G11B 3/08535
Driving the head
Official title: {Driving the head}
G11B3/08535 (Driving the head) appears on 83 US grants and 3 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 83
- Published applications
- 3
- Assignees
- 34
- Inventors
- 104
- Latest grant
- 6 Jan 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 5 | 0 |
| 1977 | 9 | 0 |
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| 1980 | 16 | 0 |
| 1981 | 7 | 0 |
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| 2020 | 1 | 1 |
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| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Record player with repeatable playback6 Jan 2026US 12,518,778 B1Dongguan Alllike Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Automatic tonearm lifter8 Jun 2021US 11,031,030 B1Thorens GmbH
- Tonearm unit and playback device29 Sep 2020US 10,789,974 B2Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Electric arm lifting and turntable's auto-stop assembly of record player12 Jun 2018US 9,997,175 B1Hanpin Electron Co., Ltd.
- Patterned media system30 Sep 2003US 6,628,598 B2Imation Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Disc record groove skipper18US 4,164,756 ARCA Corporation · 1979
- Patterned media system12US 6,628,598 B2Imation Corp. · 2003
- Signal pickup return mechanism11US 3,954,272 ARCA Corporation · 1976
- Tone arm assembly11US 4,184,688 ASony Corporation · 1980
- Signal pickup arm lifting/lowering and groove skipper apparatus10US 4,176,378 ARCA Corporation · 1979