- All sections
- G - Physics
- G11B - Information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer
- G11B 5/31 - Structure or manufacture of heads, e.g. inductive using thin film
Patent holdings for IPC class G11B 5/31
Total number of patents in this class: 1812
10-year publication summary
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142
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152
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140
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121
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120
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82
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77
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67
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48
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23
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| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Seagate Technology LLC | 3975 |
507 |
| JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association | 8683 |
380 |
| Headway Technologies, Inc. | 685 |
202 |
| Toshiba Corporation | 12687 |
141 |
| International Business Machines Corporation | 62325 |
83 |
| Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation | 2288 |
75 |
| TDK Corporation | 6821 |
72 |
| SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd. | 315 |
43 |
| Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | 1805 |
34 |
| Konica Minolta Opto, Inc. | 946 |
27 |
| Hitachi, Ltd. | 15944 |
22 |
| Fujitsu Limited | 16991 |
20 |
| Seiko Instruments Inc. | 460 |
18 |
| FUJIFILM Corporation | 30327 |
14 |
| JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., AS The Agent | 2695 |
9 |
| Pioneer Corporation | 3803 |
8 |
| Pioneer Micro Technology Corporation | 58 |
7 |
| Konica Minolta, Inc. | 9056 |
6 |
| Sony Corporation | 30327 |
5 |
| Oracle International Corporation | 13493 |
5 |
| Other owners | 134 |