G11B 19/2063
Spindle motor power-down sequences
Official title: {Spindle motor power-down sequences}
G11B19/2063 (Spindle motor power-down sequences) appears on 73 US grants and 58 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 73
- Published applications
- 58
- Assignees
- 32
- Inventors
- 126
- Latest grant
- 17 Mar 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Speed control of actuator arm and spindle in a data storage device17 Mar 2026US 12,579,999 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic disk apparatus and control method16 Sep 2025US 12,417,037 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Disk device11 Mar 2025US 12,249,352 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device and method4 Feb 2025US 12,217,769 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Enhancing spin up and spin down times for data storage devices14 Jan 2025US 12,198,722 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Speed control of actuator arm and spindle in a data storage device13 Nov 2025US 2025/0349320 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic disk apparatus and control method11 Sep 2025US 2025/0284406 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Enhancing spin up and spin down times for data storage devices14 Nov 2024US 2024/0379123 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Method of operating hard disk drives, corresponding control circuit, hard disk drive and processing device21 Mar 2024US 2024/0096371 A1STMicroelectronics S,r.l.
- Disk device21 Mar 2024US 2024/0096376 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Most cited
By later US patents
- Disk drive employing active braking using inductive sense115US 7,158,329 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2007
- Systems and methods for data throttling during disk drive power down111US 8,630,054 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2014
- Automatic head retract system for disk drive73US 4,786,995 APeripheral Technology, Inc. · 1988
- Disk drive booting from volatile semiconductor memory when exiting power save mode67US 8,601,248 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2013
- Disk drive management19US 7,425,810 B2Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. · 2008