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: 11423933
    Abstract: The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder, in which one or more kinds of component selected from the group consisting of a fatty acid and a fatty acid amide are included in a portion of the magnetic layer side on the non-magnetic support, and a C—H derived C concentration calculated from a C—H peak surface area ratio in C1s spectra obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis performed on a surface of the magnetic layer at a photoelectron take-off angle of 10 degrees, after pressing the magnetic layer at a pressure of 70 atm is 45 atom % or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Megumi Nakano, Eiki Ozawa, Norihito Kasada
  • Patent number: 11417358
    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: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Norihito Kasada, Eiki Ozawa, Atsushi Musha
  • Patent number: 11417359
    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 greater than 5.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki Ozawa, Norihito Kasada
  • Patent number: 11386926
    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: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Norihito Kasada, Eiki Ozawa, Atsushi Musha
  • Patent number: 11380357
    Abstract: The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support and a magnetic layer, in which 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 in which a difference between a spacing Safter measured on a surface of the magnetic layer by an optical interferometry after ethanol cleaning and a spacing Sbefore measured on the surface of the magnetic layer by an optical interferometry before ethanol cleaning is greater than 0 nm and 6.0 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki Ozawa, Norihito Kasada, Atsushi Musha
  • Patent number: 11373674
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a generation unit that generates a hierarchy of a group that classifies each piece of data from information about each of a plurality of pieces of data to be recorded, and a control unit that controls recording of the plurality of pieces of data included in a group of the hierarchy at a highest level on a magnetic recording medium in a recording order according to an order from an upper hierarchy to a lower hierarchy, for each group of the hierarchy at the highest level. 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: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiki Ozawa, Michitaka Kondo, Kentaro Miyamoto, Naoki Sano
  • Patent number: 11367460
    Abstract: The magnetic recording medium including: a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on the non-magnetic support, in which a center line average surface roughness Ra measured regarding a surface of the magnetic layer is 1.0 nm to 1.6 nm, and a difference (Safter?Sbefore) between a spacing Safter measured by optical interferometry regarding the surface of the magnetic layer after methyl ethyl ketone cleaning and a spacing Sbefore measured by optical interferometry regarding the surface of the magnetic layer before methyl ethyl ketone cleaning is greater than 0 nm and equal to or smaller than 15.0 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki Ozawa, Takuto Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 11355142
    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: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki Ozawa, Norihito Kasada, Atsushi Musha
  • Patent number: 11355146
    Abstract: The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support and a magnetic layer, in which 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 in which a difference between a spacing Safter measured on a surface of the magnetic layer by an optical interferometry after ethanol cleaning and a spacing Sbefore measured on the surface of the magnetic layer by an optical interferometry before ethanol cleaning is greater than 0 nm and 6.0 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki Ozawa, Norihito Kasada, Atsushi Musha
  • Patent number: 11302357
    Abstract: The magnetic recording medium includes: a non-magnetic support; a magnetic layer that includes ferromagnetic powder on one surface side of the non-magnetic support; and a back coating layer that includes non-magnetic powder on the other surface side of the non-magnetic support, in which a difference between a spacing measured on a surface of the back coating layer by optical interferometry under a pressure of 0.5 atm after n-hexane cleaning and a spacing measured on the surface of the back coating layer by optical interferometry under a pressure of 13.5 atm after n-hexane cleaning is 12 nm or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Sano, Takuto Kurokawa, Eiki Ozawa, Norihito Kasada, Megumi Nakano
  • Patent number: 11270728
    Abstract: The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support; a magnetic layer that includes ferromagnetic powder on one surface side of the non-magnetic support; and a back coating layer that includes non-magnetic powder on the other surface side of the non-magnetic support, in which a difference between a spacing measured on a surface of the back coating layer by optical interferometry under a pressure of 0.5 atm after n-hexane cleaning and a spacing measured on the surface of the back coating layer by optical interferometry under a pressure of 13.5 atm after n-hexane cleaning is 3 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takuto Kurokawa, Naoki Sano, Norihito Kasada, Eiki Ozawa, Megumi Nakano
  • Patent number: 11270725
    Abstract: The magnetic recording medium includes: a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder, in which a difference (S0.5?S13.5) between a spacing S0.5 measured on a surface of the magnetic layer by optical interferometry after n-hexane cleaning under a pressure of 0.5 atm and a spacing S13.5 measured on the surface of the magnetic layer by optical interferometry after n-hexane cleaning under a pressure of 13.5 atm is 9.0 nm or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Sano, Eiki Ozawa, Norihito Kasada, Takuto Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 11211087
    Abstract: The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support; a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on one surface of the non-magnetic support; and a back coating layer including a non-magnetic powder and a binding agent on the other surface of the non-magnetic support, in which a center line average surface roughness Ra measured regarding a surface of the back coating layer is equal to or smaller than 7.0 nm, and a difference between a spacing Safter measured by optical interferometry regarding the surface of the back coating layer after methyl ethyl ketone cleaning and a spacing Sbefore measured by optical interferometry regarding the surface of the back coating layer before methyl ethyl ketone cleaning is greater than 0 nm and equal to or smaller than 30.0 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki Ozawa, Takuto Kurokawa
  • Publication number: 20210383826
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a generation unit that generates a hierarchy of a group that classifies each piece of data from information about each of a plurality of pieces of data to be recorded, and a control unit that controls recording of the plurality of pieces of data included in a group of the hierarchy at a highest level on a magnetic recording medium in a recording order according to an order from an upper hierarchy to a lower hierarchy, for each group of the hierarchy at the highest level. 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: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Eiki OZAWA, Michitaka KONDO, Kentaro MIYAMOTO, Naoki SANO
  • Publication number: 20210375311
    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: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki Ozawa, Norihito Kasada, Atsushi Musha
  • Patent number: 11189311
    Abstract: The magnetic tape in which the followings are satisfied, after the magnetic layer is pressed at a pressure of 70 atm. A full width at half maximum of a spacing distribution measured by optical interferometry regarding a surface of the magnetic layer before performing a vacuum heating with respect to the magnetic tape is greater than 0 nm and equal to or smaller than 15.0 nm; a full width at half maximum of a spacing distribution measured after performing the vacuum heating is greater than 0 nm and equal to or smaller than 15.0 nm; and a difference (Safter?Sbefore) between a spacing Safter measured by optical interferometry regarding the surface of the magnetic layer after performing the vacuum heating with respect to the magnetic tape and a spacing Sbefore measured before performing the vacuum heating is greater than 0 nm and equal to or smaller than 12.0 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki Ozawa, Norihito Kasada
  • Publication number: 20210366509
    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: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Eiki OZAWA, Michitaka KONDO, Kentaro MIYAMOTO, Naoki SANO
  • Publication number: 20210295865
    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: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Norihito KASADA, Eiki OZAWA, Atsushi MUSHA
  • Patent number: 11127428
    Abstract: The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support and a magnetic layer, in which 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 in which a difference between a spacing Safter measured on a surface of the magnetic layer by an optical interferometry after ethanol cleaning and a spacing Sbefore measured on the surface of the magnetic layer by an optical interferometry before ethanol cleaning is greater than 0 nm and 6.0 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki Ozawa, Norihito Kasada, Atsushi Musha
  • Publication number: 20210287705
    Abstract: The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder in which the ferromagnetic powder is ?-iron oxide powder, and an anisotropic magnetic field Hk of the magnetic recording medium measured after pressing the magnetic layer at a pressure of 70 atm is 15,000 Oe to 40,000 Oe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Norihito KASADA, Eiki OZAWA, Takashi FUJIMOTO