G11B 5/3958
The active elements being arranged in a single plane
Official title: {the active elements being arranged in a single plane, e.g. "matrix" disposition}
G11B5/3958 (The active elements being arranged in a single plane) appears on 139 US grants and 80 published applications in this corpus.
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Granted patents
Recent patents
- Tape reader3 Feb 2026US 12,542,156 B2Tape Ark
- Mechanism to shift the head span of a tape head at a wafer level27 Aug 2024US 12,073,858 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Tape reader9 Jul 2024US 12,033,679 B2Tape Ark
- Mechanism to shift the head span of a tape head at a wafer level7 Nov 2023US 11,810,602 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Read head having one or more antiferromagnetic layers above soft bias side shields, and related methods22 Aug 2023US 11,735,211 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Tape reader2 Jan 2025US 2025/0006224 A1Tape Ark
- Mechanism to shift the head span of a tape head at a wafer level30 Nov 2023US 2023/0386509 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- Mechanism to shift the head span of a tape head at a wafer level9 Mar 2023US 2023/0072460 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- Tape Head Design Having An Antiferromagnetic Coupling (AFC) Null Shield For Same Gap Verify9 Feb 2023US 2023/0040698 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Tape Head Design Having A Null Shield For Same Gap Verify29 Dec 2022US 2022/0415344 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Adjacent track readers78US 7,755,863 B2Quantum Corporation · 2010
- Thin film giant magnetoresistive CPP transducer with flux guide yoke structure66US 5,627,704 ARead-Rite Corporation · 1997
- Method and apparatus for improving signal-to-noise ratio for hard disk drives54US 7,259,927 B2Agere Systems Inc. · 2007
- Method and apparatus for positioning a dual element magnetoresistive head47US 6,154,335 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 2000
- Simplified, shielded twin-track read/write head structure44US 4,698,711 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1987