- All sections
- G - Physics
- G11B - Information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer
- G11B 5/60 - Fluid-dynamic spacing of heads from record carriers
Patent holdings for IPC class G11B 5/60
Total number of patents in this class: 1242
10-year publication summary
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190
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147
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103
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102
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95
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94
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58
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48
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40
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14
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Seagate Technology LLC | 4228 |
467 |
| JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association | 10964 |
282 |
| Headway Technologies, Inc. | 715 |
69 |
| SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd. | 355 |
60 |
| Toshiba Corporation | 12017 |
47 |
| TDK Corporation | 6306 |
38 |
| Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation | 1602 |
30 |
| Konica Minolta Opto, Inc. | 1179 |
26 |
| International Business Machines Corporation | 60644 |
15 |
| Hitachi, Ltd. | 16452 |
14 |
| Nitto Denko Corporation | 7879 |
14 |
| Toshiba Storage Device Corporation | 55 |
14 |
| Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | 1043 |
13 |
| Fujitsu Limited | 19265 |
11 |
| Seiko Instruments Inc. | 660 |
11 |
| Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | 9260 |
10 |
| Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. | 3891 |
9 |
| Magnecomp Corporation | 197 |
8 |
| Marvell Asia PTE, Ltd. | 6841 |
8 |
| Hitachi Metals, Ltd. | 2175 |
7 |
| Other owners | 89 |