G11B 5/82
Disk carriers
G11B5/82 (Disk carriers) appears on 1,451 US grants and 1,223 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 1,451
- Published applications
- 1,223
- Assignees
- 255
- Inventors
- 2,194
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 4 | 0 |
| 1983 | 3 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 24 | 0 |
| 1997 | 27 | 0 |
| 1998 | 49 | 0 |
| 1999 | 66 | 0 |
| 2000 | 66 | 0 |
| 2001 | 58 | 26 |
| 2002 | 52 | 72 |
| 2003 | 53 | 55 |
| 2004 | 70 | 83 |
| 2005 | 60 | 82 |
| 2006 | 52 | 71 |
| 2007 | 53 | 71 |
| 2008 | 42 | 65 |
| 2009 | 34 | 129 |
| 2010 | 61 | 152 |
| 2011 | 93 | 90 |
| 2012 | 78 | 50 |
| 2013 | 58 | 36 |
| 2014 | 53 | 31 |
| 2015 | 61 | 38 |
| 2016 | 20 | 20 |
| 2017 | 32 | 19 |
| 2018 | 22 | 21 |
| 2019 | 18 | 14 |
| 2020 | 20 | 12 |
| 2021 | 15 | 13 |
| 2022 | 17 | 8 |
| 2023 | 5 | 13 |
| 2024 | 12 | 22 |
| 2025 | 13 | 21 |
| 2026 | 13 | 9 |
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.
- Disk device with exposed inner surface regions for improved cover coupling4 Aug 2026US 12,700,427 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Magnetic recording media and methods and apparatus for identifying substrates suitable for magnetic recording media16 Jun 2026US 12,658,209 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Heating device and method of manufacturing magnetic recording medium14 Apr 2026US 12,601,046 B2Resonac Hard Disk Corporation
- Disk device with stopper for actuator assembly14 Apr 2026US 12,603,104 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Disk device and control method for disk device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290394 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- 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.
- Substrate for magnetic disk30 Jul 2026US 2026/0221155 A1Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
- Fluorine-containing ether compound, lubricant for magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording medium2 Jul 2026US 2026/0185010 A1Resonac Corporation
- Fluorine-containing ether compound, lubricant for magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording medium18 Jun 2026US 2026/0167775 A1Resonac Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Electronic device using magnetic components385US 5,695,864 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1997
- Method for making magnetic storage having discrete elements with quantized magnetic moments166US 5,820,769 ARegents of the University of Minnesota · 1998
- Low resistance coil structure for high speed writer161US 6,333,830 B2Read-Rite Corporation · 2001
- Selectively textured magnetic recording media160US 5,062,021 AMagnetic Peripherals Inc. · 1991
- Magnetic storage having discrete elements with quantized magnetic moments143US 5,956,216 ARegents of the University of Minnesota · 1999