G11B 5/10
Structure or manufacture of housings or shields for heads
G11B5/10 (Structure or manufacture of housings or shields for heads) appears on 1,824 US grants and 1,031 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 1,824
- Published applications
- 1,031
- Assignees
- 237
- Inventors
- 2,806
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 6 | 0 |
| 1977 | 8 | 0 |
| 1978 | 4 | 0 |
| 1979 | 6 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 9 | 0 |
| 1982 | 4 | 0 |
| 1983 | 9 | 0 |
| 1984 | 11 | 0 |
| 1985 | 9 | 0 |
| 1986 | 11 | 0 |
| 1987 | 29 | 0 |
| 1988 | 21 | 0 |
| 1989 | 36 | 0 |
| 1990 | 34 | 0 |
| 1991 | 34 | 0 |
| 1992 | 25 | 0 |
| 1993 | 29 | 0 |
| 1994 | 27 | 0 |
| 1995 | 21 | 0 |
| 1996 | 30 | 0 |
| 1997 | 43 | 0 |
| 1998 | 72 | 0 |
| 1999 | 64 | 0 |
| 2000 | 49 | 0 |
| 2001 | 46 | 22 |
| 2002 | 50 | 59 |
| 2003 | 62 | 46 |
| 2004 | 57 | 72 |
| 2005 | 43 | 57 |
| 2006 | 53 | 62 |
| 2007 | 37 | 77 |
| 2008 | 47 | 79 |
| 2009 | 52 | 58 |
| 2010 | 45 | 40 |
| 2011 | 64 | 50 |
| 2012 | 65 | 28 |
| 2013 | 62 | 33 |
| 2014 | 62 | 53 |
| 2015 | 95 | 60 |
| 2016 | 81 | 47 |
| 2017 | 70 | 41 |
| 2018 | 42 | 16 |
| 2019 | 27 | 17 |
| 2020 | 51 | 27 |
| 2021 | 31 | 16 |
| 2022 | 27 | 15 |
| 2023 | 22 | 11 |
| 2024 | 19 | 24 |
| 2025 | 12 | 10 |
| 2026 | 8 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Hard disk drive and write heads having refilled structures at side edges of an assist device6 Oct 2026US 12,755,755 B1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Write head designs with refill materials on a back edge of an assist device for improved write head reliability and performance6 Oct 2026US 12,755,756 B1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Shield designs for two dimensional magnetic recording read heads8 Sep 2026US 12,731,604 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic sensor, magnetic head and magnetic recording device25 Aug 2026US 12,721,047 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Base member, spindle motor including base member, hard disk drive device, and method for manufacturing base member28 Jul 2026US 12,694,902 B2MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
- Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Head Equipping A Spin Torque Oscillator Element With An Electric Current In Side Gaps9 Jul 2026US 2026/0196242 A1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Resistor network for delivering current and a main pole coil and an assistive write element in a magnetic recording device18 Jun 2026US 2026/0171110 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic Recording Writer With Improved Side Shield14 May 2026US 2026/0134881 A1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic head and magnetic recording device16 Apr 2026US 2026/0105931 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic sensor, magnetic head and magnetic recording device16 Apr 2026US 2026/0107690 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for providing a perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) head191US 8,015,692 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2011
- Dual electrical lapping guides with common bonding pad189US 7,551,406 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2009
- Slider-suspension assembly and method for attaching a slider to a suspension in a data recording disk file175US 4,761,699 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1988
- Systems and methods for controlling light phase difference in interferometric waveguides at near field transducers174US 8,675,455 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2014
- Perpendicular recording head with shaped pole surfaces for higher linear data densities170US 7,869,160 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2011