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Hitachi Car Engineering Co.
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Hitachi Car Engineering Co.
— 433 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#1,894
of
105,732
Top 2%
465
inventors
433
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2014
Bar chart with a peak of 54 patents in 2003.
peak 54
1997: 10 patents
1997
1998: 20 patents
1999: 20 patents
1999
2000: 35 patents
2001: 41 patents
2001
2002: 46 patents
2003: 54 patents
2003
2004: 45 patents
2005: 37 patents
2005
2006: 36 patents
2007: 32 patents
2007
2008: 25 patents
2009: 11 patents
2009
2010: 11 patents
2011: 4 patents
2011
2012: 5 patents
2014: 1 patents
2014
Top Inventors at Hitachi Car Engineering Co.
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
465
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
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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Most Valuable Patents
Patent
Est. Value
Year
Thermal-type airflow meter, intake air system for an internal combustion engine, and control system for the same
$1M
2000
Control apparatus and control method for automatic transmission of vehicle
$1M
2000
Idle speed control device for internal combustion engine
$1M
2000
Control apparatus for use in internal combustion engine
$1M
2000
Power supplying apparatus for a vehicle and an intensive wiring apparatus
$945K
1999
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