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Shimano
Shimano
— 153 Patents in 2017
Rank
(2017):
#247
of
29,883
Top 1%
143
inventors
153
Patents 2017
Top Inventors at Shimano
2017
Showing
1–50
of
143
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Etsuyoshi Watarai
17
2
Masahiro Nakakura
16
3
Yoshimitsu Miki
11
#4
Akira Niitsuma
10
#4
Atsuhiro Emura
10
#4
Hirokazu Hiraoka
10
#4
Kunio Takechi
10
#4
Osamu Kariyama
10
#9
Toru Iwai
9
#10
Satoshi Ikebukuro
8
#10
Takuji Takamatsu
8
#12
Kazuya Kuwayama
7
#12
Shinya Hirotomi
7
#12
Takeshi Ikuta
7
#12
Toyoto Shirai
7
#12
Yasuhiro Tsuchizawa
7
#17
Kazutaka Fukao
6
#17
Kazuki Koshiyama
6
#17
Makoto Souwa
6
#20
Masakazu Iwabuchi
5
#21
Ayumi Kato
4
#21
Hiroshi Fujita
4
#21
Hiroshi Tachibana
4
#21
Jun Gao
4
#21
Kentaro Kosaka
4
#21
Keijiro Nishi
4
#21
Kei Saito
4
#21
Makoto Usui
4
#21
Nobukatsu Hara
4
#21
Satoshi Shahana
4
#21
Tatsuya Kawakami
4
#21
Tatsuya Matsushita
4
#21
Toshio Tetsuka
4
#34
Akira Nago
3
#34
Kenkichi Inoue
3
#34
Koji Ochiai
3
#34
Takaaki Fujiwara
3
#34
Taihei Nishihara
3
#34
Toshihiko Takeuchi
3
#34
Yuta Mizutani
3
#34
Yusuke Nishimoto
3
#42
Akinori Hashimoto
2
#42
Akinobu SUGIMOTO
2
#42
Atsushi Kawamata
2
#42
Fumiaki Yoshida
2
#42
Hirokazu Hashimoto
2
#42
Hirokazu Hirayama
2
#42
Hiroyuki Miyoshi
2
#42
Hiroki Ogose
2
#42
Junichi Kikuta
2
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2
3
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