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Masahiro Yamanaka — 60 Patents

Shimano: 49 patents #25 of 759Top 4%
Panasonic: 4 patents #6,210 of 21,108Top 30%
Honda Motor Co.: 3 patents #6,619 of 21,052Top 35%
MVMitsubishi Kasei Vinyl: 2 patents #2 of 30Top 7%
MMMitsubishi Chemical Mkv: 1 patents #3 of 14Top 25%
Osaka, JP: #370 of 24,344 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #38,820 of 4,157,543Top 1%
60 Patents All Time
Masahiro Yamanaka has been granted 60 US patents while listed as an inventor at Shimano. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in November 2022. Masahiro Yamanaka ranks #38,820 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.93%). Patent records list Masahiro Yamanaka in Osaka, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2002.peak 61993: 1 patents19931994: 1 patents1995: 1 patents1996: 1 patents19961998: 5 patents1999: 5 patents2000: 3 patents20002001: 1 patents2002: 6 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 3 patents2006: 3 patents2007: 4 patents20072008: 2 patents2009: 2 patents2010: 4 patents20102012: 2 patents2013: 3 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 1 patents2016: 4 patents2019: 2 patents20192021: 1 patents2022: 2 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 60 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11505277 Crank arm for crank assembly of human powered vehicle 2022-11-22
11371158 Surface treatment device Yuki Furukawa, Tatsuya Sasaki 2022-06-28 $92,000
11078586 Zinc-nickel composite plating bath, zinc-nickel composite plating film, mold and plating method Yuki Furukawa, Yoshimitsu Ogawa 2021-08-03 $343,000
10336401 Bicycle crank assembly Takashi Furuya, Atsuhiro Emura 2019-07-02
10175683 Teaching data preparation device and teaching data preparation method for articulated robot Masao Shimoyama, Tetsuya Yoshino, Shinji Aoki 2019-01-08 $404,000
9487266 Bicycle crank axle assembly Yusuke Nishimoto, Shingo Shiraishi, Akinobu SUGIMOTO 2016-11-08
9475545 Bicycle crank arm and bicycle crank assembly Yusuke Nishimoto, Tetsu Nonoshita, Yuki Watanabe 2016-10-25
9365261 Composite bicycle component, composite bicycle crank arm, and method for manufacturing composite bicycle component Tetsu Nonoshita 2016-06-14
9359042 Bicycle crank assembly Tetsu Nonoshita 2016-06-07
8955410 Bicycle crank assembly Eigo Kuroiwa, Tetsu Nonoshita 2015-02-17
8721187 Bicycle axle assembly 2014-05-13
8677859 Bicycle crank axle assembly Yusuke Nishimoto, Shingo Shiraishi, Akinobu SUGIMOTO 2014-03-25
8616085 Bicycle crank assembly Tetsu Nonoshita 2013-12-31
8438947 Bicycle crank arm Eigo Kuroiwa, Tetsu Nonoshita 2013-05-14
8375827 Bicycle crank assembly Eigo Kuroiwa 2013-02-19
8267417 Bicycle bottom bracket assembly 2012-09-18
8246064 Bicycle crank assembly Eigo Kuroiwa, Shingo Shiraishi 2012-08-21
7856903 Bicycle crank axle with a radial projection Etsuyoshi Watarai 2010-12-28
7686721 Bicycle chainring Koshi Tabe, Toshio Tetsuka, Shingo Shiraishi, Hideya Inoue, Yusuke Nishimoto +1 more 2010-03-30
7650818 Bicycle shaft component Hideya Inoue 2010-01-26
7650817 Bicycle crank assembly Shingo Shiraishi, Takuji Tatsumi 2010-01-26
7503239 Bicycle crank arm assembly 2009-03-17
7503700 Bicycle bottom bracket assembly Koshi Tabe, Shingo Shiraishi 2009-03-17
7436123 Discharge lamp ballast device and lighting appliance Katsunobu Hamamoto, Kazuhiro Nishimoto, Toshiya Kanja 2008-10-14 $350,000
7378804 Ballast for a discharge lamp with integrated control circuit for controlling switching element of dc power supply and inverter circuit Kei Mitsuyasu, Katsumi Sato, Katsunobu Hamamoto, Yoshifumi Kuroki 2008-05-27 $548,000