Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium includes forming patterns having protrusions and recesses of a ferromagnetic material onto a recording track section and a servo section on a substrate, forming a flattening film, a top surface of which is higher than that of the protrusion of the ferromagnetic material, onto the ferromagnetic material, and performing ion beam etching onto the flattening film up to a top surface of the protrusion of the ferromagnetic material, and determining an end point of flattening etching on the basis of a change in the total number of incident particles by means of an ion counter installed so as to be at an angle ? with respect to a perpendicular direction to the substrate in accordance with a material of the flattening film.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a patterned media includes forming patterns of a magnetic layer having protrusions and recesses corresponding to tracks, servo zones or data zones on a substrate having a center hole, and spraying gas flow produced by diffusing a liquid gas toward the center hole of the substrate before or after forming the patterns of the magnetic layer.

Abstract: A magnetic disc medium according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a preamble part in a servo area of each of sectors obtained by dividing a surface of the medium in a circumference direction, the preamble part including strip-shaped patterns formed of a plurality of magnetic materials, and each of the strip-shaped patterns formed of the magnetic materials being divided by non-magnetic materials at periodic intervals.

Abstract: A method for producing a magnetic recording medium, includes: forming an SOG film on a surface of a magnetic layer; forming a concavo-convex structure in the SOG film comprising one selected from a group consisting of silica glass, alkylsiloxane polymer, methyl silsesquioxane polymer, hydrogen silsesquioxane polymer and hydro alkylsiloxane polymer; etching the SOG film to expose the surface of the magnetic layer; etching the exposed surface of the magnetic layer by ion milling; and forming a filling layer on the surface of the magnetic layer while leaving a portion of the magnetic layer having been subjected to the ion milling.

Abstract: A hard multilayer coating that is to be disposed on a body, including: (a) a first coating layer disposed to be held in contact with the body, the first coating layer consisting of TiAlCrX1-aNa (wherein “X” represents carbon or oxygen, and “a” represents a mixed crystal ratio satisfying 0.5?a?1); (b) a second coating layer disposed on the first coating layer, the second coating layer being provided by a mixture layer consisting of TiAlCrX1-bNb (wherein “b” represents a mixed crystal ratio satisfying 0.5?b?1) and TiAl(SiC)X1-cNc (wherein “c” represents a mixed crystal ratio satisfying 0.

Abstract: A recording medium includes a substrate, and a recording layer formed on the substrate having (a) a recording track band, and (b) recording cells regularly arrayed in the recording track band to form a plurality rows of sub-tracks. The recording cells included in each sub-track are formed apart from each other at a pitch P in the track direction. Nearest neighboring two recording cells, each positioned on adjacent two sub-tracks in the track band, are formed apart from each other at a pitch P/n in the track direction, where 2?n?5.

Abstract: A write-once optical recording medium has a transparent resin substrate having a concentric groove or a spiral groove and having recessed cells defining recording regions that are arranged in the groove, a recording film comprising an organic dye formed to fill the cells, and a metal reflection film formed on the recording film.

Abstract: It is made possible to obtain a reticle which has a high strength even it is formed in a doughnut shape, a method for manufacturing a magnetic disk medium using the reticle, and a magnetic disk medium using the same. The magnetic disk medium has a toroidal pattern pattern. A pattern positioned at a central portion of the toroidal pattern is provided with an opening portion and a non-opening portion.

Abstract: A discrete track media has a nonmagnetic substrate, and a magnetic recording layer provided on the nonmagnetic substrate and having a data region including a recording track and a servo region including a preamble zone, an address zone and a burst zone, the data region and the servo region include patterns of a ferromagnetic layer forming protrusions and a nonmagnetic material filled into recesses between the patterns of the ferromagnetic layer, in which a height of the nonmagnetic material filled into the recesses in the data region is lower than that in the burst zone.

Abstract: A magnetic recording media has a substrate and a magnetic recording layer containing ferromagnatic patterns on the substrate, the magnetic recording layer including a data zone to constitute a recording track and a servo zone to constitute a preamble region, an address region and a burst region, in which the address region and the burst region are separated by a part of the recording track.

Abstract: A recording medium includes a substrate, and a recording layer formed on the substrate having (a) a recording track band, and (b) recording cells regularly arrayed in the recording track band to form a plurality rows of sub-tracks. The recording cells included in each sub-track are formed apart from each other at a pitch P in the track direction. Nearest neighboring two recording cells, each positioned on adjacent two sub-tracks in the track band, are formed apart from each other at a pitch P/n in the track direction, where 2?n?5.

Abstract: A magnetic recording layer is formed on a surface of a substrate in magnetic recording media to define magnetic recording regions. Magnetic missing portions are provided in the magnetic recording regions, information cannot be magnetically recorded in the magnetic missing portions. The present invention provides magnetic recording media that enables authentication.

Abstract: A magnetic recording apparatus has a magnetic recording media including a substrate and a magnetic layer containing magnetic patterns on the substrate, the magnetic layer including data zones to constitute recoding tracks and servo zones, the magnetic patterns of the servo zones being used as address bits, and a magnetic head configured to read signals from the magnetic recording media while flying over the magnetic recording media, in which, in a case where two magnetic patterns used as address bits on the servo zones corresponding to two adjacent recording tracks are arranged in such a manner that one corner of one magnetic pattern is closest to one corner of the other magnetic pattern, the corners of the two magnetic patterns are substantially separated from each other.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic substrate; a soft magnetic layer which is formed on the non-magnetic substrate and which includes projected parts arranged on the surface thereof and recessed parts surrounding each of the projected part; and a ferromagnetic layer which is formed on the soft magnetic layer and which includes projected parts and recessed parts reflecting the projected parts and the recessed parts of the soft magnetic layer. Further the magnetic recording medium includes recording areas which have perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and ferromagnetism, and which are formed of the projected parts of the ferromagnetic layer and separated magnetically from their surroundings.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic substrate; a soft magnetic layer which is formed on the non-magnetic substrate and which includes projected parts arranged on the surface thereof and recessed parts surrounding each of the projected part; and a ferromagnetic layer which is formed on the soft magnetic layer and which includes projected parts and recessed parts reflecting the projected parts and the recessed parts of the soft magnetic layer. Further the magnetic recording medium includes recording areas which have perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and ferromagnetism, and which are formed of the projected parts of the ferromagnetic layer and separated magnetically from their surroundings.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a servo area that has a preamble area where a magnetic portion and a non-magnetic portion for clock synchronization are formed; and a data area where user data is written into. The magnetic portion is different in an occupancy to the preamble area from the non-magnetic portion.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a data area in which data can be written and a servo area in which information is recorded for positioning a magnetic head to a target position. The servo area has a preamble area for clock synchronization and an address area where address information of sectors and cylinders is recorded, and a ratio of a magnetic portion to a non-magnetic portion in a total of the data area, the preamble area, and the address area is substantially 2:1.

Abstract: A process of manufacturing a coated body including a substrate and a hard coating disposed on the substrate, wherein the hard coating has (a) a surface smoothed to have a roughness with maximum height Rz of not larger than 1.2 ?m, and (b) recesses each of which has a size of 0.5–6.0 ?m and is formed in the surface, the process including a surface smoothing step of smoothing a surface of the hard coating by using abrasive particles such that the smoothed surface has the roughness with the maximum height Rz of not larger than 1.2 ?m and such that the recesses each having the size of 0.5–6.0 ?m are formed in the surface of the hard coating, wherein each of the abrasive particles used in the surface smoothing step is provided by a spherical-shaped core body made of a rubber and having a particle size of 0.1–2.0 mm, and hard abrasive grains each having a size of #3000–#10000 and adhering to an outer surface of the spherical-shaped core body.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a plate-like structure, the method including a step of transferring concave and convex patterns on a master to a surface of a transferred substrate by sandwiching the master provided with the concave and convex patterns and the transferred substrate, between a press surface of a hollow cylindrical upper and a press surface of a lower mold, and pressurizing central parts of the upper and lower molds to apply pressure to the master and the transferred substrate, wherein a compressive load imposed on inner peripheral portions of the upper and lower molds is blocked and distributed toward outer peripheries of the upper and lower molds.

Abstract: It is possible to perform even pattern transfer with a high throughput.