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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:
Nov. 12, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/733 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/733 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is a magnetic recording medium exhibiting a high C/N ratio in high-density magnetic recording. The magnetic recording medium has, on a flexible nonmagnetic support, at least a nonmagnetic layer containing a nonmagnetic powder and a binder and a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder and a binder on the nonmagnetic layer, where the magnetic layer has an average thickness d in the range of from 0.01 to 0.3 &mgr;m, said nonmagnetic powder has an acicular shape, and the ratio of a mean length L of the major axis of the nonmagnetic powder to an average thickness D of said nonmagnetic layer satisfies the relationship of 1/10≦L/D≦2.