanoparticles A method and system for magnetic recording using self-organized magnetic nanoparticles is disclosed. The method may include depositing surfactant coated nanoparticles on a substrate, wherein the surfactant coated nanoparticles represent first bits of recorded inform... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6677051 | Magnetic recording medium with dual magnetic layers having specific composition requirements and a magnetic storage apparatus A magnetic recording medium is constructed to include a substrate, and a magnetic layer disposed above the substrate, wherein the magnetic layer has an initial layer on a side closer to the substrate and a final layer on a side opposite from the substrate... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6649286 | FeCoNiN-based soft magnetic thin film composition Disclosed is a FeCoNiN-based soft magnetic thin film composition having the formula Fex Coy Niz Nv, wherein x, y, z and v are expressed in at % and satisfy 41ࣘxࣘ55, 18ࣘyࣘ27, 19ࣘzࣘ32, 0 | 11/18/2003 |
| 6638647 | Vertical recording medium with thin soft magnetic film A vertical magnetic recording medium includes a soft magnetic film formed on a substrate, and a vertical magnetization film formed on the soft magnetic film. μ.multidot.δbࣙ1000, when μ is a permeability of the soft magnetic film, and δb [nm] is a fi... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6610425 | Soft magnetic alloy fiber, manufacturing method for soft magnetic alloy fiber, and information recording article using soft magnetic alloy fiber A soft magnetic alloy fiber has a width of 10 μm or more to less than 500 μm, a thickness of 2 μm or more to less than 20 μm, and a Curie temperature of -50° C. or higher.... | 08/26/2003 |
| 5514477 | Corrosion-resistant laminate which consists of a metal of a single mass number deposited on a substrate A highly corrosive-resistant metal having a high purity and a specific plane index is manufactured by ion beam deposition (IBD). A thin film having less defects and impurities is obtained. A magnetoresistant effect film for a magnetoresistant effect type ... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5512349 | Method and apparatus for magnetic recording digital video signals and magnetic recording medium therefor A magnetic tape for the recording of digital video signals is constituted by a nonmagnetic base having thereon a magnetic layer of at least one thin magnetic metal film which has an energy product of at least 100 G.cm.Oe, and with the surface roughness of... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5242762 | Magnetic recording medium having an underlayer and a thin film magnetic layer which consists of a specified cobalt-platinum-palladium alloy In a magnetic recording medium including a substrate and an alloy thin film magnetic layer formed on the substrate, the magnetic layer is composed of Co100-y (Pt100-x Pdx)y where x is set to 0 | 09/07/1993 |
| 5187022 | Magnetic recording medium for encoders To construct a magnetic recording medium to be used for an encoder adapted for detection of an angular or linear displacement of a mobile object such as a robot arm, a substrate is at least partly covered with a Sm-Co alloy thin layer bearing magnetic inf... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5158833 | Magnetic recording medium A magnetic recording medium having high recording density and being capable of obtaining excellent over-write characteristics by having a magnetic layer including Co and Ni as its principal components on a non-magnetic substrate, the Ni content of the mag... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5112669 | Magnetic recording medium A magnetic recording medium comprises a non-magnetic substrate and a thin magnetic metal layer which is overlaid on the non-magnetic substrate. The volume of pores in the thin magnetic metal layer falls within the range of 0.005 to 0.05 ml per gram of the... | 05/12/1992 |
