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).

  • Publication number: 20210287707
    Abstract: The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder in which the ferromagnetic powder is c-iron oxide powder, and a coercivity of a magnetic recording medium in a vertical direction measured after pressing the magnetic layer at a pressure of 70 atm is 3,000 Oe to 10,000 Oe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Norihito KASADA, Eiki OZAWA, Takashi FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210287706
    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 a coefficient of friction measured on a base part of a surface of the magnetic layer after pressing the magnetic layer at a pressure of 90 atm is 0.35 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Megumi Nakano, Eiki Ozawa, Norihito Kasada
  • Publication number: 20210287709
    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 more than 5.00% and 15.00% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi FUJIMOTO, Norihito KASADA, Eiki OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20210287704
    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 an anisotropic magnetic field Hk in a longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape is 2.0% or more and 10.0% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki Ozawa, Norihito Kasada, Takashi Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20210287702
    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: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki OZAWA, Norihito KASADA, Atsushi MUSHA
  • Publication number: 20210287711
    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: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi FUJIMOTO, Norihito KASADA, Eiki OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20210287708
    Abstract: The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder in which the ferromagnetic powder is an ?-iron oxide powder, and a vertical squareness ratio of the magnetic recording medium measured after pressing the magnetic layer at a pressure of 70 atm is 0.50 to 0.95.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki OZAWA, Norihito KASADA, Takashi FUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210287703
    Abstract: The magnetic recording medium includes: a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder, in which the ferromagnetic powder is an ?-iron oxide powder, and a transition temperature Tc of the magnetic recording medium measured after pressing the magnetic layer at a pressure of 70 atm is 80° C. to 240° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki OZAWA, Norihito Kasada, Takashi Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20210287710
    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 aspect ratio of the ?-iron oxide powder in a longitudinal direction of the magnetic layer is 0.20% or more and 8.00% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Fujimoto, Norihito Kasada, Eiki Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20210287713
    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 a vertical magnetization amount ?m per unit area of the magnetic recording medium measured after pressing the magnetic layer at a pressure of 70 atm is 8.0 G·?m to 80.0 G·?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Norihito KASADA, Eiki Ozawa, Takashi Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20210249043
    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: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Norihito Kasada, Eiki Ozawa, Atsushi Musha
  • Patent number: 11087787
    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: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Norihito Kasada, Eiki Ozawa, Atsushi Musha
  • Patent number: 11062732
    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: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki Ozawa, Takuto Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 11056141
    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: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Norihito Kasada, Eiki Ozawa, Atsushi Musha
  • Patent number: 10978105
    Abstract: Provided are a magnetic recording medium, in which a magnetic layer includes a ferromagnetic hexagonal ferrite powder, a binding agent, and an oxide abrasive, an intensity ratio Int(110)/Int(114) obtained by an X-ray diffraction analysis of the magnetic layer by using an In-Plane method is 0.5 to 4.0, a vertical squareness ratio of the magnetic recording medium is 0.65 to 1.00, a contact angle with respect to 1-bromonaphthalene measured regarding a surface of the magnetic layer is 50.0° to 55.0°, and an average particle diameter of the oxide abrasive obtained from a secondary ion image obtained by irradiating the surface of the magnetic layer with a focused ion beam is 0.04 ?m to 0.08 ?m, and a magnetic recording and reproducing device including this magnetic recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki Ozawa, Norihito Kasada
  • Publication number: 20210090599
    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: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Megumi NAKANO, Eiki OZAWA, Norihito KASADA
  • Publication number: 20210090600
    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: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takuto KUROKAWA, Naoki SANO, Norihito KASADA, Eiki OZAWA, Megumi NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20210090602
    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: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki SANO, Takuto KUROKAWA, Eiki OZAWA, Norihito KASADA, Megumi NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20210082463
    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: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki OZAWA, Norihito KASADA
  • Publication number: 20210082464
    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: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Eiki OZAWA, Norihito KASADA