Sony Corporation

Shin-etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.

Mitsumaru Chemical Co. Ltd.

Shigeo Kimura

Masashi Somezawa

Hiroshi Yoshioka

Yoshio Inoue

Minoru Takamizawa

Kunio Kobayashi

Yuji Hinoto

Yoshiaki Hisagen

Shigetaka Higuchi

Toshihiko Yamada

Takeshi Koike

Tsunekazu Terui

Masaatsu Iwasaki

Setuo Kawagishi

Terui Tsunekazu

Takeshi c/o Sony Energytec Inc Koike

An electrode plate in which electrode active material powder and an electrode mixture layer mainly composed of a thermoplastic binder are held on a conductive substrate is crushed. Then, the crushed materials are mixed with organic solvent so that a coating material made of the crushed electrode is prepared. The coating material made of the crushed electrode is applied to the surface of the conductive substrate so that an electrode is manufactured. As an alternative to this, an electrode mixture coating material made of electrode active material powder, thermoplastic resin and organic solvent is dried so that a solid electrode is obtained. Crushed materials obtained by crushing the solid electrode are mixed with organic solvent so that a coating material made of the crushed electrode is prepared. The coating material made of the crushed electrode is applied to the conductive substrate so that an electrode is manufactured. The manufacturing methods enable an electrode having excellent characteristics to be manufactured with a low cost by reusing a waste coating material generated because of a process for manufacturing electrodes or scraps of electrodes or electrodes included in spent batteries.

Method for manufacturing electrode

Improved magnetic media comprising a non-magnetic substrate and a magnetic layer formed on at least one side of the substrate. The magnetic recording media are provided in a variety of ways with a specific type of organosilane compound serving as a lubricant and represented by the following general formula: ##STR1## where R is a saturated or unsaturated monovalent hydrocarbon residue having from 7 to 21 carbon atoms, n is 0, 1 or 2, and p is an integer from 1 to 12. The organosilane lubricant compound may be incorporated in the magnetic layer itself, in a back coating layer, or it may constitute a layer on the magnetic layer or on the back coating layer.

Magnetic recording medium

A magnetic recording medium having a layer containing as a lubricant one or more organo-polysiloxane compounds having the following formula (I): ##STR1## (wherein R.sub.1 is a divalent hydrocarbon residue having 1 to 5 carbon atoms; R.sub.2 is a monovalent hydrocarbon residue having from 7 to 21 carbon atoms; R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 may be the same or different and are --CH.sub.3, --(CH.sub.2).sub.2 (CF.sub.2).sub.k CF.sub.3 or --R.sub.1 SCOR.sub.2 ; k is 0 or an integer ranging from 1 to 12; each of l, m and n is independently 0 or an integer ranging from 1 to 200 and the sum of 1+m+n is up to 300, with the proviso that when at least one of R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 is the group --R.sub.1 SCOR.sub.2, each of l, m and n may be 0 and that when at least one of R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 is a group other than the group --R.sub.1 SCOR.sub.2, each of l and m may be 0 but n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200).

The magnetic recording media are constructed such that a lubricating layer containing an amine compound represented by the formula: ##STR1## (wherein R is a hydrocarbon residue having from 7 to 21 carbon atoms and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 10) is disposed on at least one surface of a non-magnetic substrate with a magnetic layer. The magnetic recording media have an improved lubricating characteristics with a low friction coefficient.

Magnetic recording medium with amino lubricating layer

The invention provides a novel diorganopolysiloxane compound composed of dimethysiloxane units, methyl (2-perfluoroalkylethyl)siloxane units and methyl acyloxyalkylsiloxane units. The novel diorganopolysiloxane compounds of the invention have excellent lubricating properties so that they are useful as an additive ingredient in various materials such as coating compositions, magnetic layer of recording tapes and the like where lubricity or mold releasability is essential.

Novel diorganopolysiloxane compounds

A magnetic recording medium having a layer containing as a lubricant one or more organo-polysiloxane compounds having the following formula (I): ##STR1## (wherein each of A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 is independently --CH.sub.3, --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --(CF.sub.2).sub.q --CF.sub.3 or --R.sub.1 OCOR.sub.2 ; R.sub.1 is a divalent hydrocarbon residue having 1 to 5 carbon atoms; R.sub.2 is a monovalent hydrocarbon residue having from 7 to 21 carbon atoms; each of l, m and n is independently O or an integer ranging from 1 to 200; and each of p and q is independently O or an integer ranging from 1 to 12; provided that when at least one of the groups A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 is the group --R.sub.1 OCOR.sub.2, each l, m and n may be O and that, when each group A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 is one of the groups other than the group --R.sub.1 OCOR.sub.2, each l and m may be O and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200).

In a magnetic recording medium comprising a flexible non-magnetic base and a magnetic layer carried by the base, composed of magnetic powder dispersed in a resinous binder, wherein the flexible non-magnetic base has a Young's modulus not less than 350 Kg/mm.sup.2 in the longitudinal direction and a Young's modulus not less than 500 Kg/mm.sup.2 in the direction transverse to the longitudinal direction, and a thickness from 6 to 14 microns, a ratio of the Young's modulus of the base in the longitudinal direction to the Young's modulus of the base in the direction transverse to the longitudinal direction is from 0.5 to 0.9, the magnetic layer has a Young's modulus from 700 to 1400 Kg/mm.sup.2 in the longitudinal direction and a Young's modulus from 400 to 1100 Kg/mm.sup.2 in the direction transverse to the longitudinal direction, and a thickness from 2 to 5 microns, a ratio of the Young's modulus of the magnetic layer in the longitudinal direction to the Young's modulus of the magnetic layer in the direction transverse to the longitudinal direction is from 1.3 to 1.9.

A magnetic recording medium comprising a base, for example, of a non-magnetic plastic resin, and a magnetic layer coated on the base and composed of a binder with a magnetic powder dispersed therein, is provided with a friction-reducing additive in the magnetic layer constituted by a boron compound obtained by the esterification of boric acid with a polyhydric alcohol having vicinal hydroxyl groups, such as, glycerin. The amount of such boron compound is from 1 to 15, and preferably, from 4 to 10 parts by weight for each 100 parts by weight of the binder. The preferred boron compounds are those including mono- or di-esters of a fatty acid with or without ethylene oxide.

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Tagajo, Japan

Shigeo Kimura