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Chieko Aizawa — 20 Patents

OLOlympus: 14 patents #275 of 3,097Top 9%
OCOlympus Optical Co.: 4 patents #789 of 2,334Top 35%
OSOlympus Medical Systems: 3 patents #222 of 833Top 30%
Sony: 2 patents #13,023 of 25,231Top 55%
Hachioji, JP: #336 of 2,869 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Chieko Aizawa has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Olympus. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in September 2015. Chieko Aizawa ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Chieko Aizawa in Hachioji, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2010.peak 62002: 1 patents20022003: 2 patents20032004: 3 patents20042005: 2 patents20052007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents20082010: 6 patents20102012: 2 patents20122013: 1 patents20132015: 1 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9125560 Endoscope shape detecting apparatus Yoshitaka Miyoshi, Fumiyuki Onoda, Hiroshi Niwa, Tomohiko Oda, Minoru Sato +1 more 2015-09-08
8488180 Printer and printing method that prevents intermixing of different image data on recording medium Ryusuke Furuhashi, Masanori Takamatsu, Hiroshi Dohi, Hideki Matsuzaka, Hiroyuki Ushifusa +3 more 2013-07-16 $188,000
8192354 Endoscope inserted-shape detecting apparatus Kensuke Miyake, Yoshitaka Miyoshi, Fumiyuki Onoda, Minoru Sato, Hiroshi Niwa +1 more 2012-06-05
8147404 Endoscope shape detecting apparatus Yoshitaka Miyoshi, Kensuke Miyake, Fumiyuki Onoda, Minoru Sato, Hiroshi Niwa +1 more 2012-04-03
7857753 Endoscope shape detection device Fumiyuki Onoda, Hiroshi Niwa, Tomohiko Oda, Minoru Sato, Kensuke Miyake +2 more 2010-12-28
7850605 Inserting shape detecting probe Hiroshi Niwa, Fumiyuki Onoda 2010-12-14
7806822 Medical system control device Kensuke Miyake, Tsukasa Ishii, Hiroyuki Ushifusa, Akihiro Miyashita 2010-10-05
7710438 Image processing apparatus and image processing method Ryusuke Furuhashi, Masanori Takamatsu, Hiroshi Dohi, Hideki Matsuzaka, Hiroyuki Ushifusa +3 more 2010-05-04 $391,000
7706859 Device for detecting shape of endoscope Fumiyuki Onoda, Sumihiro Uchimura, Akira Taniguchi 2010-04-27
7648458 Insertion shape detecting probe Hiroshi Niwa 2010-01-19
7347816 Adaptor for endoscope forceps opening Hiroshi Niwa, Fumiyuki Onoda 2008-03-25
7195587 Apparatus and method using it for detecting and displaying form of insertion part of endoscope inserted into body cavity Akira Taniguchi, Sumihiro Uchimura, Yasuhiro Yoshizawa, Takeshi Kawabata, Masanao Hara +1 more 2007-03-27
6949068 Endoscope shape detector Akira Taniguchi, Fumiyuki Onoda, Jun Hasegawa, Yoshitaka Miyoshi, Shoichi Amano 2005-09-27 $1,000
6890294 Endoscope apparatus Hiroshi Niwa, Michio Sato, Akira Taniguchi, Fumiyuki Onoda, Sumihiro Uchimura 2005-05-10 $1,000
6773393 Apparatus and method for detecting and displaying form of insertion part of endoscope Akira Taniguchi, Sumihiro Uchimura, Yasuhiro Yoshizawa, Takeshi Kawabata, Masanao Hara +1 more 2004-08-10
6773394 System for detecting the shape of an endoscope using source coils and sense coils Akira Taniguchi, Yasuhiro Yoshizawa, Fumiyuki Onoda, Seiki Toriyama, Takeshi Kawabata +12 more 2004-08-10
6745065 Endoscope apparatus Hiroshi Niwa, Michio Sato, Akira Taniguchi, Fumiyuki Onoda, Sumihiro Uchimura 2004-06-01
6589163 Endoscope shape detecting apparatus wherein form detecting processing is controlled according to connection state of magnetic field generating means Akira Taniguchi, Jun Hasegawa, Katsuyoshi Sasagawa, Seiki Toriyama, Takayasu Miyagi +5 more 2003-07-08
6511417 System for detecting the shape of an endoscope using source coils and sense coils Akira Taniguchi, Yasuhiro Yoshizawa, Fumiyuki Onoda, Seiki Toriyama, Takeshi Kawabata +12 more 2003-01-28
6432041 Endoscope shape detecting apparatus wherein form detecting processing is controlled according to connection state of magnetic field generating means Akira Taniguchi, Yasuhiro Yoshizawa, Fumiyuki Onoda, Seiki Toriyama, Takeshi Kawabata +11 more 2002-08-13