G11B 5/553
Details
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G11B5/553 (Details) appears on 1,395 US grants and 427 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 1,395
- Published applications
- 427
- Assignees
- 191
- Inventors
- 1,863
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
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| 1978 | 8 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 43 | 8 |
| 2002 | 42 | 26 |
| 2003 | 33 | 27 |
| 2004 | 34 | 26 |
| 2005 | 49 | 30 |
| 2006 | 44 | 38 |
| 2007 | 38 | 28 |
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| 2009 | 37 | 23 |
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| 2018 | 33 | 10 |
| 2019 | 27 | 13 |
| 2020 | 31 | 16 |
| 2021 | 24 | 11 |
| 2022 | 18 | 11 |
| 2023 | 13 | 12 |
| 2024 | 14 | 10 |
| 2025 | 20 | 13 |
| 2026 | 18 | 9 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Anticipatory track switching microactuator track switch to enable track profile interpolation and control15 Sep 2026US 12,738,295 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Magnetic disk device and method15 Sep 2026US 12,738,296 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Increased VCM current resolution during track follow to decrease NRRO11 Aug 2026US 12,706,116 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Data storage device with real time fly height predictor for different servo seek sequences and other drive operations21 Jul 2026US 12,688,872 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Method of operating hard disk drives, corresponding control circuit, hard disk drive and processing device30 Jun 2026US 12,670,931 B2STMicroelectronics International N. V.
- Data storage device with real time fly height predictor for different servo seek sequences and other drive operations23 Jul 2026US 2026/0212885 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Servo control system25 Jun 2026US 2026/0179651 A1Fanuc Corporation
- Magnetic disk device21 May 2026US 2026/0141919 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device30 Apr 2026US 2026/0120713 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Evaluation method, manufacturing method, and disk device23 Apr 2026US 2026/0112390 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Most cited
By later US patents
- Head positioning control system for use in a disk drive using different target velocity data for read and write seeks222US 6,002,544 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 1999
- Servo data decoder for any amplitude dependent servo data encoding scheme196US 4,740,736 AAdvanced Micro Devices, Inc. · 1988
- Disk drive with calibration bursts that are recorded on a spiral and method of recording the same194US 6,091,564 AWestern Digital Corporation · 2000
- Disk drive using rotational position optimization algorithm to facilitate write verify operations179US 6,854,022 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2005
- Disk drive with efficient coil temperature estimation172US 6,791,785 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2004