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Tooru Inada — 13 Patents

Hitachi: 13 patents #3,143 of 28,497Top 15%
BABabcock-Hitachi: 6 patents #32 of 415Top 8%
Hitachi, JP: #421 of 2,929 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Tooru Inada has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Hitachi. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in September 2000. Tooru Inada ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Tooru Inada in Hitachi, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2000Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1988.peak 21984: 1 patents19841985: 1 patents19851987: 1 patents19871988: 2 patents19881989: 1 patents19891990: 2 patents19901991: 2 patents19911994: 1 patents19941997: 1 patents19972000: 1 patents2000

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6123910 Method of predicting and controlling harmful oxide and apparatus therefor Yasuo Yoshii, Tomohiko Miyamoto, Jinichi Tomuro, Nobuyuki Hokari, Katsuya Oki 2000-09-26 $576,000
5664505 Method of and apparatus for abnormality detection of a fluidized bed boiler Tomohiko Miyamoto, Yasuo Yoshii, Jinichi Tomuro, Nobuyuki Hokari, Katsuya Oki 1997-09-09 $93,000
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
5038558 Gas turbine combustor and a method of combustion thereby Kenichi Sohma, Shigeru Azuhata, Yasuo Iwai, Hironobu Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Narato +5 more 1991-08-13 $82,000
5022849 Low NOx burning method and low NOx burner apparatus Yasuo Yoshii, Shigeru Azuhata, Norio Arashi, Kenichi Sohma, Hideo Kikuchi +7 more 1991-06-11 $50,000
4973159 Spectroscope apparatus and reaction apparatus using the same Kenichi Sohma, Shigeru Azuhata, Kiyoshi Narato, Hironobu Kobayashi, Norio Arashi +1 more 1990-11-27 $75,000
4907962 Low NOx burner Shigeru Azuhata, Kiyoshi Narato, Hironobu Kobayashi, Kenichi Sohma, Norio Arashi +2 more 1990-03-13 $44,000
4820046 Spectroscope apparatus and reaction apparatus using the same Kenichi Sohma, Shigeru Azuhata, Kiyoshi Narato, Hironobu Kobayashi, Norio Arashi +1 more 1989-04-11 $33,000
4784043 Atomizer and coal-water slurry fired boiler utilizing the same Hironobu Kobayashi, Shigeru Azuhata, Kiyoshi Narato, Kenichi Sohma, Norio Arashi +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, Norio Arashi +7 more 1988-05-03 $119,000
4653998 Furnace system Ken-ichi Sohma, Norio Arashi, Shigeru Azuhata, Kiyoshi Narato, Hironobu Kobayashi +2 more 1987-03-31 $74,000
4515094 Fuel jet method and apparatus for pulverized coal burner Shigeru Azuhata, Norio Arashi, Kiyoshi Narato, Kenichi Souma, Keizou Ohtsuka +2 more 1985-05-07 $40,000
4436699 Monitoring system for checking electric rotary machine for local overheating Kiyoshi Narato, Keizou Ohtsuka, Takashi Watanabe 1984-03-13 $46,000