Y10T 29/49025
Making disc drive
Y10T29/49025 (Making disc drive) appears on 786 US grants and 524 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in Y10T- Granted patents
- 786
- Published applications
- 524
- Assignees
- 143
- Inventors
- 1,246
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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| 2025 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026 | 3 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Temperature measuring unit, disk drive suspension manufacturing apparatus, and disk drive suspension manufacturing method11 Aug 2026US 12,706,115 B2NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
- Die set for forming a work having a pair of flange bending parts2 Jun 2026US 12,646,529 B2NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
- Processing method for forming a work having a pair of flange bending parts28 Apr 2026US 12,614,562 B2NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
- Rotatable body mounting device and hard disk manufacturing method30 Sep 2025US 12,431,166 B2Komura-Tech Co., Ltd.
- Disc drive suspension including load beam having different cross-sectional shapes at welded and non-welded parts thereof18 Feb 2025US 12,230,300 B2NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
- Die set for forming a work having a pair of flange bending parts15 May 2025US 2025/0157485 A1NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
- Processing method for forming a work having a pair of flange bending parts15 May 2025US 2025/0157486 A1NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
- Base plate, spindle motor, disk drive device, and method for manufacturing base plate21 Nov 2024US 2024/0386909 A1Nidec Corporation
- Rotating body mounting device and hard disk manufacturing method17 Oct 2024US 2024/0347074 A1Komura-Tech Co., Ltd.
- Temperature measuring unit, disk drive suspension manufacturing apparatus, and disk drive suspension manufacturing method28 Dec 2023US 2023/0417605 A1NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System for performing bonding a first substrate to a second substrate155US 8,220,140 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2012
- Method of fabricating a write element with a reduced yoke length151US 7,238,292 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2007
- Method for manufacturing a group of head gimbal assemblies148US 7,363,697 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2008
- System for manufacturing a group of head gimbal assemblies (HGAs)147US 7,918,013 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2011
- Method of manufacturing a hermetically sealed disk drive131US 5,454,157 AMaxtor Corporation · 1995