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Hideaki Watanabe — 134 Patents

Sony: 32 patents #1,063 of 25,231Top 5%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 15 patents #1,596 of 21,551Top 8%
Panasonic: 14 patents #1,678 of 21,108Top 8%
Fujitsu Limited: 14 patents #2,150 of 24,456Top 9%
TLTeijin Limited: 9 patents #105 of 1,631Top 7%
HMHitachi Maxell: 5 patents #189 of 1,211Top 20%
Toyota: 4 patents #6,797 of 26,838Top 30%
Tdk: 4 patents #1,273 of 3,796Top 35%
MCMitsubishi Gas Chemical Company: 4 patents #481 of 1,727Top 30%
Nissan Motor Co.: 4 patents #1,803 of 8,689Top 25%
FCFukoku Co.: 3 patents #9 of 76Top 15%
Nec: 3 patents #4,217 of 14,502Top 30%
WCWatanabe Oyster Laboratory Co.: 3 patents #3 of 7Top 45%
SCShionogi & Co.: 2 patents #396 of 1,054Top 40%
SMSuzuki Motor: 2 patents #288 of 1,209Top 25%
Canon: 2 patents #12,732 of 19,416Top 70%
FLFujitsu Semiconductor Limited: 2 patents #355 of 1,301Top 30%
Hitachi: 2 patents #13,405 of 28,497Top 50%
FCFuji Electric Co.: 1 patents #1,387 of 2,643Top 55%
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba: 1 patents #13,641 of 21,451Top 65%
YEYaskawa Electric: 1 patents #585 of 1,006Top 60%
NINissan Chemical Industries: 1 patents #726 of 1,150Top 65%
SESeiko Epson: 1 patents #5,551 of 7,774Top 75%
ACAkebono Research And Development Centre: 1 patents #29 of 79Top 40%
FLFujitsu Microelectronics Limited: 1 patents #212 of 624Top 35%
FLFujitsu Vlsi Limited: 1 patents #91 of 256Top 40%
HEHitachi Video Eng.: 1 patents #2 of 36Top 6%
HIHitachi Video Engineering, Incorporated: 1 patents #69 of 181Top 40%
ILIsuzu Motors Limited: 1 patents #414 of 908Top 50%
KKKawatetsu Kenzai Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha: 1 patents #2 of 7Top 30%
KOKomori: 1 patents #120 of 219Top 55%
NCNippon Electric Co.: 1 patents #251 of 792Top 35%
NDNtt Docomo: 1 patents #1,030 of 1,706Top 65%
OCOm Industrial Co.: 1 patents #4 of 12Top 35%
OMOmron: 1 patents #1,808 of 3,089Top 60%
SCSanyo Electric Co.: 1 patents #3,644 of 6,347Top 60%
ACAkebono Brake Industry Co.: 1 patents #169 of 376Top 45%
SLSpansion Llc.: 1 patents #435 of 769Top 60%
TCTaiyo Yuden Co.: 1 patents #643 of 959Top 70%
ULUsui Kokusai Sangyo Kaisha Limited: 1 patents #84 of 145Top 60%
Toyota, JP: #10 of 5,020 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #7,896 of 4,157,543Top 1%
134 Patents All Time
Hideaki Watanabe has been granted 134 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in March 2025. Hideaki Watanabe ranks #7,896 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.19%). Patent records list Hideaki Watanabe in Toyota, JP.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 134 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12249687 All solid state battery 2025-03-11
12151515 Sensor attachment structure for straddle-type vehicle Makoto Satou 2024-11-26
12119017 Information processing device, information processing system and information processing method Akira Takahashi, Kazuya Tateishi, Yuichiro Koyama, Hiroaki Ogawa, CHIE KAMADA +6 more 2024-10-15 $654,000
12027665 All solid state battery 2024-07-02 $887,000
11984121 Information processing device to stop the turn off of power based on voice input for voice operation Akira Fukui, Hiroaki Ogawa, Yoshinori Maeda, CHIE KAMADA, Emiru Tsunoo +6 more 2024-05-14 $675,000
11936718 Information processing device and information processing method NORIKO TOTSUKA, Hiroaki Ogawa, Yuki Takeda, KAN KURODA, Yoshinori Maeda +6 more 2024-03-19 $763,000
11646401 Method of manufacturing electrode and method of manufacturing all-solid-state battery 2023-05-09 $455,000
11545695 All-solid-state battery 2023-01-03 $517,000
11357144 Component supply device and component mounting device Dai Yokoyama, Shigeki Imafuku, Yosuke Nagasawa, Satoshi Matsuoka, Kazuo Nagae 2022-06-07
11202374 Method of mounting component Dai Yokoyama, Shigeki Imafuku, Yosuke Nagasawa, Yew Song Danny Ng, Yet Ling Loh 2021-12-14
11006560 Method of manufacturing component-mounted substrate Dai Yokoyama, Shigeki Imafuku, Yosuke Nagasawa, Satoshi Matsuoka, Kazuo Nagae 2021-05-11
10984298 Acquiring item values from printers based on notation form settings Hidehisa Omiya, Yuichi Sugiyama 2021-04-20
10568250 Component mounting device and method of mounting component Dai Yokoyama, Shigeki Imafuku, Yosuke Nagasawa, Yew Song Danny Ng, Yet Ling Loh 2020-02-18
10549432 Component mounting apparatus Dai Yokoyama, Shigeki Imafuku, Yosuke Nagasawa, Kian Hong Lam 2020-02-04
10492350 Electronic component mounting method and electronic component mounting apparatus Dai Yokoyama, Yosuke Nagasawa, Shigeki Imafuku, Kian Hong Lam 2019-11-26
10461688 Sensor unit Hisanobu Oomiya, Akifumi Kosugi 2019-10-29
10390470 Component supply device, component mounter, and component-mounted board manufacturing method Dai Yokoyama, Yosuke Nagasawa, Shigeki Imafuku 2019-08-20
10142689 Server, terminal, information processing method, information processing program, and computer-readable recording medium storing information processing programs Kazushi Yoshida 2018-11-27 $667,000
10051745 Insertion head, component insertion device, and component mounting line 2018-08-14
10051744 Insertion head, component insertion device, and component mounting line 2018-08-14
10004170 Electronic component mounter Yosuke Nagasawa, Dai Yokoyama, Shigeki Imafuku, Jintao Huang 2018-06-19
9992918 Method for mounting electronic component Kiyoshi Imai, Shigeki Imafuku, Toshiyuki Koyama 2018-06-05
9990585 Information processing apparatus, information processing method and computer-readable storage medium for generating course information Tsunayuki Ohwa, Atsushi Hashizume 2018-06-05 $747,000
9943553 Method for producing oyster meat essence containing large amount of antioxidants having high antioxidative power and high ORAC value Mitsugu Watanabe, Takayuki Watanabe 2018-04-17
9930820 Insertion head for leaded component 2018-03-27