B24B 37/048
Of sliders and magnetic heads of hard disc drives or the like
Official title: {of sliders and magnetic heads of hard disc drives or the like}
B24B37/048 (Of sliders and magnetic heads of hard disc drives or the like) appears on 185 US grants and 119 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B24B- Granted patents
- 185
- Published applications
- 119
- Assignees
- 60
- Inventors
- 372
- Latest grant
- 29 Apr 2025
Filings by year
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| 1998 | 9 | 0 |
| 1999 | 7 | 0 |
| 2000 | 11 | 0 |
| 2001 | 14 | 9 |
| 2002 | 14 | 17 |
| 2003 | 11 | 11 |
| 2004 | 15 | 10 |
| 2005 | 9 | 8 |
| 2006 | 12 | 5 |
| 2007 | 4 | 6 |
| 2008 | 5 | 5 |
| 2009 | 2 | 1 |
| 2010 | 5 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2 | 3 |
| 2012 | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | 2 | 2 |
| 2014 | 0 | 5 |
| 2015 | 5 | 8 |
| 2016 | 6 | 5 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4 |
| 2018 | 4 | 4 |
| 2019 | 9 | 4 |
| 2020 | 6 | 2 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 4 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Adhesive for processing a microelectronic substrate, and related methods29 Apr 2025US 12,288,575 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Adhesive for processing a microelectronic substrate, and related methods5 Sep 2023US 11,749,300 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Methods of lapping while heating one or more features, and related sliders, row bars, and systems4 Jul 2023US 11,691,242 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Methods of lapping while heating one or more features, and related sliders, row bars, and systems19 Jul 2022US 11,389,924 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Articles for lapping stacked row bars having in-wafer ELG circuits31 May 2022US 11,344,990 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Adhesive for processing a microelectronic substrate, and related methods9 Nov 2023US 2023/0360672 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Methods of lapping while heating one or more features, and related sliders, row bars, and systems5 Oct 2023US 2023/0311268 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Composite Hard Masks For Ultra-Thin Magnetic Sensors17 Aug 2023US 2023/0258747 A1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Hard disk drive head slider for secondary actuator stroke improvement27 Oct 2022US 2022/0343949 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Methods of lapping while heating one or more features, and related sliders, row bars, and systems28 Jul 2022US 2022/0234166 A1Seagate Technology LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Lapping control system for magnetic transducers67US 4,912,883 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1990
- Automated system for lapping air bearing surface of magnetic heads62US 5,203,119 ARead-Rite Corporation · 1993
- Electrical access for electrical lapping guides59US 5,494,473 AQuantum Corporation · 1996
- Lapping process using micro-advancement for optimizing flatness of a magnetic head air bearing surface51US 5,749,769 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1998
- Ultimate inductive head integrated lapping system50US 5,361,547 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1994