IP Library Granted Patent US 11,355,142
Granted Patent B2
US 11,355,142 · App. 16/777,418 · Granted Jun 7, 2022

Magnetic tape, magnetic tape cartridge, and magnetic tape apparatus

Inventors: Eiki Ozawa (Minami-ashigara, JP); Norihito Kasada (Minami-ashigara, JP); Atsushi Musha (Minami-ashigara, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
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Patent No.
US 11,355,142
App. No.
16/777,418
Granted
Jun 7, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer in which the magnetic layer has a timing-based servo pattern, an edge shape of the timing-based servo pattern, specified by magnetic force microscopy is a shape in which a difference between a value L 99.9 of a cumulative distribution function of 99.9% and a value L 0.1 of a cumulative distribution function of 0.1% in a position deviation width from an ideal shape of the magnetic tape in a longitudinal direction is 180 nm or less, and a difference between a spacing S after measured on a surface of the magnetic layer by an optical interferometry after methyl-ethyl-ketone cleaning and a spacing S before measured on the surface of the magnetic layer by an optical interferometry before methyl-ethyl-ketone cleaning is greater than 0 nm and 15.0 nm or less.

Claims (46)

1. A magnetic tape comprising:

a non-magnetic support; and

a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent,

wherein the magnetic layer has a timing-based servo pattern,

wherein an edge shape of the timing-based servo pattern, specified by magnetic force microscopy is a shape in which a difference L 99.9 -L 0.1 between a value L 99.9 of a cumulative distribution function of 99.9% and a value L 0.1 of a cumulative distribution function of 0.1% in a position deviation width from an ideal shape of the magnetic tape in a longitudinal direction is 180 nm or less, and

wherein a difference S after -S before between a spacing S after measured on a surface of the magnetic layer by an optical interferometry after methyl-ethyl-ketone cleaning and a spacing S before measured on the surface of the magnetic layer by an optical interferometry before methyl-ethyl-ketone cleaning is greater than 0 nm and 15.0 nm or less.

2. The magnetic tape according to claim 1 ,

wherein the difference S after -S before is 2.0 nm or more and 15.0 nm or less.

3. The magnetic tape according to claim 1 ,

wherein the difference S after -S before is 3.0 nm or more and 12.0 nm or less.

4. The magnetic tape according to claim 1 ,

wherein the timing-based servo pattern is a linear servo pattern which continuously extends from one side of the magnetic tape in a width direction to the other side thereof and is inclined at an angle α with respect to the width direction, and

wherein the ideal shape is a linear shape extending in a direction of the angle α.

5. The magnetic tape according to claim 1 ,

wherein the difference L 99.9 -L 0.1 is 100 nm or more and 180 nm or less.

6. The magnetic tape according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a non-magnetic layer including non-magnetic powder and a binding agent between the non-magnetic support and the magnetic layer.

7. The magnetic tape according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a back coating layer including non-magnetic powder and a binding agent on a surface side of the non-magnetic support opposite to a surface side provided with the magnetic layer.

8. A magnetic tape cartridge comprising:

the magnetic tape according to claim 1 .

9. The magnetic tape cartridge according to claim 8 ,

wherein the difference S after -S before is 2.0 nm or more and 15.0 nm or less.

10. The magnetic tape cartridge according to claim 9 ,

wherein the difference S after -S before is 3.0 nm or more and 12.0 nm or less.

11. The magnetic tape cartridge according to claim 9 ,

wherein the timing-based servo pattern is a linear servo pattern which continuously extends from one side of the magnetic tape in a width direction to the other side thereof and is inclined at an angle α with respect to the width direction, and

wherein the ideal shape is a linear shape extending in a direction of the angle α.

12. The magnetic tape cartridge according to claim 9 ,

wherein the difference L 99.9 -L 0.1 is 100 nm or more and 180 nm or less.

13. A magnetic tape apparatus comprising:

a magnetic tape;

a reading element unit; and

an extraction unit,

wherein the magnetic tape is the magnetic tape according to claim 1 ,

wherein the reading element unit includes a plurality of reading elements each of which reads data from a specific track region including a reading target track in a track region included in the magnetic tape, and

wherein the extraction unit performs a waveform equalization process with respect to each reading result for each reading element, to extract, from the reading result, data derived from the reading target track.

14. The magnetic tape apparatus according to claim 13 ,

wherein the difference S after -S before is 2.0 nm or more and 15.0 nm or less.

15. The magnetic tape apparatus according to claim 13 ,

wherein the difference S after -S before is 3.0 nm or more and 12.0 nm or less.

16. The magnetic tape apparatus according to claim 13 ,

wherein the timing-based servo pattern is a linear servo pattern which continuously extends from one side of the magnetic tape in a width direction to the other side thereof and is inclined at an angle α with respect to the width direction, and

wherein the ideal shape is a linear shape extending in a direction of the angle α.

17. The magnetic tape apparatus according to claim 13 ,

wherein the difference L 99.9 -L 0.1 is 100 nm or more and 180 nm or less.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 31, 2020
From: OZAWA, EIKI; KASADA, NORIHITO; MUSHA, ATSUSHI
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2019-016532 · Jan 31, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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