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Nippon Kokan Co.
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Nippon Kokan Co.
— 365 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#2,177
of
105,732
Top 3%
735
inventors
365
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1980 to 1999
Bar chart with a peak of 43 patents in 1987.
peak 43
1980: 20 patents
1980
1981: 30 patents
1982: 20 patents
1982
1983: 35 patents
1984: 38 patents
1984
1985: 30 patents
1986: 25 patents
1986
1987: 43 patents
1988: 40 patents
1988
1989: 29 patents
1990: 27 patents
1990
1991: 15 patents
1992: 7 patents
1992
1993: 2 patents
1995: 1 patents
1995
1999: 3 patents
1999
Top Inventors at Nippon Kokan Co.
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
735
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Hiroaki Nishio
16
1
Yuji Sugitani
16
3
Hirokazu Nomura
15
#4
Hiroshi Kuwamoto
14
#5
Shuzo Fukuda
13
#6
Nobuhisa Hasebe
12
#6
Tsuneo Miyashita
12
#8
Shinji Akita
11
#9
Chiaki Ouchi
10
#9
Michio Nakayama
10
#9
Takeshi Adaniya
10
#9
Yutaka Tsuchida
10
#13
Hiroyuki Nagamori
9
#13
Masahiro Abe
9
#15
Shiro Fukunaka
8
#15
Shuzo Takahashi
8
#15
Tomihiro Hara
8
#18
Akichika Ozeki
7
#18
Kunihiko Sato
7
#18
Masaaki Yamashita
7
#18
Seigo Ando
7
#18
Shuichi Iwado
7
#18
Shiro Osada
7
#18
Shunichi Sugiyama
7
#18
Takeo Uebayashi
7
#18
Takeo Yamada
7
#18
Tetsuro Urata
7
#18
Tsuneo Kondo
7
#18
Yoshimi Komatsu
7
#30
Akira Honda
6
#30
Hirohisa Nakashima
6
#30
Koichiro Arima
6
#30
Koji Matsui
6
#30
Masaru Ishikawa
6
#30
Noboru Sakamoto
6
#30
Tetsuhiro Asamoto
6
#37
Hiromi Okamoto
5
#37
Hiroshi Saito
5
#37
Isamu Komine
5
#37
Kazuhide Nakaoka
5
#37
Kiyomi Taguchi
5
#37
Koji Toyota
5
#37
Masayuki Hanmyo
5
#37
Masafumi Ikeda
5
#37
Masaaki Mizushina
5
#37
Mitsugi Kawano
5
#37
Osamu Tajima
5
#37
Takashi Mukai
5
#37
Tamataro Satoh
5
#37
Takemi Yamada
5
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