G11B 3/12
Supporting in balanced, counterbalanced or loaded operative position during transducing
Official title: Supporting in balanced, counterbalanced or loaded operative position {during transducing}, e.g. loading in direction of traverse
G11B3/12 (Supporting in balanced, counterbalanced or loaded operative position during transducing) appears on 127 US grants and 18 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 127
- Published applications
- 18
- Assignees
- 52
- Inventors
- 169
- Latest grant
- 24 Feb 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 9 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 17 | 0 |
| 1979 | 14 | 0 |
| 1980 | 13 | 0 |
| 1981 | 13 | 0 |
| 1982 | 22 | 0 |
| 1983 | 5 | 0 |
| 1984 | 7 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 5 |
| 2026 | 2 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Record player14 Aug 2025US 2025/0259645 A1Things LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Playback device for a disc-shaped record carrier with transducer lifting for changing playback groove for fast, slow or stop effects23US 3,973,080 ATED Bildplatten Aktiengesellschaft AEG-Telefunken-Teldec · 1976
- Track skipper for a video disc player19US 4,183,059 ARCA Corporation · 1980
- Carrier used for mounting data storage drive into enclosure19US 9,607,660 B2Seagate Technology LLC · 2017
- Tone arm assembly17US 4,138,121 ASony Corporation · 1979
- Arm driving device in linear tracking pickup apparatus15US 4,322,840 ASony Corporation · 1982