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Granted Patent B2
US 10,720,180 · App. 15/579,033 · Granted Jul 21, 2020

Magnetic-disk glass substrate, magnetic-disk glass substrate intermediate, and method for manufacturing magnetic-disk glass substrate

Inventor: Shuhei Azuma (Akishima, JP)
Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
G11B5/73921G11B5/84G11B5/8404
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Patent No.
US 10,720,180
App. No.
15/579,033
Granted
Jul 21, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A magnetic-disk glass substrate containing an alkaline earth metal component as a glass composition includes an edge surface that is a mirror surface, and has a roughness percentage of 40% or more when a bearing ratio of a roughness cross-sectional area is 50% in a bearing ratio curve of roughness cross-sectional areas obtained when a surface roughness of the edge surface obtained after the edge surface is etched by 2.5 μm is measured.

Claims (40)

1. A magnetic-disk glass substrate containing an alkaline earth metal component as a glass composition, the magnetic-disk glass substrate comprising:

an edge surface that is a mirror surface,

the edge surface including a surface having a roughness percentage of 40% or more and 68% or less when a bearing ratio of a roughness cross-sectional area is 50% in a bearing ratio curve of roughness cross-sectional areas obtained when a surface roughness of the edge surface obtained after the edge surface is etched by 2.5 μm is measured.

2. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein

the roughness percentage is 50% or more.

3. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein

the roughness percentage is 60% or less.

4. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein

an arithmetic average surface roughness of the mirror surface is 0.015 μm or less.

5. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein

a glass transition point of the glass composition that constitutes the magnetic-disk glass substrate is 700° C. or more.

6. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein

the glass composition that constitutes the magnetic-disk glass substrate is alkali-free glass.

7. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein

the glass substrate is a magnetic-disk glass substrate that is to be mounted in a hard disk drive together with a magnetic head provided with a DFH (dynamic flying height) function.

8. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein

the glass substrate is a glass substrate that is to be used as a magnetic disk for an energy-assisted magnetic recording method.

9. A magnetic disk, wherein

a surface of the magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 1 has at least a magnetic film.

10. A glass substrate intermediate containing an alkaline earth metal component as a glass composition and serving as a blank for a magnetic-disk glass substrate, the glass substrate intermediate comprising:

an edge surface that is a mirror surface,

the edge surface including a surface having a roughness percentage of 40% or more and 68% or less when a bearing ratio of a roughness cross-sectional area is 50% in a bearing ratio curve of roughness cross-sectional areas obtained when a surface roughness of the edge surface obtained after the edge surface is etched by 2.5 μm is measured.

11. The glass substrate intermediate according to claim 10 , wherein

the roughness percentage is 50% or more.

12. The glass substrate intermediate according to claim 10 , wherein

the roughness percentage is 60% or less.

13. The glass substrate intermediate according to claim 10 , wherein

the glass composition that constitutes the glass substrate intermediate is alkali-free glass.

14. A method for manufacturing a magnetic-disk glass substrate, the method comprising:

performing at least polishing processing on a main surface of the glass substrate intermediate according to claim 10 .

15. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein

an arithmetic average roughness Ra of a main surface of the magnetic-disk glass substrate is 0.15 nm or less.

16. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein

a glass transition point of the glass composition that constitutes the magnetic-disk glass substrate is 600° C. or more.

17. The glass substrate intermediate according to claim 10 , wherein

an arithmetic average surface roughness of the mirror surface is 0.015 μm or less.

18. The glass substrate intermediate according to claim 10 , wherein

a glass transition point of the glass composition that constitutes the glass substrate intermediate is 600° C. or more.

19. The glass substrate intermediate according to claim 10 , wherein

a glass transition point of the glass composition that constitutes the glass substrate intermediate is 700° C. or more.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 1, 2017
From: AZUMA, SHUHEI
To: HOYA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 044276/0696 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-195128 · Sep 30, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
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