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 2022 Bar chart with a peak of 15 patents in 2013. peak 15 1987: 1 patents 1987 1992: 1 patents 1993: 1 patents 1994: 1 patents 1994 1995: 1 patents 1996: 1 patents 1998: 1 patents 1998 1999: 3 patents 2000: 6 patents 2001: 2 patents 2001 2002: 1 patents 2003: 3 patents 2004: 1 patents 2004 2006: 4 patents 2007: 2 patents 2008: 1 patents 2008 2009: 4 patents 2010: 6 patents 2011: 6 patents 2011 2012: 13 patents 2013: 15 patents 2014: 8 patents 2014 2015: 7 patents 2016: 7 patents 2017: 2 patents 2017 2018: 3 patents 2019: 5 patents 2020: 3 patents 2020 2021: 4 patents 2022: 2 patents 2022
Issued Patents All Time
Showing 1–25 of 115 patents
Patent # Title Co-Inventors Date Approx 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
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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
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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