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Shimano
Shimano
— 155 Patents in 2018
Rank
(2018):
#236
of
29,927
Top 1%
147
inventors
155
Patents 2018
Top Inventors at Shimano
2018
Showing
1–50
of
147
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Etsuyoshi Watarai
14
1
Yoshimitsu Miki
14
3
Kazutaka Fukao
12
#4
Masahiro Nakakura
9
#4
Osamu Kariyama
9
#6
Yasuhiro Tsuchizawa
8
#7
Kentaro Kosaka
7
#7
Makoto Usui
7
#7
Nobukatsu Hara
7
#7
Toshinari Oishi
7
#11
Akira Niitsuma
6
#11
Atsuhiro Emura
6
#11
Jun Gao
6
#11
Satoshi Shahana
6
#11
Tsuyoshi Fukumori
6
#16
Koji Ochiai
5
#16
Toyoto Shirai
5
#16
Yusuke Nishikawa
5
#19
Akinobu SUGIMOTO
4
#19
Atsushi Komatsu
4
#19
Kazuki Koshiyama
4
#19
Satoshi Ikebukuro
4
#19
Shinya Hirotomi
4
#19
Shingo Sakurai
4
#19
Takafumi Nishino
4
#19
Takahiro Yamashita
4
#19
Yasufumi Fukunaga
4
#19
Yuichiro Ishikawa
4
#19
Yuta Kurokawa
4
#30
Hiroyuki Miyoshi
3
#30
Kazuya Kuwayama
3
#30
Kenji Kamada
3
#30
Kentaro Miyazaki
3
#30
Koji Tokuyama
3
#30
Nobuyoshi Fujii
3
#30
Sota Yamaguchi
3
#30
Tadashi Ichida
3
#30
Takashi Komemushi
3
#30
Tatsuya Matsushita
3
#30
Takashi Yamamoto
3
#30
Yasuhisa Watanabe
3
#30
Yuki KATAOKA
3
#43
Bungo Sasaki
2
#43
Daisuke Noborio
2
#43
Hiroshi Fujita
2
#43
Hirokazu Hirayama
2
#43
Hideki Ikemoto
2
#43
Jun Nakajima
2
#43
Kazuhiro Fujii
2
#43
Kazunori Okubo
2
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2
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