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US 5,844,129 AGranted
Method for determining the magnetic contamination of a surface
AssigneeVacuumschmelze GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsLothar Zapf, Wilhelm Fernengel, Klaus Rehbein
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AssigneeVacuumschmelze GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsLothar Zapf, Wilhelm Fernengel, Klaus Rehbein
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In the manufacture of magnetic data carriers, such for example, hard-disk storages, it must be assured that neither the data carrier itself nor component parts of the data carrier system situated in the proximity has magnetic contaminants. An improved measuring method allows the determination of the magnetic contaminants which were attached to an adhesive tape applied to the surface being examined. The improvement is that a magnetized soft-magnetic measuring substrate has a surface provided with a parting agent which is then brought into contact with the magnetic contaminants adhering to the adhesive tape. A reduction of the remanent field that is produced by this contact represents a criterion for the magnetic contamination of the surface under examination.
In a measuring method for determining a magnetic contamination of a surface, said method applying an adhesive tape to a surface under examination, removing the adhesive tape, and examining the tape for adhering magnetic particles, the improvement comprising the step of examining the tape for adhering magnetic particles comprising providing a measuring substrate composed of soft-magnetic material, magnetizing said measuring substrate, measuring the remanent magnetization of the measuring substrate to obtain a first value, providing a surface of the measuring substrate with a parting agent, applying the adhesive tape for examination against said surface of the measuring substrate provided with the parting agent and moving the adhesive tape relative to the surface, then removing the adhesive tape, measuring the resulting remanent magnetization after removal of the tape to obtain a second value, and then comparing the second value to the first value to determine the magnetic contamination on the adhesive tape.
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