US Patent Issued to RESONAC HARD DISK on April 14 for "Heating device and method of manufacturing magnetic recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,046, issued on April 14, was assigned to RESONAC HARD DISK Corp. (Chiba, Japan).

"Heating device and method of manufacturing magnetic recording medium" was invented by Gohei Kurokawa (Chiba, Japan), Haruhisa Ohashi (Chiba, Japan) and Takahiro Inoue (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a heating device capable of heating a surface of a workpiece having a disk shape with a hole in the center at high productivity and uniformity, a heating device for heating a workpiece by irradiating workpiece with light includes an irradiating part facing at least one of a pair of main surfaces of workpiece to irradiate workpiece with ligh...