Showing 1–17 of 17 inventors
| Rank | Inventor | Primary Company | Patents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Takashi Sato | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | 732 |
| 2 | Hideo Watanabe | Bridgestone Sports Co. | 394 |
| 3 | Toshio Kobayashi | Subaru | 244 |
| #4 | Yoshiaki Yamamoto | Semiconductor Energy Laboratory | 138 |
| #5 | Akira Goto | Canon | 124 |
| #6 | Hitoshi Kondo | Shinko Electric Industries Co. | 90 |
| #7 | Manabu Tanaka | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | 65 |
| #8 | Kenji Yanagisawa | Shinko Electric Industries Co. | 63 |
| #9 | Akinori Yamamoto | Daikin Industries | 52 |
| #10 | Akira Iijima | Isuzu Motors Limited | 34 |
| #11 | Susumu Arai | Shinshu University | 20 |
| #12 | Norifumi Yoshida | Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. | 18 |
| #13 | Shunichiro Matsumoto | Shinko Electric Industries Co. | 15 |
| #14 | Daisuke Kawamoto | Sony | 12 |
| #15 | Shin Funada | Western Digital (Fremont) | 11 |
| #16 | Atsushi Uchino | Seiko Epson | 6 |
| #17 | Kazuhisa Ohta | Apple | 3 |
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