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Hitachi Car Engineering Co. — 433 Patents

Rank (All Time): #1,894 of 105,732Top 2%
465 inventors
433 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 54 patents in 2003.peak 541997: 10 patents19971998: 20 patents1999: 20 patents19992000: 35 patents2001: 41 patents20012002: 46 patents2003: 54 patents20032004: 45 patents2005: 37 patents20052006: 36 patents2007: 32 patents20072008: 25 patents2009: 11 patents20092010: 11 patents2011: 4 patents20112012: 5 patents2014: 1 patents2014

Top Inventors at Hitachi Car Engineering Co. All Time

Showing 1–50 of 465 inventors

RankNamePatents
1 Shinya Igarashi 50
2 Izumi Watanabe 45
3 Keiichi Nakada 35
#4 Suetaro Shibukawa 31
#5 Fumio Tajima 29
#5 Osamu Koizumi 29
#7 Toshifumi Usui 27
#7 Yasuo Saito 27
#9 Hiroyuki Saito 26
#9 Keiji Hanzawa 26
#9 Shouichi Kawamata 26
#12 Keiji Oda 25
#13 Tatsuya Yoshida 24
#14 Masahiro Matsumoto 23
#15 Masamichi Yamada 22
#15 Mitsuru Koni 22
#17 Eisuke Wayama 20
#17 Junichi Horie 20
#19 Kei Ueyama 19
#19 Yoshio Okamoto 19
#21 Noboru Sugiura 18
#21 Shinichi Sakamoto 18
#21 Shigeru Tokumoto 18
#24 Kaoru Uchiyama 17
#24 Kiyoshi Horibe 17
#24 Yuzo Kadomukai 17
#24 Yutaka Matsunobu 17
#28 Hiroyuki Yamada 16
#29 Masami Nagano 15
#29 Satoshi Shimada 15
#29 Yoshikatsu Hashimoto 15
#32 Hiromu Kikawa 14
#32 Yoshiyuki Tanabe 14
#34 Atsushi Miyazaki 13
#34 Hiroaki Saeki 13
#34 Katsuaki Fukatsu 13
#34 Ryoichi Kobayashi 13
#34 Yasunaga Hamada 13
#39 Kazuo Nagayama 12
#39 Masayuki Kozawa 12
#39 Makoto Yamakado 12
#39 Yasushi Sasaki 12
#43 Hiromasa Kubo 11
#43 Hiroshi Kuroiwa 11
#45 Takanobu Ichihara 10
#46 Atsushi Kanke 9
#46 Eiichiro Kondo 9
#46 Junichi Shimada 9
#46 Masahiko Ibamoto 9
#46 Naoki Saito 9

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