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Naoyuki Kagami — 48 Patents

IBM: 26 patents #4,017 of 70,183Top 6%
WTWestern Digital Technologies: 14 patents #222 of 3,180Top 7%
HGHGST: 6 patents #367 of 1,677Top 25%
HTHitachi Global Technologies: 1 patents #2 of 10Top 20%
Fujisawa, JP: #36 of 2,463 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #57,596 of 4,157,543Top 2%
48 Patents All Time
Naoyuki Kagami has been granted 48 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in April 2025. Naoyuki Kagami ranks #57,596 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.4%). Patent records list Naoyuki Kagami in Fujisawa, JP.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 48 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12266385 Data storage device having dual actuators and method for emergency power off retract (EPOR) of dual actuators Brian Johnson, Jaesoo Byoun, Gaku Ikedo, Hideaki Ito, Hiroki Watanabe 2025-04-01
12254909 VCM PWM to linear mode transition offset optimization to improve PES Jaesoo Byoun, Brian Johnson, Hideaki Ito, Gaku Ikedo 2025-03-18
11978482 Data storage device with closed loop extended park mode during spin down operation Brian Johnson, Jaesoo Byoun, Gaku Ikedo, Hideaki Ito 2024-05-07 $16,486,000
11948603 Optimize power, RTV, and coupled PES during seek operations Brian Johnson, Jaesoo Byoun, Gaku Ikedo, Hideaki Ito, Yasunori Fukuyama 2024-04-02 $38,332,000
11862202 Data storage device with smart ISOFET threshold voltage automatic tuning Brian Johnson, Jaesoo Byoun, Hideaki Ito, Gaku Ikedo 2024-01-02 $11,123,000
11837264 Data storage device having dual actuators and method for data egress throttling during emergency power off retract (EPOR) Brian Johnson, Jaesoo Byoun, Gaku Ikedo, Hideaki Ito, Hiroki Watanabe 2023-12-05 $9,808,000
11823710 Dual spindle motors and dual spindle motor control for data storage Jaesoo Byoun, Brian Johnson, Gaku Ikedo, Hideaki Ito 2023-11-21 $18,044,000
11763843 VCM PWM to linear mode transition offset optimization to improve PES Jaesoo Byoun, Brian Johnson, Hideaki Ito, Gaku Ikedo 2023-09-19 $12,644,000
11763844 Data storage device having dual actuators and method for emergency power off retract (EPOR) of dual actuators Brian Johnson, Jaesoo Byoun, Gaku Ikedo, Hideaki Ito, Hiroki Watanabe 2023-09-19 $12,644,000
11749303 Data storage device with soft on-disk activation of fine actuators Jaesoo Byoun, Brian Johnson, Gaku Ikedo, Hideaki Ito 2023-09-05 $14,700,000
11373678 Data storage device using windowed delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter in digital current control loop Jaesoo Byoun, Gaku Ikedo 2022-06-28 $10,229,000
11043243 Calibrating elevator actuator for disk drive Kexiu Liu, Kuang-Yang Tu, Jenghung Chen, Gaku Ikedo 2021-06-22 $28,673,000
10996740 Write data protection at emergency power off Hiroki Watanabe, Gaku Ikedo, James Jinshi Ng, Brian K. Tanner 2021-05-04 $12,304,000
10635158 Write data protection at emergency power off Hiroki Watanabe, Gaku Ikedo, James Jinshi Ng, Brian K. Tanner 2020-04-28 $4,794,000
7035034 Data storage device, control device, off-track control method, and control method Tetsuo Semba, Akira Tokizono, Gaku Ikedo 2006-04-25 $9,745,000
7019921 Control method and apparatus for reducing the effects of hard disk contamination Masayuki Kanamaru, Shunichiroh Ohta, Akira Tokizono, Toshihiko Tsunokawa 2006-03-28 $141,000
6961202 Data storage device having acceleration sensor attached to circuit board for detecting vibrations in planar rotation direction along circuit board Gaku Ikedo, Mirei Hosono, Yoshitaka Kakizaki 2005-11-01 $153,000
6937408 Rotation recording apparatus and method of inspection thereof Ryoheita Hattori, Tetesuya Kokubo, Nobuya Matsubara, Kaoru Umemura 2005-08-30 $67,000
6937422 Self-monitoring and self-healing of frequency specific position errors in a data storage device Hien Dang, Mirei Hosono, Kenji Okada, Arun Sharma, Gordon James Smith +1 more 2005-08-30 $67,000
6831809 Rotary recording apparatus and method of controlling the apparatus Kenji Okada, Tetsuo Semba, Akira Tokizono, Hiroshi Uchida, Akinori Yuba 2004-12-14 $7,399,000
6754019 System and method for implementing a rotary memory device Akira Tokizono, Hiroshi Uchida, Takashi Kuroda 2004-06-22 $211,000
6707634 Control method and apparatus for reducing the effects of hard disk contamination Masayuki Kanamaru, Shunichiroh Ohta, Akira Tokizono, Toshihiko Tsunokawa 2004-03-16 $256,000
6690537 Method and system for controlling the positioning of a read/write head of a data recording device Akira Tokizono, Hiroshi Uchida 2004-02-10 $322,000
6678109 Disk drive, servo control unit, and control unit Masayuki Murakami, Yuzo Nakagawa, Tatsuya Sakai 2004-01-13 $223,000
6614613 Phase technique for active damping in a servo-controlled actuator Fu-Ying Huang, Tetsuo Semba, Eiji Soga, Shingo Tsuda 2003-09-02 $11,479,000