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| 20080291572 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes recording areas forming protrusions corresponding to servo signals and recording tracks and includes a crystalline magnetic layer, and non-recording areas comprising an amorphous damaged layer left in bottoms of recesses between the recording areas. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090042112 | Magnetic recording media - A magnetic recording media has a substrate and a magnetic recording layer containing ferromagnatic patterns on the substrate, the magnetic recording layer including a data zone to constitute a recording track and a servo zone to constitute a preamble region, an address region and a burst region, in which the address region and the burst region are separated by a part of the recording track. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090142620 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A magnetic recording medium is obtained by easily patterning a magnetic recording layer without deteriorating its electromagnetic conversion characteristics, by forming a silicon-based protective film between the magnetic recording layer and a photoresist, and performing dry etching and oxygen plasma processing. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090161257 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes protruded magnetic patterns formed on a substrate, and a non-magnetic material filled in recesses between the magnetic patterns and made of a multi-element amorphous alloy containing Ni or Cu, and two or more metals selected from the group consisting of Ta, Nb, Ti, Zr, Hf, Cr, Mo and Ag. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090162704 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes forming protruded magnetic patterns on a substrate, depositing a nonmagnetic material in recesses between the magnetic patterns and on the magnetic patterns, and etching back the nonmagnetic material using an oxygen-containing etching gas while reforming a surface of the nonmagnetic material. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090166323 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes depositing a magnetic recording layer and a sacrifice layer on a substrate, patterning the sacrifice layer and magnetic recording layer to form protruded magnetic patterns and sacrifice patterns, depositing a nonmagnetic material in recesses between the magnetic patterns and sacrifice patterns and on the sacrifice patterns, and etching back the nonmagnetic material. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090168228 | DISK DRIVE HAVING A DISK OF DISCRETE-TRACK MEDIA TYPE - According to one embodiment, a disk drive has a DTM type disk. The DTM type disk has a servo area on one recording surface. In the servo area, a servo pattern is recorded. The servo pattern is composed of a projection-depression pattern and an N- and P-pole magnetic pattern. The N- and P-pole magnetic pattern is recorded in an address-data region that contains a cylinder code. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090195929 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DISCRETE TRACK RECORDING MEDIUM AND DISCRETE TRACK RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a discrete track recording medium includes forming protruded magnetic patterns on a substrate, and repeating processes of depositing a nonmagnetic material so as to be filled in recesses between the magnetic patterns and etching back the nonmagnetic material two or more times with rotating the substrate in a plane thereof by an angle less than one revolution. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090202865 | 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. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090232928 | Method of Manufacturing Stamper, and Stamper - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a stamper includes forming a conductive layer on a surface of a master having patterns of protrusions and recesses, forming an electroforming layer on the conductive layer, separating the electroforming layer and the conductive layer from the master to form a stamper to which the patterns of protrusions and recesses of the master are transferred, removing a resist left on the surface of the stamper, and etching the surface of the stamper with an acidic solution having a pH value of less than 3. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090243152 | IMPRINTING METHOD AND STAMPER - According to one embodiment, an imprinting method includes applying a resist to a substrate, imprinting a stamper on which protruded patterns are formed against the resist applied to the substrate, forcing a distal end of a peeling wedge into a part between the substrate and the stamper, and introducing a gas between the substrate and the stamper to peel off the stamper from the substrate, in which a gap between the substrate and the stamper is made larger than a thickness of the resist at a part into which the distal end of the peeling wedge is forced. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090246310 | RESIN IMPRINT STAMPER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a resin imprint stamper formed of a resin material in an annular shape having a through-hole in a central part thereof, including a pattern area formed on a part of a surface thereof in which a plurality of lands and grooves are circumferentially arranged with a track pitch of 100 nm or less, and the pattern height of at most 100 nm, wherein no protrusion and step having a height exceeding 10 μm from a top surface of the pattern area are present in a region less than 3 mm from an end of the pattern area toward an inner periphery thereof. | 10-01-2009 |
| 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 |
| 20090277574 | PATTERN TRANSFER METHOD - According to one embodiment, a pattern transfer method includes spin-coating one surface of a medium substrate with photopolymer having viscosity of 10 cps or less to form an photopolymer layer having a thickness of 200 nm or less, bonding the one surface of the medium substrate and the patterned surface of the first transparent stamper under vacuum with the photopolymer layer sandwiched therebetween, applying an ultraviolet ray to the photopolymer layer through the first transparent stamper to cure the photopolymer layer, and peeling off the first transparent stamper to form the photopolymer layer to which patterns of protrusions and recesses are transferred on the one surface of the medium substrate to control a thickness of the photopolymer layer remaining in recesses to 100 nm or less. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090280285 | STAMPER HOLDER, MOLDING DIE AND MOLDED SUBSTRATE FOR RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, there is provided a stamper holder which holds a disk-shape metal stamper for molding having a center hole with an inner diameter of 17.5 mm or less and formed with patterns of protrusions and recesses for a recording medium on a surface in a state that the stamper holder is fixed to a first die having a center hole, in which the stamper holder has an approximately cylindrical shape so as to be inserted into the center hole of the first die and comprises a flange provided at one end configured to hold an inner peripheral portion of the stamper surface near the center hole, and an outer diameter of the flange is 17.6 mm or less. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090314648 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING STAMPER - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a stamper used for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium having magnetic patterns corresponding to servo areas including a preamble section, an address section and a burst section and data areas including discrete tracks, the method includes forming additional resist patterns such that protrusions and recesses appear alternately in the radial direction in the preamble section and/or address section, in forming resist patterns corresponding to the servo areas including the preamble section, the address section and the burst section and data areas including discrete tracks are formed on a master plate, depositing a conductive film on the entire surface of the master plate and resist patterns, followed by electroforming a metal layer, and peeling off the metal layer from the master plate. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090317661 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A magnetic recording medium has recording regions including patterns of a magnetic material corresponding to servo signals and recording tracks, non-recording regions including an oxide of the magnetic material formed between the recording regions, and surface oxide films including an oxide of the magnetic material formed on surfaces of the recording regions. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090317662 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A magnetic recording medium has magnetic patterns formed of a patterned ferromagnetic layer, and a non-magnetic layer including a component of the ferromagnetic layer and separating the magnetic patterns, in which a thickness “a” of the non-magnetic layer and a thickness “b” of the magnetic patterns satisfy a relationship of: a| 12-24-2009 | |
| 20090321000 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING PLATE-LIKE STRUCTURE - A method for manufacturing a plate-like structure, the method including a step of transferring concave and convex patterns on a master to a surface of a transferred substrate by sandwiching the master provided with the concave and convex patterns and the transferred substrate, between a press surface of a hollow cylindrical upper and a press surface of a lower mold, and pressurizing central parts of the upper and lower molds to apply pressure to the master and the transferred substrate, wherein a compressive load imposed on inner peripheral portions of the upper and lower molds is blocked and distributed toward outer peripheries of the upper and lower molds. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100000965 | 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, forming masks on areas corresponding to recording regions of the magnetic recording layer, partially etching the magnetic recording layer in areas not covered with the masks with an etching gas to form protrusions and recesses on the magnetic recording layer, modifying the magnetic recording layer remaining in the recesses with a modifying gas to form non-recording regions, and forming a protecting film on an entire surface. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100000966 | 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, forming masks on areas corresponding to recording regions of the magnetic recording layer, partially etching the magnetic recording layer in areas not covered with the masks with an etching gas to form protrusions and recesses on the magnetic recording layer, modifying the magnetic recording layer remaining in the recesses with Ne gas to form non-recording regions, and forming a protecting film on an entire surface. | 01-07-2010 |
| 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 |
| 20100018946 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes forming a hard mask and a resist on a magnetic recording layer, imprinting a stamper on the resist to transfer patterns of protrusions and recesses, removing resist residues left in the recesses of the patterned resist, etching the hard mask using the patterned resist as a mask to transfer the patterns of protrusions and recesses, stripping the resist, and performing ion beam etching to remove the remaining hard mask and to modify a surface of the magnetic recording layer uncovered with the remaining hard mask. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100018947 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes forming a magnetic recording layer, an oxidation inhibiting layer, a hard mask layer includes carbon on a substrate, coating the hard mask layer with a resist, transferring patterns of protrusions and recesses to the resist by imprinting to form resist patterns, sequentially performing etching of the hard mask layer using the resist patterns as masks, etching of the oxidation inhibiting layer, and etching and/or magnetism deactivation of the magnetic recording layer to form patterns of the magnetic recording layer, and sequentially performing stripping of the resist patterns, stripping of the hard mask layer and stripping of the oxidation inhibiting layer, in which ion beam etching is used for stripping the oxidation inhibiting layer. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100047625 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes forming a resist on a magnetic recording layer, imprinting a stamper to the resist to transfer patterns of protrusions and recesses, and partially etching the magnetic recording layer in areas not covered with patterns of the resist used as masks by ion beam etching using a mixed gas of He and N | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100084374 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium comprises forming a protective film on a ferromagnetic recording layer containing Cobalt (Co) on a substrate and forming a recess in both the protective film and the ferromagnetic recording layer at a part where a nonmagnetic layer is to be formed. The method further comprises removing Co from a part of the recess of the ferromagnetic recording layer to form the nonmagnetic layer that separates magnetic patterns made of the ferromagnetic recording layer containing Co. The nonmagnetic layer has an identical chemical composition as the ferromagnetic recording layer, except for the nonmagnetic layer having a lower Co concentration than the magnetic patterns. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100143517 | STAMPER - According to one embodiment, a stamper has three-dimensional patterns in a dummy region. The three-dimensional patterns have a repeatable run out of 1 nm or less between the 15th and 40th orders when the rotational frequency is the first order as a reference. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100147791 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes forming a first hard mask, a second hard mask and a resist film on a magnetic recording layer, imprinting a stamper on the resist film to transfer patterns of recesses and protrusions, removing residues remained in recess of the patterned resist film, etching the second hard mask using the patterned resist film as a mask to transfer patterns of recesses and protrusions, etching the first hard mask using the patterned second hard mask as a mask to transfer patterns of recesses and protrusions, and deactivating magnetism of the magnetic recording layer exposed in the recesses together with removing the second hard mask by ion-beam etching. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100148095 | STAMPER, STAMPER TESTING METHOD, AND STAMPER TESTING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a stamper has a data area and servo area, and has concentric or spiral grooves formed in the data area. Phases αE and αH at which differential signal levels of the E- and H-polarized light are maximum when the data area is irradiated with a laser beam have a relationship represented by | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100155365 | STAMPER MANUFACTURING METHOD - According to one embodiment, when forming first, second, and third stampers by transferring three-dimensional patterns of a master, a height adjusting layer having a film thickness greater on the upper surface of a projection than on the bottom surface of a recess is formed between the second stamper and a second release layer, and the surface of the third stamper is etched with an acidic solution having a pH of less than 3. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100159281 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM MANUFACTURING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an ultraviolet-curable resin material to be used contains a monomer represented by formula (1) presented earlier, a resin stamper is used as a stamper, and the surface of a magnetic recording layer and the three-dimensional pattern surface of the resin stamper are contacted in a vacuum. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100177425 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A magnetic recording medium has a RAM region and a ROM region. The RAM region includes a plurality of first tracks each having a first magnetic portion. The first magnetic portions in adjacent tracks are separated from each other. The ROM region includes a plurality of second tracks each having a second magnetic portion. A width of the second magnetic portions in a direction perpendicular to a track direction of the first tracks is larger than that of the first magnetic portions in the perpendicular direction. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100186877 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING STAMPER - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a stamper includes forming a first stamper from a master plate having lands and grooves through electroforming, forming a second stamper, a width of which is G | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100188952 | STAMPER AND STAMPER EVALUATION METHOD - According to one embodiment, this invention determines whether a maximum value Hmax and minimum value Hmin of an HF signal obtained when a data recording portion is irradiated with a laser having a wavelength of 450 nm or less and an NA of 0.6 or more meet (Hmax−Hmin)/Hmax<0.13 . . . (1), or whether a maximum value Hmax, a minimum value Hmin, and a most frequent voltage value Have of a signal level of an HF signal obtained when a data recording portion is irradiated with a laser having a wavelength of 450 nm or less and an NA of 0.6 or more meet Hmax/Have≦1.05 . . . (2) and Hmin/Have≦0.90 . . . (3). | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100188964 | STAMPER AND STAMPER EVALUATION METHOD - According to one embodiment, letting Vf be a maximum voltage value level within the range of a frequency 60 to 170 times the rotational speed of a stamper and Vave be the average sum signal voltage value of a data recording portion in the sum signal of a voltage signal when the data recording portion is irradiated with a laser having a wavelength of 450 nm or less and an NA of 0.6 or more, whether Vf and Vave meet Vf/Vave<7.7×10 | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100196528 | STAMPER AND METHOD PRODUCING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a stamper includes patterns corresponding to recording tracks or recording bits in a data region and patterns corresponding to information in a servo region formed in protrusions and recesses on a front side of the stamper, in which an inner periphery and an outer periphery are processed and, on a back side, an inner peripheral edge, an outer peripheral edge and a main surface of the back side lie on the same plane. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100207302 | STAMPER MOLDING DIE AND METHOD FOR MOLDING STAMPER USING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, in a die for manufacturing a resin stamper, the following are defined the sizes of a resin injection hole and a cut punch receiving portion of a fixed-side template, areas in which a vacuum suction hole and an air-blow hole, respectively, are formed, the diameter of a cut punch on a moving-side template, and the taper angle of the peripheral portion of a cavity. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100213069 | MASTER PLATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a master plate for producing a stamper includes a substrate, and patterns of protrusions and recesses formed on the substrate and corresponding to patterns of recording tracks or recording bits in data areas and to information in servo areas, in which the protrusion has a structure in which a first metal layer, a silicon layer and a second metal layer are stacked on the substrate and a metal oxide film is formed on a surface of the protrusion. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100213642 | RESIN STAMPER MOLDING DIE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING RESIN STAMPER USING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, the present invention provides a resin stamper injection molding die including a fixed side template having a metal stamper mounting surface mirror-ground in a random direction, a metal stamper having a front surface with recesses and protrusions and a back surface mirror-ground in a random direction, and a moving side template. The metal stamper has a surface roughness of 0 to 50 nm. The metal stamper mounting surface has a surface roughness of 0 to 1.0 nm, and has a coefficient of static friction of at most 0.20 with respect to the second main surface of the metal stamper. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100214694 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes forming a first hard mask, a second hard mask and a resist on a magnetic recording layer, imprinting a stamper to the resist to transfer patterns of protrusions and recesses to the resist, removing residues remaining in the recesses of the patterned resist, etching the second hard mask by using the patterned resist as a mask to transfer the patterns of protrusions and recesses to the second hard mask, etching the first hard mask by using the second hard mask as a mask to transfer the patterns of protrusions and recesses to the first hard mask, removing the second hard mask remaining on the protrusions of the first hard mask, and deactivating the magnetic recording layer exposed in the recesses by means of ion beam irradiation. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100214695 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes forming a first hard mask, a second hard mask and a resist on a magnetic recording layer, imprinting a stamper to the resist to transfer patterns of protrusions and recesses to the resist, removing residues remaining in the recesses of the patterned resist by means of a first etching gas, etching the second hard mask by means of the first etching gas using the patterned resist as a mask to transfer the patterns to the second hard mask, etching the first hard mask by means of a second etching gas different from the first etching gas using the second hard mask as a mask to transfer the patterns to the first hard mask, and performing ion beam etching in order to deactivate the magnetic recording layer exposed in the recesses and to remove the second hard mask. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100215989 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes forming a first hard mask, a second hard mask and a resist on a magnetic recording layer, imprinting a stamper to the resist to transfer patterns of protrusions and recesses to the resist, removing residues remaining in the recesses of the patterned resist, etching the second hard mask by using the patterned resist as a mask to transfer the patterns of protrusions and recesses to the second hard mask, etching the first hard mask by using the second hard mask as a mask to transfer the patterns of protrusions and recesses to the first hard mask, subjecting the magnetic recording layer exposed in the recesses to modifying treatment to change an etching rate, and deactivating the magnetic recording layer exposed in the recesses. | 08-26-2010 |
| 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 |
| 20100230383 | ULTRAVIOLET-CURABLE RESIN MATERIAL FOR PATTERN TRANSFER AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM MANUFACTURING METHOD USING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, this invention uses an ultraviolet-curable resin material for pattern transfer containing 80 to 95 wt % of isobornyl acrylate, 1 to 20 wt % of trifunctional acrylate, and 0.5 to 6 wt % of a polymerization initiator. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100230384 | ULTRAVIOLET-CURING RESIN MATERIAL FOR PATTERN TRANSFER AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM MANUFACTURING METHOD USING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, an ultraviolet-curing resin material for pattern transfer contains at least one of 2-methyl-2-adamantyl acrylate, 2-ethyl-2-adamantyl acrylate, and 1,3-adamantanedimethanol diacrylate, isobornyl acrylate, polyfunctional acrylate, and a polymerization initiator, or contains at least one of the acrylates described above, a polymerization initiator, and fluorine-based alcohol. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100233514 | RESIN STAMPER FOR PATTERN TRANSFER AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM MANUFACTURING METHOD USING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, pattern transfer is performed using a combination of an ultraviolet-curable resin having a surface tension of 31 to 39 mN/m and a stamper having a critical surface tension of 31 mN/m or less. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100237041 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM MANUFACTURING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a cured first ultraviolet-curing resin material layer having a first three-dimensional pattern is formed on a first principal surface of a magnetic recording medium having a central hole. A cured second ultraviolet-curing resin material layer having a second three-dimensional pattern is formed on a second principal surface opposite to the first principal surface of the magnetic recording. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100247974 | Substrate for magnetic recording medium, magnetic recording medium, and magnetic recording 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. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100258523 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING STAMPER - According to one embodiment, an injection-molded recess and protrusion pattern surface of a resin stamper is subjected to a dry etching process for surface treatment. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100260885 | IMPRINTING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an imprinting apparatus includes a first mold configured to hold a disk-shaped stamper on which patterns of recesses and protrusions are formed, a second mold configured to hold a disk-shaped substrate to which a resist is applied so that the substrate faces the stamper held by the first mold, and a suction ring which is disposed around the first mold and in which an inner groove and an outer groove are formed to correspond to an outer periphery portion of the stamper held by the first mold, the inner groove being opened to atmosphere and the outer groove being vacuum-suctioned. | 10-14-2010 |
| 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 |
| 20100271726 | MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS, MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, AND METHOD OF TESTING MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording apparatus includes a magnetic recording medium including magnetically recordable recording tracks with a width L | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100302679 | Patterned media and method of manufacturing the same, and magnetic recording apparatus - A patterned media has a substrate, and a magnetic recording layer on the substrate including protruded magnetic patterns and a nonmagnetic material filled in between the protruded magnetic patterns. In the patterned media, a depth D | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100314253 | STAMPER MANUFACTURING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a three dimensional structure of a stamper is subject to etch by supplying a pulsed electric currentelectric current to the surface of the stamper. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110000880 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes forming a resist on a magnetic recording layer, imprinting a stamper to the resist to transfer patterns of protrusions and recesses, and partially etching the magnetic recording layer in areas not covered with patterns of the resist used as masks by ion beam etching using a mixed gas of He and N | 01-06-2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110014496 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, there is provided a method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium, including forming a first hard mask including carbon as a main component, a second hard mask including a main component other than carbon and a resist on a magnetic recording layer, contacting a stamper to the resist to transfer patterns of protrusions and recesses to the resist, removing residues in the recesses of the patterned resist, etching the second hard mask, etching the first hard mask, patterning the magnetic recording layer, and removing the first hard mask, the method further including, between etching the first hard mask and removing the first hard mask, removing the second hard mask remaining on the protrusions of the first hard mask, and removing a contaminating layer on a surface of the first hard mask by a mixed gas of oxygen-based gas and a fluorine compound. | 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 |
| 20110049089 | ULTRAVIOLET-CURABLE RESIN MATERIAL FOR PATTERN TRANSFER AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM MANUFACTURING METHOD USING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, an ultraviolet curing curable resin material for pattern transfer is provided. The resin contains isobornyl acrylate, an acrylate having a fluorene skeleton, a polyfunctional acrylate, and a polymerization initiator. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110049090 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes forming a magnetic recording layer, an etching protection layer, and an adhesion layer on a substrate, applying a resist on the adhesion layer, transferring patterns of protrusions and recesses on the resist by imprinting to form a resist pattern, patterning the adhesion layer by using the resist pattern as a mask, patterning the etching protection layer by using the resist pattern as a mask, etching the magnetic recording layer by using patterns of the adhesion layer and the etching protection layer as masks to form patterns of protrusions and recesses of the magnetic recording layer and removing the pattern of the adhesion layer, stripping the pattern of the etching protection layer, and exposing the patterns of protrusions and recesses of the magnetic recording layer to a non-ionized reducing gas. | 03-03-2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110132752 | PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MAGNETIC READ/WRITE APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an electroforming master comprises a patterns of protrusions and recesses formed on one major surface of an Si substrate having two major surfaces, corresponding to information for positioning of a read/write head (a preamble, address, and burst), recording tracks or recording bits. Impurity ions are doped in the surface of this patterns of protrusions and recesses. The impurity ion concentration distribution in the film thickness direction of the Si substrate has a peak in a portion from the patterns of protrusions and recesses surface to a depth of 40 nm in the film thickness direction. The impurity concentration of this peak is 1×10 | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110132754 | PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MAGNETIC READ/WRITE APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, patterns of protrusions and recesses includes a substrate including a conductive region on at least one major surface, and a projecting pattern layer formed on the conductive region on the major surface, and made of a microcrystalline material, a polycrystalline material, an amorphous material, or an oxide of the microcrystalline, polycrystalline, or amorphous material. | 06-09-2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110165438 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DISCRETE TRACK RECORDING MEDIUM AND DISCRETE TRACK RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a discrete track recording medium includes forming protruded magnetic patterns on a substrate, and repeating processes of depositing a nonmagnetic material so as to be filled in recesses between the magnetic patterns and etching back the nonmagnetic material two or more times with rotating the substrate in a plane thereof by an angle less than one revolution. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110222186 | MAGNETIC RECORDING DEVICE, MAGNETIC RECORDING METHOD, AND MAGNETIC STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording device based on shingled-write recording method comprises a magnetic storage medium, a recording head, and an actuator. The magnetic storage medium comprises dot rows wherein a phase shift is between adjacent rows. The recording head covers a predetermined number of dot rows of the magnetic storage medium and comprises an edge at one of the dot rows. The actuator configured to move a recording head by an amount equivalent to a dot row after recording is performed on one of the dot rows by the recording head. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110235212 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes forming on a magnetic recording layer a first hard mask, a second hard mask, a third hard mask and a resist, imprinting the resist with a stamper, removing a residue left in the recesses of the patterned resist, etching the third hard mask by use of the patterned resist as a mask, etching the second hard mask by use of the third hard mask as a mask, etching the first hard mask by use of the second hard mask as a mask, forming a pattern of the magnetic recording layer with ion beam irradiation, and removing the first hard mask by use of a remover liquid with higher reactivity to the metal material of the first hard mask than to a constituent element of the magnetic recording layer. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110242706 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a servo area of a magnetic recording medium includes magnetic dots arrayed at a period L | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110259849 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING IMPRINT MOLD AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a method for producing an imprint mold includes forming, on a substrate, a plurality of guides including a first wall surface and a second wall surface, wherein an angle between at least one of the first and second wall surfaces and an exposed substrate surface is 131° or less, applying a self-assembling material, which forms a sphere when phase-separated, to a guide groove area defined by the first wall surface, the second wall surface and the substrate surface, and self-assembling the self-assembling material to form a dot pattern, etching the substrate by using the dot pattern as a mask to transfer the dot pattern and forming an imprint mold by using the substrate with the dot pattern transferred as a master mold. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110262580 | STAMPER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a stamper manufacturing method comprises electroless plating by using a master includes a substrate, a conductive underlayer formed on the substrate and having catalytic activity, projecting patterns having no catalytic activity and partially formed on a surface of the conductive underlayer having catalytic activity, and regions in which the conductive underlayer having catalytic activity is exposed between the projecting patterns to deposite selectively an amorphous conductive layer between the projecting patterns and in the regions in which the conductive underlayer is exposed, and forming stamper projections, electroplating on the stamper projections includes the projecting patterns and the amorphous conductive layer by using the amorphous conductive layer and the conductive underlayer as electrodes to form a stamper main body made of a crystalline metal, and releasing a stamper includes the stamper projections and the stamper main body from the master. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110317306 | MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS, MAGNETIC RECORDING METHOD, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic recording medium which includes a plurality of magnetic dot rows in which there is a phase shift between adjacent dot rows, and dots are arranged in a zigzag manner in a predetermined number of dot rows which are simultaneously read. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120000885 | STAMPER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE STAMPER, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM MANUFACTURING METHOD USING THE STAMPER - According to one embodiment, a stamper manufacturing method includes forming a conductive material concentration gradient layer including the projections pattern, and a composition ratio of a buffering agent to a conductive material in the conductive material concentration gradient layer reducing in a thickness direction from a master side. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002316 | MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF TESTING MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic recording apparatus including a head slider including read and write elements, and a magnetic recording medium including magnetically recordable recording tracks with a width L | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120009439 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes forming protruded magnetic patterns on a substrate, depositing a nonmagnetic material in recesses between the magnetic patterns and on the magnetic patterns, and etching back the nonmagnetic material using an oxygen-containing etching gas while reforming a surface of the nonmagnetic material. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120019960 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, a bit patterned medium includes a substrate, and a magnetic recording layer disposed above the substrate and including patterns of protrusions. Each of the protrusions contains a plurality of crystal grains. An average distance between the crystal grains is 0.5 to 3.0 nm in each of the protrusions. The protrusions include first protrusions each having a length of 1 μm or more in a radial direction of the medium and second protrusions each having a length in the radial direction shorter than the length of the first protrusion in the radial direction. Each of the first protrusions has a nucleation field Hn for magnetization reversal and a coercive force Hc satisfying the inequalities, Hn≧1.5 kOe and 0.5 kOe≦Hc−Hn≦1.5 kOe. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120028076 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a soft magnetic layer, an underlayer, a magnetic recording layer, and a protective layer, wherein the magnetic recording layer is provided with a pattern including recording portions and non-recording portions, the non-recording portions have a composition that is equal to a composition obtained by demagnetizing the recording portions, the non-recording portions contain at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of vanadium and zirconium and at least one element selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, carbon, boron and oxygen, and the at least one element selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, carbon, boron and oxygen is contained in the non-recording portions at a higher content than the content of the at least one element selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, carbon, boron and oxygen in the recording portions. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120060073 | MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic recording apparatus configured to record data subjected to error correcting coding according to a shingled recording scheme, the magnetic recording apparatus including a magnetic recording medium in which unit bits of the data subjected to error correcting coding are recorded with phase shifted between adjacent tracks, a read head having a width covering a plurality of tracks and configured to read data from the plurality of tracks, and a recording controller configured to record the data subjected to error correcting coding and a parity for the data in the plurality of tracks covered by the read head, in a divided manner. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120063028 | MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic recording apparatus including a bit-patterned medium having a data area including magnetic dot rows each of which includes magnetic dots, a magnetic head having a width covering a plurality of magnetic dot rows, and an actuator configured to actuate the magnetic head in a cross-track direction. The magnetic dots included in a n-th magnetic dot row have a higher coercivity than the magnetic dots included in a (n+1)-th magnetic dot row. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120082800 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, there is provided a method for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium, the method including: depositing a magnetic recording layer on a substrate; forming a mask on a region of the magnetic recording layer corresponding to a recording area; irradiating another region of the magnetic recording layer where the mask is not formed with an ion beam using a C-containing gas as a source gas to deactivate the another region and to thereby form a non-recording area; and forming a protective film over an entire surface of the substrate. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120087039 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, and a magnetic recording layer formed on the substrate. The magnetic recording layer includes recording portions having patterns regularly arranged in an longitudinal direction and containing cobalt and platinum, and non recording portions formed between the recording portions and containing boron and at least one light rare earth metal selected from the group consisting of yttrium, lanthanum, and cerium. | 04-12-2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120194937 | MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD OF MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording apparatus configured to record information onto a magnetic recording medium by a shingled write recording method, the magnetic recording apparatus includes: a recording head configured to cover a plurality of dot arrays and an end portion of which is situated at one dot array of a recording target; an actuator configured to move the recording head by one array after the recording to one dot array by the recording head; and a controller configured to perform recording compensation of the magnetic dot based on prestored recording data of a peripheral dot of a magnetic dot when input user data is recorded to the magnetic dot. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120237795 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a magnetic recording layer formed on the substrate and containing a magnetic material, and a protective layer. The magnetic recording layer includes a recording portion having patterns regularly arranged in the longitudinal direction, and a non-recording portion having saturation magnetization lower than that in the recording portion. The non-recording portion contains the magnetic material, a deactivating species which makes the value of saturation magnetization smaller than that of saturation magnetization in the recording portion, and the component of the protective layer. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120237798 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium is formed by performing gas ion irradiation by using a magnetism deactivating gas on a stack including a perpendicular magnetic recording layer, an Ru nonmagnetic underlayer containing a magnetism deactivating element selected from chromium, titanium, and silicon, and a nonmagnetic substrate. Before gas ion irradiation, the perpendicular magnetic recording layer contains platinum and at least one of iron and cobalt. Gas ion irradiation is performed using nitrogen gas alone or a gas mixture of nitrogen gas and at least one gas selected from the group consisting of helium, hydrogen, and B | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120251655 | Method of Manufacturing Stamper, and Stamper - According to one embodiment, a stamper is described with a surface that comprises patterns of protrusions and recessed. The arithmetic average roughness Ra of the surface is 1 nanometer (nm) or more and 5 nm or less. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120273456 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes recording areas forming protrusions corresponding to servo signals and recording tracks and includes a crystalline magnetic layer, and non-recording areas comprising an amorphous damaged layer left in bottoms of recesses between the recording areas. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120307403 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes: a data area on which a plurality of first magnetic dots are arranged at predetermined positions to record information; a servo area on which a plurality of second magnetic dots for specifying the positions of said plurality of first magnetic dots are arranged at predetermined positions; and servo frames configured so that a frequency of said servo frames is 2 N per circumference of said medium having a radius, that said servo frames are radially discontinuous, and that said servo frame and a space-area, on which no servo frames exist, are alternately radially arranged at a cycle W. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20130004661 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A magnetic recording medium has recording regions including patterns of a magnetic material corresponding to servo signals and recording tracks, non-recording regions including an oxide of the magnetic material formed between the recording regions, and surface oxide films including an oxide of the magnetic material formed on surfaces of the recording regions. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130056441 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - A manufacturing method of a magnetic recording medium according to one embodiment includes forming a mask layer having a pattern regularly arranged in a longitudinal direction on a magnetic recording medium containing a substrate and a magnetic recording layer, forming a recording portion having a magnetic pattern and a non-recording portion by patterning the magnetic recording layer, and submitting the mask layer to a peeling liquid to peel the mask layer. The mask layer contains a lamination layer of a lift-off layer, a first hard mask, and a second hard mask. The second hard mask is formed of a material that is different from the material of the first hard disk and the material is dissolvable in the same peeling liquid as the peeling liquid that dissolves the lift-off layer. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130077459 | OPTICAL DISC AND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD - In a recording and reproducing apparatus, an optical disc is rotated in a rotating direction and an optical system focuses a laser beam on the optical disc to form a beam spot on the optical disc. The optical system is provided with a scanner which deflects the laser beam along a radial direction of the optical disc in such a manner that the beam spot follows a first scan trajectory along a first direction crossing the rotating direction and a second scan trajectory along a second direction different from the first direction. A first data track with a sequence of recording pits along the first scan trajectory is formed and arranged on the optical disc. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130122721 | ULTRAVIOLET-CURING RESIN MATERIAL FOR PATTERN TRANSFER AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM MANUFACTURING METHOD USING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, an ultraviolet-curing resin material for pattern transfer contains at least one of 2-methyl-2-adamantyl acrylate, 2-ethyl-2-adamantyl acrylate, and 1,3-adamantanedimethanol diacrylate, isobornyl acrylate, polyfunctional acrylate, and a polymerization initiator, or contains at least one of the acrylates described above, a polymerization initiator, and fluorine-based alcohol. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130258452 | LIGHT DEFLECTING ELEMENT - According to an embodiment, a light deflecting element includes a dielectric body, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode. Each of the second electrode and third electrode is configured to sandwich the dielectric body with the first electrode. The second electrode includes an electrode having a side that lies substantially orthogonal to an incident direction of a light beam, a side that is substantially parallel to the incident direction, and a side that intersects with the incident direction. The third electrode includes an electrode having a side that is aligned with the second electrode, a side that is substantially parallel to an incident direction of the light beam, and a side that intersects with the light beam, and that slopes in an opposite to that of the side of the second electrode that intersects with the light beam. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130259417 | LIGHT DEFLECTING ELEMENT - According to an embodiment, a light deflecting element includes a dielectric body, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The second electrode is configured to sandwich the dielectric body with the first electrode so as to apply a voltage to the dielectric body. The second electrode includes orthogonal portions that are substantially orthogonal to an incident direction of a light beam passing through the dielectric body, parallel portions that are substantially parallel to the incident direction of the light beam. The orthogonal portions and the parallel portions are formed in an alternate manner on the light beam incident side of the dielectric body. The second electrode includes a linear sloping portion that slopes in a direction toward intersection with the incident direction of the light beam. The orthogonal portions, the parallel portions, and the linear sloping portion are formed integrally. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130295299 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a soft magnetic layer, an underlayer, a magnetic recording layer, and a protective layer, wherein the magnetic recording layer is provided with a pattern including recording portions and non-recording portions, the non-recording portions have a composition that is equal to a composition obtained by demagnetizing the recording portions, the non-recording portions contain at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of vanadium and zirconium and at least one element selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, carbon, boron and oxygen, and the at least one element selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, carbon, boron and oxygen is contained in the non-recording portions at a higher content than the content of the at least one element selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, carbon, boron and oxygen in the recording portions. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20140004272 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM MANUFACTURING METHOD | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140153135 | MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS HAVING VARIABLE-WIDTH TRACKS AND METHOD OF TESTING SAME - According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic recording apparatus including a head slider including read and write elements, and a magnetic recording medium including magnetically recordable recording tracks with a width L1, a wide land track with a width L2 larger than the width L1 of the recording track, and non-recording sections with a width G1 each provided between adjacent recording tracks. The width L1 of the recording track is smaller than a bottom read width BRW of the read and write elements, and the width L2 of the wide land track is larger than the bottom read width BRW of the read and write elements. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140342576 | ULTRAVIOLET-CURABLE RESIN MATERIAL FOR PATTERN TRANSFER AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM MANUFACTURING METHOD USING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, an ultraviolet curing curable resin material for pattern transfer is provided. The resin contains isobornyl acrylate, an acrylate having a fluorene skeleton, a polyfunctional acrylate, and a polymerization initiator. | 11-20-2014 |
