Glass substrate for magnetic disk and magnetic disk

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9595286-B2
Application number	US-201414770025-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 28, 2014
Priority date	Mar 1, 2013
Publication date	Mar 14, 2017
Grant date	Mar 14, 2017

Abstract

A magnetic-disk glass substrate has a circular center hole, a pair of main surfaces and an edge surface. The edge surface has a side wall surface and chamfered surfaces interposed between the side wall surface and the main surfaces, and a roundness of an edge surface on an outer circumferential side is 1.5 μm or less. Also, a midpoint A between centers of two least square circle respectively derived from outlines in a circumferential direction respectively obtained at two positions spaced apart by 200 μm in a substrate thickness direction on the side wall surface on the outer circumferential side, and centers B and C respectively derived from a respective one of two chamfered surfaces on the outer circumferential side in the substrate thickness direction, are located such that a sum of respective distances between A and B, and A and C, is 1 μm or less.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A magnetic-disk glass substrate having a circular hole at a center, the magnetic-disk glass substrate comprising:
a pair of main surfaces; and
an edge surface, the edge surface having a side wall surface and chamfered surfaces interposed between the side wall surface and the main surfaces,
a substrate thickness of the magnetic-disk glass substrate being 0.635 mm or less,
a roundness of the edge surface on an outer circumferential side being 1.5 μm or less, and
when outlines in a circumferential direction are respectively obtained at two positions spaced apart by 200 μm in a substrate thickness direction on the side wall surface on the outer circumferential side, and a midpoint between centers of two least square circles respectively derived from the outlines is given as a midpoint A, and
when outlines in the circumferential direction are respectively obtained at positions that are located at centers of the two chamfered surfaces on the outer circumferential side in the substrate thickness direction, and among centers of least square circles derived from the outlines, a center derived from one chamfered surface is given as a center B, and a center derived from the other chamfered surface is given as a center C,
a sum of a distance between the midpoint A and the center B and a distance between the midpoint A and the center C is 1 μm or less.

2. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein
the sum is 0.5 μm or less.

3. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein
in a case where, with regard to a surface roughness of the side wall surface on the outer circumferential side, a maximum height in the substrate thickness direction is Rz(t) and a maximum height in the circumferential direction is Rz(c), Rz(t)/Rz(c) is 1.2 or less.

4. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein
when a measurement point is provided every 30 degrees in the circumferential direction, referenced on the center of the magnetic-disk glass substrate, and a radius of curvature of a shape of a portion between the side wall surface and the chamfered surface on the outer circumferential side at the measurement point is derived, a difference in the radius of curvature between adjacent measurement points is 0.01 mm or less.

5. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein
outlines of the side wall surface in the circumferential direction are respectively obtained at a plurality of different positions in the substrate thickness direction, the different positions include at least three positions spaced apart by 100 μm in the substrate thickness direction on the side wall surface on the outer circumferential side, an inscribed circle and a circumscribed circle of each outline are obtained, and a difference in the radius between a smallest inscribed circle and a largest circumscribed circle is 5 μm or less.

6. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 1 , wherein
the substrate thickness of the magnetic-disk glass substrate is 0.5 mm or less.

7. A magnetic disk in which at least a magnetic layer is formed on a main surface of the magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 1 .

8. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 2 , wherein
in a case where, with regard to a surface roughness of the side wall surface on the outer circumferential side, a maximum height in the substrate thickness direction is Rz(t) and a maximum height in the circumferential direction is Rz(c), Rz(t)/Rz(c) is 1.2 or less.

9. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 2 , wherein
when a measurement point is provided every 30 degrees in the circumferential direction, referenced on the center of the magnetic-disk glass substrate, and a radius of curvature of a shape of a portion between the side wall surface and the chamfered surface on the outer circumferential side at the measurement point is derived, a difference in the radius of curvature between adjacent measurement points is 0.01 mm or less.

10. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 3 , wherein
when a measurement point is provided every 30 degrees in the circumferential direction, referenced on the center of the magnetic-disk glass substrate, and a radius of curvature of a shape of a portion between the side wall surface and the chamfered surface on the outer circumferential side at the measurement point is derived, a difference in the radius of curvature between adjacent measurement points is 0.01 mm or less.

11. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 2 , wherein
outlines of the side wall surface in the circumferential direction are respectively obtained at a plurality of different positions in the substrate thickness direction, the different positions include at least three positions spaced apart by 100 μm in the substrate thickness direction on the side wall surface on the outer circumferential side, an inscribed circle and a circumscribed circle of each outline are obtained, and a difference in the radius between a smallest inscribed circle and a largest circumscribed circle is 5 μm or less.

12. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 3 , wherein
outlines of the side wall surface in the circumferential direction are respectively obtained at a plurality of different positions in the substrate thickness direction, the different positions include at least three positions spaced apart by 100 μm in the substrate thickness direction on the side wall surface on the outer circumferential side, an inscribed circle and a circumscribed circle of each outline are obtained, and a difference in the radius between a smallest inscribed circle and a largest circumscribed circle is 5 μm or less.

13. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 4 , wherein
outlines of the side wall surface in the circumferential direction are respectively obtained at a plurality of different positions in the substrate thickness direction, the different positions include at least three positions spaced apart by 100 μm in the substrate thickness direction on the side wall surface on the outer circumferential side, an inscribed circle and a circumscribed circle of each outline are obtained, and a difference in the radius between a smallest inscribed circle and a largest circumscribed circle is 5 μm or less.

14. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 2 , wherein
the substrate thickness of the magnetic-disk glass substrate is 0.5 mm or less.

15. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 3 , wherein
the substrate thickness of the magnetic-disk glass substrate is 0.5 mm or less.

16. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 4 , wherein
the substrate thickness of the magnetic-disk glass substrate is 0.5 mm or less.

17. The magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 5 , wherein
the substrate thickness of the magnetic-disk glass substrate is 0.5 mm or less.

18. A magnetic disk in which at least a magnetic layer is formed on a main surface of the magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 2 .

19. A magnetic disk in which at least a magnetic layer is formed on a main surface of the magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 3 .

20. A magnetic disk in which at least a magnetic layer is formed on a main surface of the magnetic-disk glass substrate according to claim 4 .

Assignees

• Hoya Corp

Inventors

• Tamaki Masanori
• Takahashi Takeyoshi
• Ueda Masaaki

Classifications

• G11B5/8404

  manufacturing base layers · CPC title

• G11B5/7315

  Physics · mapped topic

• G11B5/82 Primary

  Disk carriers · CPC title

• G11B5/73

  Base layers {, i.e. all non-magnetic layers lying under a lowermost magnetic recording layer, e.g. including any non-magnetic layer in between a first magnetic recording layer and either an underlying substrate or a soft magnetic underlayer} · CPC title

• G11B5/739 Primary

  Magnetic recording media substrates · CPC title