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Daido Steel Co.
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Daido Steel Co.
— 142 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#5,019
of
105,732
Top 5%
272
inventors
142
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2025
Bar chart with a peak of 15 patents in 2019.
peak 15
1987: 1 patents
1987
1988: 1 patents
1994: 1 patents
1995: 1 patents
1995
1996: 2 patents
1997: 5 patents
1999: 3 patents
1999
2000: 4 patents
2001: 3 patents
2003: 4 patents
2003
2004: 5 patents
2006: 1 patents
2007: 3 patents
2007
2008: 1 patents
2009: 1 patents
2010: 3 patents
2010
2011: 3 patents
2013: 1 patents
2014: 6 patents
2014
2015: 6 patents
2016: 7 patents
2017: 8 patents
2017
2018: 6 patents
2019: 15 patents
2020: 14 patents
2020
2021: 7 patents
2022: 11 patents
2023: 6 patents
2023
2024: 8 patents
2025: 3 patents
2025
Top Inventors at Daido Steel Co.
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
272
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Shigeki Ueta
13
2
Hiroyuki Takabayashi
12
3
Masamichi Kawano
11
#4
Akihiko Saito
7
#4
Yoshihiko KOYANAGI
7
#6
Kenji Sugiyama
6
#6
Takahiro Miyazaki
6
#6
Toshiyuki Morita
6
#9
Michio Okabe
5
#9
Mototsugu Osaki
5
#9
Toshiharu Noda
5
#12
Keita Hinoshita
4
#12
Koichiro Inoue
4
#12
Kohki Izumi
4
#12
Kunio Matsuo
4
#12
Masato Ogawa
4
#12
Masato Sagawa
4
#12
Naoki Umemori
4
#12
Shinichiro Kato
4
#12
Shinobu Takagi
4
#12
Takashi Kano
4
#12
Takashi Yoshimoto
4
#12
Yoshinori Sumi
4
#24
Ayumi Yamazaki
3
#24
Daisuke Enomoto
3
#24
Hayato Hashino
3
#24
Hideaki Hayashi
3
#24
Junichi Esaki
3
#24
Kazuhisa Ishida
3
#24
Keisuke Inoue
3
#24
Keiichiro Kamiya
3
#24
Kenta Yamashita
3
#24
Kyohei Nakayama
3
#24
Masahiro Taniguchi
3
#24
Minoru Enomoto
3
#24
Michihide NAKAMURA
3
#24
Noriyuki Tomita
3
#24
Takuma Okajima
3
#24
Yasushi Kaneta
3
#24
Yoshio Kato
3
#24
Yuta Kimura
3
#24
Yutaka Kurebayashi
3
#24
Yusuke Kusafuka
3
#24
Yu Nakama
3
#24
Yuichiro Tago
3
#24
Yusuke Tozawa
3
#47
Akihiro Nagatani
2
#47
Akihiro Suzuki
2
#47
Atsushi Yoshida
2
#47
Fumihiro Furukawa
2
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Most Valuable Patents
Patent
Est. Value
Year
Carburized part, method for manufacturing thereof, and steel for carburized part
$736K
2017
Manufacturing method for a crankshaft member
$575K
2014
Weldable steel of high strength and high toughness, and method of producing members using the same
$558K
2011
Nitrocarburized crankshaft member and steel for nitrocarburized crankshafts
$373K
2014
Stainless steel coated with intermetallic compound and process for producing the same
$213K
2001
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