Patent ID: 6805942
Filing Date: 2004-10-19
Classification: G11B,Y10T

Abstract:
A magnetic recording tape comprising:a magnetic layer comprising a ferromagnetic powder and a binder; a nonmagnetic layer; a support; and a back coating layer, in this order, wherein the magnetic layer comprises, as the binder, a polyurethane resin comprising a dimer diol as a diol component, the back coating layer comprises nonmagnetic inorganic powders and from 1 to 5 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of a total amount of the nonmagnetic inorganic powders, of a lubricant, and a number of protrusions having a height, as measured by an atomic force microscope, of from 30 to 100 nm present on a surface of the back coating layer is from 10 to 1,000 per a 90-&mgr;m square.