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| 20100309580 | Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Medium Having FCC Seed Layers - According to one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes at least one soft magnetic underlayer above a substrate, a seed layer above the at least one soft magnetic underlayer, an intermediate layer above the seed layer, a magnetic recording layer above the intermediate layer, and an overcoat layer above the magnetic recording layer, wherein the seed layer includes a second seed layer above a first seed layer. In another embodiment, the seed layer is a multilayered structure of at least two cycles of a unit of layered film which includes a first seed layer and a second seed layer. The first seed layer includes a non-magnetic alloy having a Face-Centered-Cubic (FCC) structure, and the second seed layer includes a soft magnetic alloy having a FCC structure. Other structures are also disclosed, according to more embodiments. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20110002064 | PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM (PMRM) AND MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICE USING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a PMRM includes a substrate, a soft magnetic underlayer above the substrate, an underlayer above the soft magnetic underlayer, an oxide-containing magnetic layer above the underlayer, and a ferromagnetic layer above the magnetic layer having no oxides. The underlayer controls orientation and segregation of the magnetic layer. The oxide-containing magnetic layer comprises at least two or more magnetic layers, a Cr concentration of the magnetic layer adjacent to the ferromagnetic metal layer is between about 23 at. % and about 32 at. %, and a difference between the Cr concentration of the magnetic layer adjacent to the ferromagnetic metal layer and a magnetic layer having a lowest Cr concentration among the at least three magnetic layers is less than about 25 at. %, the magnetic layer with a lowest Cr concentration has a granular structure, and a nucleation field is greater than about 159.2 kA/m. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110122525 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM USING LAYERS HAVING HIGHER- AND LOWER-HK ANISOTROPIC MAGNETIC FIELDS - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes a magnetic recording layer formed above a substrate, comprising: a first magnetic layer formed from a [Co/Pt] | 05-26-2011 |
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| 20090052074 | Perpendicular magnetic recording media and magnetic storage apparatus using the same - Embodiments of the present invention provide a perpendicular magnetic recording media having excellent resolution, signal to noise ratio (S/N), and a small adjacent track erasure. According to one embodiment, underlayers for controlling the orientation and segregation of a magnetic layer, a magnetic layer including an oxide and an alloy of magnetic materials mainly composed of Co, Cr, and Pt, and a ferromagnetic-metal layer which does not contain oxygen, are formed over a substrate. The magnetic layer has at least two layers including ferromagnetic grains and oxides, a first magnetic layer, which is the part of the magnetic layer closer to the substrate, has grain boundaries mainly composed of Cr oxide and at least one oxide selected from Si, Ti, Nb, and Ta, and grain boundaries of a second magnetic layer at the ferromagnetic-metal layer side includes at least one oxide selected from Si, Ti, Nb, and Ta in which Cr oxide is less than the first magnetic layer. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090116137 | Perpendicular magnetic recording medium and magnetic storage apparatus using the same - Embodiments of the present invention provide a perpendicular magnetic recoding medium capable of decreasing exchange coupling between crystal grains while suppressing increase in the crystal grain size of the magnetic recording layer. According to one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recoding medium is formed by stacking a seed layer, an intermediate layer, a magnetic recording layer, and a protecting layer all above a substrate. The magnetic recording layer has a granular structure constituted of a plurality of columnar grains comprising a CoCrPt alloy and a grain boundary containing an oxide. The seed layer is formed by stacking a first seed layer, a second seed layer, and a third seed layer in which the first seed layer comprises Ti or Ti alloy having a hexagonal close-packed structure, the second seed layer comprises Cu, Ag, or Al having a face-centered cubic structure or an alloy containing at least one element selected therefrom, and the third seed layer comprises an Ni alloy having a face-centered cubic structure. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20100165500 | Thermal Energy Assisted Medium - In order to provide a thermal energy assisted medium capable of improving anti-sliding reliability over long periods of time in low flying head conditions, while also maintaining a high SNR, a unique medium is proposed. A soft magnetic layer is formed on a substrate, a soft magnetic layer is formed thereon via a non-magnetic intermediate layer, and an intermediate layer, a crystal oriented control intermediate layer, an artificial lattice intermediate layer having an artificial lattice film in which a first layer comprising Co and a second layer comprising Pt and Pd are laminated repeatedly to form a recording layer, and a cap layer and an lubricating layer are formed. The concentration of Pd comprising the second layer is from about 20 atomic % to about 40 atomic %. Other mediums and systems are also described. | 07-01-2010 |
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| 20080206538 | Automotive exterior resin part - An automotive exterior resin part which is a molded article made of a long glass fiber reinforced polycarbonate resin/styrene-based resin, has been molded by injection molding, has a projected area of 200 cm | 08-28-2008 |
| 20090005487 | Composite material composition and molded article thereof - A composite material composition comprising 50 to 95% by weight of a micro body of an inorganic compound such as calcium carbonate, 0.1 to 30% by weight of a maleic anhydride-modified ethylene-butene copolymer rubber, and 1 to 48% by weight of a polypropylene resin. In addition, a molded article formed by molding the composite material composition. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090268965 | SHAPE EVALUATION METHOD, SHAPE EVALUATION DEVICE, AND 3D INSPECTION DEVICE - To appropriately evaluate a surface shape of an object to be inspected regardless of the relative positions of a light source and an image-taking device with respect to the object. When evaluating a surface shape, it includes a shape recognition step for recognizing the surface shape of the object to be evaluated, a representative point extraction step for extracting a representing point from the recognized surface shape of the object to be evaluated, a shape specifying step for specifying a shape for a predefined area around the extracted representing point, a vector defining step for defining a light source direction vector with respect to each of the representing points, a representing point select step for selecting, from among all of the representing points, only representing points for which imaginary reflection vectors corresponding to the light source direction vectors are contained within a predefined range from an imaginarily defined direction, and a highlight line creation step for creating a highlight line that is imaginarily generated on the surface of the object to be evaluated based on the highlight point group, i.e., a group of all of the selected representing points, wherein an evaluation of the surface shape of the object to be evaluated is performed based on the created highlight line. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20100113672 | Fire retardant material and molded body - An object is to provide a fire retardant material capable of being molded by an injection molding machine and free from deterioration of the physical properties and a molded body formed of the fire retardant material. A fire retardant includes a degraded polypropylene resin obtained by melt kneading a polypropylene resin and an organic peroxide, wherein a weight average molecular weight of the degraded polypropylene is from 50,000 to 200,000; and an inorganic filler, wherein a mass ratio of the polypropylene to the inorganic filler is from 95/5 to 10/90. | 05-06-2010 |
