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Hitoshi Kimura — 86 Patents

Sony: 25 patents #1,521 of 25,231Top 7%
PEPentax: 7 patents #230 of 761Top 35%
HCHitachi Cable: 6 patents #88 of 1,086Top 9%
Hitachi: 5 patents #7,560 of 28,497Top 30%
Nissan Motor Co.: 5 patents #1,472 of 8,689Top 20%
Kubota: 5 patents #404 of 2,059Top 20%
TCTohoku Ricoh Co.: 4 patents #38 of 204Top 20%
FCFurukawa Electric Co.: 4 patents #478 of 2,370Top 25%
SESeiko Epson: 3 patents #3,864 of 7,774Top 50%
Fujitsu Limited: 3 patents #8,614 of 24,456Top 40%
Mitsubishi Electric: 3 patents #8,691 of 25,717Top 35%
Nec: 2 patents #5,544 of 14,502Top 40%
EBEbara: 2 patents #752 of 1,611Top 50%
KCKuraray Co.: 2 patents #662 of 1,827Top 40%
NCNalux Co.: 2 patents #15 of 54Top 30%
SCShinto Paint Co.: 2 patents #19 of 121Top 20%
Panasonic: 2 patents #9,726 of 21,108Top 50%
NCNippon Oil & Fats Co.: 1 patents #173 of 409Top 45%
Canon: 1 patents #14,969 of 19,416Top 80%
HCHitachi Construction Machinery Tierra Co.: 1 patents #33 of 55Top 60%
KCKansai Paint Co.: 1 patents #432 of 822Top 55%
HCHitachi Electronics Engineering Co.: 1 patents #61 of 175Top 35%
MCMitsubishi Chemical: 1 patents #1,786 of 3,022Top 60%
NCNippon Paint Holdings Co.: 1 patents #415 of 834Top 50%
Tokyo, JP: #618 of 90,295 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #19,585 of 4,157,543Top 1%
86 Patents All Time
Hitoshi Kimura has been granted 86 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in June 2025. Hitoshi Kimura ranks #19,585 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.47%). Patent records list Hitoshi Kimura in Tokyo, JP.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 86 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12333184 Recording apparatus, recording method, storage medium, and memory card Yasuhiro Shiraishi, Akio Fujii, Hiroshi Noda, Ryo Akamatsu, Tsutomu Ando +4 more 2025-06-17
11696293 Communication system, base station and mobile terminal Miho Maeda, Mitsuru Mochizuki, Yasushi Iwane, Yuji Kakehi, Taisei Suemitsu 2023-07-04
11405897 Mobile communication system Miho Maeda, Mitsuru Mochizuki, Yasushi Iwane, Yuji Kakehi, Taisei Suemitsu 2022-08-02
11352765 Construction machine with engine restart section and horn switch and gate lock lever operations Junya Kawamoto, Kohei Maeda, Masayuki Yunoue 2022-06-07
10507488 Deposition apparatus and manufacturing process including film forming step by deposition apparatus Toshiro Higuchi, Hiroshi Ueno 2019-12-17
10492887 Medicine ingestion state management method, medicine and medicine ingestion state management device Morihito Notani 2019-12-03
10265139 Medicine ingestion state management method, medicine and medicine ingestion state management device Morihito Notani 2019-04-23
10069066 Target, method for producing the same, memory, and method for producing the same Kazuhiro Ohba, Yuichi Kamori 2018-09-04 $973,000
9913698 Medicine ingestion state management method, medicine and medicine ingestion state management device Morihito Notani 2018-03-13
9861996 Deposition apparatus and tray holder Toshiro Higuchi, Hiroshi Ueno 2018-01-09
9805840 Halogen-free crosslinked resin composition and insulated wire and cable using the same Makoto Iwasaki 2017-10-31
9680177 All-solid-state thin-film battery Kazuya Iwamoto 2017-06-13
9565713 Mobile communication system Miho Maeda, Mitsuru Mochizuki, Yasushi Iwane, Yuji Kakehi, Taisei Suemitsu 2017-02-07
9443645 Insulated wire for vehicle use and cable for vehicle use Makoto Iwasaki, Kentaro Segawa 2016-09-13
9419214 Target, method for producing the same, memory, and method for producing the same Kazuhiro Ohba, Yuichi Kamori 2016-08-16 $572,000
9267079 Phosphorus-free based halogen-free flame-retardant resin composition, phosphorus-free based halogen-free flame-retardant insulated electric wire and phosphorus-free based halogen-free flame-retardant cable Motoharu Kajiyama, Takuya Suzuki 2016-02-23
9165697 Peroxide crosslinked resin composition and electric wire and cable using same Makoto Iwasaki 2015-10-20
9156979 Insulated wire using a resin composition Kenichiro Fujimoto, Tomiya Abe, Kentaro Segawa, Katsuhisa SHISHIDO, Akira Suzuki +1 more 2015-10-13
8716736 Surface light emitting device Kazuyuki Yamae, Nobuhiro Ide, Hiroya Tsuji, Shintarou Hayashi 2014-05-06
8683528 Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program Kensuke Ohnuma, Shinichi Wakai, Keiichi Yoshioka, Shingo Utsuki, Hidetoshi Ichioka 2014-03-25 $163,000
8584168 Apparatus and method for automatically recording content, and recording medium and program thereof Kensuke Ohnuma, Hidetoshi Ichioka 2013-11-12 $151,000
8547703 Card-type peripheral apparatus Yoshitaka Aoki 2013-10-01 $137,000
8445785 Polybutylene naphthalate-based resin composition and electric wire using the polybutylene naphthalate-based resin composition Kenichiro Fujimoto, Tomiya Abe, Katsuhisa SHISHIDO, Akira Suzuki, Takuya Suzuki 2013-05-21
8270803 Image recording and reproducing apparatus, and image reproducing method Hidetoshi Ichioka, Takaaki Maeda, Mutsumi Kogawa, Shinichi Wakai 2012-09-18 $74,000
8266654 Information processing system, information processing apparatus and method, recording medium and program Kensuke Ohnuma 2012-09-11 $98,000