Abstract:
Disclosed is a video tape suitable for use in high speed contact duplication. The magnetic layer comprises a magnetic pigment dispersed in a polymeric binder at amounts of magnetic pigment between 75 and 88 percent by weight of the magnetic layer with a total pigment loading (magnetic + nonmagnetic pigments) of at least 80 percent by weight. The tape is provided with a backside coating comprising at least two nonmagnetic pigments dispersed in a polymeric binder, the first nonmagnetic pigment, being a conductive material and having a relatively small particle size of between about 0.015 and 0.15 mu m, and the second nonmagnetic pigment having a relatively large particle size of between about 0.15 and 1.5 mu m. The magnetic layer has a lubricant absorption value of at least 4 and a surface roughness of between 5 and 15 nm. The backside coating has a surface roughness of between 10 and 150 nm. The polymeric binder of either or both of the magnetic layer and the backside coating may preferably comprise a hard component resin and a soft component resin, wherein the soft component resin is a polyurethane having a plurality of pendant carboxy groups.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium comprising a nonmagnetic supporting layer and, formed thereon, a magnetic layer comprising a ferromagnetic powder dispersed in a binder. The binder is composed of 30-70 wt.% of a polyurethane resin A having a glass transition temperature (Tg) satisfying the condition: 60 DEG C
Abstract:
Novel phosphorylated compositions of a vinyl chloride copolymer or terpolymer, a phenoxy resin, a hydroxyalkyl acrylate or methacrylate-lactone adduct or a reaction product of a normally solid pendant-hydroxyl-containing thermoplastic polymer having at least 8 hydroxyl groups per molecular chain and an adduct which is the product of either a hydroxyalkyl acrylate or methacrylate or a lactone-acrylate adduct and an organic diisocyanate having improved dispersion characteristics suitable for use in applications such as magnetic recording media.
Abstract:
The composition and method of making a magnetic recording media using a polyurethane binder system with high lubricant retention and a high concentration of magnetic particles is described. The use of hydrated alumina with a solvent blocked isocyanate is used to produce an open cell microporosity in the cured coating wherein the individual voids are not greater than the magnetic bit cell size and the alumina particles remain in the coating to improve abrasion resistance. The porosity size is controlled by a surface active agent additive. Also shown is the method of preparing hydrated alumina with small particle size, dispersibility, and compatibility, and wherein temperature whereby the C0 2 formation that creates the porosity occurs as the polyurethane components cure.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium protected by a very thin, composite low surface energy covering is disclosed. The covering comprises a primer layer of a polymerized phosphorylated monomer or oligomer and an outer lubricant layer of perfluoropolyether polymer. The two layers may be polymerized in situ. The primer layer is made from monomers such as phosphorylated bis[4-(methacryloyloxy- hydroxypropylcarbamato)-cyclohexyl]methane. The outer layer is made from a polymerizable perfluoropolyether monomer such as CH=CH 2 . The composite low surface energy covering is especially useful for providing lubricity and corrosion resistance to a metallic thin-film magnetic recording coating.
Abstract:
Flexible, self-crosslinking binders, useful for magnetic media composites are prepared from hydroxyl-containing thermoplastic polymers reacted with condensates of diisocyanates and unsaturated esters. They can be cured with an electron beam.
Abstract:
A method for improving the durability, surface finish, and magnetic properties of a magnetic recording disk, the recording disk having a magnetic coating material with load bearing particles therein, by applying thereto a deformational force which exceeds the elastic limit of the coating material.