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Minoru Itou — 9 Patents

CACataler: 4 patents #86 of 277Top 35%
Shimano: 4 patents #285 of 759Top 40%
Toyota: 2 patents #11,016 of 26,838Top 45%
Kakegawa, JP: #71 of 302 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Minoru Itou has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cataler. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in October 2025. Minoru Itou ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Minoru Itou in Kakegawa, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2025.peak 22003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents20062015: 1 patents20152022: 1 patents20222024: 1 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12435486 Deep foundation excavator Katsuhisa Isogai, Akihiko Inamoto, Seiji Seki 2025-10-07
12270327 Exhaust gas purification catalyst apparatus Kana IWATA, Takeru Yoshida, Masaru Kakinohana, Hiromasa Suzuki, Atsushi Tanaka 2025-04-08
12030038 Exhaust gas purification catalytic device Kana IWATA, Shunsuke OHISHI, Takeru Yoshida, Masaru Kakinohana, Satoshi Kamitani +1 more 2024-07-09
11504700 Exhaust gas purification catalyst Shunsuke Oishi, Shogo Kawamura, Takahiro Nagata, Hirotaka Ori 2022-11-22
8927454 Exhaust gas-purifying catalyst Michihiko Takeuchi, Tetsuya Shinozaki, Takaaki Kanazawa, Masaya Kamada, Tadashi Suzuki +2 more 2015-01-06
7083542 Internal bicycle hub transmission with a one-way clutch for a driving member Tetsuya Hino 2006-08-01
6840129 Bicycle brake device 2005-01-11
6823758 Bicycle brake device 2004-11-30
6559564 Bicycle hub with generator and antilock functions 2003-05-06