The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder, in which the ferromagnetic powder is a ferromagnetic powder selected from the group consisting of a hexagonal strontium ferrite powder and an ε-iron oxide powder, the number of recesses having a depth which is ⅓ or more of a minimum recording bit length existing on a surface of the magnetic layer is less than 10/10,000 μm.sup.2, and a ratio d/t.sub.mag of a value d which is ⅓ of the minimum recording bit length to a thickness t.sub.mag of the magnetic layer is 0.15 to 0.50.

In the magnetic tape, in a case where a maximum value of an absolute value of a difference between a servo band spacing obtained before storage in an environment of a temperature of 32° C. and relative humidity of 55% and a servo band spacing obtained after storage in the environment for a storage time T is set to A, and T is defined as 24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours, 96 hours, or 120 hours, a medium life calculated by a linear function of A and a logarithm log.sub.eT of T, that are derived from a value of A and a value of the logarithm log.sub.eT of T obtained for each T is 3 years or longer. The medium life is T in a case where the A satisfies Equation 1: A=1.5−B.

An electromechanical tool including a casing, a shaft driving a tip in rotation and a rotary transformer. The rotating shaft integrates an electronic circuit configured to measure a physical parameter of the shaft, and the rotary transformer includes a stator fixedly attached to the casing and a rotor affixed to the rotating shaft. The stator integrates a first coil and a first support of this first coil, and the rotor integrates a second coil and a second support of this second coil. The supports are made out of plasto-ferrite material.

The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder. A fluorine-containing compound is included in a portion on the non-magnetic support on a magnetic layer side, and a ratio θr of a water contact angle measured on a surface of the magnetic layer after sliding on a magnetic head to a water contact angle measured on the surface of the magnetic layer before sliding on the magnetic head is 0.70 or more.

A magnetic tape in which an arithmetic average roughness Ra measured at a surface of the magnetic layer with an atomic force microscope is 2.0 nm or less, and in an environment with a temperature of 23° C. and a relative humidity of 50%, an AlFeSil abrasion value.sub.45° of a surface of the magnetic layer measured at a tilt angle of 45° of an AlFeSil prism is 20 μm to 50 μm, a standard deviation of an AlFeSil abrasion value of the surface of the magnetic layer measured at each of tilt angles of 0°, 15°, 30°, and 45° of the AlFeSil prism is 30 μm or less, and the tilt angle of the AlFeSil prism is an angle formed by a longitudinal direction of the AlFeSil prism and a width direction of the magnetic tape.

A magnetic tape in which a C—H derived C concentration calculated from a C—H peak surface area ratio in C1s spectra obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy performed on a surface of the magnetic layer at a photoelectron take-off angle of 10 degrees is 45 atom % to 65 atom %, and in an environment with a temperature of 32° C. and a relative humidity of 80%, a frictional force F45° on the surface of the magnetic layer with respect to an LTO8 head measured at a head tilt angle of 45° is 4 gf to 15 gf, and a standard deviation of a frictional force F on the surface of the magnetic layer with respect to the LTO8 head measured at each of head tilt angles of 0°, 15°, 30°, and 45° is 10 gf or less,

In the magnetic tape, a maximum value of magnetic tape deformation amounts after storage in each of five environments for 1 year is 0.50 μm or less, a rate of a change of magnetic tape deformation amount with respect to a change in relative humidity obtained from the five magnetic tape deformation amounts is 0.0001 μm/% to 0.0500 μm/%, and a rate of a change of the magnetic tape deformation amount with respect to a change in temperature obtained from the five magnetic tape deformation amounts is 0.0010 μm/° C. to 0.1000 μm/° C.

The magnetic tape cartridge includes a magnetic tape that is accommodated in the magnetic tape cartridge while being wound around a reel hub. The magnetic tape has a non-magnetic support and a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder, and includes one or more components selected from the group consisting of a fatty acid and a fatty acid amide in a portion on the magnetic layer side on the non-magnetic support, and after the magnetic tape cartridge is stored in an environment of an atmosphere temperature of 60° C. and a relative humidity of 80% for 24 hours, a C—H derived C concentration calculated from a C—H peak area ratio of C1s spectra obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis performed at a photoelectron take-off angle of 10 degrees on a surface of the magnetic layer in an inner region during winding of the magnetic tape is 45 at % or more.

The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder. The ferromagnetic powder is a ferromagnetic powder selected from the group consisting of a hexagonal strontium ferrite powder and an ε-iron oxide powder. The standard deviation of a height of the magnetic projection portion on a surface of the magnetic layer is in a range of 0.5 to 2.5 nm.

An object is to provide a magnetic recording medium having excellent traveling stability and a thin total thickness. The present technology provides a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium including: a magnetic layer; an underlayer; a base layer; and a back layer, in which a surface on a side of the magnetic layer has a kurtosis of 3.0 or more, a surface on a side of the back layer has a kurtosis of 2.0 or more, the surface on the magnetic layer side has arithmetic average roughness R.sub.a of 2.5 nm or less, the base layer includes a polyester as a main component, the magnetic recording medium has an average thickness t.sub.T of 5.6 μm or less, the magnetic recording medium includes a lubricant, the lubricant includes a fatty acid and a fatty acid ester, and a mass ratio between the fatty acid and the fatty acid ester extracted with hexane satisfies fatty acid/fatty acid ester≤0.6, and the magnetic recording medium has pores, and the pores have an average diameter of 6 nm or more and 11 nm or less when the diameters of the pores are measured in a state where the lubricant has been removed from the magnetic recording medium and the magnetic recording medium has been dried.