G11B 25/00
Apparatus characterised by the shape of record carrier employed but not specific
Official title: Apparatus characterised by the shape of record carrier employed but not specific to the method of recording or reproducing {, e.g. dictating apparatus; Combinations of such apparatus}
G11B25/00 (Apparatus characterised by the shape of record carrier employed but not specific) appears on 3,207 US grants and 1,525 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 3,207
- Published applications
- 1,525
- Assignees
- 555
- Inventors
- 4,783
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 1977 | 28 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 107 | 111 |
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| 2024 | 20 | 32 |
| 2025 | 26 | 25 |
| 2026 | 18 | 21 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G11B 25/04Apparatus characterised by the shape of record carrier employed but not specific2,513
- G11B 25/06Apparatus characterised by the shape of record carrier employed but not specific610
- G11B 25/10Apparatus capable of using record carriers defined in more than one of64
- G11B 25/02Apparatus characterised by the shape of record carrier employed but not specific18
- G11B 25/08Apparatus characterised by the shape of record carrier employed but not specific0
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By later US patents
- Disk drive apparatus using dynamic loading/unloading217US 4,933,785 APrairietek Corporation · 1990
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- Hot-swappable multi-cartridge docking module190US 5,483,419 APont Peripherals Corporation · 1996
- Architecture for 21/2 inch diameter single disk drive185US 5,025,335 AConner Peripherals, Inc. · 1991
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