G11B 5/4806
Specially adapted for disk drive assemblies
Official title: {specially adapted for disk drive assemblies, e.g. assembly prior to operation, hard or flexible disk drives (G11B5/488 - G11B5/54 take precedence)}
G11B5/4806 (Specially adapted for disk drive assemblies) appears on 4,948 US grants and 3,126 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 4,948
- Published applications
- 3,126
- Assignees
- 358
- Inventors
- 4,844
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 4 | 0 |
| 1979 | 3 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 4 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 5 | 0 |
| 1984 | 8 | 0 |
| 1985 | 4 | 0 |
| 1986 | 5 | 0 |
| 1987 | 16 | 0 |
| 1988 | 27 | 0 |
| 1989 | 33 | 0 |
| 1990 | 26 | 0 |
| 1991 | 38 | 0 |
| 1992 | 31 | 0 |
| 1993 | 30 | 0 |
| 1994 | 51 | 0 |
| 1995 | 51 | 0 |
| 1996 | 64 | 0 |
| 1997 | 93 | 0 |
| 1998 | 198 | 0 |
| 1999 | 200 | 0 |
| 2000 | 163 | 0 |
| 2001 | 163 | 63 |
| 2002 | 192 | 189 |
| 2003 | 174 | 180 |
| 2004 | 206 | 187 |
| 2005 | 143 | 208 |
| 2006 | 211 | 184 |
| 2007 | 130 | 175 |
| 2008 | 164 | 170 |
| 2009 | 173 | 151 |
| 2010 | 160 | 170 |
| 2011 | 149 | 122 |
| 2012 | 246 | 107 |
| 2013 | 171 | 116 |
| 2014 | 190 | 113 |
| 2015 | 240 | 161 |
| 2016 | 172 | 118 |
| 2017 | 132 | 92 |
| 2018 | 125 | 77 |
| 2019 | 121 | 66 |
| 2020 | 119 | 77 |
| 2021 | 114 | 75 |
| 2022 | 97 | 75 |
| 2023 | 93 | 76 |
| 2024 | 74 | 69 |
| 2025 | 74 | 62 |
| 2026 | 56 | 43 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G11B 5/4826Mounting, aligning or attachment of the transducer head relative to the arm1,490
- G11B 5/4833Structure of the arm assembly1,212
- G11B 5/486With provision for mounting or arranging electrical conducting means or circuits on921
- G11B 5/4853Constructional details of the electrical connection between head and arm785
- G11B 5/4813Mounting or aligning of arm assemblies777
- G11B 5/484Integrated arm assemblies502
- G11B 5/4873The arm comprising piezoelectric or other actuators for adjustment of the arm440
- G11B 5/4866The arm comprising an optical waveguide409
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Recent patents
- Hard disk drive and write heads having refilled structures at side edges of an assist device6 Oct 2026US 12,755,755 B1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Write head designs with refill materials on a back edge of an assist device for improved write head reliability and performance6 Oct 2026US 12,755,756 B1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Flexible head gimbal assembly for hard disk drive device29 Sep 2026US 12,749,502 B2Magnecomp Corporation
- Waveguide multilayer core structure for use in heat assisted magnetic recording29 Sep 2026US 12,749,503 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Piezoelectric motor for hard disk drive actuator arm22 Sep 2026US 12,744,056 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Disk drive suspension8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311722 A1NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
- Non-Operational Shock Mitigation For A Suspension Device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301765 A1Magnecomp Corporation
- Magnetic head and magnetic disk device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290388 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Ultrasonic motor rotary actuator for hard disk drive24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290395 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Self-lubricating guide rail arrangment for linear actuators17 Sep 2026US 2026/0279391 A1Seagate Technology LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Collocated rotating flexure microactuator for dual-stage servo in disk drives225US 6,376,964 B1Read-Rite Corporation · 2002
- Read/write head with shifted waveguide218US 6,016,290 ARead-Rite Corporation · 2000
- Head suspension having reduced torsional vibration209US 6,307,715 B1Read-Rite Corporation · 2001
- Dimple pivot post for a rotary co-located microactuator208US 7,057,857 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2006
- Methods and systems for establishing retrograde carotid arterial blood flow206US 8,157,760 B2Silk Road Medical, Inc. · 2012