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Hirohide Munakata — 29 Patents

Canon: 29 patents #1,953 of 19,416Top 15%
Yokohama, JP: #3,187 of 49,234 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #127,851 of 4,157,543Top 4%
29 Patents All Time
Hirohide Munakata has been granted 29 US patents while listed as an inventor at Canon. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in July 2013. Hirohide Munakata ranks #127,851 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.1%). Patent records list Hirohide Munakata in Yokohama, JP.

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Showing 1–25 of 29 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8482910 Display module Michiko Johnson 2013-07-09 $55,000
6710842 Chiral smectic liquid crystal device Naoya Nishida, Yasufumi Asao, Koji Noguchi, Ryuichiro Isobe 2004-03-23 $382,000
6703993 Driving method for liquid crystal device Seishi Miura, Hideo Mori 2004-03-09 $139,000
6693695 Liquid crystal device and driving method therefor Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Yasuyuki Watanabe, Yasufumi Asao 2004-02-17 $286,000
6542211 Liquid crystal device and driving method therefor Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Yasuyuki Watanabe, Yasufumi Asao 2003-04-01 $118,000
6221444 Liquid crystal device Shinjiro Okada, Hidemasa Mizutani, Koichi Sato, Akira Tsuboyama 2001-04-24 $207,000
6177968 Optical modulation device with pixels each having series connected electrode structure Shinjiro Okada, Takashi Enomoto, Yutaka Inaba, Takahiro Hachisu 2001-01-23 $294,000
5999157 Suppressing liquid crystal movement based on the relationship between a display pattern and a driving waveform Nobuhiro Ito, Yasuaki Takeda, Yukio Hanyu, Yasufumi Asao 1999-12-07 $237,000
5956010 Liquid crystal apparatus and driving method Yasufumi Asao, Yasuaki Takeda, Yukio Hanyu, Nobuhiro Ito 1999-09-21 $232,000
5863458 Liquid crystal apparatus and display apparatus Hirokatsu Miyata, Hiroyuki Kitayama, Shinjiro Okada, Katsuhiko Shinjo, Tomoko Maruyama 1999-01-26 $93,000
5011644 Process for producing gel fiber Masahiro Haruta, Satoshi Yuasa, Yoko Yoshinaga 1991-04-30 $19,000
5007714 Optical device Yukuo Nishimura, Masahiro Haruta, Yoko Kuwae, Toshihiko Miyazaki, Satoshi Yuasa 1991-04-16 $12,000
5006446 Medium and process for image formation Masahiro Haruta, Hiroshi Matsuda, Yukuo Nishimura 1991-04-09 $23,000
4975375 Biocatalyst immobilization with a reversibly swelling and shrinking polymer Masahiro Haruta, Satoshi Yuasa, Yoko Yoshinaga, Yukuo Nishimura 1990-12-04 $8,000
4952035 Optical element and device using same Satoshi Yuasa, Yukuo Nishimura, Masahiro Haruta, Yoko Yoshinaga 1990-08-28 $6,000
4900135 Optical element Satoshi Yuasa, Yukuo Nishimura, Yoko Yoshinaga, Masahiro Haruta 1990-02-13 $13,000
4881798 Thermal optical modulation method and device using alternating current Satoshi Yuasa, Yoko Yoshinaga, Masahiro Haruta, Yukuo Nishimura 1989-11-21 $10,000
4873178 Optical recording medium and method for conducting recording on said medium Masahiro Haruta, Yoko Kuwae, Satoshi Yuasa, Etsuko Sugawa 1989-10-10 $14,000
4832466 Optical element Yukuo Nishimura, Satoshi Yuasa, Masahiro Haruta, Yoko Yoshinaga 1989-05-23 $13,000
4818665 Medium and process for image formation Masahiro Haruta, Hiroshi Matsuda, Yukuo Nishimura 1989-04-04 $12,000
4804613 Optical recording medium and optical recording process using such medium Hiroshi Matsuda, Masahiro Haruta, Yoshinori Tomita, Takashi Hamamoto 1989-02-14 $14,000
4785762 Apparatus for forming film Toshihiko Miyazaki, Etsuko Sugawa, Yoshinori Tomida, Yukuo Nishimura, Ken Eguchi 1988-11-22 $9,000
4779962 Optical device Yukuo Nishimura, Masahiro Haruta, Yoko Kuwae, Toshihiko Miyazaki, Satoshi Yuasa 1988-10-25 $16,000
4771215 Display device with a biochemical luminous reaction system Satoshi Yuasa, Yoko Yoshinaga, Masahiro Haruta 1988-09-13 $18,000
4766047 Optical recording medium and optical recording process using such medium Hiroshi Matsuda, Masahiro Haruta, Yoshinori Tomita, Takashi Hamamoto 1988-08-23 $17,000