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Minolta Co.
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Minolta Co.
— 2,834 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#274
of
105,732
Top 1%
1,416
inventors
2,834
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2013
Bar chart with a peak of 369 patents in 1999.
peak 369
1984: 1 patents
1984
1994: 5 patents
1995: 29 patents
1996: 74 patents
1996
1997: 113 patents
1998: 303 patents
1999: 369 patents
1999
2000: 345 patents
2001: 314 patents
2002: 240 patents
2002
2003: 224 patents
2004: 211 patents
2005: 160 patents
2005
2006: 169 patents
2007: 113 patents
2008: 55 patents
2008
2009: 41 patents
2010: 33 patents
2011: 23 patents
2011
2012: 8 patents
2013: 4 patents
2013
Top Inventors at Minolta Co.
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
1,416
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Hideki Nagata
75
2
Hideaki Ueda
48
3
Hideo Hotomi
46
#4
Kazuhiko Ishimaru
39
#5
Hiroyuki Fukuda
38
#5
Hiroyuki Suzuki
38
#5
Junichi Tanii
38
#5
Kohtaro Hayashi
38
#9
Shinya Matsuda
37
#10
Masahiro Anno
34
#11
Masataka Hamada
33
#12
Yoshihiko Hirota
32
#12
Yoshikazu Ikenoue
32
#14
Masahito Niikawa
31
#14
Shoji Imaizumi
31
#14
Takeshi Morikawa
31
#14
Toshio Norita
31
#18
Hideki Kawai
30
#18
Hiroshi Ootsuka
30
#18
Kenji Nakamura
30
#18
Soh Ohzawa
30
#18
Yoshihiro Hara
30
#23
Katsuyuki Nanba
29
#23
Kenji Konno
29
#23
Toshiharu Mori
29
#26
Hitoshi Hagimori
28
#26
Hiroaki Kubo
28
#26
Hiroyuki Okada
28
#26
Shoichi Minato
28
#30
Tetsuo Kohno
27
#30
Yasushi Tanijiri
27
#32
Hiroshi Yuki
26
#32
Junji Nishigaki
26
#32
Shigeto Ohmori
26
#35
Akihito Ikegawa
25
#35
Atsushi Ishikawa
25
#35
Hidetoshi Miyamoto
25
#35
Masahiko Matsuura
25
#35
Masayuki Ueyama
25
#35
Takuji Hatano
25
#35
Takayuki Nabeshima
25
#42
Takashi Kondo
24
#42
Yasumasa Sawai
24
#44
Ichiro Kasai
23
#44
Kenji Masaki
23
#44
Kiyofumi Hashimoto
23
#47
Chikara Tsutsui
22
#47
Eiji Okabayashi
22
#47
Eiichi Yoshida
22
#47
Kenji Ishibashi
22
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