Patents by Inventor Eiki OZAWA

Eiki OZAWA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11894032
    Abstract: Provided are: a magnetic recording medium including a non-magnetic support and a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder, in which the ferromagnetic powder is an ?-iron oxide powder, a vertical switching field distribution SFD of the magnetic recording medium is 0.20 or more and 3.00 or less at a measurement temperature of 25° C., and an inclination of SFD obtained from SFD at a measurement temperature of 10° C., SFD at a measurement temperature of 25° C., and SFD at a measurement temperature of 40° C. is 0.003° C.?1 or more and 0.080° C.?1 or less; a magnetic tape cartridge including the magnetic recording medium which is a magnetic tape; and a magnetic recording and reproducing device including the magnetic recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki Ozawa, Takashi Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20230402060
    Abstract: Provided are a magnetic recording medium including a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder. The ferromagnetic powder is an ?-iron oxide powder, and an intensity ratio (Int1/Int2) of diffraction intensities obtained by an X-ray diffraction analysis of the magnetic layer using an In-Plane method after the magnetic layer is pressed at a pressure of 70 atm is 1.0 or more and 6.5 or less, a magnetic tape cartridge and a magnetic recording and reproducing device each including the magnetic recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki OZAWA, Takashi Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 11842756
    Abstract: Provided are: a magnetic recording medium including a non-magnetic support and a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder, in which the ferromagnetic powder is an ?-iron oxide powder, a vertical magnetization amount ?m per unit area of the magnetic recording medium is 5 G·?m or more and 100 G·?m or less at a measurement temperature of 25° C., and an inclination of ?m obtained from ?m at a measurement temperature of 10° C., ?m at a measurement temperature of 25° C., and ?m at a measurement temperature of 40° C. is ?0.20 G·?m/° C. or more and ?0.03 G·?m/° C. or less; a magnetic tape cartridge including the magnetic recording medium which is a magnetic tape; and a magnetic recording and reproducing device including the magnetic recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Fujimoto, Eiki Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20230386515
    Abstract: Provided are a magnetic recording medium including a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder. The ferromagnetic powder is an ?-iron oxide powder, and an intensity ratio (Int1/Int2) of diffraction intensities obtained by an X-ray diffraction analysis of the magnetic layer using an In-Plane method is 1.0 or more and 6.5 or less; and a magnetic tape cartridge and a magnetic recording and reproducing device each including the magnetic recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi FUJIMOTO, Eiki Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20230290376
    Abstract: The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder. A magnetic tape cartridge and a magnetic recording and reproducing device include the magnetic recording medium. The ferromagnetic powder is an ?-iron oxide powder, and a ferromagnetic powder filling rate of a magnetic layer surface obtained by observing a surface of the magnetic layer with a scanning electron microscope is 0.40 or more and 0.60 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi FUJIMOTO, Eiki OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230290375
    Abstract: The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder. A magnetic tape cartridge and a magnetic recording and reproducing device include the magnetic recording medium. The ferromagnetic powder is an ?-iron oxide powder, and a ferromagnetic powder filling rate of a magnetic layer cross section obtained by observing a cross section of the magnetic layer with a scanning electron microscope is 0.60 or more and 0.80 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki OZAWA, Takashi FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230260544
    Abstract: Provided are: a magnetic recording medium including a non-magnetic support and a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder, in which the ferromagnetic powder is an ?-iron oxide powder, a vertical magnetization amount ?m per unit area of the magnetic recording medium is 5 G·?m or more and 100 G·?m or less at a measurement temperature of 25° C., and an inclination of ?m obtained from ?m at a measurement temperature of 10° C., ?m at a measurement temperature of 25° C., and ?m at a measurement temperature of 40° C. is ?0.20 G·?m/° C. or more and ?0.03 G·?m/° C. or less; a magnetic tape cartridge including the magnetic recording medium which is a magnetic tape; and a magnetic recording and reproducing device including the magnetic recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi FUJIMOTO, Eiki Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20230260543
    Abstract: Provided are: a magnetic recording medium including a non-magnetic support and a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder, in which the ferromagnetic powder is an ?-iron oxide powder, a vertical squareness ratio SQ of the magnetic recording medium is 0.50 or more and 0.95 or less at a measurement temperature of 25° C., and an inclination of SQ obtained from SQ at a measurement temperature of 10° C., SQ at a measurement temperature of 25° C., and SQ at a measurement temperature of 40° C. is ?0.0050° C.?1 or more and ?0.0003° C.?1 or less; a magnetic tape cartridge including the magnetic recording medium which is a magnetic tape; and a magnetic recording and reproducing device including the magnetic recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi FUJIMOTO, Eiki OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230238026
    Abstract: Provided are: a magnetic recording medium including a non-magnetic support and a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder, in which the ferromagnetic powder is an ?-iron oxide powder, H0.2 of the magnetic recording medium is 5,000 Oe or more and 40,000 Oe or less at a measurement temperature of 25° C., and an inclination of H0.2 obtained from H0.2 at a measurement temperature of 10° C., H0.2 at a measurement temperature of 25° C., and H0.2 at a measurement temperature of 40° C. is ?100 Oe/° C. or more and ?5 Oe/° C. or less; a magnetic tape cartridge including the magnetic recording medium which is a magnetic tape; and a magnetic recording and reproducing device including the magnetic recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki Ozawa, Takashi Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20230238025
    Abstract: Provided are: a magnetic recording medium including a non-magnetic support and a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder, in which the ferromagnetic powder is an ?-iron oxide powder, a vertical switching field distribution SFD of the magnetic recording medium is 0.20 or more and 3.00 or less at a measurement temperature of 25° C., and an inclination of SFD obtained from SFD at a measurement temperature of 10° C., SFD at a measurement temperature of 25° C., and SFD at a measurement temperature of 40° C. is 0.003° C.-1 or more and 0.080° C.-1 or less; a magnetic tape cartridge including the magnetic recording medium which is a magnetic tape; and a magnetic recording and reproducing device including the magnetic recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki OZAWA, Takashi FUJIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11670333
    Abstract: The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support and a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder, in which the ferromagnetic powder is ?-iron oxide powder, and a coefficient of variation of particle size of the ?-iron oxide powder in a longitudinal direction of the magnetic layer is 0.50% or more and 5.00% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Fujimoto, Norihito Kasada, Eiki Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20230108104
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium including a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder. The ferromagnetic powder is an ?-iron oxide powder, a ratio (Hr (90°)/Hr (0°)) of Hr (90°) to Hr (0°) is 0.50 or less, the Hr (0°) is a residual coercive force obtained by applying a pulse magnetic field having a pulse width of 0.76 ms in an in-plane direction of the magnetic recording medium, and the Hr (90°) is a residual coercive force obtained by making a pulse magnetic field having a pulse width of 0.76 ms be incident from a vertical direction of the magnetic recording medium and applying the pulse magnetic field to the magnetic recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki OZAWA, Takashi FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230096425
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a piezoelectric element capable of improving the sound pressure particularly in a high frequency band by decreasing the impedance in a case of being used as an electroacoustic transducer or the like, and a piezoelectric speaker formed of a piezoelectric film. The object can be achieved by using a piezoelectric film in which a piezoelectric layer containing piezoelectric particles in a polymer matrix is sandwiched between electrode layers, a planar shape is a polygon, the piezoelectric film has a protruding portion protruding from a side of a polygon other that a shortest side, and the protruding portion is provided with connecting portions for connecting an external power supply and an electrode layer or identical connecting portions are provided in the vicinity of end portions on a side other than the shortest side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naohiro OHARA, Eiki OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230100028
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium including a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder. The ferromagnetic powder is an ?-iron oxide powder, and a ratio of Hr (45°) to Hr (0°)(Hr (45°)/Hr (0°)) is 0.50 or less. The Hr (0°) is a residual coercive force Hr obtained by applying a pulse magnetic field having a pulse width of 0.76 ms in an in-plane direction of the magnetic recording medium, and the Hr (45°) is a residual coercive force Hr obtained by setting an angle of the magnetic recording medium in the in-plane direction to 0°, setting an angle of the magnetic recording medium in a vertical direction to 90°, and making a pulse magnetic field having a pulse width of 0.76 ms be incident from a direction inclined by 45° toward the vertical direction from the in-plane direction and applying the pulse magnetic field to the magnetic recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi FUJIMOTO, Eiki OZAWA
  • Patent number: 11514940
    Abstract: The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on the non-magnetic support, in which a difference (S0.5?S13.5) between a spacing S0.5 measured by optical interferometry regarding a surface of the magnetic layer under a pressing force of 0.5 atm after n-hexane cleaning and a spacing S13.5 measured by optical interferometry regarding the surface of the magnetic layer under a pressing force of 13.5 atm after n-hexane cleaning is equal to or smaller than 3.0 nm, and a magnetic recording and reproducing device including this magnetic recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Sano, Takuto Kurokawa, Norihito Kasada, Eiki Ozawa
  • Patent number: 11495247
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a recording unit that records a plurality of objects including data and metadata related to the data on a magnetic recording medium, and executes, after recording at least one of the objects, processing of recording first set data which is a set of the metadata included in the object. The first set data is the set of the metadata included in the object recorded after recording the first set data that is recorded immediately before. The magnetic recording medium has a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on a non-magnetic support. A difference between spacings S0.5 and S13.5 measured under pressures of 0.5 atm and 13.5 atm by an optical interference method after n-hexane cleaning on a surface of the magnetic layer is equal to or less than 3.0 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiki Ozawa, Michitaka Kondo, Kentaro Miyamoto, Naoki Sano
  • Patent number: 11437065
    Abstract: The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder, in which an isoelectric point of a surface zeta potential of the magnetic layer after pressing the magnetic layer at a pressure of 70 atm is equal to or less than 3.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki Ozawa, Norihito Kasada
  • Patent number: 11437063
    Abstract: The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer, in which the magnetic layer has a timing-based servo pattern, an edge shape of the timing-based servo pattern, specified by magnetic force microscopy is a shape in which a difference L99.9?L0.1 between a value L99.9 of a cumulative distribution function of 99.9% and a value L0.1 of a cumulative distribution function of 0.1% in a position deviation width from an ideal shape of the magnetic tape in a longitudinal direction is 180 nm or less, and an absolute value ?N of a difference between a refractive index Nxy of the magnetic layer, measured in an in-plane direction and a refractive index Nz of the magnetic layer, measured in a thickness direction is 0.25 or more and 0.40 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Norihito Kasada, Eiki Ozawa, Atsushi Musha
  • Patent number: 11430476
    Abstract: The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support and a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent, in which the magnetic layer has a timing-based servo pattern, an edge shape of the timing-based servo pattern, specified by magnetic force microscopy is a shape in which a difference (L99.9?L0.1) between a value L99.9 of a cumulative distribution function of 99.9% and a value L0.1 of a cumulative distribution function of 0.1% in a position deviation width from an ideal shape of the magnetic tape in a longitudinal direction is 180 nm or less, and an isoelectric point of a surface zeta potential of the magnetic layer is 3.8 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Norihito Kasada, Eiki Ozawa, Atsushi Musha
  • Patent number: 11423932
    Abstract: The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer in which the magnetic layer has a timing-based servo pattern, an edge shape of the timing-based servo pattern, specified by magnetic force microscopy is a shape in which a difference between a value L99.9 of a cumulative distribution function of 99.9% and a value L0.1 of a cumulative distribution function of 0.1% in a position deviation width from an ideal shape of the magnetic tape in a longitudinal direction is 180 nm or less, and a difference between a spacing Safter measured on a surface of the magnetic layer by an optical interferometry after methyl-ethyl-ketone cleaning and a spacing Sbefore measured on the surface of the magnetic layer by an optical interferometry before methyl-ethyl-ketone cleaning is greater than 0 nm and 15.0 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki Ozawa, Norihito Kasada, Atsushi Musha