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Shigeru Aruga — 9 Patents

Panasonic: 5 patents #5,184 of 21,108Top 25%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 3 patents #7,735 of 21,551Top 40%
Osaka, JP: #4,873 of 24,344 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Shigeru Aruga has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Panasonic. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in October 2025. Shigeru Aruga ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Shigeru Aruga in Osaka, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2013.peak 21998: 1 patents19982004: 1 patents20042006: 1 patents20062013: 2 patents20132019: 1 patents20192021: 1 patents20212024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12454077 Dividing apparatus Hisayoshi Kobayashi 2025-10-28
12075575 Image display device Ryouji Oonishi, Hidekazu Nishikoori, Ichiro Okuda 2024-08-27
10969620 Image display device Ryouta Nakayama, Chiharu Matsukawa 2021-04-06
10514576 Image display apparatus Masashi Imai, Yoshitoshi Ooki 2019-12-24
8564736 Backlight unit and liquid crystal module Hisanori Sasaki 2013-10-22
8467015 Backlight unit and liquid crystal module Hisanori Sasaki 2013-06-18
7004604 Sequential color display device including light shading means Hideki Ohmae, Mitsuhiro Wada, Kazunori Tanabe, Hirokazu Sakaguchi, Hisatoshi Shimose 2006-02-28 $363,000
6755554 Color wheel assembly and color sequential display device using the same, color wheel unit and color sequential display device using the same, and color sequential display device Hideki Ohmae, Mitsuhiro Wada, Kazunori Tanabe, Hirokazu Sakaguchi, Hisatoshi Shimose 2004-06-29 $302,000
5722753 Lamp device of liquid-crystal projection apparatus Takehiro Okada, Yaoki Maeda, Tadashi Ohira, Tsuguhide Ioki, Shigekazu Yamagishi 1998-03-03 $136,000