G11B 5/50
Interchangeable mountings
Official title: Interchangeable mountings, e.g. for replacement of head without readjustment
G11B5/50 (Interchangeable mountings) appears on 38 US grants and 16 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 38
- Published applications
- 16
- Assignees
- 20
- Inventors
- 78
- Latest grant
- 11 Feb 2020
Filings by year
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| 2020 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Selectable magnetic writers of different target geometries for reducing performance variance11 Feb 2020US 10,559,319 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Multi-writer head with a single operational writer18 Jun 2019US 10,325,619 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Selectable magnetic writers of different target geometries for reducing performance variance9 Jan 2018US 9,865,301 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Hybrid tape head assembly and drive for accepting the same22 Nov 2016US 9,502,059 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- De-swage machine for removal of a head from a head stack assembly and method of using the same12 Apr 2016US 9,308,609 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Selectable writers for reduced performance variance, and selection method thereof18 Jul 2019US 2019/0221229 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Selectable writers for reduced performance variance, and selection method thereof22 Mar 2018US 2018/0082714 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- De-swage machine for removal of a head from a head stack assembly and method of using the same11 Feb 2016US 2016/0042751 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Hybrid tape head assembly and drive for accepting the same4 Jun 2015US 2015/0155000 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- De-swage machine for removal of a head from a head stack assembly11 Sep 2014US 2014/0250656 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Clamp for mounting head-load beam slider arm in a disk drive64US 4,912,583 ADigital Equipment Corporation · 1990
- Swing-type actuator assembly having internal conductors47US 5,781,380 AWestern Digital Corporation · 1998
- Load beam interlocking boss46US 5,172,286 AHutchinson Technology Incorporated · 1992
- Detachable head-load beam slider arm for disk drive40US 4,947,275 ADigital Equipment Corporation · 1990
- Actuator arm assembly with self-locking arm29US 5,495,375 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1996