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Kou Ohno — 10 Patents

NINikon: 9 patents #466 of 2,493Top 20%
DIDenso Wave Incorporated: 2 patents #73 of 250Top 30%
Kawasaki: 1 patents #1,551 of 2,943Top 55%
Sendai, JP: #180 of 1,330 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Kou Ohno has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nikon. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in October 2024. Kou Ohno ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Kou Ohno in Sendai, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1996.peak 21991: 1 patents19911996: 2 patents19961997: 1 patents19972000: 1 patents20002015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents20172020: 1 patents20202024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12104932 Encoder and drive device Hiroyuki Kishida 2024-10-01 $20,560,000
10557707 Encoder, driving device, and robot apparatus Kenji Omata, Takashi Nagase, Masami Kikyo, Shintaro Hikichi 2020-02-11
9534931 Encoder, encoder installation method, torque-limiting mechanism, driving apparatus, and robot apparatus Takeshi Ueda, Toru Morita 2017-01-03
9306434 Control apparatus for controlling rotation of joints of robot Takeshi Ueda, Yoshiji Takahashi, Toru Morita 2016-04-05
9020774 Encoder system, signal processing method, and transmission signal generation and output device Hiroyuki Kishida, Toru Morita, Yoshiji Takahashi, Takashi Nagase, Kenji Omata +1 more 2015-04-28
6107621 Modular encoder and method of manufacturing the same Motokatsu Imai, Yasuhiko Hashimoto, Shigeki Yamauchi 2000-08-22
5663557 Multiple rotating absolute encoder capable of accurately latching absolute address data with data on number of rotations Tohru Morita, Motokatsu Imai, Yuuji Yamazaki 1997-09-02
5565864 Absolute encoder Tadashi Horikawa, Toru Morita, Yuuji Yamazaki 1996-10-15
5563408 Absolute encoder having absolute pattern graduations and incremental pattern graduations with phase control Tsuyoshi Matsumoto 1996-10-08
5068529 Absolute position detection encoder Tetsuo Hattori, Tsuyoshi Matsumoto 1991-11-26