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Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co.
KC
Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co.
— 783 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#1,101
of
105,732
Top 2%
943
inventors
783
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1982 to 2012
Bar chart with a peak of 48 patents in 1997.
peak 48
1982: 18 patents
1982
1983: 10 patents
1984: 11 patents
1985: 11 patents
1985
1986: 15 patents
1987: 28 patents
1988: 14 patents
1988
1989: 25 patents
1990: 28 patents
1991: 36 patents
1991
1992: 39 patents
1993: 31 patents
1994: 31 patents
1994
1995: 24 patents
1996: 36 patents
1997: 48 patents
1997
1998: 37 patents
1999: 37 patents
2000: 25 patents
2000
2001: 38 patents
2002: 34 patents
2003: 38 patents
2003
2004: 24 patents
2005: 25 patents
2006: 28 patents
2006
2007: 30 patents
2008: 18 patents
2009: 15 patents
2009
2011: 1 patents
2012: 1 patents
2012
Top Inventors at Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co.
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
943
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Nobuo Hanai
51
2
Fumio Suzuki
43
3
Masaji Kasai
41
#4
Makoto Morimoto
40
#5
Akio Ozaki
37
#6
Chikara Murakata
35
#6
Hiromitsu Saito
35
#6
Motoo Yamasaki
35
#9
Ryoichi Katsumata
34
#9
Shiro Akinaga
34
#11
Katsuhiko Ando
32
#12
Akira Karasawa
30
#12
Kenya Shitara
30
#12
Tadashi Ashizawa
30
#12
Yutaka Kanda
30
#16
Kazuhiro Kubo
29
#16
Kunikatsu Shirahata
29
#18
Hiroshi Kase
28
#19
Akio Ishii
27
#19
Junichi Shimada
27
#21
Koji Yamada
26
#22
Hirofumi Nakano
25
#22
Keiko Ochiai
25
#24
Isao Kawamoto
24
#24
Kiyoshi Morimoto
24
#26
Katsushige Gomi
23
#26
Kazuyasu Nakamura
23
#28
Hiroyuki Obase
21
#28
Kenji Ohmori
21
#30
Seiga Itoh
20
#30
Tadashi Hirata
20
#32
Akiko Furuya
19
#32
Etsuo Ohshima
19
#32
Shunji Ichikawa
19
#32
Tatsuya Tamaoki
19
#36
Hiromi Nonaka
18
#36
Mamoru Hasegawa
18
#36
Moriyuki Sato
18
#36
Satoshi Koizumi
18
#36
Tatsunari Nishi
18
#36
Yoshiharu Yokoo
18
#42
Eiji Kobayashi
17
#42
Haruki Takai
17
#42
Kuniki Kino
17
#42
Michio Ichimura
17
#42
Tamio Mizukami
17
#42
Yoshihisa Kuwana
17
#48
Ikuo Shimizu
16
#48
Katsuichi Shuto
16
#48
Masato Ikeda
16
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