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Hideki Ito — 170 Patents

NTNuflare Technology: 21 patents #14 of 298Top 5%
Canon: 19 patents #3,489 of 19,416Top 20%
NINikon: 19 patents #201 of 2,493Top 9%
ACAlps Electric Co.: 14 patents #83 of 2,177Top 4%
NTNlt Technologies: 12 patents #17 of 164Top 15%
TKToyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha: 11 patents #25 of 1,085Top 3%
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba: 11 patents #2,794 of 21,451Top 15%
Sony: 9 patents #4,898 of 25,231Top 20%
Denso: 8 patents #1,668 of 11,792Top 15%
NTNec Lcd Technologies: 5 patents #70 of 305Top 25%
Mitsubishi Electric: 4 patents #7,099 of 25,717Top 30%
Toyota: 4 patents #6,797 of 26,838Top 30%
SASiemens Schweiz Ag: 3 patents #26 of 341Top 8%
DCDainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co.: 3 patents #88 of 376Top 25%
TCToshiba Ceramics Co.: 3 patents #54 of 458Top 15%
AKAisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha: 3 patents #173 of 642Top 30%
AEAlpine Electronics: 3 patents #99 of 637Top 20%
SCSanyo Electric Co.: 3 patents #1,910 of 6,347Top 35%
FLFujitsu Semiconductor Limited: 2 patents #355 of 1,301Top 30%
TKToshiba Kikai: 2 patents #223 of 713Top 35%
Samsung: 2 patents #38,282 of 75,807Top 55%
Nissan Motor Co.: 2 patents #3,090 of 8,689Top 40%
OEOtis Elevator: 2 patents #650 of 1,840Top 40%
ACAlps Alpine Co.: 2 patents #150 of 525Top 30%
SCShinko Electric Industries Co.: 1 patents #570 of 723Top 80%
FCFujisawa Pharmaceutical Co.: 1 patents #444 of 782Top 60%
JCJgc Catalysts And Chemicals: 1 patents #74 of 139Top 55%
Kawasaki: 1 patents #1,551 of 2,943Top 55%
NCNippon Shokubai Co.: 1 patents #656 of 1,108Top 60%
PJPrimetals Technologies Japan: 1 patents #47 of 100Top 50%
SUSapproro Medical University: 1 patents #24 of 97Top 25%
SCShanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co.: 1 patents #254 of 417Top 65%
KCKansai Electric Power Co.: 1 patents #210 of 506Top 45%
TCTianma Microelectronics Co.: 1 patents #236 of 431Top 55%
TCToshiba Machine Co.: 1 patents #70 of 186Top 40%
TCToshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co.: 1 patents #112 of 235Top 50%
Comcast: 1 patents #2,448 of 4,447Top 60%
Overall (All Time): #4,802 of 4,157,543Top 1%
170 Patents All Time
Hideki Ito has been granted 170 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nuflare Technology. The first was granted in 1988 and the most recent in December 2025. Hideki Ito ranks #4,802 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.12%). Patent records list Hideki Ito in Nagano, MH, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 2008.peak 111996: 1 patents19961997: 8 patents1998: 4 patents1999: 4 patents19992000: 5 patents2001: 9 patents2002: 10 patents20022003: 6 patents2004: 4 patents2005: 3 patents20052006: 2 patents2007: 3 patents2008: 11 patents20082009: 5 patents2010: 7 patents2011: 4 patents20112012: 3 patents2013: 1 patents2014: 7 patents20142015: 9 patents2016: 7 patents2017: 6 patents20172018: 10 patents2019: 6 patents2020: 4 patents20202021: 4 patents2022: 2 patents2023: 2 patents20232024: 4 patents2025: 4 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 170 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12503362 Hydrogen release and storage system, hydrogen release and storage method, ammonia production apparatus, gas turbine, fuel cell, and steel mill Shuntaro Seto, Wataru Matsubara, Keiichi Nakagawa, Akio Sato, Takashi Yoshimoto 2025-12-23
12474410 State estimation method, state estimation apparatus, state estimation system, and non-transitory storage medium Atsuro Oonishi, Takehiro Hato 2025-11-18
12267953 Wiring board Yukari Chino 2025-04-01
12228175 Axle receiving arrangement for an air vent rotary drive and air vent rotary drive Christian Grossenbacher 2025-02-18
12151262 Vibration generating device Kenji Kubo, Takashi Ogihara 2024-11-26
12146513 Axle receiving arrangement for an air vent rotary drive and air vent rotary drive Christian Grossenbacher 2024-11-19
12009750 Power source device Kazuki Sasao, Etsuji Kaneko 2024-06-11 $599,000
11862425 Switch device, and opening and closing detection device Takeki Uozumi, Gengyin Li 2024-01-02
11824429 Multi-phase step-down DC/DC power source device Kazuki Sasao, Masanori Hayashibara 2023-11-21 $718,000
11749525 Vapor phase growth apparatus and vapor phase growth method Yoshiaki DAIGO, Akio ISHIGURO 2023-09-05
11413476 Particle beam treatment system, particle beam treatment method, and computer program product Junichiro Ooga, Nobukatsu Sugiyama, Atsuro Oonishi 2022-08-16
11299821 Vapor phase growth apparatus and vapor phase growth method Yoshiaki DAIGO, Akio ISHIGURO 2022-04-12
11149358 Vapor phase growth apparatus comprising n reactors, a primary gas supply path, a main secondary gas supply path, (n−1) auxiliary secondary gas supply paths, a first control circuit, and a second control circuit 2021-10-19
11124894 Vapor phase growth apparatus and vapor phase growth method Yuusuke Sato, Hideshi TAKAHASHI, Takanori HAYANO 2021-09-21
11119367 Liquid crystal display device 2021-09-14
10938146 Device housing for an electrical device Severin Wattenhofer, Felix Schilter 2021-03-02
10831113 Stage mechanism and table height position adjustment method Takahiro Murata, Toshikatsu Akiba 2020-11-10
10796877 Charged particle beam image acquisition apparatus Yoshihiro Izumi, Toshikatsu Akiba 2020-10-06
10627681 Liquid crystal display apparatus 2020-04-21
10584417 Film forming apparatus, susceptor, and film forming method Hidekazu Tsuchida, Isaho Kamata, Masahiko Ito, Masami Naito, Hiroaki Fujibayashi +2 more 2020-03-10
10401660 Lateral electric field type liquid crystal display device Shinichi Nishida, Hidenori Ikeno, Mitsuhiro Sugimoto 2019-09-03
10386269 Electric-vehicle testing device and method Ena Ishii, Tadatoshi Ishii, Ken Ishii 2019-08-20
10385474 Vapor phase growth apparatus and vapor phase growth method Yuusuke Sato, Hideshi TAKAHASHI, Takanori HAYANO 2019-08-20
10335612 Particle beam treatment system, particle beam treatment method, and computer program product Junichiro Ooga, Nobukatsu Sugiyama, Atsuro Oonishi 2019-07-02
10317996 Operation system Shigeaki Nishihashi, Hiroyuki Kogure, Tetsuya TOMARU, Yoshiyuki Tsuda, Takuya OSUGI 2019-06-11