Top Inventors at Takata 2017
| Rank | Name | Patents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marcus Kandler | 2 |
| 2 | Masayuki Sakumoto | 2 |
| 3 | Osamu Nakagawa | 2 |
| #4 | Tetsu Mitsuo | 2 |
| #5 | Yoshihiko Kawai | 2 |
| #6 | Albrecht Kretzschmar | 1 |
| #7 | Andreas Langheinrich | 1 |
| #8 | Armin Toth | 1 |
| #9 | Axel Schnieders | 1 |
| #10 | Den Uehara | 1 |
| #11 | Gerhard Frey | 1 |
| #12 | Hans-Peter Sendelbach | 1 |
| #13 | Hideyuki Tombe | 1 |
| #14 | Hiromichi Yoshikawa | 1 |
| #15 | Hirokazu Yoshioka | 1 |
| #16 | Jan Salziger | 1 |
| #17 | Kazuhiro Abe | 1 |
| #18 | Kazutaka Sugimoto | 1 |
| #19 | Kenji Osada | 1 |
| #20 | Masanori Fudamoto | 1 |
| #21 | Makoto Nagai | 1 |
| #22 | Masatoshi Nasui | 1 |
| #23 | Markus Stollberg | 1 |
| #24 | Mitsuo Maruoka | 1 |
| #25 | Motonori Okano | 1 |
| #26 | Oliver Gloeckler | 1 |
| #27 | Peter Linde | 1 |
| #28 | Rainer Mangold | 1 |
| #29 | Robert Midderhoff | 1 |
| #30 | Stefan Geppert | 1 |
| #31 | Teruhiko Hiruta | 1 |
| #32 | Tetsuya Yamamoto | 1 |
| #33 | Thomas Grasser | 1 |
| #34 | Thomas Hellerforth | 1 |
| #35 | Thomas Sauerwein | 1 |
| #36 | Uwe Dierks | 1 |
| #37 | Uwe Eisemann | 1 |
| #38 | Wolfgang Schrade | 1 |
| #39 | Yasuhito Miyata | 1 |
| #40 | Yoshiyuki Tosa | 1 |
| #41 | Yuuki Tabata | 1 |