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Shigeru Kimura — 130 Patents

NINifco: 20 patents #9 of 650Top 2%
TCTombow Pencil Co.: 15 patents #3 of 53Top 6%
NTNec Lcd Technologies: 15 patents #18 of 305Top 6%
MIMitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Incorporated: 12 patents #80 of 1,543Top 6%
SCStanley Electric Co.: 11 patents #53 of 1,072Top 5%
Fujitsu Limited: 9 patents #3,538 of 24,456Top 15%
KCKowa Company: 9 patents #54 of 562Top 10%
Toyota: 8 patents #3,687 of 26,838Top 15%
Nec: 8 patents #1,746 of 14,502Top 15%
Kyocera: 6 patents #471 of 3,732Top 15%
Honda Motor Co.: 3 patents #6,619 of 21,052Top 35%
FLFujitsu Semiconductor Limited: 3 patents #229 of 1,301Top 20%
Hitachi: 3 patents #10,718 of 28,497Top 40%
MSMitsubishi Materials Silicon: 2 patents #21 of 116Top 20%
MMMitsubishi Materials: 2 patents #498 of 1,543Top 35%
MCMochida Pharmaceutical Co.: 2 patents #106 of 309Top 35%
MCMitsui Chemicals: 2 patents #873 of 2,279Top 40%
YAYazaki: 1 patents #2,179 of 3,427Top 65%
MSMeiki Seisakusho: 1 patents #29 of 62Top 50%
Nissan Motor Co.: 1 patents #4,519 of 8,689Top 55%
NTNlt Technologies: 1 patents #111 of 164Top 70%
OCOhi Seisakusho Co.: 1 patents #94 of 196Top 50%
TLTokyo Electron Limited: 1 patents #3,538 of 5,567Top 65%
FLFujitsu Microelectronics Limited: 1 patents #212 of 624Top 35%
Samsung: 1 patents #50,112 of 75,807Top 70%
Sony: 1 patents #17,321 of 25,231Top 70%
Mazda Motor: 1 patents #2,563 of 4,755Top 55%
Overall (All Time): #8,439 of 4,157,543Top 1%
130 Patents All Time
Shigeru Kimura has been granted 130 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nifco. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in October 2024. Shigeru Kimura ranks #8,439 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.20%). Patent records list Shigeru Kimura in Yamato, MH, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 12 patents in 1993.peak 121991: 3 patents19911992: 6 patents1993: 12 patents1994: 3 patents19941995: 3 patents1996: 4 patents1997: 3 patents19971999: 4 patents2000: 4 patents2001: 5 patents20012002: 3 patents2003: 1 patents2004: 3 patents20042005: 6 patents2006: 4 patents2007: 2 patents20072008: 1 patents2009: 7 patents2010: 3 patents20102011: 1 patents2012: 5 patents2013: 5 patents20132014: 1 patents2015: 1 patents2016: 3 patents20162017: 4 patents2019: 1 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents2024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 130 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12112580 Life predicting device for vehicle component 2024-10-08 $925,000
12039308 Information processing device and compiler method 2024-07-16
10908899 Code conversion apparatus and method for improving performance in computer operations 2021-02-02
10790727 Cooling apparatus for rotating electrical machine Hiroshi INANO 2020-09-29 $847,000
10644641 Vehicle drive device Takumu Honda, Hiroshi INANO 2020-05-05 $428,000
10269522 Fuse unit Yoshinori Kitano, Takahiro Shiohama, Shinya Onoda, Masanobu Suzuki, Yukinori Koie 2019-04-23
9830268 Arithmetic processing device for disabling an unnecessary prefetch command and control method of arithmetic processing device for disabling an unnecessary prefetch command 2017-11-28
9824016 Device and processing method 2017-11-21
9801843 Self-emulsifying composition of ω3 fatty acid Hiromitsu Ito, Hirosato Fujii, Motoo YAMAGATA 2017-10-31
9552197 Computer-readable recording medium storing information processing program, information processing apparatus, and information processing method 2017-01-24
9483244 Compiling method and compiling device 2016-11-01
9446569 Method for manufacturing display device Kyung Su Lee, Jong Hwan Kim, Young Sik Kim, Yang-Han Son 2016-09-20
9260112 Control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle drive system 2016-02-16 $797,000
8962682 Jelly composition Hiroki Ueshima, Shigeharu Suzuki, Naomi Yokomizo, Atsushi Sato, Hirosato Fujii 2015-02-24
8839210 Program performance analysis apparatus Teruhiko Kamigata, Atsuhiro Suga 2014-09-16
8610857 Liquid crystal display having transparent conductive film on interlayer insulating film formed by coating Akitoshi Maeda, Satoshi Doi, Takayuki Ishino 2013-12-17
8574128 Control apparatus for a vehicle Naoki Itazu 2013-11-05 $1,049,000
8549505 Profiling method, system, and recording medium having a profiling program 2013-10-01
8527008 Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method Chiharu Yamazaki, Fangwei Tong 2013-09-03 $86,000
8352928 Program conversion apparatus, program conversion method, and computer product 2013-01-08
8341354 Cache coloring method and apparatus based on function strength information 2012-12-25
8330113 Collimator, radiological imaging apparatus and nuclear medicine diagnosis apparatus Tsuneaki Kawaguchi, Masatoshi Tanaka, Katsutoshi Tsuchiya, Masami Murayama, Junichi Katogi 2012-12-11
8275337 Adaptive array wireless communication apparatus and method of same Fangwei Tong, Kenta Okino 2012-09-25 $109,000
8219039 Radio communication device and radio communication method Chiharu Yamazaki, Takeshi Toda, Kenta Okino 2012-07-10 $87,000
8208859 Radio communication device and radio communication method Chiharu Yamazaki, Takeshi Toda, Kenta Okino 2012-06-26 $78,000