G11B 17/0405
Closing mechanism
Official title: {Closing mechanism, e.g. door}
G11B17/0405 (Closing mechanism) appears on 254 US grants and 190 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 254
- Published applications
- 190
- Assignees
- 131
- Inventors
- 488
- Latest grant
- 20 Jun 2023
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| 2023 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Archival data storage library20 Jun 2023US 11,682,426 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Removing mechanism of storage device17 Aug 2021US 11,094,352 B2CS Solution Holding Limited
- Disc storage apparatus and disc archive apparatus8 Sep 2020US 10,770,108 B2Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Opening/closing mechanism for rotary cover16 Jul 2019US 10,354,698 B2Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Media playback apparatus and shutter mechanism4 Jun 2019US 10,311,910 B2Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Archival data storage library16 Feb 2023US 2023/0048789 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Removing mechanism of storage device6 May 2021US 2021/0134330 A1CS Solution Holding Limited
- Disc storage apparatus and disc archive apparatus19 Sep 2019US 2019/0287565 A1Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- External electronic device29 Aug 2019US 2019/0265761 A1ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
- Media playback apparatus and shutter mechanism23 Aug 2018US 2018/0240497 A1Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Electronic device using recording medium119US 5,859,828 ASony Corporation · 1999
- Disc drive arrangement for a hard disc cartridge with a read/write head retract mechanism87US 4,683,506 ASyquest Technology, Inc. · 1987
- Portable audio system with docking cradle85US 7,689,197 B2Bose Corporation · 2010
- Disc drive arrangement71US 4,504,879 ASyquest Technology, Inc. · 1985
- Data storage device with removable cartridge having shutter unlocking and disk unrestraining arrangements65US 5,481,420 A1996