G11B 5/73911
Inorganic substrates
Official title: {Inorganic substrates}
G11B5/73911 (Inorganic substrates) appears on 907 US grants and 689 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 907
- Published applications
- 689
- Assignees
- 199
- Inventors
- 1,448
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 32 | 56 |
| 2004 | 48 | 38 |
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| 2006 | 16 | 31 |
| 2007 | 20 | 27 |
| 2008 | 12 | 33 |
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| 2019 | 6 | 18 |
| 2020 | 15 | 26 |
| 2021 | 28 | 39 |
| 2022 | 28 | 24 |
| 2023 | 24 | 23 |
| 2024 | 19 | 26 |
| 2025 | 15 | 9 |
| 2026 | 15 | 15 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Glass for magnetic recording medium substrate or for glass spacer to be used in magnetic recording/reproducing device, magnetic recording medium substrate, magnetic recording medium, glass spacer to be used in magnetic recording/reproducing device, and magnetic recording/reproducing device1 Sep 2026US 12,722,997 B2Hoya Corporation
- Aluminum alloy disc blank for magnetic disc and magnetic disc25 Aug 2026US 12,716,117 B2Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
- Annular glass plate, method for manufacturing glass substrate for magnetic disk, glass substrate for magnetic disk, and magnetic disk23 Jun 2026US 12,662,418 B2Hoya Corporation
- Magnetic recording media and methods and apparatus for identifying substrates suitable for magnetic recording media16 Jun 2026US 12,658,209 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Method for manufacturing glass plate and method for manufacturing magnetic disk19 May 2026US 12,630,458 B2Hoya Corporation
- Disk-shaped glass plate and magnetic disk20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242271 A1Hoya Corporation
- Magnetic recording medium with amorphous metallic alloy overcoat and magnetic recording apparatus for use therewith6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229251 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic recording media/disks and methods and apparatus for identifying magnetic recording media/disks suitable for data storage devices6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229253 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Glass substrates for heat assisted magnetic recording (hamr) and methods and apparatus for use with the glass substrates6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229254 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Substrate for magnetic disk30 Jul 2026US 2026/0221155 A1Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Disc substrates for information recording discs and magnetic discs171US 6,214,429 B1Hoya Corporation · 2001
- Glass substrate for information recording medium and magnetic information recording medium to which the glass substrate is applied131US 6,818,576 B2Hoya Corporation · 2004
- Medium substrate, production method thereof and magnetic disk device121US 6,673,474 B2Fujitsu Limited · 2004
- Ultra-thin nucleation layer for magnetic thin film media and the method for manufacturing the same119US 6,150,015 AKomag, Inc. · 2000
- Sheet glass flattening method, method of manufacturing glass substrate for an information recording disk using flattened glass, method of manufacturing a magnetic recording disk using glass substrate, and magnetic recording medium114US 5,654,057 AHoya Corporation · 1997