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Mitsuo Nimura — 18 Patents

Canon: 18 patents #3,699 of 19,416Top 20%
Yokohama, JP: #5,752 of 49,234 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Mitsuo Nimura has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Canon. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in July 2007. Mitsuo Nimura ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Mitsuo Nimura in Yokohama, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2007Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1996.peak 31991: 1 patents19911995: 1 patents1996: 3 patents19961998: 1 patents1999: 3 patents19992000: 2 patents2001: 2 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 2 patents20032006: 1 patents2007: 1 patents2007

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7248377 Image forming apparatus that provides insert sheet in proper order, method of controlling the same, and storage medium therefor Shinichi Nakamura, Naoyuki Ohki, Norifumi Miyake, Kiyoshi Okamoto, Takayuki Fujii +1 more 2007-07-24 $590,000
7113846 Sheet handling apparatus which inserts insert sheets between recording sheets having image formed thereon, method of controlling same, image forming apparatus and storage medium therefor Tsuyoshi Moriyama, Shinichi Nakamura, Naoyuki Ohki, Norifumi Miyake, Kiyoshi Okamoto +1 more 2006-09-26 $345,000
6636720 Image forming apparatus, control method thereof, image forming method, and storage medium Takayuki Fujii, Shinichi Nakamura, Naoyuki Ohki, Norifumi Miyake, Kiyoshi Okamoto +1 more 2003-10-21 $134,000
6505017 Image forming apparatus, control method thereof, image forming method, and storage medium Takayuki Fujii, Shinichi Nakamura, Naoyuki Ohki, Norifumi Miyake, Kiyoshi Okamoto +1 more 2003-01-07 $183,000
6463512 Storage device, method of processing stored data, and image forming apparatus Keizo Isemura, Noriaki Matsui, Ichiro Sasaki, Manabu Yamauchi, Naoto Watanabe +2 more 2002-10-08 $133,000
6325585 Perforation device for punching sheet at predetermined positions and image forming apparatus incorporating the perforation device Ichiro Sasaki 2001-12-04 $208,000
6263173 Image formation apparatus having selection of different image types for image formation Shinichi Nakamura, Naoyuki Ohki, Norifumi Miyake, Kiyoshi Okamoto, Takayuki Fujii +1 more 2001-07-17 $180,000
6166355 Power-saving controller for image-forming apparatus Naoto Watanabe 2000-12-26 $161,000
6081682 Original scanning device with backward scanning control feature and related method Ichiro Sasaki 2000-06-27 $505,000
5960234 Time distance display apparatus for image forming apparatus Seiji Shibaki 1999-09-28 $290,000
5940663 Image exposure apparatus Noboru Mizunuma, Kazumi Kimura 1999-08-17 $239,000
5923919 Image forming apparatus with power shut-off device Kunio Tsuruno, Masatoshi Tanabe 1999-07-13 $256,000
5726781 Image processing for converting color images into monochrome pattern images Keizo Isemura, Kunio Yoshihara, Hiroyuki Ichikawa, Masanori Sakai, Masatoshi Tanabe +2 more 1998-03-10 $39,000
5557430 Image processing apparatus generating patterns for colors based on a set relation between colors and patterns and synthesizing patterns with extracted monochromatic information Keizo Isemura, Kunio Yoshihara, Hiroyuki Ichikawa, Masanori Sakai, Masatoshi Tanabe +2 more 1996-09-17 $47,000
5552903 Image processing apparatus and image processing method Masanori Sakai, Kunio Yoshihara 1996-09-03 $40,000
5488463 Image forming apparatus to form images onto a sheet a plurality of times Kazuhiko Hirooka, Shokyo Koh, Masao Watanabe 1996-01-30 $55,000
5465163 Image processing method and apparatus for processing oversized original images and for synthesizing multiple images Kunio Yoshihara, Kazuhiko Hirooka, Masanori Sakai, Keiju Kuboki, Ritsushi Tanabe 1995-11-07 $27,000
5023728 Image forming apparatus Hideyuki Tanaami 1991-06-11 $20,000