G11B 5/6052
Using optical means
Official title: {using optical means}
G11B5/6052 (Using optical means) appears on 28 US grants and 17 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 28
- Published applications
- 17
- Assignees
- 14
- Inventors
- 66
- Latest grant
- 23 Dec 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- HAMR read-write head with coupler and waveguide23 Dec 2025US 12,505,858 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- HAMR read-write head with coupler and waveguide10 Sep 2024US 12,087,338 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- HAMR read-write head with coupler and waveguide5 Dec 2023US 11,837,256 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Adjusting HGA z-height via HSA elevator using head/actuator feedback26 Apr 2022US 11,315,592 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- TD detection with enhanced HDIs signal17 Nov 2020US 10,839,843 B1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Bolometer for internal laser power monitoring in heat-assisted magnetic recording device14 Sep 2017US 2017/0263282 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Disk surface defect detection6 Oct 2016US 2016/0293203 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Bolometer for internal laser power monitoring in heat-assisted magnetic recording device29 Sep 2016US 2016/0284372 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Method of setting flying height and flying height setting device21 Jan 2016US 2016/0019922 A1TDK Corporation
- Head slider and method of manufacturing head suspension assembly6 Aug 2009US 2009/0195931 A1Fujitsu Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Acousto optic scanning laser vibrometer for determining the dynamic properties of an object20US 6,320,665 B12001
- High density magnetic recording apparatus including a hologram type magnetic head positioning system19US 6,128,155 AMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha · 2000
- Dual purpose bolometric sensor for heat-assisted magnetic recording device15US 9,536,555 B1Seagate Technology LLC · 2017
- Pad sharing for contact sensor and bolometer with temperature compensation in heat-assisted magnetic recording device15US 9,824,705 B1Seagate Technology LLC · 2017
- Apparatus, system, and method for detection of fly height margin using controlled excitation of air bearing mode13US 7,692,888 B2Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B. V. · 2010