G11B 5/112
Manufacture of shielding device
Official title: {Manufacture of shielding device}
G11B5/112 (Manufacture of shielding device) appears on 170 US grants and 128 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 170
- Published applications
- 128
- Assignees
- 32
- Inventors
- 369
- Latest grant
- 7 Oct 2025
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| 2025 | 2 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Electroplating of high damping material for trailing shield in a perpendicular magnetic recording writer7 Oct 2025US 12,437,778 B2Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Embedded electromagnetic interference shield2 Sep 2025US 12,406,688 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Cap layer able to be reactive ion etched for RSB DFL read elements17 Sep 2024US 12,094,499 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Electroplating of high damping material for trailing shield in a perpendicular magnetic recording writer7 May 2024US 11,978,488 B1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Tape head design having an antiferromagnetic coupling (AFC) null shield for same gap verify9 May 2023US 11,646,054 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Embedded electromagnetic interference shield12 Dec 2024US 2024/0412758 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- Electroplating Of High Damping Material For Trailing Shield In A Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Writer17 Oct 2024US 2024/0347072 A1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Self-Aligned Side Gap Insulator For A Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Writer19 Sep 2024US 2024/0312483 A1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Tape Head Design Having An Antiferromagnetic Coupling (AFC) Null Shield For Same Gap Verify9 Feb 2023US 2023/0040698 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Method to Reduce Baseline Shift for a SOT Differential Reader13 Jan 2022US 2022/0013139 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for providing a perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) head191US 8,015,692 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2011
- 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
- Narrow track width magnetoresistive sensor and method of making169US 6,700,759 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2004
- Write element for perpendicular recording in a data storage system168US 7,239,478 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2007
- Method of forming a fully wrapped-around shielded PMR writer pole160US 8,533,937 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2013