Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Hideki Yoshida

Takashi Suzuki

Ryuji Sugita

Kunio Hibino

Toshiaki Kunieda

Koichi Shinohara

Hisayo Ohata

A tape cassette has a magnetic tape wound and housed in a casing, the magnetic tape having a magnetic recording layer in the form of a ferromagnetic thin metal film. The tape cassette has a trap layer disposed near a portion of the magnetic tape. The trap layer is made of a resin having at least an amino group or an amide group. Even when the tape cassette is used in harsh environments in the presence of corrosive gases, the trap layer adsorps corrosive gases which have entered the tape cassette, thereby protecting the magnetic tape against deterioration.

Tape cassette for adsorbing and trapping corrosive gases

A thin film magnetic recording medium has a shape imparting substance disposed on a substrate, and a thin-film layer including at least a magnetic layer formed on the shape imparting substance. The area of each of the projecting portions of the thin-film layer which are formed by virtue of the shape imparting substance is set such as to be more than four times as large as the area of each of the particles of the shape imparting substance. The center line of each of the projecting portions of the thin-film layer may be made offset from the center line of the corresponding particle of the shape imparting substance. Thus, it is possible for the thin film magnetic recording medium to display excellent electromagnetic response properties and runability as well as durability even under a harsh environment.

Thin film magnetic recording media

A magnetic recording medium of the type in which a thin magnetic film mainly comprising Co; Co and Ni; Co and Cr; or Co, Ni and Cr is deposited on a nonmagnetic substrate; the thin magnetic film comprises a native oxidized surface adjacent to the film layer at the surface and a deep layer below it; and the average oxygen content in the surface layer is greater than that in the deep layer.

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Nishinomiya, Japan

Hideki Yoshida