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Hitoshi Iwata — 67 Patents

Mitsubishi Electric: 45 patents #170 of 25,717Top 1%
HCHouse Food Industrial Co.: 7 patents #8 of 117Top 7%
UNUnknown: 4 patents #4,220 of 83,584Top 6%
Hitachi: 4 patents #8,948 of 28,497Top 35%
Toyota: 2 patents #11,016 of 26,838Top 45%
HFHouse Foods: 2 patents #10 of 66Top 20%
MMMinebea Mitsumi: 2 patents #145 of 442Top 35%
KIKioritz: 1 patents #109 of 197Top 60%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 1 patents #13,249 of 21,551Top 65%
KDKabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki: 1 patents #2 of 26Top 8%
YCYamato Scale Co.: 1 patents #57 of 106Top 55%
TSTakai Rika Denki Seisakusho: 1 patents #34 of 190Top 20%
HMHitachi Maxell: 1 patents #659 of 1,211Top 55%
Overall (All Time): #31,718 of 4,157,543Top 1%
67 Patents All Time
Hitoshi Iwata has been granted 67 US patents while listed as an inventor at Mitsubishi Electric. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in November 2025. Hitoshi Iwata ranks #31,718 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.76%). Patent records list Hitoshi Iwata in Nagano, MH, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1985 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 1998.peak 81985: 4 patents19851987: 2 patents1989: 1 patents19891990: 1 patents1991: 3 patents19911992: 3 patents1993: 4 patents19931994: 4 patents1995: 5 patents19951996: 4 patents1997: 3 patents19971998: 8 patents1999: 4 patents19992000: 5 patents2001: 7 patents20012002: 4 patents2003: 2 patents20032025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 67 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12474001 Fluid device coupler and fluid device coupling structure Masamichi Iida 2025-11-18
12407222 Rotating machine Michihiro Shimizu, Naoki Ohsawa, Toshiyuki Nishikata, Tsuyoshi Kano, Shoma YAMANISHI +2 more 2025-09-02
12341399 Motor with a stepped rotating body Naoki Ohsawa, Shoma YAMANISHI, Toshiyuki Nishikata, Seiji MITAMURA, Michihiro Shimizu +1 more 2025-06-24
6617191 Method for anodizing silicon substrates for surface type acceleration sensors Makoto Murate 2003-09-09
6539804 Two-axis yaw rate sensor 2003-04-01
6399410 Method of anodizing silicon substrate and method of producing acceleration sensor Makoto Murate 2002-06-04
6386091 Continuous processing apparatus Takaaki Shimizu, Katsuyuki Iwahata 2002-05-14
6378368 Oscillation gyro equipped with thin PZT film Koichi Itoigawa 2002-04-30
6362079 Semiconductor device and method of anodization for the semiconductor device Makoto Murate 2002-03-26
6281648 Thermistor actuated device for controlling the drive of a power window Yasushi Nishibe, Kenichi Kinoshita 2001-08-28
6271663 Rotation detector operable to measure magnetism direction change Masakata Kanbe, Katsuhiro Minami, Katsuya Kogiso, Takashi Suzuki, Masahiro Taniguchi 2001-08-07
6269450 Computer monitoring device Yasushi Nishibe, Yoshiharu Kawarazaki 2001-07-31
6262516 Parallel plate structure provided with PZT thin-film bimorph and method of fabrication thereof Toshio Fukuda, Fumihito Arai, Koichi Itoigawa 2001-07-17
6221023 Sensor for intra-corporeal medical device and a method of manufacture Tomoyoshi Matsuba 2001-04-24
6201285 Sensor with diaphragm sensor chip Masakata Kanbe 2001-03-13
6196082 Hand lever device 2001-03-06
6140739 Parallel plate type oscillatory gyroscope Fumihito Arai, Toshio Fukuda, Koichi Itoigawa 2000-10-31
6109104 Parallel plate type oscillatory gyroscope Toshio Fukuda, Fumihito Arai, Koichi Itoigawa 2000-08-29
6019728 Catheter and sensor having pressure detecting function Koichi Itoigawa 2000-02-01
6019729 Sensor mechanism-equipped catheter Kouichi Itoigawa 2000-02-01
6009752 Yaw rate detector and method for detecting yaw rate 2000-01-04
5982985 Computer monitoring unit and power window system Yoshiharu Kawarazaki, Yasushi Nishibe 1999-11-09
5946549 Method for manufacturing sensor using semiconductor Koichi Itoigawa 1999-08-31
5914526 Semiconductor device 1999-06-22
5910718 Motor control apparatus Yoshiharu Kawarazaki, Yasushi Nishibe 1999-06-08