Y10T 29/49032
Fabricating head structure or component thereof
Y10T29/49032 (Fabricating head structure or component thereof) appears on 3,374 US grants and 2,199 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in Y10T- Granted patents
- 3,374
- Published applications
- 2,199
- Assignees
- 383
- Inventors
- 3,608
- Latest grant
- 21 Jul 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 13 | 0 |
| 1977 | 10 | 0 |
| 1978 | 9 | 0 |
| 1979 | 10 | 0 |
| 1980 | 12 | 0 |
| 1981 | 15 | 0 |
| 1982 | 9 | 0 |
| 1983 | 15 | 0 |
| 1984 | 14 | 0 |
| 1985 | 11 | 0 |
| 1986 | 9 | 0 |
| 1987 | 21 | 0 |
| 1988 | 26 | 0 |
| 1989 | 42 | 0 |
| 1990 | 40 | 0 |
| 1991 | 38 | 0 |
| 1992 | 37 | 0 |
| 1993 | 28 | 0 |
| 1994 | 33 | 0 |
| 1995 | 38 | 0 |
| 1996 | 38 | 0 |
| 1997 | 62 | 0 |
| 1998 | 85 | 0 |
| 1999 | 79 | 0 |
| 2000 | 101 | 0 |
| 2001 | 130 | 98 |
| 2002 | 139 | 225 |
| 2003 | 191 | 219 |
| 2004 | 207 | 282 |
| 2005 | 202 | 262 |
| 2006 | 258 | 205 |
| 2007 | 218 | 174 |
| 2008 | 203 | 166 |
| 2009 | 152 | 113 |
| 2010 | 136 | 83 |
| 2011 | 144 | 79 |
| 2012 | 168 | 73 |
| 2013 | 143 | 60 |
| 2014 | 94 | 57 |
| 2015 | 73 | 41 |
| 2016 | 45 | 12 |
| 2017 | 14 | 11 |
| 2018 | 12 | 6 |
| 2019 | 9 | 8 |
| 2020 | 10 | 3 |
| 2021 | 9 | 4 |
| 2022 | 6 | 6 |
| 2023 | 4 | 3 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- Y10T 29/49036Including measuring or testing2,356
- Y10T 29/49048Machining magnetic material [e.g., grinding, etching, polishing]1,355
- Y10T 29/4906Providing winding380
- Y10T 29/49034Treating to affect magnetic properties349
- Y10T 29/49055With bond/laminating preformed parts, at least two magnetic282
- Y10T 29/49067Specified diverse magnetic materials103
- Y10T 29/49053Multitrack heads having integral holding means29
Recent patents
- Manufacturing method of conductive probe21 Jul 2026US 12,688,868 B2Resonac Hard Disk Corporation
- Electroplating of high damping material for trailing shield in a perpendicular magnetic recording writer7 Oct 2025US 12,437,778 B2Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Joining components from wafers having different pattern densities19 Aug 2025US 12,394,433 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Method for producing lamination stacks and facility for performing the method29 Jul 2025US 12,374,969 B2Feintool International Holding AG
- Ferroelectric storage apparatus and manufacturing method of conductive probe3 Jun 2025US 12,322,427 B2Resonac Hard Disk Corporation
- Ferroelectric storage apparatus and method of reading information8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311721 A1Resonac Hard Disk Corporation
- Adaptive Bias Control for Magnetic Recording Head30 Apr 2026US 2026/0120716 A1Headway Technologies, Inc.
- Method for Producing Lamination Stacks and Facility for Performing the Method23 Oct 2025US 2025/0330069 A1Feintool International Holding AG
- Manufacturing method of conductive probe21 Aug 2025US 2025/0266060 A1Resonac Hard Disk Corporation
- Tunneling Magnetoresistance Device With Magnetically Soft High Moment Free Layer31 Jul 2025US 2025/0246203 A1Headway Technologies, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method of device stripe height control211US 6,193,584 B1Read-Rite Corporation · 2001
- Method for providing a perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) head191US 8,015,692 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2011
- Damascene process for fabricating poles in recording heads186US 7,444,740 B1Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2008
- Method of making a thin film merged MR head with aligned pole tips182US 5,438,747 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1995
- Magnetic recording head with a side shield structure for controlling side reading of thin film read sensor179US 6,943,993 B2Western Digital (Fremont), LLC · 2005