Patents by Inventor Noboru Sekiguchi

Noboru Sekiguchi 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: 11862212
    Abstract: [Solving Means] A magnetic recording medium according to an embodiment of the present technology is a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium, including: a magnetic layer including a servo band, a servo signal being recorded on the servo band. An index expressed by Sq×Fact.(p?p)/F0(p?p) is 0.42 or more, Sq being a squareness ratio of the magnetic layer in a perpendicular direction, F0(p?p) being a peak-to-peak value of a first magnetic force gradient strength observed by a magnetic force microscope when a servo signal is saturation-recorded on the magnetic layer, Fact.(p?p) being a peak-to-peak value of a second magnetic force gradient strength for the servo signal recorded on the servo band observed by the magnetic force microscope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Tachibana, Noboru Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 11854585
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium is a magnetic recording medium having a tape shape and includes a substrate, an underlayer provided on the substrate, and a magnetic layer provided on the underlayer. The magnetic layer has a surface having an uneven shape, a height range ?H obtained from statistical information of a height of the uneven shape is in a range of 4.00 nm??H?10.00 nm, and a gradient range ?A obtained from statistical information of a gradient of the uneven shape is in a range of 2.50 degrees ??A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru Sekiguchi, Yuuko Kamoshita, Minoru Yamaga
  • Publication number: 20230368814
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium is a magnetic recording medium having a tape shape and includes a substrate, an underlayer provided on the substrate, and a magnetic layer provided on the underlayer. The magnetic layer has a surface having an uneven shape, a height range ?H obtained from statistical information of a height of the uneven shape is in a range of 4.00 nm??H?10.00 nm, and a gradient range ?A obtained from statistical information of a gradient of the uneven shape is in a range of 2.50 degrees??A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Noboru SEKIGUCHI, Yuuko KAMOSHITA, Minoru YAMAGA
  • Patent number: 11804243
    Abstract: It is an object of the present technology to provide a magnetic recording medium that has a small total thickness and achieves excellent travelling stability. The present technology provides a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium including a magnetic layer, an underlayer, a base layer, and a back layer, in which a servo pattern is recorded in the magnetic layer, a statistical value ?SW indicating non-linearity of a servo band and being obtained from a reproduction waveform of a servo signal of the servo pattern is 24 nm or less, the base layer contains polyester as a main component, an average thickness tT of the magnetic recording medium is 5.6 ?m or less, the magnetic recording medium contains a lubricant, pores are formed in the magnetic recording medium, and an average diameter of the pores of the magnetic recording medium that is measured in a state where the lubricant has been removed from the magnetic recording medium and the magnetic recording medium has been dried, is 6 nm or more and 11 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Yamaga, Noboru Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20230343365
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium is a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium, including: a substrate; an underlayer provided on the substrate; and a magnetic layer provided on the underlayer. The substrate contains polyester, each of the underlayer and the magnetic layer contains a lubricant, the magnetic layer has a surface on which a large number of holes is provided, the arithmetic average roughness Ra of the surface is 2.5 nm or less, a BET specific surface area of the entire magnetic recording medium measured in a state where the magnetic recording medium has been washed and dried is 3.5 m2/g or more and 7.0 m2/g or less, a squareness ratio of the magnetic layer in a vertical direction is 65% or more, an average thickness of the magnetic layer is 80 nm or less, an average thickness of the magnetic recording medium is 5.6 µm or less, and a servo pattern is recorded on the magnetic layer and a statistical value ?sw indicating a non-linearity of the servo pattern is 24 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Noboru SEKIGUCHI, Minoru YAMAGA
  • Patent number: 11676631
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium is a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium, including: a substrate; an underlayer provided on the substrate; and a magnetic layer provided on the underlayer. The substrate contains polyester, each of the underlayer and the magnetic layer contains a lubricant, the magnetic layer has a surface on which a large number of holes is provided, the arithmetic average roughness Ra of the surface is 2.5 nm or less, a BET specific surface area of the entire magnetic recording medium measured in a state where the magnetic recording medium has been washed and dried is 3.5 m2/g or more and 7.0 m2/g or less, a squareness ratio of the magnetic layer in a vertical direction is 65% or more, an average thickness of the magnetic layer is 80 nm or less, an average thickness of the magnetic recording medium is 5.6 ?m or less, and a servo pattern is recorded on the magnetic layer and a statistical value ?SW indicating a non-linearity of the servo pattern is 24 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru Sekiguchi, Minoru Yamaga
  • Patent number: 11631430
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium is provided and includes a magnetic layer, a non-magnetic layer, a base layer and a back layer, wherein an average thickness tT of the magnetic recording medium is tT?5.3 a dimensional change amount ?w in a width direction with respect to a change in tension in a longitudinal direction is 700 ppm/N??w, a thickness of the non-magnetic layer is 2.0 ?m or less, a squareness ratio measured in a vertical direction of the magnetic recording medium is 65% or more, and the magnetic layer includes a magnetic powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Yamaga, Noboru Sekiguchi, Tooru Sato, Takashi Aizawa
  • Patent number: 11621020
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a flexible and elongated substrate, a soft magnetic layer having an average thickness of 10 nm or more to 50 nm or less, and a recording layer. The soft magnetic layer is disposed between the substrate and the recording layer, and a difference in Young's modulus between the magnetic recording medium and the substrate in a longitudinal direction of the substrate is 2.4 GPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Tachibana, Takashi Aizawa, Teruo Sai, Noboru Sekiguchi, Tetsuo Endo, Tomoe Ozaki, Ryoichi Hiratsuka
  • Publication number: 20230042175
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium is a magnetic recording medium having a tape shape and includes a substrate, an underlayer provided on the substrate, and a magnetic layer provided on the underlayer. The magnetic layer has a surface having an uneven shape, a height range ?H obtained from statistical information of a height of the uneven shape is in a range of 4.00 nm ? ?H ? 10.00 nm, and a gradient range ?A obtained from statistical information of a gradient of the uneven shape is in a range of 2.50 degrees ? ?A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Noboru SEKIGUCHI, Yuuko KAMOSHITA, Minoru YAMAGA
  • Patent number: 11521650
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a layer structure including a magnetic layer, a base layer, and a back layer in this order, in which an average thickness tT is tT?5.5 ?m, a dimensional variation ?w in a width direction to tension change in a longitudinal direction is 660 ppm/N??w, and a surface roughness Rabe of the base layer on a side of the back layer is 4.2 nm?Rabe?8.5 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Yamaga, Noboru Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 11508407
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium is a magnetic recording medium having a tape-like shape and includes a base substrate and a magnetic layer provided on the base substrate. A plurality of data tracks can be formed in the magnetic layer, a width of a data track is 2900 nm or less, and in a case of defining, as wmax and wmin, a maximum value and a minimum value respectively out of average values of a width of the magnetic recording medium measured under four kinds of environment in which temperature and relative humidity are set to (10° C., 10%), (10° C., 80%), (29° C., 80%), and (45° C., 10%), wmax and wmin satisfy a relation of (wmax?wmin)/wmin?400 [ppm].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru Sekiguchi, Minoru Yamaga
  • Patent number: 11468910
    Abstract: A tape-like magnetic recording medium includes a reinforced substrate, and a recording layer arranged on the reinforced substrate, and the reinforced substrate includes a substrate that has a first face and a second face opposed to each other, and has an average thickness of 4 ?m or smaller, and a metal layer that contains cobalt, arranged on the first face, the reinforced substrate by itself causing thereon a depth of indentation of 0.25 ?m or shallower, when a 0.7-mm-diameter hard sphere is impressed against the second face under 5.0 gf load for 10 seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroto Atagi, Noboru Sekiguchi, Takashi Aizawa, Tomoe Ozaki, Koji Suzuki, Yoichi Kanemaki, Teruo Sai, Ryoichi Hiratsuka, Kazuya Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20220284923
    Abstract: It is an object of the present technology to provide a magnetic recording medium that has a small total thickness and achieves excellent travelling stability. The present technology provides a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium including a magnetic layer, an underlayer, a base layer, and a back layer, in which a servo pattern is recorded in the magnetic layer, a statistical value ?SW indicating non-linearity of a servo band and being obtained from a reproduction waveform of a servo signal of the servo pattern is 24 nm or less, the base layer contains polyester as a main component, an average thickness tT of the magnetic recording medium is 5.6 ?m or less, the magnetic recording medium contains a lubricant, pores are formed in the magnetic recording medium, and an average diameter of the pores of the magnetic recording medium that is measured in a state where the lubricant has been removed from the magnetic recording medium and the magnetic recording medium has been dried, is 6 nm or more and 11 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Minoru YAMAGA, Noboru SEKIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11423936
    Abstract: There is provided a magnetic recording medium including a base; a seed layer; a foundation layer; and a recording layer, the seed layer being disposed between the base and the foundation layer, having an amorphous state, including an alloy containing Ti, Cr and O, a percentage of Ti being 30 atomic % to 100 atomic % based on a total amount of Ti and Cr contained in the seed layer, and a percentage of O being 15 atomic % or less based on a total amount of Ti, Cr and O contained in the seed layer. Also, a production method thereof is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Tachibana, Jota Ito, Tomoe Ozaki, Ryoichi Hiratsuka, Noboru Sekiguchi, Tetsuo Endo
  • Publication number: 20220189506
    Abstract: [Solving Means] A magnetic recording medium according to an embodiment of the present technology is a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium, including: a magnetic layer including a servo band, a servo signal being recorded on the servo band. An index expressed by Sq×Fact.(p?p)/F0(p?p) is 0.42 or more, Sq being a squareness ratio of the magnetic layer in a perpendicular direction, F0(p?p) being a peak-to-peak value of a first magnetic force gradient strength observed by a magnetic force microscope when a servo signal is saturation-recorded on the magnetic layer, Fact.(p?p) being a peak-to-peak value of a second magnetic force gradient strength for the servo signal recorded on the servo band observed by the magnetic force microscope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Junichi TACHIBANA, Noboru SEKIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220172742
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium is a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium, including: a substrate; an underlayer provided on the substrate; and a magnetic layer provided on the underlayer. The substrate contains polyester, each of the underlayer and the magnetic layer contains a lubricant, the magnetic layer has a surface on which a large number of holes is provided, the arithmetic average roughness Ra of the surface is 2.5 nm or less, a BET specific surface area of the entire magnetic recording medium measured in a state where the magnetic recording medium has been washed and dried is 3.5 m2/g or more and 7.0 m2/g or less, a squareness ratio of the magnetic layer in a vertical direction is 65% or more, an average thickness of the magnetic layer is 80 nm or less, an average thickness of the magnetic recording medium is 5.6 ?m or less, and a servo pattern is recorded on the magnetic layer and a statistical value ?SW indicating a non-linearity of the servo pattern is 24 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Noboru SEKIGUCHI, Minoru YAMAGA
  • Patent number: 11302355
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium is provided and includes a substrate; and a magnetic layer provided over the substrate, wherein (wmax?wmin)/wmin?400 [ppm] . . . (1) where wmax and wmin are respectively maximum and minimum of average values of width corresponding to samples of magnetic recording medium measured after the samples are stored for two hours under storage conditions (a loading tension in the longitudinal direction of the magnetic recording medium, a temperature and a relative humidity) for each of the samples, and a width of a sample of the magnetic recording medium at 25° C. and 50% relative humidity and without loading is ½ inch, magnetic recording medium has Young's modulus of less than 8.0 GPa in a longitudinal direction, and 4.0?TB/(TA?TB) . . . (2) where TA is average thickness of magnetic recording medium and TB is average thickness of substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Yamaga, Noboru Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 11302353
    Abstract: In a magnetic recording medium, an average thickness tT is tT?5.5 ?m, a dimensional variation ?w in a width direction to tension change in a longitudinal direction is 650 ppm/N??w, and a rate of shrinkage in the longitudinal direction is 0.08% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Yamaga, Noboru Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 11302354
    Abstract: The average thickness tT of a magnetic recording medium meets the requirement that tT?5.5 [?m], and the dimensional change amount ?w in the width direction of the magnetic recording medium with respect to the tension change in the longitudinal direction of the magnetic recording medium meets the requirement that 700 ppm/N??w.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru Sekiguchi, Minoru Yamaga
  • Publication number: 20220108723
    Abstract: A tape-like magnetic recording medium includes a reinforced substrate, and a recording layer arranged on the reinforced substrate, and the reinforced substrate includes a substrate that has a first face and a second face opposed to each other, and has an average thickness of 4 ?m or smaller, and a metal layer that contains cobalt, arranged on the first face, the reinforced substrate by itself causing thereon a depth of indentation of 0.25 ?m or shallower, when a 0.7-mm-diameter hard sphere is impressed against the second face under 5.0 gf load for 10 seconds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroto ATAGI, Noboru SEKIGUCHI, Takashi AIZAWA, Tomoe OZAKI, Koji SUZUKI, Yoichi KANEMAKI, Teruo SAI, Ryoichi HIRATSUKA, Kazuya HASHIMOTO