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Nippon Kokan Co. — 365 Patents

Rank (All Time): #2,177 of 105,732Top 3%
735 inventors
365 Patents All Time

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 1999Bar chart with a peak of 43 patents in 1987.peak 431980: 20 patents19801981: 30 patents1982: 20 patents19821983: 35 patents1984: 38 patents19841985: 30 patents1986: 25 patents19861987: 43 patents1988: 40 patents19881989: 29 patents1990: 27 patents19901991: 15 patents1992: 7 patents19921993: 2 patents1995: 1 patents19951999: 3 patents1999

Top Inventors at Nippon Kokan Co. All Time

Showing 1–50 of 735 inventors

RankNamePatents
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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