Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Shin-Ichiro Dezawa

Tatsuji Kitamoto

Goro Akashi

Masaaki Fujiyama

Takahito Miyoshi

Nobuo Yamazaki

Toshimitu Okutu

Kenichi Masuyama

Koji Sasazawa

Hideaki Kosha

Norio Nasu

Nobuo Aoki

A process for preparing cobalt-modified ferromagnetic iron oxide by modifying ferromagnetic .gamma.-Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 particles with cobalt, wherein prior to cobalt modification treatment, the ferromagnetic .gamma.-Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 is heat treated at a temperature in the range of from about -200.degree. C. to +30.degree. C. of the critical temperature at which partial transition of .gamma.-Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 into .alpha.-Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 occurs and which reduces the saturation magnetization to 99% of the saturation magnetization measured before the heat treatment, and the atomic ratio of Fe.sup.++ /Fe.sup.+++ after the cobalt modification is 0.00 to 0.10.

Process for producing cobalt-modified ferromagnetic iron oxide

A method for preparing a magnetic recording medium is described, comprising (1) pre-dispersing ferromagnetic particles having an S.sub.BET specific surface area of 35 m.sup.2 /g or more and having an adjusted water content of 0.8 wt % or more with a binder, (2) adding an additional binder and a lubricating agent thereinto, mixing and dispersing them to prepare a diserpsion of a magnetic coating composition, and (3) coating the resulting dispersion of a magnetic coating composition on a non-magnetic support.

Method for preparing magnetic recording medium

A magnetic recording medium which comprises a non-magnetic support having thereon a magnetic layer containing plate-shaped magnetic particles which have axes of easy magnetization perpendicular to their respective plate planes dispersed in a binder, the magnetic particles each having a multiple magnetic domain structure and having a particle diameter equal to or longer than the recorded effective shortest wavelength.

Magnetic recording medium

A magnetic recording medium which comprises a non-magnetic support having thereon two or more magnetic layers comprising magnetic particles in a binder. The magnetic layer(s) other than the topmost layer comprises needle-shaped magnetic particles. The topmost layer comprises plate-shaped magnetic particles which have axes of easy magnetization perpendicular to the individual plate planes and the plate planes are oriented substantially parallel to the surface of the magnetic layer.

In a process for producing a ferromagnetic powder having a high coercive force which comprises adding an aqueous solution containing Co.sup.+2 ions, or both Co.sup.+2 ions and another cation(s), and an alkali solution to a suspension of a ferromagnetic iron oxide containing the metal(s) given by these ion(s), the improvement wherein said ferromagnetic iron oxide is treated with a reducing agent prior to the preparation of the suspension.

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Shin-Ichiro Dezawa