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Toru Masuda — 41 Patents

Hitachi: 13 patents #3,143 of 28,497Top 15%
HCHosiden Electronics Co.: 11 patents #5 of 98Top 6%
RERenesas Electronics: 5 patents #829 of 4,529Top 20%
RTRenesas Technology: 5 patents #592 of 3,337Top 20%
HCHitachi Device Engineering Co.: 5 patents #95 of 514Top 20%
HDHitachi Power Semiconductor Device: 3 patents #10 of 79Top 15%
Fujitsu Limited: 2 patents #10,930 of 24,456Top 45%
HCHonshu Chemical Industry Co.: 1 patents #38 of 64Top 60%
Tokyo, JP: #2,748 of 90,295 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #75,001 of 4,157,543Top 2%
41 Patents All Time
Toru Masuda has been granted 41 US patents while listed as an inventor at Hitachi. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in October 2025. Toru Masuda ranks #75,001 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.8%). Patent records list Toru Masuda in Tokyo, JP.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 41 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12438115 Power semiconductor module Seiichi Hayakawa, Yuji Takayanagi 2025-10-07
11539361 Semiconductor device signal transmission circuit for drive-control, method of controlling semiconductor device signal transmission circuit for drive-control, semiconductor device, power conversion device, and electric system for railway vehicle Seiichi Hayakawa, Yuji Takayanagi, Takae Shimada, Takashi Wada 2022-12-27
11496041 Gate drive device, gate drive method, power semiconductor module, and electric power conversion device Daisuke IKARASHI, Seiichi Hayakawa, Yuji Takayanagi, Masamitsu Inaba 2022-11-08
10888941 Power semiconductor module Daichi KAWAMURA, Junpei Kusukawa, Naoki Sakurai 2021-01-12
10488515 Acoustic emission wave detection system for a high voltage apparatus Daichi KAWAMURA, Hiroshi Kageyama, Ayumu Hatanaka 2019-11-26
10115700 Power module, electrical power conversion device, and driving device for vehicle Ryuusei FUJITA, Satoru Akiyama, Hiroshi Kageyama, Ayumu Hatanaka, Akio Shima 2018-10-30
10002858 Power transistor module Akitoyo Konno 2018-06-19
8502614 Variable inductor, and oscillator and communication system using the same Takahiro Nakamura 2013-08-06
8212615 Variable-gain amplifier circuit and wireless communication device integrated circuit equipped therewith Nobuhiro Shiramizu, Takahiro Nakamura, Katsuyoshi Washio 2012-07-03
8121579 Active mixer circuit and a receiver circuit or a millimeter-wave communication unit using it Nobuhiro Shiramizu, Takahiro Nakamura, Katsuyoshi Washio, Masamichi Tanabe 2012-02-21 $131,000
7902934 Variable inductor, and oscillator and communication system using the same Takahiro Nakamura 2011-03-08
7843287 Active resonant circuit with resonant-frequency tunability Hiroshi Mori 2010-11-30
7839229 Voltage-controlled oscillator and communication device using the same Takahiro Nakamura 2010-11-23 $82,000
7826814 Frequency synthesizer 2010-11-02
7821335 Semiconductor integrated circuit with variable gain amplifier Nobuhiro Shiramizu 2010-10-26
7642618 Semiconductor devices with inductors Nobuhiro Shiramizu, Takahiro Nakamura, Nobuhiro Kasa, Hiroshi Mori 2010-01-05 $61,000
7592877 Variable frequency oscillator and communication circuit with it Nobuhiro Shiramizu 2009-09-22 $96,000
7589596 Voltage controlled oscillator and wireless transceiver using the same Hiroshi Mori 2009-09-15 $88,000
7518458 Oscillator and data processing equipment using the same and voltage control oscillator and data processing equipment using voltage control oscillator Takahiro Nakamura, Tomomitsu Kitamura, Norio Hayashi, Hiroshi Mori 2009-04-14 $64,000
7177612 Frequency generator and communication system using the same Takahiro Nakamura, Kenichi Ohhata 2007-02-13 $171,000
7098740 Radio frequency power amplifier and communication system Masao Kondo, Katsuyoshi Washio 2006-08-29 $130,000
7091757 Frequency generator and communication system 2006-08-15 $115,000
6785477 Optical receiver using variable negative-capacitance circuit Katsuyoshi Washio, Taizo Yoshikawa, Eiji Ohue, Kenichi Ohhata 2004-08-31 $174,000
6658217 Optical receiver Kenichi Ohhata, Ryoji Takeyari, Katsuyoshi Washio, Yasushi Hatta 2003-12-02 $161,000
6603029 Partially protected novel trisphenols and process for production thereof Taiichi Shiomi, Sachiko Miyagi 2003-08-05