G11B 17/0284
By clampers
Official title: {by clampers}
G11B17/0284 (By clampers) appears on 395 US grants and 251 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 395
- Published applications
- 251
- Assignees
- 143
- Inventors
- 787
- Latest grant
- 29 Apr 2025
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| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 12 | 9 |
| 2002 | 16 | 17 |
| 2003 | 14 | 23 |
| 2004 | 16 | 16 |
| 2005 | 15 | 30 |
| 2006 | 13 | 21 |
| 2007 | 18 | 25 |
| 2008 | 20 | 19 |
| 2009 | 10 | 16 |
| 2010 | 12 | 14 |
| 2011 | 11 | 10 |
| 2012 | 10 | 11 |
| 2013 | 12 | 9 |
| 2014 | 12 | 13 |
| 2015 | 10 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2 | 1 |
| 2017 | 4 | 2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 6 | 5 |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Retention structures and systems for record or vinyl playback devices or systems29 Apr 2025US 12,288,571 B2Koolance, Inc.
- Clamp member and hard disk drive device11 Mar 2025US 12,249,347 B2MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
- Removable disk clamp for read-write device in archival data storage library31 Dec 2024US 12,183,366 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Optical disc drive and electronic equipment30 Apr 2024US 11,972,776 B2Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
- Removable disk clamp for read-write device in archival data storage library12 Sep 2023US 11,756,583 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Optical disc drive25 Jun 2026US 2026/0179653 A1Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
- Clamp member and hard disk drive device27 Jun 2024US 2024/0212712 A1MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
- Retention structures and systems for record or vinyl playback devices or systems1 Feb 2024US 2024/0038259 A1Koolance, Inc.
- Removable disk clamp for read-write device in archival data storage library9 Nov 2023US 2023/0360675 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Optical disc drive and electronic equipment18 May 2023US 2023/0154496 A1Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Clamping apparatus for clamping a disk in a disk drive60US 6,577,586 B1LG Electronics Inc. · 2003
- Bayonet-style disk clamp49US 8,693,140 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2014
- Apparatus for centering and clamping a flexible magnetic recording disc45US 4,125,883 AMemorex Corporation · 1978
- Device for clamping a flexible disk38US 4,705,279 AYe Data Inc. · 1987
- Disk clamp and centering apparatus for a beam addressable disk drive system37US 5,001,700 ALiteral Corporation · 1991