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Hiroaki Masuda — 22 Patents

Sony: 13 patents #3,398 of 25,231Top 15%
KUKyoto University: 2 patents #286 of 1,688Top 20%
Ngk Spark Plug Co.: 2 patents #703 of 1,594Top 45%
HAHonda Access: 2 patents #40 of 190Top 25%
Hitachi: 2 patents #13,405 of 28,497Top 50%
Nec: 2 patents #5,544 of 14,502Top 40%
VJVehicle Energy Japan: 1 patents #42 of 73Top 60%
MCMita Industrial Co.: 1 patents #653 of 891Top 75%
SCSankyo Dengyo Co.: 1 patents #2 of 17Top 15%
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha: 1 patents #6,861 of 10,731Top 65%
Tokyo, JP: #6,653 of 90,295 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Hiroaki Masuda has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in May 2025. Hiroaki Masuda ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Hiroaki Masuda in Tokyo, JP.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12299157 Policy setting control device, policy setting control method, and policy setting control program Tsunehiko Baba, Jumpei Okoshi 2025-05-13
12130818 Data management apparatus, data management system, and data management method Tianben Ding, Mika TAKATA, Toshihiko Kashiyama 2024-10-29
12021266 Battery module Kazuaki Urano, Tatsuhiko Kawasaki, Osamu Kubota 2024-06-25
9354673 Portable type electronic device, portable type electronic device group, and method of manufacturing portable type electronic device Kenji Sakakibara, Yu Togasaki, Kiyokazu Miyazawa, Kazuto Nakagawa 2016-05-31 $379,000
9342112 Operation member provided in electronic device, and electronic device Nobuyuki Takahashi, Kenji Sakakibara, Yu Togasaki, Kiyokazu Miyazawa, Kazuto Nakagawa 2016-05-17 $351,000
8830197 Portable electronic device Kenji Sakakibara, Yu Togasaki, Kiyokazu Miyazawa, Kazuto Nakagawa 2014-09-09 $140,000
8803803 Operation member provided in electronic device, and electronic device Nobuyuki Takahashi, Kenji Sakakibara, Yu Togasaki, Kiyokazu Miyazawa, Kazuto Nakagawa 2014-08-12 $179,000
8698344 Navigation apparatus Jun Tokue, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Yasuo Oishi, Yukihiko Suzaki 2014-04-15 $551,000
8570759 Controller and portable electronic apparatus Nobuyuki Takahashi, Ken Yano 2013-10-29 $122,000
8442756 Navigation apparatus Jun Tokue, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Shuichi Watanuki, Yoshinori Takahashi, Tsutomu Kogure +3 more 2013-05-14 $411,000
8288931 Spark plug having a center electrode and a ground electrode provided with no noble metal member Reimon Fukuzawa 2012-10-16
8267787 Controller and portable electronic apparatus Nobuyuki Takahashi, Ken Yano 2012-09-18 $74,000
8263889 Manipulating apparatus and mobile terminal including the same Nobuyuki Takahashi 2012-09-11 $98,000
8087314 Powdery/granular material flowability evaluation apparatus and method Shuji Matsusaka, Yanbin Jiang, Masatoshi Yasuda 2012-01-03
7784370 Powdery/granular material flowability evaluation apparatus and method Shuji Matsusaka, Yanbin Jiang, Masatoshi Yasuda 2010-08-31
7530279 Sampler for sampling charged particles, and apparatus for measuring charge distribution of the charged particles Tadashi Iwamatsu, Shuji Matsusaka 2009-05-12
7231648 Disk holding apparatus, and disk apparatus Chikara Ute, Kiyoshi Kawakubo, Takeshi Sano, Yukio Matsumoto, Akira Ishihara +3 more 2007-06-12 $1,509,000
D466503 Portable wireless terminal equipment Tomoaki Takuma 2002-12-03
D466504 Portable wireless terminal equipment Tomoaki Takuma 2002-12-03
6274971 Spark plug and method of manufacturing the same Makoto Sugimoto 2001-08-14
5858600 Method of controlling electric charge of a two-component developing agent Takayuki Itakura 1999-01-12
4545897 Classifier — 1985-10-08

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