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Ryuichiro Sato — 35 Patents

SCSei Optifrontier Co.: 18 patents #1 of 82Top 2%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 9 patents #3,076 of 21,551Top 15%
SCSumitomo Electric Optifrontier Co.: 7 patents #2 of 57Top 4%
MKMeiji Seika Kaisha: 1 patents #353 of 752Top 50%
Yokohama, JP: #2,436 of 49,234 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #96,288 of 4,157,543Top 3%
35 Patents All Time
Ryuichiro Sato has been granted 35 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sei Optifrontier Co.. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in September 2025. Ryuichiro Sato ranks #96,288 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.3%). Patent records list Ryuichiro Sato in Yokohama, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2015.peak 61995: 1 patents19952006: 1 patents2007: 3 patents20072008: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102012: 1 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 6 patents2016: 5 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents2021: 3 patents20212022: 3 patents2025: 5 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 35 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
D1092411 Optical fiber alignment member Shohei Nakamura, Yuta Ryono 2025-09-09
D1092581 Optical fiber fusion splicer Tomoyoshi Sasaki, Kazufumi Joko 2025-09-09
12384598 Housing case for fusion splicer and fusion splicer set Yuta Ryono, Kazufumi Joko, Tomoyoshi Sasaki 2025-08-12
D1073757 Fusion splicer working tray Yuta Ryono, Kazufumi Joko, Tomoyoshi Sasaki 2025-05-06
12276841 Optical fiber fusion splicing method and fusion splicing device Hiroki Akiyama, Makoto Miyamori, Kazuyoshi OOKI, Ryosuke Meo, Hiroshi Takayanagi 2025-04-15
11435529 Optical fiber holder Hiroshi Takayanagi, Hiroshi Nakamura 2022-09-06
11327230 Optical fiber holder Keitarou Koguchi, Shinsuke KURINO, Masataka Ishizuka 2022-05-10
11237330 Optical fiber alignment jig, optical fiber fusion splicer equipped with optical fiber alignment jig, and method for aligning optical fiber 2022-02-01
11204465 Optical fiber holder and fusion-splicing apparatus including optical fiber holder 2021-12-21
11181692 Reinforcing apparatus for optical fiber fusion-splicing part and fusion splicer provided with the same Ryosuke Meo, Hiroshi Takayanagi 2021-11-23
10921527 Optical fiber holder Hiroshi Takayanagi, Hiroshi Nakamura 2021-02-16
D837273 Optical fiber fusion splicer Hiroshi Takayanagi, Makoto Miyamori 2019-01-01
10054742 Optical fiber fusion splicer and optical fiber fusion splicing method Toshihiko Homma 2018-08-21
D792493 Electrode bar for use in an optical fiber fusion splicer Toshihiko Homma 2017-07-18
9488781 Optical fiber holder and optical fiber fusion-connecting device Hiroshi Takayanagi, Yasuhiro Sakamoto 2016-11-08
D759138 Optical fiber fusion splicer Hiroyasu Toyooka, Kensuke Ito 2016-06-14
9341777 Optical fiber fusion splicer Hiroshi Takayanagi, Makoto Miyamori 2016-05-17
9235005 Method of fusion-splicing optical fibers and fusion splicer Hiroyasu Toyooka, Hiroshi Takayanagi 2016-01-12
D746885 Optical fiber fusion splicer Hiroyasu Toyooka, Kensuke Ito 2016-01-05
9146354 Fusion splicer 2015-09-29
9052487 Optical fiber holder 2015-06-09
8992101 Heating device for optical-fiber reinforcement, and optical-fiber fusion splicing device Masakazu Fukuda, Hisao Yui, Hiroshi Takayanagi 2015-03-31
8950955 Heating device for optical-fiber reinforcement, and optical-fiber fusion splicing device Masakazu Fukuda, Hisao Yui, Hiroshi Takayanagi 2015-02-10
8939660 Optical fiber fusion splicer 2015-01-27
D720785 Electrode bar for optical fiber fusion splicer 2015-01-06