G11B 5/4813
Mounting or aligning of arm assemblies
Official title: {Mounting or aligning of arm assemblies, e.g. actuator arm supported by bearings, multiple arm assemblies, arm stacks or multiple heads on single arm (G11B5/484 takes precedence)}
G11B5/4813 (Mounting or aligning of arm assemblies) appears on 777 US grants and 473 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Optical signal transmission in a hard disk drive25 Aug 2026US 12,718,840 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Disk device with stopper for actuator assembly12 May 2026US 12,626,719 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Disk device with stopper for actuator assembly14 Apr 2026US 12,603,104 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Head suspension assembly and disk device7 Apr 2026US 12,597,438 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Hard disk drives with piezoelectric ultrasonic motor31 Mar 2026US 12,592,252 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- 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
- Magnetic disk device and signal synchronization method17 Sep 2026US 2026/0279394 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Disk device9 Jul 2026US 2026/0196243 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Load Beam Nesting Configuration For Head Stack Assembly Protection18 Jun 2026US 2026/0171116 A1Magnecomp Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Head suspension having tabs and force isolation welds for gram load reduction during swaging158US 6,160,684 ARead-Rite Corporation · 2000
- Base plate for suspension assembly in hard disk drive with stress isolation158US 6,399,179 B1Intri-Plex Technologies, Inc. · 2002
- Head suspension having gram load change reduction and method of assembly156US 6,230,959 B1Read-Rite Corporation · 2001
- Head suspension having gram load change reduction and method of assembly153US 6,512,657 B2Read-Rite Corporation · 2003
- Suspension assembly131US 4,991,045 AHutchinson Technology Incorporated · 1991