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Akio Kitada — 14 Patents

Panasonic: 6 patents #4,450 of 21,108Top 25%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 5 patents #5,365 of 21,551Top 25%
Mitsubishi Electric: 3 patents #8,691 of 25,717Top 35%
Osaka, JP: #3,177 of 24,344 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Akio Kitada has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Panasonic. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in April 2021. Akio Kitada ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Akio Kitada in Osaka, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2014.peak 31999: 1 patents19992003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents20042006: 1 patents20062007: 2 patents20072010: 1 patents20102012: 1 patents20122014: 3 patents20142015: 2 patents20152021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10974770 Network structure, shock-absorbing body, vehicle, and design method of network structure Daishi SUMI, Toshio Onuma, Hiroaki Takahashi, Tetsuya Suzuki, Takatomo Ushiyama 2021-04-13
9194570 Lamp and lighting apparatus Akihito Wakamiya, Tomokazu Matsuura 2015-11-24
9022189 Cask cushioning body Yuichi Saito, Junichi Kishimoto, Tadashi Kimura, Hiroki Tamaki 2015-05-05
8731129 Cask buffer body Hiroki Tamaki, Yuichi Saito, Kiminobu Hojo, Tadashi Kimura, Hiroshi Shimizu 2014-05-20
D702870 Light-emitting diode lamp Akihito Wakamiya, Yoshinori Kakuno, Katsushi Seki 2014-04-15
D697253 Light-emitting diode lamp Akihito Wakamiya, Yoshinori Kakuno, Katsushi Seki 2014-01-07
D663449 Light-emitting diode lamp Akihito Wakamiya, Yoshinori Kakuno, Katsushi Seki 2012-07-10
7839069 Method for manufacturing direct backlight unit, fluorescent lamp and backlight unit Akiko Nakanishi, Taizou Ono, Hirofumi Yamashita, Kazuhiro Kumada, Haruo Yamazaki +7 more 2010-11-23 $113,000
7223145 Fluorescent lamp having meandering discharge path and manufacturing method of the same Yusuke Okazaki, Nobutaka Ota, Toshiyuki Namura, Tadashi Shimizu 2007-05-29 $487,000
7161302 High lamp-power lighting system and fluorescent lamp Minoru Myojo, Tadashi Shimizu 2007-01-09 $334,000
7009334 Fluorescent lamp having meandering discharge path and manufacturing method of the same Yusuke Okazaki, Nobutaka Ota, Toshiyuki Namura, Tadashi Shimizu 2006-03-07 $386,000
6750613 High lamp-power lighting system and fluorescent lamp Minoru Myojo, Tadashi Shimizu 2004-06-15 $213,000
6621209 Fluorescent lamp having a spacer between glass tubes Minoru Myojo, Hideki Yamauchi, Tsutomu Takemura 2003-09-16 $271,000
D417193 Base for fluorescent lamp Kenji Itaya 1999-11-30