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US 6,649,549 B2Granted
Glass composition for crystallized glass
AssigneeMinolta Co., Ltd.
InventorsHideki Nagata, Hiroshi Yuki, Toshiharu Mori, Hideki Kawai, Kazuhiko Ishimaru
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Abstract
A polished glass disk medium substrate suitable for use as a substrate for a hard disk, a hard disk containing the substrate and methods for making the substrate. The substrate containing glass forming raw materials may be formed so as to have a Young's modulus of 110 or higher.
Claims39
A polished glass disk medium substrate formed of a mixture of glass forming raw materials comprising:
- about 35% to about 50% by weight SiO2;
- about 5% to about 30% by weight Al2O3;
- about 20% to about 22% by weight MgO;
- about 5% to about 12% by weight TiO2, and
- about 0.1% to about 8% by weight Li2O.
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A method of making a glass disk medium substrate comprising:
- heating glass forming raw materials to a temperature sufficiently high to melt the raw materials;
- forming a disk medium substrate;
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- crystallizing the disk medium substrate, wherein said crystallizing comprises heating the disk medium substrate to a temperature, T1, between about 500 and 680° C. to generate crystal nuclei;
- heating at a temperature, T2, between about 680 and about 800° C. to grow crystal nuclei;
- and cooling to obtain crystalized glass, wherein the glass forming raw materials comprise:
- about 35% to about 50% by weight SiO2;
- about 5% to about 30% by weight Al2O3;
- about 20% to about 22% by weight MgO:
- about 5% to about 12% by weight TiO2, and
- about 0.1% to about 8 by weight of Li2O.
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