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Koji Funami — 20 Patents

Panasonic: 14 patents #1,678 of 21,108Top 8%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 5 patents #5,365 of 21,551Top 25%
SCSanyo Electric Co.: 2 patents #2,557 of 6,347Top 45%
Kadoma, JP: #34 of 608 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Koji Funami has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Panasonic. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in November 2025. Koji Funami ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Koji Funami in Kadoma, JP.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12466002 Laser welding quality inspection method and laser welding quality inspection apparatus 2025-11-11
12454027 Laser welding method and apparatus Kazuki Fujiwara, KOTA SHIMIZU, Kazumichi Shimizu 2025-10-28
12179285 Laser processing method and laser processing device and sealed type battery 2024-12-31
12157180 Evaluation method, evaluation system, and laser machining system Kazuki Fujiwara, Izuru Nakai 2024-12-03
11975410 Laser welding quality inspection method and laser welding quality inspection apparatus 2024-05-07
11489239 Cylindrical battery and method of manufacture thereof Izuru Nakai, Kazumichi Shimizu, Hiroshi Takasaki 2022-11-01
11456572 Light source measurement apparatus Shigeyuki Mori, Masahiro Mori 2022-09-27
11139519 Sealed cell and method for manufacturing same Yusuke Tominaga, Kazumichi Shimizu, Shota Ikeda, Kyosuke Miyata, Atsushi Ueda +4 more 2021-10-05
10610966 Welded structure and manufacturing method thereof Takaaki Kassai 2020-04-07
10319979 Battery and method of manufacturing battery Shin Haraguchi, Kyosuke Miyata 2019-06-11
9634298 Hermetically sealed battery and method for manufacturing the same Yukio Harima, Seiji Kumazawa, Kyosuke Miyata, Takahiro Fukuoka, Seiichi Kato 2017-04-25
8715850 Battery module and method of manufacturing the same Osamu Uchida, Kazuhiro Ikurumi, Seiji Kumazawa, Masazumi Adachi 2014-05-06
8105712 Sealed secondary battery, and method for manufacturing the battery Kyosuke Miyata, Takahiro Fukuoka, Yukio Harima, Seiji Kumazawa 2012-01-31 $58,000
7646794 Laser apparatus and manufacturing method of a battery Tsutomu Sakurai 2010-01-12 $305,000
7561350 Optical unit and its manufacturing method Yoshiro Kitamura, Seiji Kumazawa, Kazumasa Takata, Yasuo Nishihara 2009-07-14 $249,000
7411748 Optical component unit, laser joining method and apparatus for joining optical component Seiji Kumazawa, Yohei Takechi, Masahiro Kuwabara, Toshiyuki Okada, Masami Ito +1 more 2008-08-12 $555,000
6433489 Plasma display panel and method for manufacturing the same Hiroyoshi Tanaka, Masaki Aoki, Junichi Hibino, Yuusuke Takada, Nobuaki Nagao +3 more 2002-08-13 $313,000
5200010 Method for manufacturing lens array optical system Yuji Uesugi, Yukio Nishikawa 1993-04-06 $42,000
5055653 Laser beam machining device Yuji Uesugi, Yukio Nishikawa 1991-10-08 $31,000
4999905 Method of making magnetic transducer Katsuhiro Kuriyama, Yuji Uesugi, Masashi Makino 1991-03-19 $84,000