G11B 3/38
Guiding
Official title: Guiding, e.g. constructions or arrangements providing linear or other special tracking characteristics
G11B3/38 (Guiding) appears on 63 US grants and 16 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 63
- Published applications
- 16
- Assignees
- 31
- Inventors
- 89
- Latest grant
- 24 Feb 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
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| 1980 | 4 | 0 |
| 1981 | 6 | 0 |
| 1982 | 11 | 0 |
| 1983 | 4 | 0 |
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| 2017 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2 | 2 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Record player with arm extended from float for playing back high-quality stable sound24 Feb 2026US 12,562,186 B2Things LLC
- Dynamically adjustable azimuth control for a phonograph tonearm17 Jun 2025US 12,334,120 B2
- Measurement device, measurement method, recording medium, and phonograph record28 Jan 2025US 12,211,518 B2Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Tangential tracking solution for a tonearm5 Mar 2024US 11,922,978 B1
- Floating head shell for a self propelled, tangentially tracking tone arm26 Apr 2022US 11,315,598 B2
- Read head for a turntable17 Sep 2026US 2026/0279388 A1Commissariat A L' Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
- Liquid-bearing tonearm device8 Jan 2026US 2026/0011343 A1
- Record player14 Aug 2025US 2025/0259645 A1Things LLC
- Contact operation device and sound signal playback method20 Mar 2025US 2025/0094121 A1Yamaha Corporation
- Dynamically adjustable azimuth control for a phonograph tonearm2 May 2024US 2024/0144958 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Defect detection and plotting system24US 4,197,011 ARCA Corporation · 1980
- Both side record player22US 4,416,003 ASharp Kabushiki Kaisha · 1983
- Signal pickup device with tracking control and jitter compensation for a video disc20US 4,160,268 AVictor Company of Japan, Ltd. · 1979
- Reproducing transducer capable of tracking control17US 4,152,727 AVictor Company of Japan, Ltd. · 1979
- Recording track eccentricity compensation method and means15US 4,087,842 AGraham Magnetics Incorporated · 1978