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Shingo Hirota — 18 Patents

Canon: 9 patents #6,770 of 19,416Top 35%
MCMinolta Co.: 4 patents #477 of 1,416Top 35%
SHSumitomo Electric Hardmetal: 3 patents #130 of 278Top 50%
MIMinolta: 1 patents #729 of 1,109Top 70%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 1 patents #13,249 of 21,551Top 65%
Ibaraki, JP: #466 of 6,779 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Shingo Hirota has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Canon. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in June 2025. Shingo Hirota ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Shingo Hirota in Ibaraki, JP.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12332594 Image forming system and image forming apparatus KYOHEI KIKUCHI, Masami Hano, Yoshiro Tsukada, Toshiyuki Yamada, TARO HANAZATO +1 more 2025-06-17
D1072006 Cutting tool holder Taiki Mugio, Daisuke YAMANAKA 2025-04-22
12265351 Image forming system Daisuke Katayama, Yoshiro Tsukada, Masami Hano, Toshiyuki Yamada, TARO HANAZATO +1 more 2025-04-01
12216423 Image forming system including varnish image forming apparatus TARO HANAZATO, Yoshiro Tsukada, Masami Hano, Toshiyuki Yamada, Daisuke Katayama +1 more 2025-02-04
D1060449 Cutting tool holder Taiki Mugio, Daisuke YAMANAKA 2025-02-04
D1060450 Cutting tool holder Taiki Mugio, Daisuke YAMANAKA 2025-02-04
12164253 Image forming system including varnish applying apparatus Toshiyuki Yamada, Yoshiro Tsukada, Masami Hano, TARO HANAZATO, Daisuke Katayama +1 more 2024-12-10
12105449 Image forming apparatus and varnish applying apparatus Yoshiro Tsukada, Masami Hano, Toshiyuki Yamada, KYOHEI KIKUCHI, Daisuke Katayama +1 more 2024-10-01
10809658 Cleaning blade, manufacturing method of the cleaning blade, process cartridge and image forming apparatus 2020-10-20 $37,000
10564590 Image forming apparatus 2020-02-18 $17,000
10185266 Image forming apparatus for reducing misdetections 2019-01-22 $27,000
9671712 Image forming apparatus 2017-06-06 $38,000
6029025 Image forming apparatus with variable efficiency cleaning mechanism Hiroshi Sakakibara, Hiroshi Fukao, Mineyuki Sako, Kuniya Matsuura 2000-02-22
6017172 Ceramic insert for use with clamp type cutting tool Harutoshi Ukegawa, Matsuo Higuchi, Nobuyuki Kitagawa 2000-01-25
5890048 Cleaning device 1999-03-30
5774765 Cleaning device for removing residual toner from an image carrier in an image reproduction apparatus Naotoshi Kawai 1998-06-30
5765088 Image forming apparatus and cleaning blade Yasunori Nakayama, Kuniaki Kashiwakura, Futoshi Okazaki, Kouji Matsushita 1998-06-09
4945388 Method and apparatus for cleaning a color image forming apparatus by sticking developer on the photoconductor without forming an image Keigo Tange, Tomohisa Kanada 1990-07-31