G11B 5/4826
Mounting, aligning or attachment of the transducer head relative to the arm
Official title: {Mounting, aligning or attachment of the transducer head relative to the arm assembly, e.g. slider holding members, gimbals, adhesive (G11B5/484 takes precedence; details of head housings or structures G11B5/10, G11B5/127; adjustment relative to the record carrier G11B5/56)}
G11B5/4826 (Mounting, aligning or attachment of the transducer head relative to the arm) appears on 1,490 US grants and 996 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Flexible head gimbal assembly for hard disk drive device29 Sep 2026US 12,749,502 B2Magnecomp Corporation
- Multi-layer load beam flexure for magnetic storage device1 Sep 2026US 12,725,633 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Heat assisted magnetic recording head with slider and laser diode18 Aug 2026US 12,711,985 B1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic disk device having piezoelectric element18 Aug 2026US 12,711,986 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Temperature measuring unit, disk drive suspension manufacturing apparatus, and disk drive suspension manufacturing method11 Aug 2026US 12,706,115 B2NHK 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
- Gimbal circuit limiter10 Sep 2026US 2026/0268930 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Air bearing design for high oxygen partial pressure for heat-assisted magnetic recording30 Jul 2026US 2026/0221152 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnesium Oxide Seed Layer For High Magnetic Moment Material With Amorphous Or Fine Grain Structure16 Jul 2026US 2026/0204281 A1Headway Technologies, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Dimple pivot post for a rotary co-located microactuator208US 7,057,857 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2006
- Piezoelectric microactuators with substantially fixed axis of rotation and magnified stroke194US 6,961,221 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2005
- Head gimbal assembly having a radial rotary piezoelectric microactuator between a read head and a flexure tongue194US 8,264,797 B2Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2012
- Gimbal flexure and electrical interconnect assembly165US 5,491,597 AHutchinson Technology Incorporated · 1996
- Enclosed piezoelectric microactuators coupled between head and suspension161US 6,807,030 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2004