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Kobe, JP 2018

1,193 patents  ·  692 inventors

Ranked #89 of 41,834 cities Top 1%

Kobe, JP ranks #89 worldwide for total patents filed in 2018, with 1,193 patents from 692 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Kobe, JP include Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Kawasaki, Seiko Epson.

Showing 1–50 of 692 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 Daisuke KOHNO Sumitomo Rubber Industries 10
1 Tomo Yamamoto Kawasaki 10
3 Shunsuke Watanabe Seiko Epson 9
3 Naruhiro MIZUTANI Sumitomo Rubber Industries 9
#5 Naoki Kojima Mitsuba 8
#5 Kosuke TACHIBANA Dunlop Sports Co. 8
#5 Toshiyuki Tarao Sumitomo Rubber Industries 8
#5 Kazuyoshi Shiga Sumitomo Rubber Industries 8
#9 Takahiro Shigemitsu Sumitomo Rubber Industries 7
#9 Yasuhisa Minagawa Sumitomo Rubber Industries 7
#9 Satoshi Ouchi Hitachi 7
#9 Hidetaka INOUE Sumitomo Rubber Industries 7
#9 Shinji Marui Marui Co. 7
#9 Toshio Murakami Kobe Steel 7
#15 Shunichi Nakao Kawasaki 6
#15 Takao Wada Sumitomo Rubber Industries 6
#15 Chiemi Mikura Dunlop Sports Co. 6
#15 Yuki Wakabayashi Murata Manufacturing Co. 6
#15 Kazuyuki Tsutsumi Kobe Steel 6
#15 Yasuhiko Hashimoto Kawasaki 6
#15 Yasuyuki Watanabe Canon 6
#15 Takahiro Sajima Sumitomo Rubber Industries 6
#23 Hiroyuki Onimatsu Sumitomo Rubber Industries 5
#23 Kentaro Tanaka Toray Industries 5
#23 Kohei MIMURA Dunlop Sports Co. 5
#23 Kazuya Kamino Sumitomo Rubber Industries 5
#23 Makoto Sugiya Sumitomo Rubber Industries 5
#23 Kyosuke Kono Sumitomo Rubber Industries 5
#23 Takashi Ohno Fujitsu Limited 5
#23 Haruhiko Yamaguchi Sumitomo Rubber Industries 5
#23 Hiroshi Yamaoka Sumitomo Rubber Industries 5
#23 Kazuo Sasaki Fujitsu Limited 5
#33 Hideyasu Muraoka Kawasaki 4
#33 Kazuyuki Ito Sumitomo Chemical 4
#33 Masayoshi Kobayashi Kawasaki 4
#33 Yoshihiro Mizuno Fujitsu Limited 4
#33 Masanori Taguchi Sumitomo Rubber Industries 4
#33 Toshiyuki Hirashima Kawasaki 4
#33 Katsura Kajihara Kobe Steel 4
#33 Ryuichi Tokimune Sumitomo Rubber Industries 4
#33 Toshikazu Kawaguchi Konica Minolta 4
#33 Yukino INOUE Sumitomo Rubber Industries 4
#33 Yasukazu Murata Mitsubishi Electric 4
#33 Yoichi Nishikawa Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited 4
#33 Tomoaki Mizoo Fujitsu Limited 4
#33 Takashi Wada Kobe Steel 4
#33 Ryo Nakamura Toyoda Gosei Co. 4
#33 Hayato Iwasaki Kawasaki 4
#33 Kazuhiro Kodama Otsuka Chemical Co. 4
#33 Hideo Hata Asahi-Dow 4

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