G11B 11/10556
With provision for moving or switching or masking the transducers in or
Official title: {with provision for moving or switching or masking the transducers in or out of their operative position}
G11B11/10556 (With provision for moving or switching or masking the transducers in or) appears on 662 US grants and 143 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 662
- Published applications
- 143
- Assignees
- 88
- Inventors
- 809
- Latest grant
- 7 Feb 2017
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1987 | 4 | 0 |
| 1988 | 7 | 0 |
| 1989 | 5 | 0 |
| 1990 | 9 | 0 |
| 1991 | 30 | 0 |
| 1992 | 25 | 0 |
| 1993 | 33 | 0 |
| 1994 | 33 | 0 |
| 1995 | 33 | 0 |
| 1996 | 47 | 0 |
| 1997 | 59 | 0 |
| 1998 | 47 | 0 |
| 1999 | 54 | 0 |
| 2000 | 42 | 0 |
| 2001 | 65 | 24 |
| 2002 | 44 | 26 |
| 2003 | 26 | 24 |
| 2004 | 30 | 27 |
| 2005 | 17 | 16 |
| 2006 | 15 | 8 |
| 2007 | 13 | 3 |
| 2008 | 7 | 4 |
| 2009 | 4 | 7 |
| 2010 | 7 | 1 |
| 2011 | 3 | 0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G11B 11/10563Access of indexed parts296
- G11B 11/10558In view of the loading or unloading of the carrier197
- G11B 11/10567Mechanically moving the transducers139
- G11B 11/1056Switching or mechanically reversing the magnetic field generator55
- G11B 11/10573Control of relative positioning of the magnetic and optical transducers43
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