Patents by Inventor Masaru Terakawa

Masaru Terakawa 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: 11830533
    Abstract: [Solving Means] A method of producing a magnetic powder includes: coating a surface of each of silica-coated precursor particles with at least one type of coating agent of a metal chloride or a sulfate; and firing the precursor particles coated with the coating agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Natsuki Toyosawa, Norikatsu Fujisawa, Yuta Akimoto, Satoru Abe, Masaru Terakawa, Katsunori Maeshima, Atsushi Muramatu, Masafumi Nakaya
  • Patent number: 11830532
    Abstract: Provided is a magnetic recording medium capable of implementing higher-density recording. This magnetic recording medium includes a substrate containing a polyester and a magnetic layer disposed on the substrate, including a plurality of types of magnetic powder. A surface of the magnetic layer has an arithmetic average roughness Ra of 2.5 nm or less. PSD to a spatial wavelength of 5 ?m is 2.5 ?m or less. The magnetic layer has an average thickness of 90 nm or less. The magnetic powder has an average aspect ratio of 1.0 or more and 3.0 or less. A coercive force in a perpendicular direction is 3000 oersted or less. A ratio of a coercive force in a longitudinal direction to the coercive force in the perpendicular direction is 0.8 or less. A half-value width of an isolated waveform in a reproduced waveform of a data signal is 200 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Terakawa, Minoru Yamaga
  • Patent number: 11798588
    Abstract: Provided is a magnetic recording medium having a recording track width of 2 ?m or less, including: a recording layer containing a powder of particles containing ? iron oxide, in which a squareness ratio measured in a transport direction is 30% or less, a squareness ratio S1 measured in the transport direction and a squareness ratio S2 measured in a width direction satisfy a relationship S1?S2, a coercive force is 220 kA/m or greater and 310 kA/m or less, an activation volume is 8000 nm3 or less, and in a switching field distribution (SFD) curve, a peak ratio X/Y of a main peak height X and a height Y of a sub-peak near zero magnetic field is 3.0 or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Terakawa, Yoichi Kanemaki, Minoru Yamaga
  • Patent number: 11749304
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium is provided and includes a layer structure including a magnetic layer, a non-magnetic layer, and a base layer in order, in which an average thickness tT of the magnetic recording medium is 4.0 ?m?tT?5.3 ?m, a dimensional variation ?w in a width direction of the magnetic recording medium to tension change in a longitudinal direction of the magnetic recording medium is 680 ppm/N??w?2000 ppm/N, and an average thickness tn of the non-magnetic layer is tn?1.0 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Terakawa, Minoru Yamaga
  • Patent number: 11626128
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a magnetic recording medium excellent in electro-magnetic conversion characteristic and thermal stability. The present disclosure provides a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium including: a substrate; and a magnetic layer provided over the substrate and including a magnetic powder, in which the magnetic layer has an average thickness of equal to or less than 90 nm, the magnetic powder has an average aspect ratio of from 1.0 to 3.0, the magnetic powder has an average particle volume of equal to or less than 2,300 nm3, a coercive force Hc1 in a vertical direction of the magnetic recording medium is equal to or less than 4,500 Oe, a coercive force Hc2 in a longitudinal direction of the magnetic recording medium and the coercive force Hc1 satisfy a relation of Hc2/Hc1?0.8, and the ratio Hrp/Hc1 of a residual coercive force Hrp of the magnetic recording medium measured using a pulsed magnetic field and the coercive force Hc1 is equal to or less than 2.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Terakawa, Minoru Yamaga
  • Publication number: 20230075546
    Abstract: Provided is a magnetic recording medium that is able to achieve both an improvement in electromagnetic conversion characteristics and ensuring of high long-term reliability. The magnetic recording medium includes a magnetic layer and a base. The magnetic layer includes magnetic powders including ?-iron oxide. A ratio (Hrp/Hc) of residual coercivity (Hrp) measured in a perpendicular direction of the magnetic recording medium with use of a pulse magnetic field to perpendicular coercivity (Hc) of the magnetic recording medium is 2.0 or less. Saturation magnetization (Mst) per unit area of the magnetic recording medium is 4.5 mA or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Takeshi TAKAHASHI, Katsunori MAESHIMA, Minoru YAMAGA, Masaru TERAKAWA, Natsuki ICHISE, Tomoe SATO, Takashi KATAGUCHI, Atsuya TOWATA, Kimihiro OZAKI, Akihiro MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11574651
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium, which is used in a recording and playback device in which the shortest recording wavelength is 75 nm or less, in which the magnetic recording medium has a recording layer including powder of ?-iron oxide-containing particles, the average particle size of the particles is 22 nm or less, the coercive force He is 220 kA/m or more and 320 kA/m or less, and the non linear transition shift is 20% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Terakawa, Yoichi Kanemaki, Minoru Yamaga
  • Patent number: 11551711
    Abstract: A cobalt ferrite magnetic powder includes magnetic particles that have a uniaxial crystal magnetic anisotropy and contain cobalt ferrite. A peak top 2? of a (3, 1, 1) plane determined by powder X-ray diffractometry using a CoK? ray is 41.3° or more and 41.5° or less. Some Cos contained in the magnetic particles are substituted with at least one selected from the group consisting of Zn, Ge, and a transition metal element other than Fe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Natsuki Ichise, Masaru Terakawa, Katsunori Maeshima, Takashi Kataguchi, Takeshi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20220399039
    Abstract: Provided is a magnetic recording medium configured to achieve higher density recording. The magnetic recording medium has a tape-like shape, and includes: a base containing polyester as a main constituent; and a magnetic layer provided on the base, including a plurality of magnetic powders, and configured to record a data signal. An average thickness of the magnetic recording medium is 5.6 ?m or less. An average thickness of the base is 4.2 ?m or less. An average thickness of the magnetic layer is 90 nm or less. An average aspect ratio of the magnetic powders is 1.0 or greater and 3.0 or less. A coercivity in a perpendicular direction is 3000 oersted or less. A rate of a coercivity in a longitudinal direction to the coercivity in the perpendicular direction is 0.8 or less. The magnetic layer includes a lubricant. An entire BET specific surface area of the magnetic recording medium from which the lubricant has been removed is 2.5 m2/g or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Masaru TERAKAWA, Minoru YAMAGA
  • Publication number: 20220392488
    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: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Natsuki ICHISE, Minoru YAMAGA, Katsunori MAESHIMA, Masaru TERAKAWA, Takeshi TAKAHASHI, Tomoe SATO, Takashi KATAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11521649
    Abstract: A method of producing a magnetic powder includes: performing heat treatment on first particles that contain triiron tetraoxide to prepare second particles that contain ?-iron oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Muramatsu, Masafumi Nakaya, Masaru Terakawa, Satoru Abe, Natsuki Toyosawa, Katsunori Maeshima
  • Patent number: 11514941
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium used on a record/playback device with a minimum recording wavelength or 50 nm or shorter, the magnetic recording medium including a magnetic layer that contains a spinel-type ferrite magnetic powder, the magnetic layer having an average thickness of 85 nm or smaller, and the magnetic layer having a saturation flux density of 1600 Gauss or larger and 2000 Gauss or smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Terakawa, Minoru Yamaga
  • Publication number: 20220328066
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a magnetic recording medium excellent in electro-magnetic conversion characteristic and thermal stability. The present disclosure provides a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium including: a substrate; and a magnetic layer provided over the substrate and including a magnetic powder, in which the magnetic layer has an average thickness of equal to or less than 90 nm, the magnetic powder has an average aspect ratio of from 1.0 to 3.0, the magnetic powder has an average particle volume of equal to or less than 2,300 nm3, a coercive force Hc1 in a vertical direction of the magnetic recording medium is equal to or less than 4,500 Oe, a coercive force Hc2 in a longitudinal direction of the magnetic recording medium and the coercive force Hc1 satisfy a relation of Hc2/Hc1?0.8, and the ratio Hrp/Hc1 of a residual coercive force Hrp of the magnetic recording medium measured using a pulsed magnetic field and the coercive force Hc1 is equal to or less than 2.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Masaru TERAKAWA, Minoru YAMAGA
  • Publication number: 20220284924
    Abstract: Provided is a magnetic recording medium capable of implementing higher-density recording. This magnetic recording medium is a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium, and includes a substrate containing a polyester as a main component and a magnetic layer disposed on the substrate, including a plurality of types of magnetic powder, and capable of recording a data signal. A surface of the magnetic layer has an arithmetic average roughness Ra of 2.5 nm or less. PSD to a spatial wavelength of 5 ?m is 2.5 ?m or less. The magnetic layer has an average thickness of 90 nm or less. The magnetic powder has an average aspect ratio of 1.0 or more and 3.0 or less. A coercive force in a perpendicular direction is 3000 oersted or less. A ratio of a coercive force in a longitudinal direction to the coercive force in the perpendicular direction is 0.8 or less. A half-value width of an isolated waveform in a reproduced waveform of the data signal is 200 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Masaru TERAKAWA, Minoru YAMAGA
  • Patent number: 11430477
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a nonmagnetic support body, and a magnetic layer containing magnetic powder, in which the magnetic powder contains ?-Fe2O3 crystal (including a case of substituting a portion of Fe site with a metal element M), a product of residual magnetization and a thickness of the magnetic layer is from 0.5 mA to 6.0 mA, and a squareness ratio which is measured in a longitudinal direction of the magnetic layer is 0.3 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Terakawa, Yoichi Kanemaki, Minoru Yamaga
  • Publication number: 20220230660
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium is provided and includes a layer structure including a magnetic layer, a non-magnetic layer, and a base layer in order, in which an average thickness tT of the magnetic recording medium is 4.0 ?m?tT?5.3 ?m, a dimensional variation ?w in a width direction of the magnetic recording medium to tension change in a longitudinal direction of the magnetic recording medium is 680 ppm/N??w?2000 ppm/N , and an average thickness tn of the non-magnetic layer is tn?1.0 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Masaru TERAKAWA, Minoru YAMAGA
  • Patent number: 11355270
    Abstract: A method for producing a magnetic powder includes performing a reduction treatment on the surface of particles including a hard magnetic material to form core-shell particles each having a shell portion including a soft magnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Terakawa, Minoru Yamaga
  • Patent number: 11355145
    Abstract: The magnetic recording medium includes a long substrate body, and a magnetic layer including a powder of cubic crystal ferrite magnetic particles. The sum of a squareness ratio in the longitudinal direction and a squareness ratio in the vertical direction is 1.2 or more, and the difference of the squareness ratio in the longitudinal direction and the squareness ratio in the vertical direction is 0.15 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Nakashio, Masaru Terakawa, Yoichi Kanemaki, Tomoe Sato, Katsunori Maeshima, Nobuyuki Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20220139423
    Abstract: [Solving Means] A tape-shaped magnetic recording medium includes: a base; and a magnetic layer that is provided on the base and includes a magnetic powder. The magnetic powder includes magnetic particles that have a uniaxial crystal magnetic anisotropy and contain cobalt ferrite. A ratio L4/L2 of a component L4 having a multiaxial crystal magnetic anisotropy to a component L2 having a uniaxial crystal magnetic anisotropy is 0 or more and 0.25 or less, the components being obtained by applying Fourier transformation to a torque waveform of the magnetic recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi KATAGUCHI, Masaru TERAKAWA, Takeshi TAKAHASHI, Natsuki ICHISE, Katsunori MAESHIMA
  • Patent number: 11315594
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium is provided and includes a layer structure including a magnetic layer, a non-magnetic layer, and a base layer in this order, in which an average thickness tT of the magnetic recording medium is 3.5 ?m?tT?5.3 ?m, a dimensional variation ?w in a width direction of the magnetic recording medium to tension change in a longitudinal direction of the magnetic recording medium is 700 ppm/N??w?2000 ppm/N, and an average thickness tn of the non-magnetic layer is tn?1.0 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Terakawa, Minoru Yamaga