Abstract:
A method of producing substrates for magnetic disks wherein fine ruggedness is formed on the surface of a glass substrate by etching using a molten salt that contains a nitrite. The obtained magnetic disk exhibits mechanical and magnetic characteristics that are deteriorated little even when used for a long period of time.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium is fabricated by the electrodeposition of acicular magnetic particles onto an electrically conductive substrate from a mixture that is continuously dispersed and circulated through the electrodeposition vessel. Electrodeposition is effected at a critical electric field strength so that the particles are aligned in solution, and deposited perpendicular to the substrate surface such that the medium is highly densified. By use of anisotropic particles the resultant medium is adaptable for perpendicular recording, and by use of isotropic particles the resultant medium will support both longitudinal and perpendicular recording. The present invention also teaches electrodeposition of media whose particulate packing density varies in accordance with an areally predetermined pattern. The pattern is incised in one electrode of the deposition apparatus, and the medium as deposited on the other electrode mirrors the pattern as a varying particulate packing density. The packing density varies with the electric field intensity, and the electric field varies due to the unequal interelectrode distances arising from the incisions in the electrode. The medium is then d.c. magnetized, and the density variation provides a magnetically reproducible signal in accordance with the pattern.
Abstract:
An apparatus for polishing one or more planar substrates, such as magnetic disks, between rotating polishing plates is described. The apparatus is designed to optimize uniformity and flatness of the substrates by maintaining a substantially constant parallel and coaxial alignment between the rotating polishing plates.
Abstract:
A magnetic recording medium is provided with a textured surface comprising a landing zone, a data zone, and a transition zone having protrusions which gradually decrease in height and diameter in progressing from the landing zone to the data zone. The transition zone can be formed by laser texturing and controlling the peak power of a pulsed laser beam and/or rotating speed of the surface undergoing texturing.
Abstract:
A method for forming an overcoat having first and second layers in a magnetic recording medium is described. The first overcoat layer is deposited in a first sputtering chamber where the magnetic means for confining target plasma in the chamber are oriented to retain magnetic field confinement about the target surface and to produce magnetic field lines between directly confronting portions of the confronting sputtering targets. The second overcoat layer is deposited under a nitrogen-containing atmosphere.
Abstract:
A method for texturing magnetic recording media substrates using a structured abrasive article including a flexible backing having a major surface and an abrasive coating, the abrasive coating attached to and at least substantially covering the entire total surface area of the major surface, where the abrasive coating includes a plurality of precisely-shaped three-dimensional abrasive composites, and the composites comprise a plurality of abrasive particles dispersed in a binder, which binder provides the means of attachment of the composites to the backing.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a surface polishing method and a surface polishing apparatus, in which a magnetic layer surface of a magnetic tape is polished by contacting the magnetic layer surface with an abrasive tape, which runs while being wound round a contact roll, and causing the magnetic tape and the abrasive tape in opposite directions in this state. In the invention, the contact roll has a radius of curvature of 0.1 to 10 mm in a location where the magnetic tape first contacts with the abrasive tape during surface polishing. To make the contact roll have a radius of curvature of 0.1 to 10 mm in a location where the magnetic tape first contacts with the abrasive tape as described above, the radius of curvature of the contact roll is changed continuously, for example. More specifically, in a cross section of the contact roll, first and second curves having different radii of curvature are formed continuously from an entry side of the magnetic tape and a radius of curvature of the first curve is set to be smaller than that of the second curve. Alternatively, the contact roll is in the form of a composite cylindrical roll which has a shape of a combined larger-diameter roll and a small-diameter roll. Concretely, the contact roll is formed as a composite cylindrical roll having a cross-sectional shape, in which a large circle having a diameter of 10 to 100 mm and a small circle having a diameter of 0.2 to 20 mm partly overlap each other. The small circle portion is disposed such that the magnetic tape and the abrasive tape first contact there with each other. Further, a plurality (two or five) of contact rolls having a diameter of 0.2 to 20 mm are provided for contact with the abrasive tape.
Abstract:
Method for the surface treatment of a magnetic sheet comprising a support to which is applied a magnetic layer on at least one of its two sides. The method is characterized in that, in hot conditions, a pressure is applied to each of the magnetic layers by using the surface of polished glass. Application to the fabrication of high density magnetic cards.
Abstract:
This invention comprises the use, during the plating processing of thin-film magnetic recording media, of an oxidizing treatment immediately preceding the electroplating of the magnetic layer. This oxidizing treatment can be controlled to produce desired high levels of coercive force and low levels of media noise.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to the production of magnetic recording media. The inventive method consists mainly in applying a coarsed-grained magnetic coating onto a base and converting its near-surface layer into a close-grained magnetic layer by exposing sections of the coarsed-grained coating to a nanosecond pulsed layer radiation meeting certain parameters.