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Hideki Arai — 35 Patents

Sony: 14 patents #3,127 of 25,231Top 15%
OEOtis Elevator: 5 patents #308 of 1,840Top 20%
NTNuflare Technology: 4 patents #90 of 298Top 35%
TCToshiba Ceramics Co.: 3 patents #54 of 458Top 15%
TKToshiba Kikai: 3 patents #155 of 713Top 25%
OCOki Electric Industry Co.: 2 patents #947 of 2,807Top 35%
Honda Motor Co.: 2 patents #8,527 of 21,052Top 45%
SKSuzuki Jidosha Kogyo: 1 patents #29 of 121Top 25%
CCCitizen Watch Co.: 1 patents #668 of 1,225Top 55%
TGTokyo Metropolitan Government: 1 patents #13 of 50Top 30%
TCToshiba Battery Co.: 1 patents #88 of 145Top 65%
Yokohama, JP: #2,436 of 49,234 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #96,288 of 4,157,543Top 3%
35 Patents All Time
Hideki Arai has been granted 35 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in April 2025. Hideki Arai ranks #96,288 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.3%). Patent records list Hideki Arai in Yokohama, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2013.peak 51980: 1 patents19801991: 1 patents1992: 1 patents1993: 1 patents19931999: 1 patents2000: 1 patents2002: 2 patents20022003: 2 patents2008: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102012: 2 patents2013: 5 patents2014: 4 patents20142015: 1 patents2016: 3 patents2017: 3 patents20172019: 1 patents2021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222024: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 35 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12283603 Imaging element and distance measurement module Yusuke Otake, Takuro Murase, Takeshi Yamazaki 2025-04-22
12149845 Image sensor, imaging device, and ranging device Yusuke Otake, Takuro Murase, Takeshi Yamazaki, Taisuke Suwa 2024-11-19 $616,000
11459207 Safety link with pulley Tanaka Takashi, Hideaki Sasaki, Michiyuki Sato, Shinichiro Oga 2022-10-04
10897655 AV server and AV server system Kaoru Urata, Mamoru Mizukami, Yasuhiro Ichinaka, Akira Itou, Kenta ABE +2 more 2021-01-19 $3,188,000
10362266 Video processing apparatus, video processing system, and video processing method Sensaburo Nakamura, Atsushi Nakayama, Tsutomu Miyauchi 2019-07-23 $736,000
9682412 Hemming finishing pliers Hiroyuki Hanada 2017-06-20 $409,000
9643820 Device for preventing travel of an elevator with its doors open Yasunobu Uchino, Shunji Imai 2017-05-09
9539705 Bending pliers Hiroyuki Hanada 2017-01-10 $398,000
9434579 Elevator device and roller guide assembly Takami Koyama, Tsuyoshi Sekine, Hideki Nakano 2016-09-06
9382098 Elevator device and roller guide assembly Takami Koyama, Tsuyoshi Sekine, Hideki Nakano, Kota Ojima 2016-07-05
9359178 Detector for electromagnetic brake Yasunobu Uchino 2016-06-07
9024942 3D pointer generation device and 3D pointer generation method Nobutane Chiba, Kazuya Saito 2015-05-05 $564,000
8817887 Apparatus and method for splicing encoded streams Eiji Ueki, Shinji Wakai 2014-08-26 $146,000
8796594 Semiconductor manufacturing equipment and heater structural connection Satoshi Inada, Yoshikazu Moriyama, Noriki Juumatsu 2014-08-05
8699856 Editing apparatus, editing method, program, and recording medium 2014-04-15 $171,000
8689945 Device for preventing travel of an elevator with its doors open Yasunobu Uchino, Shunji Imai 2014-04-08
8587735 Stereoscopic glasses 2013-11-19 $119,000
8589699 Storage media device and recording apparatus 2013-11-19 $119,000
8524103 Method for manufacturing susceptor Masayoshi Yajima, Kunihiko Suzuki 2013-09-03
8462279 Stereoscopic glasses 2013-06-11 $168,000
8404044 Epitaxial growth film formation method 2013-03-26
8311105 Information-processing apparatus, information-processsing method, recording medium and program Shinji Wakai, Eiji Ueki, Kaoru Urata 2012-11-13 $67,000
8257499 Vapor phase deposition apparatus and vapor phase deposition method Kunihiko Suzuki, Hironobu Hirata 2012-09-04
7672320 IP communications system for notifying a gateway controller of an IP address allocated to a gateway and a method therefor 2010-03-02
7471673 IP telephone system having a hold function and a callback function 2008-12-30