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Kaoru Uenosono — 11 Patents

Panasonic: 5 patents #5,184 of 21,108Top 25%
NINidec: 3 patents #315 of 976Top 35%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 3 patents #7,735 of 21,551Top 40%
Ozu, JP: #101 of 816 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Kaoru Uenosono has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Panasonic. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in September 2016. Kaoru Uenosono ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Kaoru Uenosono in Ozu, JP.

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Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9453832 Biological sample measurement device Tadashi Okada 2016-09-27
7995306 Shaft, hydrodynamic bearing device, spindle motor, and recording and reproducing apparatus Akira Ninomiya, Takahiro Kishi 2011-08-09 $75,000
7862237 Hydrodynamic bearing and spindle motor and information recording and reproducing apparatus equipped with the same 2011-01-04 $140,000
7513688 Hydrodynamic bearing device and inspection method of amount of working fluid Yosei Yoshikawa 2009-04-07 $269,000
7478951 Hydrodynamic bearing device, spindle motor including the same, and recording and reproducing apparatus 2009-01-20 $541,000
7371010 Hydrodynamic bearing device and compact motor including hydrodynamic bearing device Yosei Yoshikawa 2008-05-13 $794,000
7350975 Hydrodynamic bearing device and spindle motor Yosei Yoshikawa 2008-04-01 $509,000
7241050 Hydrodynamic bearing device Yosei Yoshikawa, Akira Sakata, Takafumi Asada 2007-07-10 $384,000
7092203 Method of manufacturing a fluid dynamic bearing applicable to a disk drive that includes welding a cover member to a cylindrical wall of a shaft base Kiyofumi Inoue, Katsutoshi Hamada 2006-08-15 $411,000
6914358 Spindle motor and disk drive furnished therewith Shinya Tokunaga, Hideki Nishimura, Yoshito Oku 2005-07-05 $80,000
6768236 Spindle motor and disk drive furnished therewith Shinya Tokunaga 2004-07-27 $105,000