Basf Aktiengesellschaft

Aribert Krug

Roland Falk

Peter Felleisen

Peter Grosshans

Werner Balz

Job-Werner Hartmann

Peter Nagel

Karl Mahler

Georg Huber

Rudolf Sand

Karl Deimling

A method and circuit arrangements for detecting and evaluating dropouts or drop-ins on recording media, comprising reading and modifying the recorded digital signals, the size and type of fault being evaluated on the basis of fixed threshold levels. In the case of a dropout, for example, the fault is weighted by determining the differential of the envelope of the read signal. In the case of a drop-in, other noise signals are left out of consideration by nonlinear emphasis of the drop-in and appropriate choice of the threshold value. A circuit combination enables both dropouts and drop-ins to be detected and evaluated.

Method for detecting and evaluating dropouts in recording media having

Method and circuit arrangements for detecting and evaluating faults in

A process for polishing the ground surfaces of magnetic storage disks which consist of a rigid substrate provided on both sides with a firmly adhering magnetic coating consisting of a magnetic material finely dispersed in an organic polymer and conventional additives, by pressing felt rings or felt disks against the moving magnetic storage disk, to the surface of which an aqueous emulsion containing butyl acetate with or without butane-1,4-diol is applied.

Process for polishing the surfaces of magnetic storage disks

A process and apparatus for producing magnetic discs in which the preferred direction of orientation of the anisotropic magnetic particles, contained in an organic binder system, is tangential to the circumference of the disc. Orientation is effected, prior to solidification of the magnetic layer, by the action of a magnetic field which is formed in the plane of symmetry between at least two pairs of magnetic poles, the poles of each pair being of the same polarity and opposite each other. One pair of poles flares out in cross section toward the plane of symmetry between the pairs of poles, whereas the other pair or pairs of poles of opposite polarity, when viewed in cross section, taper toward the said plane of symmetry to a point, the distance between the poles of such pair(s) being greater than that between the flared poles, and the plane of symmetry of the pairs of poles being in the plane of the disc. Using this process and apparatus, magnetic discs with a non-magnetic metallic base are obtained, in which the anisotropic magnetic particles in the layer of fluid binder applied to the base are oriented tangentially to the circumference of the disc during spin-coating.

Device for the magnetic orientation of magnetic recording media

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