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Norio Arashi — 17 Patents

Hitachi: 16 patents #2,442 of 28,497Top 9%
BABabcock-Hitachi: 5 patents #43 of 415Top 15%
BKBabcock-Hitachi K.K.: 1 patents #20 of 70Top 30%
Hitachi, JP: #309 of 2,929 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Norio Arashi has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Hitachi. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in August 1994. Norio Arashi ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Norio Arashi in Hitachi, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 1994Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1991.peak 31981: 1 patents19811983: 1 patents1984: 1 patents19841985: 1 patents1987: 1 patents19871988: 2 patents1989: 1 patents19891990: 2 patents1991: 3 patents19911993: 2 patents1994: 2 patents1994

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
5339635 Gas turbine combustor of the completely premixed combustion type Yasuo Iwai, Shigeru Azuhata, Kenichi Sohma, Kiyoshi Narato, Hironobu Kobayashi +4 more 1994-08-23 $158,000
5325660 Method of burning a premixed gas in a combustor cap Masayuki Taniguchi, Yasuo Yoshii, Tadayoshi Murakami, Shigeru Azuhata, Kenichi Sohma +2 more 1994-07-05 $115,000
5216885 Combustor for burning a premixed gas Masayuki Taniguchi, Yasuo Yoshii, Tadayoshi Murakami, Shigeru Azuhata, Kenichi Sohma +3 more 1993-06-08 $66,000
5186146 Combustion evaluation apparatus and combustion controller Kenichi Sohma, Tugihiro Yukitake, Shigeru Azuhata, Hiroatsu Tokuda 1993-02-16 $40,000
5067419 Low NOx boiler Hironobu Kobayashi, Shigeru Azuhata, Kiyoshi Narato, Kenichi Sohma, Yasuo Yoshii +10 more 1991-11-26 $45,000
5038558 Gas turbine combustor and a method of combustion thereby Kenichi Sohma, Shigeru Azuhata, Yasuo Iwai, Tooru Inada, Hironobu Kobayashi +5 more 1991-08-13 $82,000
5022849 Low NOx burning method and low NOx burner apparatus Yasuo Yoshii, Shigeru Azuhata, Kenichi Sohma, Tooru Inada, Hideo Kikuchi +7 more 1991-06-11 $50,000
4973159 Spectroscope apparatus and reaction apparatus using the same Kenichi Sohma, Shigeru Azuhata, Kiyoshi Narato, Tooru Inada, Hironobu Kobayashi +1 more 1990-11-27 $75,000
4907962 Low NOx burner Shigeru Azuhata, Kiyoshi Narato, Hironobu Kobayashi, Kenichi Sohma, Tooru Inada +2 more 1990-03-13 $44,000
4820046 Spectroscope apparatus and reaction apparatus using the same Kenichi Sohma, Shigeru Azuhata, Kiyoshi Narato, Tooru Inada, Hironobu Kobayashi +1 more 1989-04-11 $33,000
4784043 Atomizer and coal-water slurry fired boiler utilizing the same Hironobu Kobayashi, Shigeru Azuhata, Kiyoshi Narato, Tooru Inada, Kenichi Sohma +2 more 1988-11-15 $172,000
4741279 Method of and apparatus for combusting coal-water mixture Shigeru Azuhata, Kazutoshi Higashiyama, Kiyoshi Narato, Hironobu Kobayashi, Tooru Inada +7 more 1988-05-03 $119,000
4653998 Furnace system Ken-ichi Sohma, Shigeru Azuhata, Kiyoshi Narato, Tooru Inada, Hironobu Kobayashi +2 more 1987-03-31 $74,000
4515094 Fuel jet method and apparatus for pulverized coal burner Shigeru Azuhata, Kiyoshi Narato, Tooru Inada, Kenichi Souma, Keizou Ohtsuka +2 more 1985-05-07 $40,000
4427642 Process for dry desulfurization of flue gas Yukio Hishinuma, Hidetoshi Akimoto, Sadao Takahashi, Fumito Nakajima, Kenichi Gomi 1984-01-24 $45,000
4421732 Process for dry desulfurization of flue gas Takeo Komuro, Kenichi Gomi, Hidetoshi Akimoto, Yukio Hishinuma, Hajime Iinuma +1 more 1983-12-20 $61,000
4268482 Catalytic reactor Tadayoshi Murakami, Kiyoshi Narato, Masaaki Shiga, Tomihisa Ishikawa 1981-05-19 $189,000