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Naohito Kato — 16 Patents

NCNippondenso Co.: 10 patents #165 of 3,479Top 5%
Denso: 5 patents #2,617 of 11,792Top 25%
Toyota: 1 patents #15,486 of 26,838Top 60%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Naohito Kato has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nippondenso Co.. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in November 2017. Naohito Kato ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Naohito Kato in Chiryu, MH, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1995.peak 21991: 1 patents19911992: 1 patents1995: 2 patents19951996: 2 patents1997: 2 patents19971998: 2 patents1999: 1 patents19992001: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022010: 2 patents2017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9815400 Headlight control device and headlight Takahito Nishii, Koichi Kato, Kazuya Asaoka, Sho Masuda 2017-11-14
7800174 Power semiconductor switching-device and semiconductor power module using the device Motoo Yamaguchi, Yutaka Tomatsu 2010-09-21
7755295 Vehicle head lamp device Yuji Kajita 2010-07-13
6452219 Insulated gate bipolar transistor and method of fabricating the same Yoshiyuki Miyase, Haruo Kawakita, Naoto Okabe 2002-09-17
6281546 Insulated gate field effect transistor and manufacturing method of the same Yoshihiko Ozeki, Naoto Okabe 2001-08-28
5973338 Insulated gate type bipolar-transistor Naoto Okabe, Norihito Tokura 1999-10-26
5723882 Insulated gate field effect transistor having guard ring regions Naoto Okabe 1998-03-03
5719412 Insulated gate bipolar transistor Naoto Okabe 1998-02-17
5621234 Vertical semiconductor device with breakdown voltage improvement region 1997-04-15
5609145 Internal combustion engine ignition system Masami Kojima 1997-03-11
5519245 Insulated gate bipolar transistor with reverse conducting current Norihito Tokura, Naoto Okabe 1996-05-21
5510634 Insulated gate bipolar transistor Naoto Okabe 1996-04-23
5475258 Power semiconductor device with protective element Etsuji Toyoda, Naoto Okabe 1995-12-12
5464992 Insulated gate bipolar transistor provided with a minority carrier extracting layer Naoto Okabe, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto 1995-11-07
5169793 Method of making an insulated gate bipolar transistor having gate shield region Naoto Okabe, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto 1992-12-08
4994880 Semiconductor device constituting bipolar transistor Yoshiyuki Miyase, Tomoatsu Makino, Kasuhiro Yamada, Masami Yamaoka, Takeshi Matsui +3 more 1991-02-19