G11B 5/6082
Design of the air bearing surface
Official title: {Design of the air bearing surface}
G11B5/6082 (Design of the air bearing surface) appears on 549 US grants and 451 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 549
- Published applications
- 451
- Assignees
- 65
- Inventors
- 825
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2002 | 12 | 25 |
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| 2004 | 13 | 24 |
| 2005 | 20 | 50 |
| 2006 | 31 | 49 |
| 2007 | 26 | 10 |
| 2008 | 27 | 46 |
| 2009 | 27 | 22 |
| 2010 | 19 | 13 |
| 2011 | 18 | 8 |
| 2012 | 25 | 15 |
| 2013 | 15 | 5 |
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| 2015 | 41 | 34 |
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| 2017 | 29 | 21 |
| 2018 | 29 | 10 |
| 2019 | 32 | 19 |
| 2020 | 37 | 22 |
| 2021 | 17 | 3 |
| 2022 | 10 | 3 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2 |
| 2024 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 5 |
| 2026 | 4 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Magnetic recording head having a sensor stack disposed along a stripe-height direction20 Aug 2026US 2026/0245585 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Air bearing design for high oxygen partial pressure for heat-assisted magnetic recording30 Jul 2026US 2026/0221152 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Air bearing facilitating load/unload of a magnetic read/write head168US 6,356,412 B1Read-Rite Corporation · 2002
- Head with a transducer overcoat having a trailing air flow dam that is shallowly recessed from an air bearing surface164US 7,872,833 B2Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2011
- Head having a transducer heater and an air bearing surface with a flow-diversion dam and pressure-relief trough disposed upstream of the transducer161US 7,719,795 B2Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2010
- Selectively textured magnetic recording media160US 5,062,021 AMagnetic Peripherals Inc. · 1991
- Air bearing facilitating load/unload of a magnetic read/write head158US 6,583,961 B2Read-Rite Corporation · 2003