G11B 5/48
Disposition or mounting of heads or head supports relative to record carriers
Official title: Disposition or mounting of heads {or head supports} relative to record carriers {(mounting of head within housing G11B5/105); arrangements of heads, e.g. for scanning the record carrier to increase the relative speed (driving of both record carriers and head G11B15/18; guiding record carriers G11B15/60; head selecting circuits G11B15/12)}
G11B5/48 (Disposition or mounting of heads or head supports relative to record carriers) appears on 19,259 US grants and 10,188 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1978 | 89 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 104 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 667 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 699 | 0 |
| 2001 | 610 | 244 |
| 2002 | 697 | 761 |
| 2003 | 722 | 680 |
| 2004 | 779 | 686 |
| 2005 | 666 | 758 |
| 2006 | 881 | 662 |
| 2007 | 600 | 661 |
| 2008 | 599 | 624 |
| 2009 | 627 | 564 |
| 2010 | 576 | 569 |
| 2011 | 532 | 412 |
| 2012 | 673 | 370 |
| 2013 | 546 | 345 |
| 2014 | 731 | 350 |
| 2015 | 704 | 394 |
| 2016 | 498 | 289 |
| 2017 | 395 | 214 |
| 2018 | 353 | 201 |
| 2019 | 335 | 192 |
| 2020 | 326 | 204 |
| 2021 | 276 | 176 |
| 2022 | 229 | 168 |
| 2023 | 202 | 205 |
| 2024 | 225 | 192 |
| 2025 | 226 | 160 |
| 2026 | 151 | 107 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G11B 5/58With provision for moving the head for the purpose of maintaining alignment10,247
- G11B 5/54With provision for moving the head into or out of its operative5,954
- G11B 5/4806Specially adapted for disk drive assemblies4,948
- G11B 5/488Disposition of heads1,347
- G11B 5/52With simultaneous movement of head and record carrier813
- G11B 5/56With provision for moving the head support for the purpose of adjusting417
- G11B 5/49Fixed mounting or arrangements291
- G11B 5/50Interchangeable mountings38
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