Patents by Inventor Katsuaki TO
Katsuaki TO 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).
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Publication number: 20220228272Abstract: A method for producing fluorine gas including electrolyzing an electrolyte in an electrolytic cell, measuring the current efficiency of fluorine gas production in the electrolyzing, and sending a fluid generated in the inside of the electrolytic cell in the electrolyzing the electrolyte, from the inside to the outside of the electrolytic cell through a flow path. In the sending, the flow path in which the fluid flows is switched in accordance with the current efficiency measured in the measuring the current efficiency, such that the fluid is sent to a first flow path that sends the fluid to a first outside when the current efficiency measured in the measuring the current efficiency is not less than a predetermined reference value, or the fluid is sent to a second flow path that sends the fluid to a second outside when the current efficiency is less than the predetermined reference value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2020Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Katsuaki TO, Yohsuke FUKUCHI, Hiroshi KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11295775Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a nonmagnetic substrate, a soft magnetic underlayer, an orientation control layer, a perpendicular magnetic layer, and a protection layer that are arranged in this order. The perpendicular magnetic layer includes a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer that are arranged in this order on the orientation control layer. The first magnetic layer has a granular structure including an oxide at grain boundary parts of magnetic grains, and the second magnetic layer is closest to the protection layer among layers within the perpendicular magnetic layer, and includes magnetic grains made of a CoCrPt alloy, and a nitride of carbon or a hydride of carbon.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Kota Hasegawa, Katsuaki To
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Patent number: 10984829Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a nonmagnetic substrate, a soft magnetic underlayer, an orientation control layer, a perpendicular magnetic layer, and a protection layer that are arranged in this order. The perpendicular magnetic layer includes a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer that are arranged in this order on the orientation control layer. The first magnetic layer has a granular structure including an oxide at grain boundary parts of magnetic grains, and the second magnetic layer is closest to the protection layer among layers within the perpendicular magnetic layer, and includes magnetic grains made of a CoCrPt alloy, and a nitride of carbon or a hydride of carbon.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Kota Hasegawa, Katsuaki To
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Publication number: 20210098017Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a nonmagnetic substrate, a soft magnetic underlayer, an orientation control layer, a perpendicular magnetic layer, and a protection layer that are arranged in this order. The perpendicular magnetic layer includes a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer that are arranged in this order on the orientation control layer. The first magnetic layer has a granular structure including an oxide at grain boundary parts of magnetic grains, and the second magnetic layer is closest to the protection layer among layers within the perpendicular magnetic layer, and includes magnetic grains made of a CoCrPt alloy, and a nitride of carbon or a hydride of carbon.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Kota HASEGAWA, Katsuaki TO
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Publication number: 20190295583Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a nonmagnetic substrate, a soft magnetic underlayer, an orientation control layer, a perpendicular magnetic layer, and a protection layer that are arranged in this order. The perpendicular magnetic layer includes a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer that are arranged in this order on the orientation control layer. The first magnetic layer has a granular structure including an oxide at grain boundary parts of magnetic grains, and the second magnetic layer is closest to the protection layer among layers within the perpendicular magnetic layer, and includes magnetic grains made of a CoCrPt alloy, and a nitride of carbon or a hydride of carbon.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Kota HASEGAWA, Katsuaki TO
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Patent number: 10074396Abstract: In a magnetic recording medium of the present invention, an outermost surface of a protective layer 3 on a lubricant layer 4 side contains carbon and nitrogen in a range of 50 atomic % to 90 atomic %, and the lubricant layer 4 is formed by being in contact with the outermost surface, contains compounds A to C represented in the below general formulas (1) to (3) described below, and has a film thickness of 0.5 nm to 2 nm.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Eishin Yamakawa, Katsuaki To, Saeko Hayase
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Publication number: 20170084305Abstract: In a magnetic recording medium of the present invention, an outermost surface of a protective layer 3 on a lubricant layer 4 side contains carbon and nitrogen in a range of 50 atomic % to 90 atomic %, and the lubricant layer 4 is formed by being in contact with the outermost surface, contains compounds A to C represented in the below general formulas (1) to (3) described below, and has a film thickness of 0.5 nm to 2 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Eishin YAMAKAWA, Katsuaki TO, Saeko HAYASE
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Patent number: 9449634Abstract: A method of fabricating a magnetic recording medium by sequentially forming a magnetic recording layer, a protection layer, and a lubricant layer on a stacked body, includes forming the lubricant by depositing a first lubricant on the stacked body after forming the protection layer, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere, and depositing a second lubricant on the stacked body after depositing the first lubricant, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere. The first lubricant has a lower molecular mass and a higher chemical polarity than those of the second lubricant.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2015Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Takehiko Okabe, Katsuaki To
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Publication number: 20150332724Abstract: A method of fabricating a magnetic recording medium by sequentially forming a magnetic recording layer, a protection layer, and a lubricant layer on a stacked body, includes forming the lubricant by depositing a first lubricant on the stacked body after forming the protection layer, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere, and depositing a second lubricant on the stacked body after depositing the first lubricant, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere. The first lubricant has a lower molecular mass and a higher chemical polarity than those of the second lubricant.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Takehiko OKABE, Katsuaki TO
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Patent number: 9177587Abstract: A method of fabricating a magnetic recording medium by sequentially forming a magnetic recording layer, a protection layer, and a lubricant layer on a stacked body, includes forming the lubricant by depositing a first lubricant on the stacked body after forming the protection layer, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere, and depositing a second lubricant on the stacked body after depositing the first lubricant, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2014Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Takehiko Okabe, Katsuaki To
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Patent number: 9159354Abstract: A method of fabricating a magnetic recording medium by sequentially forming a magnetic recording layer, a protection layer, and a lubricant layer on a stacked body, includes forming the lubricant by depositing a first lubricant on the stacked body after forming the protection layer, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere, and depositing a second lubricant that is dissolved in an organic solvent onto the stacked body after depositing the first lubricant.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2014Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Takehiko Okabe, Katsuaki To
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Patent number: 9147422Abstract: A method of fabricating a magnetic recording medium by sequentially forming a magnetic recording layer, a protection layer, and a lubricant layer on a stacked body, includes forming the lubricant by depositing a first lubricant on the stacked body after forming the protection layer, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere, and depositing a second lubricant on the stacked body after depositing the first lubricant, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere. The first lubricant has a lower molecular mass and a higher chemical polarity than those of the second lubricant.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2014Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Takehiko Okabe, Katsuaki To
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Publication number: 20140295072Abstract: A method of fabricating a magnetic recording medium includes forming the lubricant by depositing a first lubricant on the stacked body after forming the protection layer, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere, and depositing a second lubricant that is dissolved in an organic solvent onto the stacked body after depositing the first lubricant. A molecular mass of a compound included in the first lubricant is higher than that of the second lubricant, and a chemical polarity of the compound included in the first lubricant is lower than that of the second lubricant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Takehiko OKABE, Katsuaki TO
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Publication number: 20140295073Abstract: A method of fabricating a magnetic recording medium by sequentially forming a magnetic recording layer, a protection layer, and a lubricant layer on a stacked body, includes forming the lubricant by depositing a first lubricant on the stacked body after forming the protection layer, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere, and depositing a second lubricant on the stacked body after depositing the first lubricant, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere. The first lubricant has a lower molecular mass and a higher chemical polarity than those of the second lubricant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Takehiko OKABE, Katsuaki To
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Publication number: 20140212577Abstract: A method of fabricating a magnetic recording medium by sequentially forming a magnetic recording layer, a protection layer, and a lubricant layer on a stacked body, includes forming the lubricant by depositing a first lubricant on the stacked body after forming the protection layer, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere, and depositing a second lubricant on the stacked body after depositing the first lubricant, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Takehiko OKABE, Katsuaki TO
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Publication number: 20140212579Abstract: A method of fabricating a magnetic recording medium by sequentially forming a magnetic recording layer, a protection layer, and a lubricant layer on a stacked body, includes forming the lubricant by depositing a first lubricant on the stacked body after forming the protection layer, by vapor-phase lubrication deposition, without exposing the stacked body to atmosphere, and depositing a second lubricant that is dissolved in an organic solvent onto the stacked body after depositing the first lubricant.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Takehiko OKABE, Katsuaki To