G11B 5/725
Containing a lubricant
Official title: containing a lubricant {, e.g. organic compounds (inorganic carbon protective coating G11B5/727)}
G11B5/725 (Containing a lubricant) appears on 634 US grants and 374 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 634
- Published applications
- 374
- Assignees
- 144
- Inventors
- 972
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- High thermal stability lubricants6 Oct 2026US 12,753,360 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Fluorine-containing ether compound, lubricant for magnetic recording medium, and magnetic recording medium8 Sep 2026US 12,729,347 B2Resonac Corporation
- Magnetic recording medium, magnetic tape cartridge, and magnetic recording and reproducing device8 Sep 2026US 12,731,608 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Fluorine-containing ether compound, lubricant for magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording medium25 Aug 2026US 12,715,960 B2Resonac Corporation
- Aromatic and aromatic-like containing media lubricants for data storage devices11 Aug 2026US 12,703,835 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Fluorine-containing ether compound, lubricant for magnetic recording medium, and magnetic recording medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0297447 A1Resonac Corporation
- Fluorine-containing ether compound, lubricant for magnetic recording medium, and magnetic recording medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0297452 A1Resonac Corporation
- Bottle-brush architecture fluorinated lubricants10 Sep 2026US 2026/0268934 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Lubricant for magnetic recording media3 Sep 2026US 2026/0258319 A1Resonac Corporation
- Fluorine-containing ether compound, lubricant for magnetic recording medium, and magnetic recording medium27 Aug 2026US 2026/0250591 A1Resonac Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium124US 5,540,957 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1996
- Magnetic tape device and head tracking servo method122US 9,984,716 B1FUJIFILM Corporation · 2018
- Magnetic tape device and head tracking servo method109US 10,008,230 B1FUJIFILM Corporation · 2018
- Head slider with projections arranged on rails thereof96US 5,841,608 AFujitsu Limited · 1998
- Lubricant for magnetic disk, process for producing the same, and magnetic disk80US 8,178,480 B2WD Media (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. · 2012