Abstract:
A coating head (10) for use in strip-coating paper-card material (20) with water-based, thixotropic magnetic recording ink, in order to produce disposable magnetic recording media which is intended for one write operation, followed by only a few read operations. The head sits on the card and contains a quantity of ink at ambient pressure and temperature. As the head and card move relative one another, the ink is subjected to a shear force, and a bottom surface layer of the ink is drawn into a trailing wall (50) of the head (10), which wall contains a metering orifice. This orifice is of gradually increasing cross-section. That is, the orifice's entrance area is smaller than is its exit area. In this manner, the ink is subjected to a coating interface through which the ink experiences a reduction in hydrodynamic pressure, and a decrease in velocity, as the volume of the coating orifice increases. As a result, the viscosity of the ink increases as the ink progresses through the coating orifice.
Abstract:
To a substrate (2) consisting, for example, of AlMg5, a permalloy foil (3, 12) is applied by rolling, gluing or hot sealing. On top of the softmagnetic layer, a vertical recording layer (4) is applied. Thus, for example, an aluminium foil (22) may be applied on top of the permalloy foil by combining a permalloy and an aluminium foil (22) by rolling and by applying the composite foil (24) obtained to a substrate. Then the aluminium foil is anodized, forming vertically oriented pores extending down to the permalloy foil. By means of an electrochemical process, for example, magnetic material is filled into these pores which have a relatively small thickness compared to their length, so that the magnetic material is vertically oriented. The material used for the aluminium foil (22) is highly pure aluminium with an aluminium content of at least 99.999%.
Abstract:
A spinodal decomposition typ ternary magnetic alloy and method of manufacture therefor, which contains, by weight, 3 to 40% vanadium, 5 to 45% chromium and the balance essentially iron. Optionally, the alloy may contain 0.1 to 8% by weight of at least one additional selected element. The alloy is easy to work and has excellent hard or semi-hard magnetic properties comparable with those of conventional iron-chromiumcobalt alloys, yet is relatively low in material cost and simple and inexpensive to manufacture.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium using vacuum-deposition from an evaporated metal source having a very high efficiency and uniform deposition. The support (W) onto which the magneticfilm is to be evaporated is guided and conveyed along a curved path above a molten metal evaporating source (1,2) at a substantially constant speed. The curved path is shaped such that evaporated metal flow lines connecting a central point on the evaporation surface of the molten metal in the evaporating source (1,2) to corresponding intersection points on the support (W) form the same angle of incidence with respect to the longitudinal direction of the support (W) for all positions along the support (W) where the film is to be deposited. Endless belt structures (11, 11') including guide rollers and magnets (13,13') are used to form rising and falling paths for conveying the support along the desired curved path.
Abstract:
A method of preparing a magnetic recording medium, the method comprising the step of providing a magnetic recording medium comprising a magnetic coating disposed on a substrate. The magnetic coating comprises a curable polymeric binder. The magnetic recording medium is wound into a stockroll while the magnetic coating is at a winding temperature that will accelerate cure of the magnetic coating. The magnetic coating is allowed to cure, optionally in an environment that maintains the magnetic coating at a temperature that accelerates cure. The magnetic recording medium is then slit.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a magnetic recording medium that includes a polymeric flexible substrate and a magnetic layer coating thereon, with a binderless carbon rich layer adhered to the magnetic layer. The present invention also provides a process for the plasma deposition of the carbon rich coating onto a substrate comprising the steps of: a) providing a substrate in a vacuum chamber; b) generating carbon rich plasma in the vacuum chamber by injecting a plasma gas suitable to provide a carbon rich coating into an elongated hollow cathode; and providing a sufficient voltage to create and maintain plasma; and maintaining a vacuum in the vacuum chamber sufficient for the plasma; and c) exposing the substrate to the plasma while the magnetic medium is influenced by a radio frequency bias electrode to accelerate the plasma toward the substrate and deposit the carbon rich coating on the substrate.
Abstract:
A disc body (1) is placed so as to overlap an atomization region (A), which has a substantially circular cross section, of an ultrafine particle generating nozzle (10) adapted to atomize a film-forming agent, and the film-forming agent is applied as the disc body (1) is turned around the center thereof. Peripheral portions of the disc body (1) pass the inner part of the atomization region, where the density of atomized particles is higher, but the deposition rate of the particles per unit area is lower because those portions pass relatively fast. On the other hand, the inner portions of the disc body pass the outer part of the atomization region where the density of atomized particles is lower, but the deposition rate of the particles per unit area is higher because those portions pass relatively slow. Accordingly, the quantity of the fine particles deposited on the disc body (1) is rendered uniform in the radial direction thereof.
Abstract:
A method of producing a magnetic recording medium such as a magnetic disk, wherein a magnetic layer made of a Co alloy is formed on a carbon substrate and heat-treated at 250 to 1,450 DEG C so as to improve the coercive force. The heat-treatment is carried out in a magnetic field to obtain an improved squareness ratio. Higher coercive force can be obtained by forming a Cr underlayer on which the magnetic layer is formed. A higher-density magnetic recording medium can be provided by improving the coercive force and the squareness ratio.