Patents Examined by Linda N. Chau
  • Patent number: 12110470
    Abstract: Provided are a magnetic disk and, in particular, a compound which makes it possible to realize a lubricant having excellent heat resistance and solubility in a fluorine-based solvent. A perfluoropolyether compound in accordance with an aspect of the present invention has, in hydrocarbon groups at both terminals thereof, five or six hydroxyl groups in total.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Moresco Corporation
    Inventors: Tomomi Hatta, Tsuyoshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12087341
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, an underlayer formed on the substrate, and a magnetic layer formed on the underlayer. The magnetic layer includes an alloy having a L10 structure. The underlayer includes a first underlayer and a second underlayer. The first underlayer includes Mo and Ru, the content of Ru in the first underlayer is in a range of 5 atom % to 30 atom %, and the second underlayer includes a material having a body-centered cubic (BCC) structure. The second underlayer is formed between the first underlayer and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: RESONAC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chen Xu, Lei Zhang, Takayuki Fukushima, Hisato Shibata, Takehiro Yamaguchi, Kazuya Niwa, Tomoo Shige, Hiroaki Nemoto, Yuji Umemoto, Hiroshi Koyanagi
  • Patent number: 12087340
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium is a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium that has a recording layer including an ?-iron oxide particle. An area ratio Rlow (=(Slow/Stotal)×100) of a total area Stotal of an SFD curve of the recording layer in a perpendicular direction and an area Slow of the SFD curve in which a coercivity Hc is in a range from ?500 [Oe]?Hc?500 [Oe] is equal to or less than 5.5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Natsuki Ichise, Minoru Yamaga, Katsunori Maeshima, Masaru Terakawa, Takeshi Takahashi, Tomoe Sato, Takashi Kataguchi
  • Patent number: 12073861
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium is a magnetic recording medium in the form of a tape and includes a substrate, a foundation layer provided on the substrate, and a magnetic layer provided on the foundation layer and containing a magnetic powder. The foundation layer and the magnetic layer each contain a lubricant. A squareness ratio of the magnetic layer in a perpendicular direction is equal to or higher than 65%, an average thickness of the magnetic recording medium is equal to or smaller than 5.6 ?m, a plurality of recessed portions each having a depth corresponding to 20% or higher of the average thickness of the magnetic layer is provided on a surface of the magnetic layer, and the number of the recessed portions per unit area of 1,600 ?m2 of the surface of the magnetic layer is equal to or greater than 20 and equal to or smaller than 200, and an amount of exudation of the lubricant per unit region of 12.5 ?m×9.3 ?m on the surface of the magnetic layer in a vacuum is equal to or greater than 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Yamaga, Futoshi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12057150
    Abstract: The magnetic tape has one or more of each of an area A and an area B having different center line average surface roughness Ra measured on a surface of a magnetic layer in a region over a part of the magnetic tape in a longitudinal direction, with a ratio BMag/AMag of 1.20 to 10.00 and a ratio BMag/BBack of equal to or greater than 2.0 in a case where extraction amounts per unit area of a component selected from the group consisting of fatty acid, fatty acid ester, and fatty acid amide extracted from a magnetic layer side of the area A and the area B are defined as AMag and BMag respectively, and an extraction amount per unit area of the above component extracted from a back coating layer side of the area B is defined as BBack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 12057152
    Abstract: The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder. An anisotropic magnetic field Hk is 12 kOe or more, a center line average roughness Ra of the surface of the magnetic recording medium on the magnetic layer side is 1.2 nm or less, and a ratio ?r of a contact angle ?2 with respect to 1-bromonaphthalene, measured on a surface on the magnetic layer side after a 1,1,1,2,2,3,4,5,5,5-decafluoropentane immersion, to a contact angle ?1 with respect to 1-bromonaphthalene, measured on the surface on the magnetic layer side before the 1,1,1,2,2,3,4,5,5,5-decafluoropentane immersion is 0.95 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Noriko Oyanagi, Wataru Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 12051454
    Abstract: The magnetic recording medium has an arithmetic average roughness Ra of a surface of a magnetic layer is 2.2 nm or less, a fluorine concentration A obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy performed on a surface of the magnetic layer at a photoelectron take-off angle of 10 degrees being 5 atom % or more and 50 atom % or less, and B, which is calculated by Equation 1 from an integrated intensity Ftotal of fragments derived from a fluorine-containing compound obtained for an entire region in a thickness direction of a cross section of the magnetic layer by line profile analysis of TOF-SIMS and an integrated intensity Fupper of fragments derived from a fluorine compound obtained for a region from the surface of the magnetic layer to an intermediate thickness in the thickness direction of the cross section, being 60% or more and 95% or less, Equation 1:B=(Fupper/Ftotal)×100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Morooka
  • Patent number: 11990271
    Abstract: A soft magnetic ribbon for a magnetic core segmented into small pieces includes: an inductance priority region having a first average crack interval; and an eddy current suppression priority region having a second average crack interval, in which the first and second average crack intervals are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Nakahata, Mitsuhiro Matsuhashi
  • Patent number: 11978577
    Abstract: An inductor includes a coil having a winding portion, and a pair of lead-out portions extended from the winding portion; a body containing the coil and including a magnetic portion, the magnetic portion including metallic particles and a first resin; and a pair of outer electrodes on a surface of the body. The body has a metallic-particle exposed region on its surface. Each outer electrode includes a conductive resin layer, and a first plating layer on the conductive resin layer. The conductive resin layer is disposed on at least the metallic-particle exposed region. The first plating layer includes a first covering region covering the conductive resin layer, and a first extending region continuous to the first covering region and extending to at least the metallic-particle exposed region. The first plating layer is connected with at least a portion of the metallic particles on the metallic-particle exposed region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitake Noumi, Kenta Nohara
  • Patent number: 11972784
    Abstract: The magnetic tape cartridge group includes a plurality of magnetic tape cartridges. Regarding 100 reels of magnetic tape cartridges, in a case where a maximum value of an absolute value of a difference between a servo band spacing obtained before predetermined storage and a servo band spacing obtained after the predetermined storage is defined as A, an arithmetic mean of medium lives calculated by a linear function derived from a value of A obtained for different N and a value of the logarithm of total storage time T of the storage of N cycles is 3 years or longer and 3? is 1 year or shorter. Medium life: T in a case where A satisfies A=1.5?B. B: a value calculated by multiplying a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of servo band spacings obtained in each of the five environments by ½.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Norihito Kasada, Yusuke Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11959196
    Abstract: A fiber is made with a polybenzimidazole (PBI) polymer with a phosphoric acid pick-up (APU) in the range of 1-25% (PBI-p fiber). The PBI-p fiber may have a LOI ?50% and/or an initial thermal decomposition temperature in air of ?555° C. A method of making a phosphonated polybenzimidazole fiber comprises the steps of: spinning an untreated PBI resin into a PBI fiber; treating the PBI fiber with phosphoric acid, and thereby obtaining a PBI fiber with 1-25 wt. % phosphoric acid APU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: PBI Performance Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian P. Shiels, Gregory S. Copeland, Feng Qin
  • Patent number: 11948726
    Abstract: An inductor component comprising a main body part including a magnetic layer containing a resin and a metal magnetic powder contained in the resin; an inductor wiring disposed in the main body part; an external terminal exposed from the main body part; and a lead-out wiring electrically connecting the inductor wiring and the external terminal. Also, an outer surface of the external terminal includes a concave part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Yoshioka, Shinji Otani, Hiroki Imaeda
  • Patent number: 11926788
    Abstract: Compositions for foamed treatment fluids are disclosed. The foamed treatment fluid may comprise a cement, a viscosifying agent, a thixotropic additive, a foaming surfactant, a gas, and water. The foaming surfactant may comprise a polyethylene glycol alkyl ether (C5-C10), sulfate ammonium salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendon Chia Han Tan, Samuel Jason Lewis, Thomas Jason Pisklak, Paul Joseph Jones
  • Patent number: 11913140
    Abstract: A fiber is made with a polybenzimidazole (PBI) polymer with a phosphoric acid pick-up (APU) in the range of 1-25% (PBI-p fiber). The PBI-p fiber may have a LOI?50% and/or an initial thermal decomposition temperature in air of ?555° C. A method of making a phosphonated polybenzimidazole fiber comprises the steps of: spinning an untreated PBI resin into a PBI fiber; treating the PBI fiber with phosphoric acid, and thereby obtaining a PBI fiber with 1-25 wt. % phosphoric acid APU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: PBI Performance Products
    Inventors: Brian P. Shiels, Gregory S. Copeland, Feng Qin
  • Patent number: 11891340
    Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates dielectric materials, and more particularly to a combination of co-fireable dielectric materials that can be attached to each other without the use of adhesives. In an aspect, a composite article comprises a magnetic portion comprising a nickel zinc ferrite. The composite article additionally comprises a non-magnetic portion contacting the magnetic portion, the non-magnetic portion comprising a spinel-structured oxide comprising Mg2-xAl2xTi1-xO4 and having a dielectric constant between about 7 and 14, wherein 0<x?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael David Hill, David Bowie Cruickshank, David Martin Firor, Iain Alexander Macfarlane, Jeffrey Alan Shunkwiler, John Jianzhong Jiang
  • Patent number: 11894168
    Abstract: A soft magnetic powder has a composition represented by Fe100-a-b-c-d-e-f-g-hCuaSibBcMdM?eXfAlgTih (at %) (wherein M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nb and the like, M? is at least one element selected from the group consisting of V and the like, X is at least one element selected from the group consisting of C and the like, and a, b, c, d, e, f, g, and h satisfy the following formulae: 0.1?a?3, 0<b?30, 0<c?25, 5?b+c?30, 0.1?d?30, 0?e?10, 0?f?10, 0.002?g?0.032, and 0?h?0.038), wherein a crystalline structure having a particle diameter of 1 to 30 nm is contained in an amount of 40 vol % or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventors: Yasuko Kudo, Mayu Watanabe, Hiroyoshi Otaka
  • Patent number: 11869691
    Abstract: A powder magnetic core includes a compact including soft magnetic powder, and an insulating-resin coating that covers a portion of a surface of the compact. A ratio of an area of the insulating-resin coating to a surface area of the compact is lower than or equal to 85%, and a maximum depth of unevenness on a surface of the insulating-resin coating is smaller than or equal to 20 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Saito, Asako Watanabe, Tomoyuki Ueno
  • Patent number: 11749305
    Abstract: To provide a magnetic recording medium that has excellent traveling stability in spite of having a thin total thickness and a thin thickness of an underlayer, and is suitable for use in a recording/reproducing device for adjusting the width of the magnetic recording medium by adjusting a tension of the magnetic recording medium in a longitudinal direction thereof. The present technology provides a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium including: a magnetic layer; an underlayer; a base layer; and a back layer, in which the underlayer has a thickness of 0.5 ?m or more and 0.9 ?m or less, the magnetic recording medium has an average thickness tT of 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Yamaga, Kazuya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11746442
    Abstract: Multifilament yarn containing n filaments are provided, wherein the filaments are obtained by spinning an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE), said yarn having a tenacity (Ten) as expressed in cN/dtex of Ten(cN/dtex)=f×n?0.05×dpf?0.15, wherein Ten is at least 39 cN/dtex, n is at least 25, f is a factor of at least 58 and dpf is the dtex per filament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: AVIENT PROTECTIVE MATERIALS B.V.
    Inventors: Jacobus Johannes Mencke, Johannes Hendrikus Marie Heijnen, Harm Van Der Werff
  • Patent number: 11746250
    Abstract: A durable coating which reduces ice adhesion and minimizes ice accumulation includes a polymeric binder and a film forming lubricant. The polymeric binder is selected from a fluoropolymer or silicone polymer having one or more reactive groups. The film forming lubricant is a lubricous fluoropolymer or silicone polymer. Methods of applying a durable coating are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL CABLE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sathish Kumar Ranganathan, Srinivas Siripurapu, Vijay Mhetar, Jeffrey P. Youngblood, John Howarter