G11B 5/6058
Using piezoelectric means
Official title: {using piezoelectric means}
G11B5/6058 (Using piezoelectric means) appears on 59 US grants and 48 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 59
- Published applications
- 48
- Assignees
- 28
- Inventors
- 181
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 2 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Magnetic disk device having piezoelectric element18 Aug 2026US 12,711,986 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Method for making a magnetic recording head with a piezoelectric actuator for controlling head-media spacing13 Jan 2026US 12,525,258 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Adjusting HGA z-height via HSA elevator using head/actuator feedback16 Jan 2024US 11,875,830 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Read/write device for a hard-disk memory system, and corresponding manufacturing process7 Nov 2023US 11,810,604 B2STMicroelectronics S,r.l.
- Read/write device for a hard-disk memory system, and corresponding manufacturing process25 Oct 2022US 11,482,248 B2STMicroelectronics S,r.l.
- Magnetic disk device4 Sep 2025US 2025/0279118 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Disk Drive Suspension Assembly With PZT Actuators Having Active And Inactive Regions27 Feb 2025US 2025/0069622 A1Magnecomp Corporation
- Read/write device for a hard-disk memory system, and corresponding manufacturing process19 Jan 2023US 2023/0019422 A1STMicroelectronics S,r.l.
- Adjusting hga z-height via hsa elevator using head/actuator feedback11 Aug 2022US 2022/0254372 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Read/write device for a hard-disk memory system, and corresponding manufacturing process3 Jun 2021US 2021/0166726 A1STMicroelectronics S,r.l.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fly height servo control of read/write head suspension180US 5,377,058 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1994
- Disk drive adjusting fly height when calibrating head/disk contact146US 8,059,357 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2011
- Disk drive with dynamic head fly height back-off138US 8,619,383 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2013
- Disk drive detecting head touchdown from microactuator signal137US 8,144,419 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2012
- Feed forward compensation for fly height control in a disk drive130US 7,839,595 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2010