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Tadao Kai — 40 Patents

NINikon: 40 patents #61 of 2,493Top 3%
Kawasaki, JP: #456 of 15,035 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #78,057 of 4,157,543Top 2%
40 Patents All Time
Tadao Kai has been granted 40 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nikon. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in January 2007. Tadao Kai ranks #78,057 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.9%). Patent records list Tadao Kai in Kawasaki, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2007Bar chart with a peak of 13 patents in 1998.peak 131991: 1 patents19911993: 1 patents1994: 1 patents19941995: 2 patents1996: 4 patents19961997: 9 patents1998: 13 patents19981999: 5 patents2000: 2 patents20002003: 1 patents2007: 1 patents2007

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7161621 Image-capturing device with position detector for vibration reduction Kazutoshi Usui 2007-01-09
6567618 Camera Masaru Habe, Akio Nishizawa 2003-05-20
6128035 Anti-blur image pickup device Akira Katayama, Sueyuki Ohishi 2000-10-03
6016405 Camera system for reducing the influence of vibration generated by actuators Tsuneo Watanabe, Ryoichi Suganuma 2000-01-18
6009278 Vibration preventing device and photographing apparatus having the vibration preventing function Hiroshi Okano, Nobuhiko Terui, Yukio Uemura 1999-12-28
6009279 Photographing apparatus having anti-vibration function Nobuhiko Terui 1999-12-28
5953544 Camera having an image blur suppression device Akira Katayama 1999-09-14
5930531 Image shifting apparatus Yoshihisa Kitagawa 1999-07-27
5881325 Apparatus having an image vibration reduction optical system which is guided to, and locked at, an origin position by a driving member Yoshio Imura, Shinichi Hirano, Tetsuo In 1999-03-09
5852750 Attitude adjustment device and method Hidenori Miyamoto 1998-12-22
5828909 Driving apparatus Hidenori Miyamoto 1998-10-27
5802403 Apparatus for inspecting blur correction camera, blur correction camera, and method of inspecting blur correction camera Sueyuki Ohishi 1998-09-01
5771404 Shake preventing apparatus in camera Akira Katayama 1998-06-23
5752091 Camera having animage blur suppression device Akira Katayama 1998-05-12
5748994 Optical device with an image blur suppression function Nobuhiko Terui, Shinichi Tsukada 1998-05-05
5740473 Camera for preventing camera shake Etsuo Tanaka 1998-04-14
5729770 Image movement correcting device effecting image movement correction depending on position of center of rotation of angular fluctuation Etsuo Tanaka, Akira Katayama 1998-03-17
5724617 Photographing apparatus having vibration reducing mechanism Shinichi Hirano, Tatsuo Amanuma, Fumiya Taguchi, Yoshio Imura 1998-03-03
5717611 Slight motion detecting device Nobuhiko Terui, Sueyuki Ohishi 1998-02-10
5717960 Image vibration correcting device Hiroyuki Tomita, Kazutoshi Usui 1998-02-10
5715479 Blur prevention device for preventing image blur Akira Katayama, Yoshio Imura, Yasushi Sakagami, Etsuo Tanaka 1998-02-03
5708864 Shake preventing apparatus in camera Akira Katayama, Yoshio Imura, Nobuhiko Terui, Susumu Sato 1998-01-13
5687399 Image-shake correcting apparatus Susumu Sato, Nobuhiko Terui 1997-11-11
5678070 Actuator built-in apparatus with ultrasonic wave actuators driven at different frequencies 1997-10-14
5655158 Blurring motion detection device 1997-08-05