G11B 5/6064
Using air pressure
Official title: {using air pressure}
G11B5/6064 (Using air pressure) appears on 336 US grants and 376 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 336
- Published applications
- 376
- Assignees
- 56
- Inventors
- 694
- Latest grant
- 21 Jul 2026
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| 2006 | 22 | 27 |
| 2007 | 22 | 60 |
| 2008 | 35 | 77 |
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| 2024 | 3 | 7 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Use of common head slider for different RPM hard disk drives21 Jul 2026US 12,688,871 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic disk device having heater to adjust spacing between magnetic disk and magnetic head18 Feb 2025US 12,230,305 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Disk device28 Jan 2025US 12,211,532 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device and method of detecting flying height of magnetic head14 Jan 2025US 12,198,740 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device8 Oct 2024US 12,112,779 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Disk device and disk device control method6 Nov 2025US 2025/0342858 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Use of common head slider for different rpm hard disk drives7 Nov 2024US 2024/0371403 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic disk device26 Sep 2024US 2024/0321307 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Disk device26 Sep 2024US 2024/0321308 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic disk device and method of controlling the same19 Sep 2024US 2024/0312479 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Most cited
By later US patents
- Slider with temperature responsive transducer positioning229US 5,991,113 ASeagate Technology LLC · 1999
- Head integrated touchdown sensor for hard disk drives204US 7,796,356 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2010
- Dual electrical lapping guides with common bonding pad189US 7,551,406 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2009
- Magnetic recording head with resistive heating element located near the write coil186US 7,372,665 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2008
- Method of using a magnetic write head having an internal heater180US 7,092,195 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2006