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Tomoaki Kato — 115 Patents

Ngk Spark Plug Co.: 62 patents #2 of 1,594Top 1%
Nec: 20 patents #501 of 14,502Top 4%
JTJtekt: 17 patents #42 of 1,969Top 3%
Canon: 8 patents #7,309 of 19,416Top 40%
Mitsubishi Electric: 8 patents #3,714 of 25,717Top 15%
MMMitsubishi Motors: 2 patents #508 of 1,823Top 30%
ACAisin Ai Co.: 2 patents #28 of 119Top 25%
NTNTT: 1 patents #2,911 of 4,871Top 60%
Mazda Motor: 1 patents #2,563 of 4,755Top 55%
SISumitomo Metal Industries: 1 patents #630 of 1,462Top 45%
Overall (All Time): #10,885 of 4,157,543Top 1%
115 Patents All Time
Tomoaki Kato has been granted 115 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ngk Spark Plug Co.. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in March 2022. Tomoaki Kato ranks #10,885 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.26%). Patent records list Tomoaki Kato in Nagoya, MH, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 15 patents in 2013.peak 151987: 1 patents19871992: 1 patents1993: 1 patents1994: 1 patents19941995: 1 patents1996: 1 patents1998: 1 patents19981999: 3 patents2000: 6 patents2001: 2 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 3 patents2004: 1 patents20042006: 4 patents2007: 2 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 4 patents2010: 6 patents2011: 6 patents20112012: 13 patents2013: 15 patents2014: 8 patents20142015: 7 patents2016: 7 patents2017: 2 patents20172018: 3 patents2019: 5 patents2020: 3 patents20202021: 4 patents2022: 2 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 115 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11285933 Vehicle drive device Toshihiko Yamamoto, Tetsuya Yamazaki, Wataru HIRATA, Shotaro Niimi 2022-03-29 $119,000
11247690 Driving force control apparatus, driving apparatus, and driving force transmission apparatus Tetsuya Yamazaki, Wataru HIRATA, Toshihiko Yamamoto 2022-02-15 $138,000
11084375 Drive force transmission apparatus Tomohiro Nozu, Tsutomu Matsumoto, Akiyoshi Kakita, Kenta Taniguchi 2021-08-10
11059133 Bonded structure, method of manufacturing same, electric motor, and method of manufacturing same Koji Yamazaki 2021-07-13
11011440 Semiconductor element bonding body, semiconductor device, and method of manufacturing semiconductor element bonding body Koji Yamazaki 2021-05-18
10931087 Ignition plug, control system, internal combustion engine, and internal combustion engine system 2021-02-23
10639989 Four-wheel-drive vehicle control device Hirokazu Kondo, Akiyoshi Kakita, Kotaro Sarai 2020-05-05
10550897 Driving force transmission control apparatus Kotaro Sarai, Go Nagayama, Toshimi Hara, Naoki Sawada, Masahito Uesaka +1 more 2020-02-04
10527112 Driving force transmission control apparatus Kotaro Sarai, Toshimi Hara, Naoki Sawada, Masahito Uesaka 2020-01-07
10507727 Four-wheel-drive vehicle Tomohiro Nozu, Tetsuya Yamazaki, Tsutomu Matsumoto 2019-12-17
10468375 Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing same Koji Yamazaki 2019-11-05
10266053 Controller for driving force transmitting apparatus Hirokazu Kondo, Go Nagayama, Akiyoshi Kakita 2019-04-23
10252615 Control device for driving force transmission device Hirokazu Kondo, Go Nagayama, Akiyoshi Kakita, Kotaro Sarai 2019-04-09
10181702 Spark plug Kaori Suzuki 2019-01-15
10082623 Rib type optical waveguide and optical multiplexer / demultiplexer using same Shigeru Nakamura 2018-09-25
10079476 Spark plug 2018-09-18
9899805 Method for manufacturing spark plug Ryuichi Ohno 2018-02-20
9598069 Device and method for controlling limited slip differential 2017-03-21
9561720 Driving force distribution control apparatus Kotaro Sarai, Hiroto Kawano, Daisuke Kofu, Yasushi Yagi 2017-02-07
9496687 Method for manufacturing spark plug Jiro Kyuno, Keiji Ozeki 2016-11-15
9419414 Spark plug 2016-08-16
9391710 Optical signal control device and optical signal control method Mineto SATOH, Kenji Sato 2016-07-12
9325156 Spark plug Kenji Ban, Yoshikazu Kataoka, Magoki Shimadate 2016-04-26
9306375 Spark plug Keiji Ozeki, Naoyuki Mukoyama 2016-04-05
9276383 Spark plug, and production method therefor Keiji Ozeki, Naoyuki Mukoyama, Tsutomu Kobayashi 2016-03-01