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Sohichi Takata — 17 Patents

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha: 17 patents #963 of 10,731Top 9%
Osaka, JP: #2,594 of 24,344 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Sohichi Takata has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in June 2018. Sohichi Takata ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Sohichi Takata in Osaka, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2014.peak 42005: 1 patents20052007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents20092010: 3 patents20102013: 3 patents20132014: 4 patents20142015: 2 patents20152018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
10001740 Curl correcting apparatus and image forming apparatus Takenori Ohtoshi, Yoshitaka Matsumoto, Junya Masuda, Yoshiharu Yoneda 2018-06-19
RE45812 Original reading device and image forming apparatus including the same 2015-11-24
9159002 Recording sheet transport apparatus and printing system incorporating same 2015-10-13
8804213 Image reading device including a feeding guide, and an image forming apparatus including the same 2014-08-12
8665503 Image reading device and image forming apparatus Mitsuharu Yoshimoto, Yasuhiro Suto, Shohichi Fukutome, Kenji Nakanishi, Hisashi Yamanaka 2014-03-04
8654364 Document feeding device and image forming apparatus in which even small-sized documents can be properly transported Hironori Ogasawara 2014-02-18
8628077 Paper feeding device and image forming apparatus Yasumasa Morimoto, Toshiki Ohgita 2014-01-14
8493640 Image reader and image forming apparatus Masato Tamehira 2013-07-23
8457527 Original reading device and image forming apparatus including the same 2013-06-04
8376349 Document feeder, image reader, and image forming apparatus Yasumasa Morimoto, Hiroshi Nakatani, Masato Tamehira 2013-02-19
7813565 Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image processing method Kohsuke Harada, Tokiyuki Okano, Makoto Higuchi 2010-10-12
7793933 Drive transmission mechanism of sheet transportation apparatus and document transportation apparatus Yasumasa Morimoto, Hirotoshi Iemura, Shinichiro Hiraoka 2010-09-14
7684091 Image reading apparatus and image reading method Yoshitaka Okahashi, Kohsuke Harada, Takao Horiuchi, Kenji Tanaka, Kouji Yamaji 2010-03-23
7512374 Document carrying device, document reading device, and image forming device Yasuhiro Ono, Makoto Masuda, Hisashi Yamanaka 2009-03-31
7364155 Sheet feeding apparatus, image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus Hiroyuki Nagao, Takashi Nishida, Kazuo Nakamura 2008-04-29
7305209 Sheet transport device, image reading device, and image forming device Kazuo Nakamura, Hiroyuki Nagao, Takasi Nisida 2007-12-04
6909048 Connecting apparatus, image scanning apparatus, and image forming system Hisashi Yamanaka, Makoto Masuda, Yasuhiro Ono 2005-06-21