G11B 19/042
Due to external shock or vibration
Official title: {due to external shock or vibration}
G11B19/042 (Due to external shock or vibration) appears on 172 US grants and 164 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 172
- Published applications
- 164
- Assignees
- 71
- Inventors
- 389
- Latest grant
- 6 Jan 2026
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| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 8 |
| 2006 | 3 | 3 |
| 2007 | 1 | 17 |
| 2008 | 9 | 18 |
| 2009 | 16 | 35 |
| 2010 | 21 | 26 |
| 2011 | 21 | 15 |
| 2012 | 22 | 8 |
| 2013 | 13 | 5 |
| 2014 | 17 | 6 |
| 2015 | 19 | 7 |
| 2016 | 4 | 3 |
| 2017 | 7 | 2 |
| 2018 | 4 | 0 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 4 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Data storage device with self-learning oscillation detector6 Jan 2026US 12,518,789 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Disk device14 Nov 2023US 11,817,136 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Operating condition determining device, magnetic recording / reproducing device, and magnetic recording/reproducing system14 Nov 2023US 11,817,138 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Reader instability detection and recovery28 Sep 2021US 11,133,032 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Disc device with head placement responsive to shock detection7 Sep 2021US 11,114,125 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Data storage device with self-learning oscillation detector22 May 2025US 2025/0166662 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic disk device28 Sep 2023US 2023/0306998 A1
- Operating condition determining device, magnetic recording / reproducing device, and magnetic recording/reproducing system31 Aug 2023US 2023/0274763 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Disk device11 May 2023US 2023/0142495 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Disc device with head placement responsive to shock detection19 Aug 2021US 2021/0257002 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Most cited
By later US patents
- Adaptive data writing mode based on drive environment159US 8,315,006 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2012
- Capacitance sensor for determining a distance between a head and a magnetic storage medium154US 8,611,035 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2013
- Disk drive deferring refresh based on environmental conditions139US 7,649,704 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2010
- Dynamic processor bandwidth allocation in response to environmental conditions134US 8,090,906 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2012
- Adaptive shock detection118US 8,179,626 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2012