Patents by Inventor Takashi Aizawa
Takashi Aizawa 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: 20240395494Abstract: The purpose of the present invention, relating to lanthanide boride, which is known as a low work function material, is to provide a novel low work function material with low chemical reactivity, in particular a low work function material of which the material surface, after being exposed to atmospheric gases, can be cleaned at a heating temperature lower than in the prior art. The present invention is a laminate containing a lanthanide boride film formed on a substrate, the surface of said film being covered by a thin film, wherein the thin film is a monatomic layer of a hexagonal boron nitride thin film.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2022Publication date: November 28, 2024Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCEInventors: Katsumi NAGAOKA, Takashi AIZAWA, Shun-ichiro OHMI
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Patent number: 12068012Abstract: An object is to provide a magnetic recording medium having favorable crystal orientation characteristics and exhibiting a high SNR. The present technology provides a magnetic recording medium having a layer structure including a recording layer, a ground layer, and a base layer in this order, in which the ground layer includes a first ground layer on the recording layer side and a second ground layer on the base layer side, the first ground layer contains a nonmagnetic oxide, the first ground layer has a thickness of 2 nm or more and 10 nm or less, and the second ground layer has a thickness of 40 nm or more. Furthermore, the present technology also provides a magnetic recording cartridge including the magnetic recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Junichi Tachibana, Takashi Aizawa, Sogo Oikawa, Shin Saito
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Publication number: 20230352046Abstract: An object is to provide a magnetic recording medium having favorable crystal orientation characteristics and exhibiting a high SNR. The present technology provides a magnetic recording medium having a layer structure including a recording layer, a ground layer, and a base layer in this order, in which the ground layer includes a first ground layer on the recording layer side and a second ground layer on the base layer side, the first ground layer contains a nonmagnetic oxide, the first ground layer has a thickness of 2 nm or more and 10 nm or less, and the second ground layer has a thickness of 40 nm or more. Furthermore, the present technology also provides a magnetic recording cartridge including the magnetic recording medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Junichi TACHIBANA, Takashi AIZAWA, Sogo OIKAWA, Shin SAITO
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Publication number: 20230282232Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a magnetic recording medium capable of suppressing a dimensional change in a width direction by setting the water vapor transmission rate within a specific range. The present technology provides a magnetic recording medium having a tape shape, the magnetic recording medium including: a magnetic layer; a nonmagnetic layer; a base layer; and a back layer in this order, in which the magnetic layer and the nonmagnetic layer are in contact with each other, the nonmagnetic layer and the base layer are in contact with each other, an average thickness of the magnetic recording medium is 5.74 ?m or less, a Young's modulus in an MD direction (longitudinal direction) of the base layer is 5.9 GPa or less, and a water vapor transmission rate of the magnetic recording medium, measured according to a Lyssy method, is 2.93 g/m2·day or less. The Young's modulus in the MD direction of the base layer (longitudinal direction) is 5.3 GPa or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2021Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventors: Hiroyuki MURAKAMI, Takahiro TAKAYAMA, Takashi AIZAWA, Minoru YAMAGA
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Patent number: 11631430Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Minoru Yamaga, Noboru Sekiguchi, Tooru Sato, Takashi Aizawa
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Patent number: 11621020Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Junichi Tachibana, Takashi Aizawa, Teruo Sai, Noboru Sekiguchi, Tetsuo Endo, Tomoe Ozaki, Ryoichi Hiratsuka
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Patent number: 11533938Abstract: A method of producing a thickened carbonated beverage packed in a container, comprising: mixing an aqueous solution containing a first thickening agent and having a temperature of 0 to 35° C. with a second thickening agent insoluble in water in a temperature range of 0 to 35° C. but soluble in water at a temperature of 60° C. or more to obtain a stock liquid with the second thickening agent dispersed in the solution; dissolving carbon dioxide gas in the stock liquid to obtain a carbonated aqueous solution; filling a container with the carbonated aqueous solution and sealing the container to obtain the carbonated aqueous solution packed in the container; and heating the carbonated aqueous solution packed in the container such that the carbonated aqueous solution has a temperature of 60° C. or more to dissolve the second thickening agent in the solution.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Daiwa Can CompanyInventors: Hiroshi Batori, Hiroshi Endou, Yoshinari Suganuma, Takashi Aizawa
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Patent number: 11468910Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroto Atagi, Noboru Sekiguchi, Takashi Aizawa, Tomoe Ozaki, Koji Suzuki, Yoichi Kanemaki, Teruo Sai, Ryoichi Hiratsuka, Kazuya Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11365276Abstract: To provide a block copolymer that includes an aromatic vinyl compound polymer and a chloroprene polymer, has a number average molecular weight of 100,000 or more, is preferred for a rubber composition and an adhesive composition, and is suitable for industrial production. A block copolymer includes at least one aromatic vinyl compound polymer block and at least one chloroprene polymer block, has a functional group with a structure represented by Chemical Formula (1) or (2), and has a number average molecular weight of 100,000 or more. The chloroprene polymer block has a number average molecular weight of 80,000 or more in total. (In Chemical Formula (1), R1 is hydrogen, chlorine, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclyl group.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: DENKA COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Wataru Nishino, Yuhei Ishigaki, Takashi Aizawa, Shogo Hagiwara, Uichiro Yamagishi
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Publication number: 20220108723Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2019Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: Hiroto ATAGI, Noboru SEKIGUCHI, Takashi AIZAWA, Tomoe OZAKI, Koji SUZUKI, Yoichi KANEMAKI, Teruo SAI, Ryoichi HIRATSUKA, Kazuya HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 11232813Abstract: A film-forming apparatus and a method for manufacturing a magnetic recording medium are provided. The film-forming apparatus includes a rotating body which moves a base material with a strip shape which has flexibility, a plurality of cathodes which are provided to oppose a rotating surface of the rotating body; and a plurality of accommodating sections which accommodate each of the plurality of cathodes. The method includes sequentially film-forming a plurality of thin films on a base material using a plurality of cathodes which are provided on a moving path of the base material while moving the base material with a strip shape which has flexibility. Each of the plurality of cathodes is accommodated in a plurality of accommodating sections.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takashi Aizawa, Atsuhiro Abe
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Publication number: 20210249045Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventors: Minoru YAMAGA, Noboru SEKIGUCHI, Tooru SATO, Takashi AIZAWA
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Patent number: 11056143Abstract: 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 ?m, 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: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Minoru Yamaga, Noboru Sekiguchi, Tooru Sato, Takashi Aizawa
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Patent number: 10937457Abstract: There is provided a magnetic recording medium of which an average thickness tT is tT?5.6 ?m, a dimensional change amount ?w in a width direction with respect to a change in tension in a longitudinal direction is 660 ppm/N??w, a squareness ratio in a vertical direction is 65% or more, and a width deformation coefficient b during long-term storage in a case where a long-term storage width change amount Y is defined as Y=blog(t) is ?0.06 ?m?b?0.06 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Minoru Yamaga, Noboru Sekiguchi, Tooru Sato, Takashi Aizawa
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Publication number: 20200342904Abstract: There is provided a magnetic recording medium of which an average thickness tT is tT?5.6 ?, a dimensional change amount ?w in a width direction with respect to a change in tension in a longitudinal direction is 660 ppm/N??w, a squareness ratio in a vertical direction is 65% or more, and a width deformation coefficient b during long-term storage in a case where a long-term storage width change amount Y is defined as Y=blog(t) is ?0.06 ?m?b?0.06 ?.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2019Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Minoru YAMAGA, Noboru SEKIGUCHI, Tooru SATO, Takashi AIZAWA
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Publication number: 20200342905Abstract: 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 ?m, 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: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2019Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Minoru YAMAGA, Noboru SEKIGUCHI, Tooru SATO, Takashi AIZAWA
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Patent number: 10789979Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes: an elongated substrate having flexibility; a first layer, being provided on the substrate, containing Cr, Ni, and Fe, and having a face-centered cubic lattice structure with a (111) plane preferentially oriented so as to be parallel to a surface of the substrate; a second layer, being provided on the first layer, containing Co and O, having a ratio of an average atomic concentration of O to an average atomic concentration of Co of 1 or more, and having a column structure with an average particle diameter of 3 nm or more and 13 nm or less; a third layer, being provided on the second layer, and containing Ru; and a perpendicular recording layer, being provided on the third layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2016Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Junichi Tachibana, Tetsuo Endo, Tomoe Ozaki, Takashi Aizawa
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Publication number: 20200075051Abstract: 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, in which 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: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2018Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: JUNICHI TACHIBANA, TAKASHI AIZAWA, TERUO SAI, NOBORU SEKIGUCHI, TETSUO ENDO, TOMOE OZAKI, RYOICHI HIRATSUKA
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Patent number: 10580447Abstract: A magnetic recording medium has a recording surface having an average surface roughness SRa of 3.0 nm or less, the number of projections having a height of 7.5 nm or more included in a unit region (where the unit region is a square region with each side having a length of 30 ?m) of the recording surface is 256 or more, and the number of projections having a height of 15 nm or more included in the unit region of the recording surface is 0 or more and 104 or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Noboru Sekiguchi, Tomoe Ozaki, Tetsuo Endo, Takashi Aizawa, Junichi Tachibana, Hikaru Terui, Teruo Sai
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Publication number: 20190389994Abstract: To provide a block copolymer that includes an aromatic vinyl compound polymer and a chloroprene polymer, has a number average molecular weight of 100,000 or more, is preferred for a rubber composition and an adhesive composition, and is suitable for industrial production. A block copolymer includes at least one aromatic vinyl compound polymer block and at least one chloroprene polymer block, has a functional group with a structure represented by Chemical Formula (1) or (2), and has a number average molecular weight of 100,000 or more. The chloroprene polymer block has a number average molecular weight of 80,000 or more in total.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2018Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: Wataru NISHINO, Yuhei ISHIGAKI, Takashi AIZAWA, Shogo HAGIWARA, Uichiro YAMAGISHI