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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 1989
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
TDK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428143 ; 427131 ; 427132 ; 428141 ; 428323 ; 428694 ; 428900 ;
Abstract
A magnetic recording medium comprising a ferromagnetic metal thin film layer primarily based on cobalt and formed on the surface of a flexible substrate, and an organic topcoat layer containing a radiation curable compound having a molecular weight of less than 2,000, an anti-oxidant, and a lubricant on the surface of the metal thin film layer is provided with protrusions on its surface at an average density of at least 10.sup.5 /a.sup.2 per square millimeter of the surface, the protrusions having a height of 30 to 300 .ANG. where a is the distance of a gap in a magnetic head across which the medium is passed in recording/reproducing operation.