G11B 2005/0005
Arrangements, methods or circuits
Official title: {Arrangements, methods or circuits}
G11B2005/0005 (Arrangements, methods or circuits) appears on 4,541 US grants and 3,110 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 4,541
- Published applications
- 3,110
- Assignees
- 350
- Inventors
- 4,252
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 3 | 0 |
| 1988 | 3 | 0 |
| 1989 | 3 | 0 |
| 1990 | 2 | 0 |
| 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | 5 | 0 |
| 1993 | 9 | 0 |
| 1994 | 26 | 0 |
| 1995 | 31 | 0 |
| 1996 | 28 | 0 |
| 1997 | 39 | 0 |
| 1998 | 71 | 0 |
| 1999 | 71 | 0 |
| 2000 | 125 | 0 |
| 2001 | 141 | 54 |
| 2002 | 164 | 156 |
| 2003 | 181 | 209 |
| 2004 | 198 | 231 |
| 2005 | 161 | 192 |
| 2006 | 189 | 137 |
| 2007 | 138 | 103 |
| 2008 | 92 | 105 |
| 2009 | 99 | 117 |
| 2010 | 104 | 150 |
| 2011 | 147 | 165 |
| 2012 | 229 | 152 |
| 2013 | 286 | 162 |
| 2014 | 256 | 163 |
| 2015 | 299 | 200 |
| 2016 | 218 | 139 |
| 2017 | 208 | 89 |
| 2018 | 165 | 68 |
| 2019 | 144 | 67 |
| 2020 | 148 | 88 |
| 2021 | 125 | 61 |
| 2022 | 97 | 58 |
| 2023 | 84 | 39 |
| 2024 | 78 | 83 |
| 2025 | 91 | 65 |
| 2026 | 66 | 57 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G11B 2005/0021Thermally assisted recording using an auxiliary energy source for heating the recordingIndexing code2,329
- G11B 2005/001Controlling recording characteristics of record carriers or transducing characteristics of transducers byIndexing code1,713
- G11B 2005/0024Microwave assisted recordingIndexing code499
- G11B 2005/0008Magnetic conditionning of headsIndexing code263
Recent patents
- High thermal stability lubricants6 Oct 2026US 12,753,360 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Data storage device with BiCMOS impedance-matched amplifier with transducer-bias6 Oct 2026US 12,755,754 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Hard disk drive and write heads having refilled structures at side edges of an assist device6 Oct 2026US 12,755,755 B1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Write head designs with refill materials on a back edge of an assist device for improved write head reliability and performance6 Oct 2026US 12,755,756 B1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Solder tack bonding of hard disk drive actuator arm assemblies6 Oct 2026US 12,755,757 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301767 A1Resonac Hard Disk Corporation
- Magnetic recording and reproduction device and control method of the same24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290386 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device and write processing method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290390 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Techniques for mitigation of carbonaceous smear in heat-assisted magnetic recording24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290392 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic recording media with high magnetization absorption layer and gradient segregant structure24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290393 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Magnetoresistive sensor based on the spin valve effect373US 5,206,590 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1993
- Magnetoresistive spin valve sensor with improved pinned ferromagnetic layer and magnetic recording system using the sensor249US 5,465,185 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1995
- Read/write head with shifted waveguide218US 6,016,290 ARead-Rite Corporation · 2000
- Disk drive employing a sync mark detector comprising a matched filter and a dual polarity correlator217US 6,603,622 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2003
- Method and apparatus for in-situ measurement of head/recording medium clearance214US 4,777,544 AInternational Business Machine Corporation · 1988