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Toshiaki Nihoshi — 10 Patents

NINikon: 8 patents #523 of 2,493Top 25%
NKNippon Kogaku K.K.: 2 patents #156 of 382Top 45%
Tokyo, JP: #15,551 of 90,295 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Toshiaki Nihoshi has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nikon. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in January 2012. Toshiaki Nihoshi ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Toshiaki Nihoshi in Tokyo, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1985 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1985.peak 21985: 2 patents19851996: 1 patents19962000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents20012005: 2 patents20052006: 1 patents20062011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8098279 Imaging apparatus and microscope Ichiro Sase 2012-01-17
8014065 Microscope apparatus with fluorescence cube for total-internal-reflection fluorescence microscopy 2011-09-06
7071451 Autofocus system and microscope Aiichi Ishikawa 2006-07-04
6963446 Epi-illumination apparatus 2005-11-08
6906859 Epi-illumination apparatus for fluorescent observation and fluorescence microscope having the same Hisashi Okugawa 2005-06-14
6188515 Variable-inclination-angle lens-barrel for microscopes and microscope system 2001-02-13
6128128 Microscope system Tatsuro Otaki, Manabu Sato, Hitoshi Kaizu, Yumiko Ouchi 2000-10-03
5552928 Microscope with movable stage and objective for examining large sample Hidehiko Furuhashi 1996-09-03
4527869 Microscope provided with a photographing device 1985-07-09
4512640 Polarizing microscope 1985-04-23