G11B 5/73917
Metallic substrates, i.e. elemental metal or metal alloy substrates
Official title: {Metallic substrates, i.e. elemental metal or metal alloy substrates}
G11B5/73917 (Metallic substrates, i.e. elemental metal or metal alloy substrates) appears on 360 US grants and 218 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 360
- Published applications
- 218
- Assignees
- 116
- Inventors
- 729
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 16 | 9 |
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| 2005 | 12 | 7 |
| 2006 | 8 | 8 |
| 2007 | 5 | 9 |
| 2008 | 4 | 11 |
| 2009 | 3 | 9 |
| 2010 | 5 | 4 |
| 2011 | 6 | 2 |
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| 2018 | 3 | 7 |
| 2019 | 2 | 13 |
| 2020 | 9 | 18 |
| 2021 | 17 | 24 |
| 2022 | 14 | 5 |
| 2023 | 11 | 12 |
| 2024 | 6 | 8 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3 |
| 2026 | 6 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Aluminum alloy disc blank for magnetic disc and magnetic disc25 Aug 2026US 12,716,117 B2Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
- Magnetic disk and substrate for magnetic disk10 Mar 2026US 12,573,424 B2Furkawa Electric Co., Ltd.
- Magnetic recording disk with high internal stress to reduce disk deflections from shock forces and methods for use with the disk17 Feb 2026US 12,555,601 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Magnetic disk substrate and magnetic disk using magnetic disk substrate17 Feb 2026US 12,555,602 B2Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
- Substrate for magnetic disk and magnetic disk10 Feb 2026US 12,548,594 B2Hoya Corporation
- Magnetic recording medium with amorphous metallic alloy overcoat and magnetic recording apparatus for use therewith6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229251 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Substrate for magnetic disk30 Jul 2026US 2026/0221155 A1Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
- Substrate for magnetic disk and method for manufacturing same, and magnetic disk19 Mar 2026US 2026/0080899 A1Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
- Glass substrate for magnetic disk5 Mar 2026US 2026/0065934 A1Hoya Corporation
- Magnetic disk and substrate for magnetic disk3 Jul 2025US 2025/0218460 A1Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Ultra-thin nucleation layer for magnetic thin film media and the method for manufacturing the same119US 6,150,015 AKomag, Inc. · 2000
- Method of making high performance, low noise isotropic magnetic media including a chromium underlayer84US 6,156,404 AKomag, Inc. · 2000
- Patterned medium and recording head83US 7,019,924 B2Komag, Inc. · 2006
- Ultra-thin nucleation layer for magnetic thin film media and the method for manufacturing the same79US 6,500,567 B1Komag, Inc. · 2002
- Laser textured magnetic disk comprising NiNb76US 6,103,404 AKomag, Inc. · 2000