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Yoshihiro Hara — 99 Patents

MCMinolta Co.: 30 patents #18 of 1,416Top 2%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 15 patents #1,596 of 21,551Top 8%
KOKonica Minolta Opto: 12 patents #21 of 418Top 6%
MIMinolta: 10 patents #190 of 1,109Top 20%
Panasonic: 8 patents #3,332 of 21,108Top 20%
Brother Kogyo: 6 patents #1,178 of 2,767Top 45%
KMKonica Minolta: 6 patents #610 of 2,718Top 25%
KSKobe Steel: 5 patents #164 of 2,031Top 9%
KPKobe Precision: 3 patents #3 of 6Top 50%
KIKonica Minolta Photo Imaging: 2 patents #24 of 106Top 25%
QLQp Holdings Limited: 1 patents #18 of 76Top 25%
DCDenka Consultant And Engineering Co.: 1 patents #5 of 44Top 15%
SCSuzuki Co.: 1 patents #65 of 179Top 40%
DLDaiichi Sankyo Company, Limited: 1 patents #515 of 842Top 65%
NCNippondenso Co.: 1 patents #1,765 of 3,479Top 55%
Tokyo, JP: #424 of 90,295 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #14,805 of 4,157,543Top 1%
99 Patents All Time
Yoshihiro Hara has been granted 99 US patents while listed as an inventor at Minolta Co.. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in November 2017. Yoshihiro Hara ranks #14,805 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.36%). Patent records list Yoshihiro Hara in Tokyo, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 1999.peak 91984: 1 patents19841990: 1 patents1993: 1 patents1994: 3 patents19941995: 1 patents1996: 4 patents1997: 3 patents19971998: 4 patents1999: 9 patents2000: 9 patents20002001: 3 patents2002: 6 patents2003: 2 patents20032004: 4 patents2005: 7 patents2006: 6 patents20062007: 7 patents2008: 2 patents2009: 3 patents20092010: 6 patents2011: 5 patents2012: 6 patents20122013: 4 patents2014: 1 patents2017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 99 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9827200 Orally disintegrating tablet and production process therefor Gaku Sekiguchi, Ryoichi Hayakawa 2017-11-28
8836096 Image sensor unit and image sensor apparatus Akira Kosaka, Masataka Hamada, Satoshi Yokota, Yasutaka Tanimura 2014-09-16
8576291 Drive unit, movable module, and autofocus control method Yasutaka Tanimura, Takeshi Aoi, Natsuko Shiota 2013-11-05
8466755 Polar modulation apparatus and communication device 2013-06-18
8434303 Driving device made of shape-memory alloy Yasuhiro Honda, Yasutaka Tanimura, Natsuko Shiota 2013-05-07
8351141 Drive device Yasutaka Tanimura, Yasuhiro Honda, Natsuko Shiota 2013-01-08
8284263 Optical unit and image pickup apparatus having an optical device and a polymer actuator for moving the optical device Masamichi Oohara, Yoshihiro Tanaka, Shigeru Wada 2012-10-09
8248497 Image sensor device with movable sensor Yasutaka Tanimura, Akira Kosaka, Natsuki Yamamoto, Masataka Hamada 2012-08-21
8189093 Drive unit and drive module Yasutaka Tanimura, Takeshi Aoi, Natsuko Shiota 2012-05-29
8174608 Drive unit and drive module Takeshi Aoi, Natsuko Shiota, Yasutaka Tanimura 2012-05-08
8154649 Optical unit and image pickup apparatus utilizing electrostrictive drive elements Natsuko Shiota, Akira Kosaka, Yasutaka Tanimura 2012-04-10
8138564 Image sensor unit and image sensor apparatus Akira Kosaka, Masataka Hamada, Satoshi Yokota, Yasutaka Tanimura 2012-03-20
8055215 Transmission circuit and communication device Shunsuke Hirano, Toru Matsuura, Shigeru Morimoto 2011-11-08 $109,000
8000590 Driving apparatus, image capturing unit, and image capturing apparatus Yasutaka Tanimura, Akira Kosaka, Natsuki Yamamoto, Masataka Hamada 2011-08-16
7940859 Transmission circuit and communication device Katsuhiko Morioka, Kaoru Ishida 2011-05-10 $97,000
7916210 Driving device and image stabilizing system Junichi Tanii, Shigeru Wada, Akira Kosaka 2011-03-29
7903155 Image capturing apparatus and program Mikio Sakurai 2011-03-08
7840193 Transmitter and communication apparatus Shigeru Morimoto 2010-11-23 $113,000
7773119 Drive apparatus, image pickup unit and image pickup apparatus Shigeru Wada, Masamichi Oohara 2010-08-10
7729068 Polymer actuator and optical unit Natsuko Shiota, Shigeru Wada 2010-06-01
7689179 Multistage amplifier apparatus with distortion compensation function 2010-03-30 $185,000
7664202 Transmission device and wireless communication apparatus Toru Matsuura 2010-02-16 $211,000
7640741 Driving apparatus 2010-01-05
7608979 Driving device and driving system Junji Sato, Junichi Tanii, Akira Kosaka 2009-10-27
7593480 Transmission device and radio communication device Masaharu Udagawa, Mamoru Arayashiki 2009-09-22 $440,000