G11B 5/3183
Intersecting the gap plane
Official title: {intersecting the gap plane, e.g. "horizontal head structure"}
G11B5/3183 (Intersecting the gap plane) appears on 160 US grants and 47 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Low friction planar servo writer head16 Jun 2026US 12,658,200 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Tape head with write pole having multiple layers superimposed in a direction perpendicular to the contact plane14 Feb 2017US 9,570,097 B1International Business Machines Corporation
- Method of forming a PMR writer device with multi-level tapered write pole11 Aug 2015US 9,105,287 B2Headway Technologies, Inc.
- PMR writer device with multi-level tapered write pole5 May 2015US 9,025,280 B2Headway Technologies, Inc.
- PMR writer device with multi-level tapered write pole11 Mar 2014US 8,670,212 B2Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Low Friction Planar Servo Writer Head11 Dec 2025US 2025/0378846 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- PMR Writer Device with Multi-Level Tapered Write Pole26 Jun 2014US 2014/0177103 A1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Method of Forming a PMR Writer Device with Multi-Level Tapered Write Pole3 Jan 2013US 2013/0001190 A1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- PMR Writer Device with Multi-Level Tapered Write Pole3 Jan 2013US 2013/0003226 A1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic media formed by a thin planar arbitrary gap pattern magnetic head22 Mar 2012US 2012/0069473 A1Advanced Research Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Integrated conductor magnetic recording head and suspension having cross-over integrated circuits for noise reduction95US 5,805,382 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1998
- Planar structure thin film magnetic head84US 4,949,207 ACommissariat A L' Energie Atomique · 1990
- PMR writer device with multi-level tapered write pole76US 8,264,792 B2Headway Technologies, Inc. · 2012
- Process for the production of planar structure thin film magnetic heads74US 4,837,924 ACommissariat A L' Energie Atomique · 1989
- Arbitrary pattern write head assembly for writing timing-based servo patterns on magnetic storage media68US 5,572,392 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1996