Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
TK

Tetsuo Kimura — 54 Patents

NINitta: 30 patents #1 of 237Top 1%
Canon: 19 patents #3,489 of 19,416Top 20%
Kubota: 1 patents #1,212 of 2,059Top 60%
KSKobe Steel: 1 patents #922 of 2,031Top 50%
Sony: 1 patents #17,321 of 25,231Top 70%
TEToa Eiyo: 1 patents #41 of 104Top 40%
MIMitutoyo: 1 patents #455 of 721Top 65%
Kitakyushu, JP: #15 of 2,007 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #46,969 of 4,157,543Top 2%
54 Patents All Time
Tetsuo Kimura has been granted 54 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nitta. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in March 2013. Tetsuo Kimura ranks #46,969 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list Tetsuo Kimura in Kitakyushu, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2013Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 1988.peak 111984: 1 patents19841985: 7 patents1986: 2 patents19861987: 8 patents1988: 11 patents19881989: 3 patents1990: 2 patents19901991: 1 patents1992: 1 patents19921993: 4 patents1995: 3 patents19951996: 2 patents1998: 2 patents19981999: 3 patents2000: 2 patents20002001: 1 patents2013: 1 patents2013

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 54 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8406824 Wireless communication apparatus and power-supply apparatus Hirotada Taniuchi, Shigeo Kusunoki, Akihito Kato, Kazuhiko Saito 2013-03-26 $139,000
6258829 Cycloalka[b]pyridine-3-carbonylguanidine derivatives, process for producing the same, and drugs containing the same Atsuo Takahashi, Kaoru Genkyou, Sachiko Yoneyama, Kazuyuki Aihara, Takashi Satoh +4 more 2001-07-10
6108613 Probe coordinate system driving apparatus Takashi Noda 2000-08-22
6105077 Transmitting system with address polling for providing a control signal to open/close switch 2000-08-15
5993502 Sintered metal filters Ryutaro Motoki, Takashige Ishida, Shigeru Tanaka, Jun Funakoshi, Takashi Nishi +1 more 1999-11-30 $397,000
5913510 Recording apparatus Takehiko Kiyohara, Tetsuhiro Nitta, Makoto Kashimura, Hirofumi Hirano, Toshihiko Bekki 1999-06-22 $140,000
5861901 Ink jet cartridge and ink jet recording apparatus Makoto Kashimura, Toshihiko Bekki, Hirofumi Hirano 1999-01-19 $77,000
5847731 Ink jet cartridge having protected positioning portions Makoto Kashimura, Toshihiko Bekki, Hirofumi Hirano 1998-12-08 $68,000
5830412 Sensor device, and disaster prevention system and electronic equipment each having sensor device incorporated therein Seiichi Tanaka, Narimasa Takahashi, Ryukichi Hashimoto 1998-11-03
5534894 Ink jet recording medium discharging mechanism including resilently biased follower roller Hirofumi Hirano, Toshihiko Bekki, Makoto Kashimura, Takehiko Kiyohara, Tetsuhiro Nitta 1996-07-09 $34,000
5502475 Ink jet recording apparatus provided with fixating means Yoshiaki Kaburagi, Shoichiro Shoda, Yoji Ara, Takanori Mukai, Masaaki Nakamura +1 more 1996-03-26 $53,000
5454555 Recording apparatus Takehiko Kiyohara, Tetsuhiro Nitta, Makoto Kashimura, Hirofumi Hirano, Toshihiko Bekki 1995-10-03 $25,000
5402161 Serial recording apparatus Takashi Saito, Shigeru Yoshimura 1995-03-28 $29,000
5384586 Ink jet recording apparatus operable in two positions Hirofumi Hirano, Toshihiko Bekki, Makoto Kashimura, Takehiko Kiyohara, Tetsuhiro Nitta 1995-01-24 $18,000
5245361 Mountain arrangement for positioning an ink jet recording head with integral ink tank when the head is mounted to a carriage Makoto Kashimura, Toshihiko Bekki, Hirofumi Hirano 1993-09-14 $15,000
5235353 Compact ink jet recording apparatus with particular design for recording medium conveyance and support Hirofumi Hirano, Makoto Kashimura, Katsuyuki Yokoi, Takashi Akiya, Jun Katayanagi 1993-08-10 $26,000
5216448 Ink jet recording head carriage and an apparatus with same Yasuhiro Unosawa, Kou Hasegawa, Masasumi Nagashima, Keiji Nagira, Hiroshi Sugitani +6 more 1993-06-01 $19,000
5182581 Ink jet recording unit having an ink tank section containing porous material and a recording head section Makoto Kashimura, Hiroshi Nakagomi, Seiichiro Karita, Tsuguhiro Fukuda, Hirofumi Hirano +1 more 1993-01-26 $12,000
5105210 Ink jet recording apparatus expandable to accommodate variable sheet widths Hirofumi Hirano, Makoto Kashimura, Katsuyuki Yokoi, Takashi Akiya, Jun Katayanagi 1992-04-14 $16,000
4988988 Central monitoring and alarming system 1991-01-29
4951066 Ink jet recording apparatus having a discharge orifice surface and a blade and rubbing member for cleaning the surface independently of each other Koji Terasawa, Akira Miyakawa, Hideki Yamaguchi, Shinya Matsui, Mikio Shiga +7 more 1990-08-21 $36,000
4947162 Terminal device for a monitoring and control system 1990-08-07
4887072 Alarm apparatus Akihiro Kobayashi 1989-12-12
4831361 Environmental abnormality alarm apparatus 1989-05-16
4826335 Recording apparatus having a rotatable cover including a guide for guiding a non-continuous record sheet to a recording head and having another guide for guiding a continuous record sheet having holes therein to the recording head 1989-05-02 $17,000