G11B 5/6094
Preventing or discharging electrostatic charge build-up on the flying head
Official title: {Preventing or discharging electrostatic charge build-up on the flying head}
G11B5/6094 (Preventing or discharging electrostatic charge build-up on the flying head) appears on 26 US grants and 24 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 26
- Published applications
- 24
- Assignees
- 11
- Inventors
- 59
- Latest grant
- 14 Sep 2021
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| 2017 | 6 | 3 |
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Recent patents
- Digital storage system that includes sensor and circuit to determine contact and/or distance between read/write head and data storage medium14 Sep 2021US 11,120,826 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Methods and systems for detecting ESD events in cabled devices2 Apr 2019US 10,249,330 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Flexible circuit with partial ground path20 Feb 2018US 9,900,981 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Apparatus and method for setting slider surface potential18 Jul 2017US 9,711,173 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- ESD protection surface charge control recording head27 Jun 2017US 9,691,419 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Interface voltage control for slider in data storage device25 Dec 2025US 2025/0391435 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Flexible circuit with partial ground path7 Sep 2017US 2017/0257947 A1Oracle International Corporation
- ESD Protection Surface Charge Control Recording Head22 Jun 2017US 2017/0178669 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Apparatus and method for setting slider surface potential1 Jun 2017US 2017/0154646 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Apparatus and method having tdmr reader to reader shunts1 Dec 2016US 2016/0351213 A1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Current sensor comprising differential amplifier biased by leakage current68US 8,599,512 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2013
- Implementing enhanced ESD prevention for hard disk drives using spin-torque oscillator (STO)13US 8,797,693 B1HGST Netherlands B. V. · 2014
- Tunnel junction resistor for high resistance devices and systems using the same11US 8,289,662 B2International Business Machines Corporation · 2012
- Electrostatic discharge protection for a magnetoresistive sensor8US 8,908,334 B1International Business Machines Corporation · 2014
- Digital storage system that includes sensor and circuit to determine contact and/or distance between read/write head and data storage medium3US 11,120,826 B1Seagate Technology LLC · 2021