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Shimano — 163 Patents in 2016

Rank (2016): #215 of 28,333Top 1%
142 inventors
163 Patents 2016

Top Inventors at Shimano 2016

Showing 1–50 of 142 inventors

RankNamePatents
1 Masahiro Nakakura 16
2 Etsuyoshi Watarai 13
3 Osamu Kariyama 11
#4 Yoshimitsu Miki 9
#5 Atsuhiro Emura 8
#5 Daisuke Nago 8
#7 Tatsuya Matsushita 7
#7 Toyoto Shirai 7
#7 Toshio Tetsuka 7
#7 Tsuyoshi Fukumori 7
#11 Hirokazu Hiraoka 6
#11 Kazutaka Fukao 6
#11 Kentaro Kosaka 6
#11 Mao Kuroda 6
#15 Akira Niitsuma 5
#15 Kazuhiro Fujii 5
#15 Satoshi Shahana 5
#15 Sota Yamaguchi 5
#15 Tetsu Nonoshita 5
#15 Toyoshi Yoshida 5
#21 Akira Inoue 4
#21 Akira Nago 4
#21 Kazuki Koshiyama 4
#21 Kazuya Kuwayama 4
#21 Kenkichi Inoue 4
#21 Keigo Kitajima 4
#21 Masahiro Yamanaka 4
#21 Nobukatsu Hara 4
#21 Shingo Shiraishi 4
#21 Tatsuya Kawakami 4
#21 Tooru Iwai 4
#32 Akinori Hashimoto 3
#32 Makoto Souwa 3
#32 Shinya Hirotomi 3
#32 Shingo Matsuo 3
#32 Takaaki Fujiwara 3
#32 Toru Iwai 3
#32 Yoshiyuki Kasai 3
#32 Yusuke Nishimoto 3
#40 Akinobu SUGIMOTO 2
#40 Atsushi Sakaue 2
#40 Ayumi Kato 2
#40 Daisuke Noborio 2
#40 Hideki Ikemoto 2
#40 Hiroshi Tachibana 2
#40 Jun Nakajima 2
#40 Keiji Matsueda 2
#40 Kensuke Tagaya 2
#40 Koji Tokuyama 2
#40 Masashi Goto 2