G11B 11/1058
Flying heads
Official title: {Flying heads}
G11B11/1058 (Flying heads) appears on 448 US grants and 171 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 448
- Published applications
- 171
- Assignees
- 100
- Inventors
- 592
- Latest grant
- 28 Jun 2022
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1991 | 5 | 0 |
| 1992 | 11 | 0 |
| 1993 | 13 | 0 |
| 1994 | 10 | 0 |
| 1995 | 11 | 0 |
| 1996 | 17 | 0 |
| 1997 | 16 | 0 |
| 1998 | 11 | 0 |
| 1999 | 29 | 0 |
| 2000 | 51 | 0 |
| 2001 | 54 | 20 |
| 2002 | 39 | 40 |
| 2003 | 53 | 23 |
| 2004 | 40 | 23 |
| 2005 | 18 | 14 |
| 2006 | 12 | 9 |
| 2007 | 6 | 5 |
| 2008 | 9 | 5 |
| 2009 | 6 | 9 |
| 2010 | 6 | 16 |
| 2011 | 11 | 2 |
| 2012 | 8 | 3 |
| 2013 | 3 | 0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Recording head with focusing structure28 Jun 2022US 11,373,679 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Recording head with focusing structure31 Aug 2021US 11,107,497 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Head gimbal assembly and magnetic disk device having the same18 Aug 2020US 10,748,576 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- System and method for detecting reader-writer offset in a heat-assisted magnetic recording head7 Feb 2017US 9,564,157 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Concurrent modulation and frictional heating head disk contact detection17 Jan 2017US 9,548,072 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Head gimbal assembly and magnetic disk device having the same29 Aug 2019US 2019/0267038 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Concurrent modulation and frictional heating head disk contact detection11 Aug 2016US 2016/0232931 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Recording/reproducing apparatus and recording/producing system11 Oct 2012US 2012/0257489 A1Sony Corporation
- Recording/reproducing apparatus and recording/producing system4 Oct 2012US 2012/0250485 A1Sony Corporation
- Integrated micro-optical systems and cameras including the same19 Apr 2012US 2012/0094066 A1Digital Optics Corporation East*
Most cited
By later US patents
- High numerical aperture optical focusing device having a conical incident facet and a parabolic reflector for use in data storage systems185US 6,377,535 B1Read-Rite Corporation · 2002
- Magneto-optical data storage system having an optical-processing flying head180US 6,081,499 ASeagate Technology LLC · 2000
- High numerical aperture optical focusing device for use in data storage systems179US 6,185,051 B2Read-Rite Corporation · 2001
- Near field magneto-optical head made using wafer processing techniques167US 6,130,779 ARead-Rite Corporation · 2000
- High numerical aperture optical focusing device for use in data storage systems165US 6,229,782 B1Read-Rite Corporation · 2001