G11B 5/53
Disposition or mounting of heads on rotating support
G11B5/53 (Disposition or mounting of heads on rotating support) appears on 757 US grants and 156 published applications in this corpus.
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| 2002 | 21 | 27 |
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| 2022 | 1 | 1 |
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| 2024 | 1 | 4 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Latch for zero/fixed skew data storage device14 Apr 2026US 12,603,105 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Disk apparatus including flexure having portions of different thicknesses4 Nov 2025US 12,462,835 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Rotatable body mounting device and hard disk manufacturing method30 Sep 2025US 12,431,166 B2Komura-Tech Co., Ltd.
- Magnetic tape device and method of operating magnetic tape device29 Jul 2025US 12,374,363 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Magnetic tape cartridge, magnetic tape drive, memory, magnetic tape, magnetic tape system, and operation method of magnetic tape drive4 Mar 2025US 12,243,568 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Disk apparatus27 Mar 2025US 2025/0104734 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Latch for zero/fixed skew data storage device19 Dec 2024US 2024/0420734 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Base plate, spindle motor, disk drive device, and method for manufacturing base plate21 Nov 2024US 2024/0386909 A1Nidec Corporation
- Rotating body mounting device and hard disk manufacturing method17 Oct 2024US 2024/0347074 A1Komura-Tech Co., Ltd.
- Recording and reproducing device7 Mar 2024US 2024/0079029 A1Resonac Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Waveguide apparatus for coupling a high data rate signal to and from a rotary head scanner203US 4,717,974 AEastman Kodak Company · 1988
- Personal identification system and method134US 4,991,205 A1991
- Error prevention in a recording and reproducing device with at least one rotating head60US 5,067,035 AKudelski SA fabrique de'enregistreurs Nagra · 1991
- Ultra small track width thin film magnetic transducer56US 5,189,580 AAmpex Corporation · 1993
- Buffered recording48US 4,298,897 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1981