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Minoru Imaeda — 57 Patents

NINgk Insulators: 57 patents #19 of 2,083Top 1%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 4 patents #6,367 of 21,551Top 30%
Pioneer Electronic: 1 patents #1,093 of 1,840Top 60%
Nec: 1 patents #7,928 of 14,502Top 55%
Nagoya, JP: #90 of 6,680 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #42,642 of 4,157,543Top 2%
57 Patents All Time
Minoru Imaeda has been granted 57 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ngk Insulators. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in August 2013. Minoru Imaeda ranks #42,642 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.0%). Patent records list Minoru Imaeda in Nagoya, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2013Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2001.peak 81992: 1 patents19921993: 1 patents1996: 3 patents19961997: 4 patents1998: 2 patents19981999: 6 patents2000: 7 patents20002001: 8 patents2002: 8 patents20022003: 4 patents2004: 2 patents20042007: 3 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents2011: 3 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 2 patents2013

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 57 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8512476 Ultrasonic cleaning method, and ultrasonic cleaning apparatus Kimihisa Kaneko, Kunihiko Yoshioka 2013-08-20
8404045 Method for manufacturing group III nitride single crystals Yoshitaka Kuraoka, Shigeaki Sumiya, Makoto Miyoshi 2013-03-26
8241422 Gallium nitride single crystal growing method and gallium nitride single crystal Makoto Iwai, Katsuhiro Imai 2012-08-14
7955546 Forming die and method for manufacturing formed body using forming die Kunihiko Yoshioka, Satoshi Ishibashi, Yosuke Okabe 2011-06-07
7927981 Apparatus for depositing silicon-based thin film and method for depositing silicon-based thin film Yuichiro Imanishi, Takao Saito 2011-04-19
7927982 Apparatus for mass-producing silicon-based thin film and method for mass-producing silicon-based thin film Yuichiro Imanishi, Takao Saito 2011-04-19
7833346 Method and apparatus for manufacturing group III nitride crystals Yoshimasa Kondo, Ichiro Okazaki 2010-11-16
7517557 Oxide films, a method of producing the same and structures having the same Makoto Iwai, Makoto Ohmori, Takashi Yoshino 2009-04-14 $379,000
7290328 Method of manufacturing optical modulator Jungo Kondo, Yukio Mizuno, Atsuo Kondo 2007-11-06 $404,000
7236674 Optical waveguide device, coherent light source using the same and optical apparatus having the same Kiminori Mizuuchi, Kazuhisa Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Takashi Yoshino 2007-06-26 $284,000
7171094 Optical waveguide device, optical waveguide laser using the same and optical apparatus equipped with the same Kiminori Mizuuchi, Kazuhisa Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Takashi Yoshino 2007-01-30 $265,000
6807210 Systems and a method for generating blue laser beam Makoto Iwai, Takashi Yoshino 2004-10-19
6687448 Method of processing a substrate made of a ferroelectric single crystalline material Makoto Iwai, Tatsuo Kawaguchi 2004-02-03
6654529 Ferroelectric domain inverted waveguide structure and a method for producing a ferroelectric domain inverted waveguide structure Tatsuo Kawaguchi 2003-11-25
6631231 Optical waveguide elements, optical wavelength conversion elements, and process for producing optical waveguide elements Kiminori Mizuuchi, Kazuhisa Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Takashi Yoshino, Kenji Aoki +1 more 2003-10-07 $368,000
6565654 Process and apparatus for producing a planar body of an oxide single crystal Toshihisa Yokoyama, Masahiro Murasato, Katsuhiro Imai 2003-05-20
6527851 Process for producing a planar body of an oxide single crystal Katsuhiro Imai, Akihiko Honda 2003-03-04
6451110 Process for producing a planar body of an oxide single crystal Katsuhiro Imai, Akihiko Honda 2002-09-17
6447606 Method for producing a single-crystalline film of KLN or KLNT Takashi Yoshino 2002-09-10
6447603 Process and apparatus for producing oxide single crystals Katsuhiro Imai, Akihiko Honda 2002-09-10
6404968 Optical waveguide elements and a process for producing the same Yukinobu Nakabayashi, Mitsuhiro Kitamura, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Jungo Kondo 2002-06-11 $16,000
6402835 Process for producing a raw material powder to grow a single crystal and the single crystal Masahiro Murasato, Akihiko Honda, Katsuhiro Imai 2002-06-11
6368407 Single crystal-manufacturing equipment and a method for manufacturing the same Ryuichi Ohuchi 2002-04-09
6363189 Directional coupler Makoto Minakata, Jungo Kondo, Tatsuo Kawaguchi 2002-03-26
6353495 Method for forming a ferroelectric domain-inverted structure Kiminori Mizuuchi, Kazuhisa Yamamoto, Tatsuo Kawaguchi 2002-03-05 $355,000