G11B 17/041
Specially adapted for discs contained within cartridges
Official title: specially adapted for discs contained within cartridges
G11B17/041 (Specially adapted for discs contained within cartridges) appears on 1,193 US grants and 345 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
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- 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.
- Cassette shutter11 May 2021US 11,004,469 B2Hyosung Tns Inc.
- Disk holder for disk cartridge3 Dec 2019US 10,497,392 B2Sony Corporation
- Media playback apparatus and shutter mechanism4 Jun 2019US 10,311,910 B2Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Disc archive apparatus7 May 2019US 10,283,158 B2Sony Corporation
- Archival data storage library16 Feb 2023US 2023/0048789 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Rotary cage type optical disk library storage system capable of replacing optical disks14 Oct 2021US 2021/0319807 A1Beijing Zhongke Kaidi Software Co. LTD
- Cassette shutter15 Aug 2019US 2019/0251998 A1Hyosung Tns Inc.
- Disk conveyor apparatus14 Mar 2019US 2019/0080714 A1Sony Corporation
- Opening and closing device of rotating cage type jukebox disc tray13 Sep 2018US 2018/0261246 A1Lite-On Electronics (Guangzhou) Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Disc player and disc loading device185US 5,355,357 ASony Corporation · 1994
- Interchangeable cartridge data storage system for devices performing diverse functions137US 5,809,520 AIomega Corporation · 1998
- Flexible disc cartridge125US 3,951,264 ADynastor, Inc. · 1976
- Optical data format employing resynchronizable data sectors120US 4,791,622 AStorage Technology Partners 11 · 1988
- Recording and reproducing apparatus101US 5,473,584 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1995