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.

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2015704394
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