G11B 33/1486
Control/regulation of the pressure
Official title: {Control/regulation of the pressure, e.g. the pressure inside the housing of a drive}
G11B33/1486 (Control/regulation of the pressure) appears on 195 US grants and 125 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 195
- Published applications
- 125
- Assignees
- 64
- Inventors
- 445
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2024 | 5 | 3 |
| 2025 | 5 | 5 |
| 2026 | 4 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Disk device with constrained layer configurations between inner and outer covers18 Aug 2026US 12,711,997 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Storage system for storing photoresist coated substrates30 Jun 2026US 12,669,751 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Oxygen partial pressure regulation by use of organic oxygen-buffering materials such as transition metal salens in hermetically sealed electronic devices environment and related assemblies and methods17 Mar 2026US 12,580,006 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Grease composition, pivot assembly bearing, and bearing apparatus including the bearing27 Jan 2026US 12,534,680 B2MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
- Gas replenishment component for an enclosure30 Dec 2025US 12,512,129 B2Donaldson Company, Inc.
- Method of storing photoresist coated substrates and semiconductor substrate container arrangement17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277106 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Oxygen partial pressure regulation by use of organic oxygen-buffering materials such as transition metal salens in hermetically sealed electronic devices environment and related assemblies and methods1 Jan 2026US 2026/0004818 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Disk device25 Dec 2025US 2025/0391440 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Passive and active gas compensation techniques for data storage devices21 Aug 2025US 2025/0266062 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Disk device and method of inspecting disk device27 Mar 2025US 2025/0102465 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of manufacturing a hermetically sealed disk drive131US 5,454,157 AMaxtor Corporation · 1995
- Disk drive breather filter114US 5,030,260 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1991
- Environmental conditioning and safety system for disk-type mass memories100US 4,642,715 AMiltope Corporation · 1987
- Multi-functional filter for removing contaminants from an enclosure94US 6,395,073 B1Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc. · 2002
- Multi-functional molded filter for removing contaminants from an enclosure80US 6,296,691 B1Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc. · 2001