G06F 1/187
Mounting of fixed or removable disk drives
G06F1/187 (Mounting of fixed or removable disk drives) appears on 2,191 US grants and 2,202 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 2,191
- Published applications
- 2,202
- Assignees
- 500
- Inventors
- 3,526
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 4 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 10 | 0 |
| 1993 | 9 | 0 |
| 1994 | 13 | 0 |
| 1995 | 7 | 0 |
| 1996 | 16 | 0 |
| 1997 | 19 | 0 |
| 1998 | 42 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 53 | 0 |
| 2001 | 60 | 4 |
| 2002 | 73 | 53 |
| 2003 | 83 | 105 |
| 2004 | 59 | 79 |
| 2005 | 56 | 114 |
| 2006 | 79 | 102 |
| 2007 | 88 | 121 |
| 2008 | 79 | 102 |
| 2009 | 97 | 90 |
| 2010 | 75 | 80 |
| 2011 | 73 | 156 |
| 2012 | 110 | 161 |
| 2013 | 115 | 140 |
| 2014 | 86 | 101 |
| 2015 | 100 | 90 |
| 2016 | 98 | 94 |
| 2017 | 106 | 85 |
| 2018 | 90 | 70 |
| 2019 | 103 | 67 |
| 2020 | 58 | 47 |
| 2021 | 55 | 72 |
| 2022 | 66 | 62 |
| 2023 | 57 | 56 |
| 2024 | 44 | 66 |
| 2025 | 54 | 45 |
| 2026 | 34 | 40 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- External data storage device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0282246 A1SK hynix Inc.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Adapter and a removable slide-in cartridge for an information storage system340US 4,941,841 A1990
- Packaging architecture for a data server211US 5,684,671 ASequent Computer Systems, Inc. · 1997
- Connector device having two storage decks and three contact arrays for one hard disk drive package or two memory cards208US 5,299,089 AE. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company · 1994
- Apparatus for removably supporting a plurality of hot plug-connected hard disk drives184US 5,277,615 ACompaq Computer Corporation · 1994
- Integrated computer module182US 6,389,499 B1Western Digital Ventures, Inc. · 2002