Patents by Inventor Naoto Kohshiro

Naoto Kohshiro 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: 5478657
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide titanium discs to be used as high-density read-while-write magnetic discs. Further object of the present invention is to provide said titanium discs coated with a non-magnetic plated layer.Titanium discs to be used as magnetic discs which satisfy the above object have the following structures: A titanium disc to be used as magnetic disc having the mean height of the peaks from the center line, R.sub.a, of 0.0002 .mu.m to 0.0060 .mu.m and pits on its surface of 25 .mu.m or less in diameter or 5 .mu.m or less in depth. Further, said titanium disc to be used as a magnetic disc is coated with a non-magnetic plated layer with a thickness of 0.09 .mu.m to 5 .mu.m. Moreover, a titanium disc that is most suitable to be used as a magnetic disc is the titanium disc provided with a plated layer of 30/100 or less in a knife-cut peeling test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1995
    Assignees: NKK Corporation, Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Suenaga, Iwao Ida, Hitoshi Nagashima, Masanori Ohmura, Naoto Kohshiro, Noboru Kurata