Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080260942 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDATION APPARATUS - A grain diameter controlling crystalline layer comprising crystalline grains of a metal selected from the group consisting essentially of Cu, Ni, Rh and Pt was formed on a substrate. Then, deposited atom layer of at least one element selected from the group consisting of oxygen and carbon was formed on the surface of the grain diameter control layer. A magnetic recording layer was deposited on the atoms deposited grain diameter controlling crystalline layer. Then a magnetic recording medium in which the magnetic crystalline grains has small grain diameter and small grain diameter distribution, and the magnetic recording medium shows increased signal to noise ratio at high recording density. | 10-23-2008 |
20090135519 | Magnetic recording medium, method and apparatus for manufacturing magnetic recording apparatus - A magnetic recording medium includes a disk substrate, and recording cells arrayed on the disk substrate in a track direction, the recording cells includes a ferromagnetic pattern and a magnetic pattern formed on one of two sidewalls of the ferromagnetic pattern in the track direction and having a lower crystalline magnetic anisotropy constant Ku than that of the ferromagnetic pattern. | 05-28-2009 |
20090195925 | PATTERNED MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA, STAMPER FOR MANUFACTURE OF PATTERNED MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PATTERNED MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a patterned magnetic recording media has a magnetic recording layer and a protective layer formed on a substrate, in which the magnetic recording layer including a magnetic material patterned in tracks and a nonmagnetic material filled in between the tracks in a data area, and has a recessed portion formed in an area within 1 mm from an outer media end and extending to the media end. The recessed portion being formed 1 to 50 nm deeper than the data area. | 08-06-2009 |
20090231755 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS - The invention provides a magnetic recording medium, and a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus. The magnetic recording medium includes a substrate | 09-17-2009 |
20090273858 | SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS - It is possible to improve the recording and reproducing S/N ratio, the reproduction signal intensity, and the degree of high density recording. There are provided a plurality of recording tracks formed on a substrate, each recording track being formed of a magnetic material, and non-recording sections formed on the substrate, each non-recording section separating adjacent recording tracks, each recording track including a plurality of recording sections and connecting sections for connecting the recording sections adjacent thereto in a track longitudinal direction, and each connecting section having a cross-sectional area in a track width direction that is smaller than a cross-sectional area in a track width direction of adjacent recording sections. | 11-05-2009 |
20100006537 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes depositing a magnetic recording layer on a substrate, the magnetic recording layer having a multi-layered structure of two or more layers at least one layer of which has a granular structure including CoCrPt alloy and SiO | 01-14-2010 |
20100215990 | PATTERNED MEDIUM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a patterned medium includes depositing a magnetic recording layer and applying an ultraviolet curable resin on both surfaces of a medium substrate, pressing a first resin stamper and a second resin stamper each including patterns of recesses and protrusions, corresponding to a patterned medium, against both surfaces of the medium substrate in such a manner that a direction from a center of the medium substrate toward a center of the first resin stamper is off-oriented from a direction from the center of the medium substrate toward a center of the second resin stamper to imprint the patterns of recesses and protrusions on the ultraviolet curable resin, and irradiating the ultraviolet curable resin with an ultraviolet ray through each of the first and second resin stampers to cure the ultraviolet curable resin. | 08-26-2010 |
20100264019 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIA - 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. | 10-21-2010 |
20110011830 | Magnetic Recording Media, Magnetic Recording Apparatus, and Method for Manufacturing Magnetic Recording Media - 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. | 01-20-2011 |
20110019306 | MAGNETIC DISK APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic disk apparatus having a magnetic disk having magnetic dot lines each including magnetic dots arrayed at equal intervals in a down track direction, and a read/write head which uses a plurality of adjacent magnetic dot lines as one track and sequentially performs read and write on the magnetic dots included in the magnetic dot lines constituting the track, in which the magnetic dots included in each of the magnetic dot lines in each track of the magnetic disk are displaced in the down track direction from the magnetic dots included in the adjacent dot line in the track depending on a possible skew angle between the read/write head and the track so that the magnetic dots are sequentially accessed by the read/write head. | 01-27-2011 |
20110085268 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic recording medium having a data region in which a plurality of recording tracks, each including magnetic dots arrayed in a down-track direction with a pitch p, are formed in a cross-track direction, and a servo region including a preamble in which a plurality of lines of magnetic dots, which are arrayed in a cross-track direction with a pitch p, are formed at equal intervals in the down-track direction. | 04-14-2011 |
20110164337 | SUBSTRATE FOR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS - In an example magnetic recording medium substrate, a plurality of recording tracks are formed on a substrate, each recording track being formed of a magnetic material. Non-recording sections are formed on the substrate, each non-recording section separating adjacent recording tracks. Each recording track includes a plurality of recording sections and connecting sections for connecting the recording sections adjacent thereto in a track longitudinal direction, and each connecting section has a cross-sectional area in a track width direction that is smaller than a cross-sectional area in a track width direction of adjacent recording sections. | 07-07-2011 |
20110267718 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes a plurality of magnetic dots having a pattern formed by self organization. The density of magnetic dots in a peripheral portion of a central portion in a widthwise direction is higher than that of magnetic dots in the central portion at a burst portion of the magnetic recording medium. | 11-03-2011 |
20120067843 | Method of forming fine pattern - A method of forming a fine pattern according to an embodiment includes: forming a hard mask on a substrate; forming a mask reinforcing member on the hard mask; forming a di-block copolymer layer on the mask reinforcing member, the di-block copolymer layer comprising a sea-island structure; forming a pattern comprising a concave-convex structure in the di-block copolymer layer, with island portions of the sea-island structure being convex portions; and transferring the pattern onto the hard mask by performing etching on the mask reinforcing member and the hard mask, with a mask being the pattern formed in the di-block copolymer layer. The mask reinforcing member is comprised of a material having an etching speed that is higher than an etching speed for the hard mask and is lower than an etching speed for sea portions of the sea-island structure of the di-block copolymer layer. | 03-22-2012 |
20120118853 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MASTER DISK FOR PATTERNED MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING DISK MANUFACTURING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a master disk for discoid patterned medium having a plurality of sectors arranged in a circumferential direction, the plurality of sectors including a recording data portion and a servo data portion that includes a sector identification region having gaps formed in a linear pattern is provided. An imprint master disk having a linear pattern which is common to the sectors before the gaps are formed in the sector identification region and including at least one pattern of the sector is prepared, imprinting is repeated in the circumferential direction by using the imprint master disk to form patterns of a discoid patterned medium on a substrate, and a sector identification pattern is formed in each sector by forming gaps in the linear pattern of each sector identification region among the patterns formed on the substrate. | 05-17-2012 |
20120177948 | PATTERNED MEDIUM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a patterned medium includes depositing a magnetic recording layer and applying an ultraviolet curable resin on both surfaces of a medium substrate, pressing a first resin stamper and a second resin stamper each including patterns of recesses and protrusions, corresponding to a patterned medium, against both surfaces of the medium substrate in such a manner that a direction from a center of the medium substrate toward a center of the first resin stamper is off-oriented from a direction from the center of the medium substrate toward a center of the second resin stamper to imprint the patterns of recesses and protrusions on the ultraviolet curable resin, and irradiating the ultraviolet curable resin with an ultraviolet ray through each of the first and second resin stampers to cure the ultraviolet curable resin. | 07-12-2012 |
20120250398 | MAGNETIC STORAGE ELEMENT, MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICE, AND MAGNETIC MEMORY - A magnetic storage element according to an embodiment includes: a magnetic thin wire extending in a first direction and having a plurality of magnetic domains partitioned by domain walls; an electrode capable of applying a current flowing in the first direction and a current flowing in the opposite direction from the first direction, to the magnetic thin wire; and an assisting unit receiving an electrical input and assisting movement of the domain walls in an entire or part of the magnetic thin wire. | 10-04-2012 |
20140030554 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - In one embodiment, there are provided: a substrate; a data area disposed on the substrate and having a plurality of first magnetic dots arrayed in lines in mutually different first, second, and third directions; and a boundary magnetic part having a plurality of first magnetic portions arrayed in a line in the third direction and each having a length longer than that of the first magnetic dot in the third direction, and a second magnetic dot disposed between the first magnetic portions and disposed on extensions in the first and second directions of the first magnetic dots, and disposed along with the data area on the substrate. | 01-30-2014 |
20140097152 | SELF-ASSEMBLED PATTERN FORMING METHOD - A self-assembled pattern forming method in an embodiment includes: forming a guide pattern on a substrate; forming a layer of a first polymer; filling a first block copolymer; and phase-separating the first block copolymer. The guide pattern includes a first recessed part having a depth T and a diameter D smaller than the depth T, and a second recessed part having a width larger than double of the diameter D. The first block copolymer has the first polymer and a second polymer which are substantially the same in volume fraction. By phase-separating the first block copolymer, a cylinder structure and a lamellar structure are obtained. | 04-10-2014 |
20140104997 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE - A magnetic recording medium is disclosed in which, on a non-magnetic substrate | 04-17-2014 |
20140139952 | THIN MAGNETIC FILM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATOR, MAGNETIC HEAD, MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS USING THIN MAGNETIC FILM - According to one embodiment, there is provided a thin magnetic film having a negative anisotropy of −6×10 | 05-22-2014 |
20140374380 | STAMPER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING BIT PATTERNED MEDIUM USING STAMPER - A stamper of an embodiment includes: a base portion having a main surface; and a plurality of guides arranged on the main surface in mutually different first and second directions and serving as references of arrangement of a plurality of self-assembled dots. A distance between the guides in a third direction is within a range of an integer m | 12-25-2014 |