F16C 2370/12
Hard disk drives or the like
F16C2370/12 (Hard disk drives or the like) appears on 1,283 US grants and 1,139 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16C- Granted patents
- 1,283
- Published applications
- 1,139
- Assignees
- 200
- Inventors
- 1,432
- Latest grant
- 17 Mar 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 45 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 44 | 0 |
| 2001 | 54 | 16 |
| 2002 | 59 | 84 |
| 2003 | 51 | 81 |
| 2004 | 63 | 90 |
| 2005 | 55 | 69 |
| 2006 | 69 | 80 |
| 2007 | 41 | 70 |
| 2008 | 41 | 74 |
| 2009 | 43 | 69 |
| 2010 | 49 | 66 |
| 2011 | 41 | 52 |
| 2012 | 53 | 64 |
| 2013 | 76 | 110 |
| 2014 | 82 | 83 |
| 2015 | 61 | 37 |
| 2016 | 27 | 25 |
| 2017 | 21 | 12 |
| 2018 | 13 | 5 |
| 2019 | 10 | 13 |
| 2020 | 11 | 9 |
| 2021 | 9 | 8 |
| 2022 | 6 | 6 |
| 2023 | 5 | 6 |
| 2024 | 5 | 2 |
| 2025 | 3 | 6 |
| 2026 | 2 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Motor17 Mar 2026US 12,580,442 B2Nidec Corporation
- Grease composition, pivot assembly bearing, and bearing apparatus including the bearing27 Jan 2026US 12,534,680 B2MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
- Ball bearing holding structure and fan motor14 Oct 2025US 12,445,010 B2Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd.
- Fluid dynamic bearing, fluid dynamic bearing device, and motor2 Sep 2025US 12,404,896 B2Ntn Corporation
- Spindle motor with bearing part arrangement and disk driving device having same20 May 2025US 12,308,047 B2Nidec Corporation
- Bearing device, method of manufacturing bearing device, hard disk drive device, and motor21 May 2026US 2026/0139710 A1MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
- Fluid dynamic bearing, spindle motor, and disk drive device14 May 2026US 2026/0132350 A1
- Fluid dynamic pressure bearing lubricant oil composition, fluid dynamic pressure bearing, and fluid dynamic pressure bearing apparatus27 Nov 2025US 2025/0361908 A1Nok Klueber Co., Ltd.
- Fluid dynamic bearing and fluid dynamic bearing device including same7 Aug 2025US 2025/0251017 A1Ntn Corporation
- Spindle motor and disk driving device having same7 Aug 2025US 2025/0252973 A1Nidec Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Spindle motor having air dynamic pressure bearing and rotating device having the spindle motor as driving source81US 6,127,756 ASeiko Instruments Inc. · 2000
- Dynamic pressure bearing motor80US 6,215,217 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Sankyo Seiki Seisakusho · 2001
- Hydrodynamic bearing having inverted surface tension seals78US 5,533,811 AQuantum Corporation · 1996
- Fluid bearing with asymmetrical groove pattern70US 5,427,456 ASynektron Corporation · 1995
- Hydrodynamic bearing with controlled lubricant pressure distribution68US 5,516,212 AWestern Digital Corporation · 1996