G11B 5/105
Mounting of head within housing or assembling of head and housing
Official title: Mounting of head within housing {or assembling of head and housing (G11B5/3103 takes precedence)}
G11B5/105 (Mounting of head within housing or assembling of head and housing) appears on 450 US grants and 192 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 192
- Assignees
- 103
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- 818
- Latest grant
- 25 Nov 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Light source unit, thermally assisted magnetic head, head gimbal assembly, and hard disk drive2 Sep 2025US 12,406,690 B1SAE Magnetics (H. K.) Ltd.
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- Tape drive device and method of detecting state of head unit of tape drive device26 Feb 2026US 2026/0057904 A1NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
- Light source unit, thermally assisted magnetic head, head gimbal assembly, and hard disk drive4 Sep 2025US 2025/0279115 A1SAE Magnetics (H. K.) Ltd.
- Single-grain near-field transducer and process for forming same19 Jun 2025US 2025/0201270 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Tape drive device and method of detecting state of head unit of tape drive device21 Nov 2024US 2024/0386908 A1NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
- Disk device26 Sep 2024US 2024/0321292 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
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