G11B 5/115
Shielding devices arranged between heads or windings
Official title: Shielding devices arranged between heads or windings ({G11B5/265} , G11B5/29 take precedence)
G11B5/115 (Shielding devices arranged between heads or windings) appears on 128 US grants and 74 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 128
- Published applications
- 74
- Assignees
- 44
- Inventors
- 267
- Latest grant
- 7 Oct 2025
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 4 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1991 | 4 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 5 |
| 2003 | 3 | 1 |
| 2004 | 2 | 4 |
| 2005 | 4 | 5 |
| 2006 | 2 | 1 |
| 2007 | 2 | 3 |
| 2008 | 2 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 |
| 2010 | 2 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 5 |
| 2012 | 2 | 0 |
| 2013 | 3 | 1 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4 |
| 2015 | 8 | 8 |
| 2016 | 13 | 9 |
| 2017 | 14 | 10 |
| 2018 | 7 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020 | 11 | 3 |
| 2021 | 9 | 1 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3 |
| 2023 | 4 | 1 |
| 2024 | 4 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 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.
- Current distal to media facing surface19 Nov 2024US 12,148,452 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.
- Magnetic recording head having leads over the trailing shield for assisting electric currents6 Feb 2024US 11,894,026 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Spin torque oscillator with multilayer seed for improved performance and reliability2 Jan 2024US 11,862,205 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Current Distal to Media Facing Surface14 Nov 2024US 2024/0379119 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Electroplating Of High Damping Material For Trailing Shield In A Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Writer17 Oct 2024US 2024/0347072 A1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Spin Torque Oscillator with Multilayer Seed for Improved Performance and Reliability21 Dec 2023US 2023/0410840 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Tape Head Design Having A Null Shield For Same Gap Verify29 Dec 2022US 2022/0415344 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic head with assisted magnetic recording and method of making thereof28 Jul 2022US 2022/0238135 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and shunting and deshunting an electrical component and a shuntable/shunted electrical component80US 6,146,813 AApplied Kinetics, Inc. · 2000
- Method of making laminated magnetic material60US 4,025,379 A1977
- Double shielded magnetorestive sensing element57US 3,975,772 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1976
- Compensated magneto-resistive read head53US 4,881,143 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1989
- Dual module RWW tape head assembly50US 6,690,542 B1Seagate Removable Storage Solutions LLC · 2004