Patent ID: 7139140

Claim:
A magnetic transfer method for applying a transferring magnetic field in a state that a master medium for magnetically transferring in which a magnetic layer is formed in a portion corresponding to information signals on a surface of a substrate, and a magnetic recording medium which is a slave medium for being magnetically transferred, are in close contact with each other, comprising the steps of: providing a magnetic generating device that is rotatably mounted on a magnetic transfer apparatus; applying a magnetic field to the slave medium in a track direction of a slave surface to initial DC magnetize the slave medium previously in the track direction; bringing the master medium and the slave medium into close contact with each other; and applying the transferring magnetic field generated by the magnetic generating device in the track direction of a slave surface to execute a magnetic transfer, wherein an application angle α of the transferring magnetic field is inclined 0≦α≦30° or −30°≦α≦0 with respect to the slave surface, and wherein an application angle β of the transferring magnetic field is 0≦β≦30° or −30°≦β≦0 with respect to the track direction on a plane parallel to the slave surface.