G11B 5/484
Integrated arm assemblies
Official title: {Integrated arm assemblies, e.g. formed by material deposition or by etching from single piece of metal or by lamination of materials forming a single arm/suspension/head unit}
G11B5/484 (Integrated arm assemblies) appears on 502 US grants and 331 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 502
- Published applications
- 331
- Assignees
- 73
- Inventors
- 690
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | 5 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 9 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 30 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 19 | 0 |
| 2001 | 23 | 9 |
| 2002 | 26 | 21 |
| 2003 | 20 | 21 |
| 2004 | 24 | 16 |
| 2005 | 16 | 22 |
| 2006 | 19 | 11 |
| 2007 | 13 | 11 |
| 2008 | 18 | 12 |
| 2009 | 8 | 13 |
| 2010 | 10 | 17 |
| 2011 | 15 | 11 |
| 2012 | 28 | 14 |
| 2013 | 15 | 19 |
| 2014 | 19 | 6 |
| 2015 | 18 | 12 |
| 2016 | 17 | 20 |
| 2017 | 13 | 11 |
| 2018 | 15 | 13 |
| 2019 | 13 | 11 |
| 2020 | 11 | 11 |
| 2021 | 11 | 11 |
| 2022 | 7 | 7 |
| 2023 | 11 | 15 |
| 2024 | 12 | 5 |
| 2025 | 6 | 7 |
| 2026 | 6 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Actuator materials and designs for hard disk drives8 Sep 2026US 12,731,607 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Suspension assembly and disk device16 Jun 2026US 12,658,205 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Die set for forming a work having a pair of flange bending parts2 Jun 2026US 12,646,529 B2NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
- Processing method for forming a work having a pair of flange bending parts28 Apr 2026US 12,614,562 B2NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
- Suspension assembly and disk device having wiring member14 Apr 2026US 12,603,107 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Disk drive suspension14 May 2026US 2026/0134882 A1NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
- Flexure for hard disk drive suspension and hard disk drive suspension9 Apr 2026US 2026/0100198 A1NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
- Flexure with varying thickness for magnetic storage device26 Mar 2026US 2026/0088044 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Load beam with varying thickness for magnetic storage device26 Mar 2026US 2026/0088046 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Gimbal Strut Configuration With A No Mid Strut Design19 Feb 2026US 2026/0051333 A1Magnecomp Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Disk drive comprising stacked and stepped traces for improved transmission line performance165US 8,289,656 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2012
- Read/write positioning arm with interspaced amplifier chips156US 6,252,743 B1Read-Rite Corporation · 2001
- Multi-layered integrated conductor trace array interconnect structure having optimized electrical parameters140US 5,995,328 AQuantum Corporation · 1999
- Suspension with multi-layered integrated conductor trace array for optimized electrical parameters139US 5,737,152 AQuantum Corporation · 1998
- Disk drive comprising an interconnect with transmission lines forming an approximated lattice network134US 8,467,151 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2013