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Sumio Iijima — 35 Patents

Nec: 24 patents #376 of 14,502Top 3%
JAJapan Science And Technology Agency: 7 patents #44 of 2,171Top 3%
DIDaikin Industries: 1 patents #1,764 of 2,957Top 60%
MUMeijo University: 1 patents #35 of 103Top 35%
JRJapanese Foundation For Cancer Research: 1 patents #37 of 125Top 30%
FNFuchita Nanotechnology: 1 patents #4 of 10Top 40%
JTJapan Science And Technology: 1 patents #225 of 836Top 30%
Overall (All Time): #96,288 of 4,157,543Top 3%
35 Patents All Time
Sumio Iijima has been granted 35 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nec. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in December 2025. Sumio Iijima ranks #96,288 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.3%). Patent records list Sumio Iijima in Miyoshi, MH, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2012.peak 81995: 1 patents19951998: 2 patents2001: 2 patents20012005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 2 patents2008: 3 patents20082009: 2 patents2010: 2 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 8 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 2 patents2016: 1 patents20162025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 35 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12486173 Production method for thin film of aligned carbon nanotube Ryota Yuge 2025-12-02
12415729 Carbon nanotube separation method and separation apparatus Ryota Yuge 2025-09-16
9399579 Substance-encapsulating carbon nanohorn aggregate and process for producing the same Ryota Yuge, Masako Yudasaka, Toshinari Ichihashi 2016-07-26
9156699 Method for producing graphene, and graphene Takatoshi Yamada, Jaeho Kim, Masatou Ishihara, Yoshinori Koga, Masataka Hasegawa 2015-10-13
9074278 Carbon film laminate Masataka Hasegawa, Masatou Ishihara, Yoshinori Koga, Jaeho Kim, Kazuo Tsugawa 2015-07-07
8882970 Apparatus and method for manufacturing carbon nanohorns Takeshi Azami, Daisuke Kasuya, Tsutomu Yoshitake, Yoshimi Kubo, Masako Yudasaka +1 more 2014-11-11
8835006 Carbon nanohorn carried material and process for producing carbon nanotube Masako Yudasaka, Jin Miyawaki 2014-09-16
8501276 Carbon film Yoshinori Koga, Masataka Hasegawa, Kazuo Tsugawa, Masatou Ishihara 2013-08-06
8329135 Aligned carbon nanotube bulk structure having portions different in density Kenji Hata, Don N. Futaba, Motoo Yumura 2012-12-11
8318308 Single-walled carbon nanotube and aligned single-walled carbon nanotube bulk structure, and their production process, production apparatus and application use Kenji Hata, Motoo Yumura, Don N. Futaba 2012-11-27
8202505 Aligned carbon nanotube bulk aggregate, process for producing the same and uses thereof Kenji Hata, Don N. Futaba, Motoo Yumura 2012-06-19
8202817 Nanocarbon aggregate and method for manufacturing the same Ryota Yuge, Masako Yudasaka 2012-06-19
8178203 Aligned single-walled carbon nanotube aggregate, bulk aligned single-walled carbon nanotube aggregate, and powdered aligned single-walled carbon nanotube aggregate Kenji Hata, Motoo Yumura, Don N. Futaba 2012-05-15
8119094 Fluorine storage material Hidekazu Touhara, Yoshio Nojima, Tomohiro Isogai, Masako Yudasaka 2012-02-21
8114518 Single-walled carbon nanotube and aligned single-walled carbon nanotube bulk structure, and their production process, production apparatus and application use Kenji Hata, Motoo Yumura, Don N. Futaba 2012-02-14
8093174 Catalyst-supporting carbon nanohorn composite and process for producing same Ryota Yuge, Masako Yudasaka 2012-01-10
8084505 Substance-containing carbon nanohorn composite having polyamine plug and process for producing the same Ryota Yuge, Hideki Yorimitsu, Masako Yudasaka 2011-12-27
8007909 Carbon film Yoshinori Koga, Masataka Hasegawa, Kazuo Tsugawa, Masatou Ishihara 2011-08-30
8007908 Single walled carbon nanohorn adsorptive material and method for production thereof Katsuyuki Murata, Katsumi Kaneko, Masako Yudasaka 2011-08-30
7854991 Single-walled carbon nanotube and aligned single-walled carbon nanotube bulk structure, and their production process, production apparatus and application use Kenji Hata, Motoo Yumura, Don N. Futaba 2010-12-21
7803346 Method of selecting structure of carbon nanotube through photoirradiation Masako Yudasaka, Minfang Zhang 2010-09-28
7537786 Complex of drug-carbon nanohorn and a process for producing the complex Masako Yudasaka, Kumiko Ajima, Tatsuya Murakami, Kiyotaka Shiba 2009-05-26
7501024 Carbon nanohorn producing device and carbon nanohorn producing method Takeshi Azami, Daisuke Kasuya, Tsutomu Yoshitake, Yoshimi Kubo, Masako Yudasaka 2009-03-10
7462462 Peptide capable of binding to nanographite structures Kiyotaka Shiba, Daisuke Kase 2008-12-09
7384520 Method for manufacturing hybrid carbon nanotube Shunji Bandow, Kazutomo Suenaga, Kaori Hirahara 2008-06-10