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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:
Apr. 06, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03C 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C03C 1/900 ;
Abstract
There are provided a glass substrate for information recording media in which the undulations on the glass substrate surface are optimized, thus contributing to reduction of the flying height, and at the same time preventing the occurrence of head crashes and thermal asperity, and a method of manufacturing the glass substrate. At least one surface of a glass substrate is polished, and the polished at least one surface of the glass substrate is subjected to surface scrubbing using a sponge having an Asker C hardness of not less than 40 according to The Society of Rubber Industry, Japan SRIS 0101.