Top Inventors at Nippon Sharyo 2016
| Rank | Name | Patents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hiroki Tanaka | 11 |
| 2 | Tomoyuki Fukunaga | 10 |
| 3 | Akira Nishikawa | 9 |
| #4 | Hiroyuki Ishikura | 9 |
| #5 | Kuniharu Matsuda | 9 |
| #6 | Masayuki Hattori | 9 |
| #7 | Masahiro Sugesawa | 9 |
| #8 | Yoshikazu Sumi | 9 |
| #9 | Kengo Oohashi | 3 |
| #10 | Koji Nakao | 3 |
| #11 | Yuya Futamura | 3 |
| #12 | Yukio Takahashi | 3 |
| #13 | Kentaro Hayashi | 2 |
| #14 | Koichi Hayashi | 2 |
| #15 | Naoyuki Maruyama | 2 |
| #16 | Naoya Ozawa | 2 |
| #17 | Genta Sakaki | 1 |
| #18 | Hajime Ito | 1 |
| #19 | Hiroaki Isogai | 1 |
| #20 | Hiroki Tsunoda | 1 |
| #21 | Kei Sakanoue | 1 |
| #22 | Kenichi Tanaka | 1 |
| #23 | Koichiro Nanba | 1 |
| #24 | Masaru Kuroda | 1 |
| #25 | Naoki Tokuda | 1 |
| #26 | Nobuyuki Okada | 1 |
| #27 | Soshi Kawakami | 1 |
| #28 | Tadashi Fujii | 1 |
| #29 | Takehiro Ishigami | 1 |
| #30 | Tatsuya Mita | 1 |
| #31 | Tadahiro Mitsuda | 1 |
| #32 | Takahiro Sasauchi | 1 |
| #33 | Tomonori Goto | 1 |
| #34 | Tomohiro OTSUKA | 1 |
| #35 | Toshihiro Suzuki | 1 |
| #36 | Yasuki Nakakura | 1 |