{"@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "itemListElement": [{"@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://www.patentleaderboard.com/"}, {"@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Sony", "item": "https://www.patentleaderboard.com/company/sony"}, {"@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Minoru Kohno", "item": "https://www.patentleaderboard.com/inventor/fl:mi_ln:kohno-7"}]}
Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
MK

Minoru Kohno — 33 Patents

Sony: 34 patents #946 of 25,231Top 4%
TCTaiyo Ink Mfg. Co.: 1 patents #47 of 95Top 50%
Tokyo, JP: #3,872 of 90,295 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #105,480 of 4,157,543Top 3%
33 Patents All Time
Minoru Kohno has been granted 33 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in May 2012. Minoru Kohno ranks #105,480 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.5%). Patent records list Minoru Kohno in Tokyo, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2006.peak 81991: 1 patents19912000: 1 patents2001: 2 patents20012002: 2 patents2003: 3 patents20032005: 3 patents2006: 8 patents20062007: 3 patents2008: 3 patents20082009: 3 patents2010: 3 patents20102012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 33 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8172367 Liquid-ejecting method and liquid-ejecting apparatus Soichi Kuwahara, Masato Nakamura 2012-05-08 $120,000
7845749 Liquid-ejecting method and liquid-ejecting apparatus Soichi Kuwahara, Masato Nakamura 2010-12-07 $489,000
7836598 Method of manufacturing a thermal liquid jet head using an etching process Takaaki Miyamoto 2010-11-23 $331,000
7665827 Liquid discharge recording head having an improved oxetane resin covering layer as part of a liquid flow path and liquid discharge apparatus Koichi Igarashi, Shogo Ono, Manabu Tomita 2010-02-23 $613,000
7537311 Method and apparatus for ejecting liquid Takeo Eguchi, Masato Nakamura, Toru Tanikawa, Koichi Igarashi, Manabu Tomita +3 more 2009-05-26 $759,000
7524020 Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus Takeo Eguchi, Kazuyasu Takenaka, Iwao Ushinohama 2009-04-28 $626,000
7472480 Method for producing liquid ejecting recording head Koichi Igarashi, Shogo Ono, Manabu Tomita, Shigeru Ushiki, Shohei Makita 2009-01-06 $784,000
7470004 Liquid ejection head and liquid ejection device Takeo Eguchi, Takaaki Miyamoto, Manabu Tomita, Shogo Ono, Kazuyasu Takenaka +1 more 2008-12-30 $1,001,000
7461451 Method for manufacturing liquid discharge head Koichi Igarashi, Manabu Tomita, Shogo Ono, Takaaki Murakami 2008-12-09 $597,000
7431430 Liquid ejecting head having selectively controlled heat-energy evolving element regions Takeo Eguchi, Manabu Tomita, Takaaki Miyamoto 2008-10-07 $513,000
7261393 Liquid jetting head, liquid jetting apparatus, and method of manufacturing the liquid jetting head Takaaki Miyamoto, Osamu Tateishi 2007-08-28 $1,187,000
7182440 Liquid jet apparatus Takaaki Miyamoto 2007-02-27 $1,160,000
7165828 Liquid discharge apparatus, printer head, and method for making liquid discharge apparatus Takaaki Murakami, Koichi Igarashi, Shogo Ono, Toru Tanikawa 2007-01-23 $1,146,000
7150515 Liquid delivering device and liquid delivering method Takeo Eguchi, Masato Nakamura, Toru Tanikawa, Koichi Igarashi, Manabu Tomita +3 more 2006-12-19 $1,178,000
7141319 Method for processing the surface of an insulating article, printer head and substrate for recording medium Seiichi Watanabe, Kenji Shinozaki, Hiroyuki Mitsuhashi, Minehiro Tonosaki, Masato Kobayashi 2006-11-28 $826,000
7137687 Liquid discharge head, liquid discharge apparatus, and method for forming liquid discharge head Koichi Igarashi, Manabu Tomita, Shogo Ono, Takaaki Murakami 2006-11-21 $926,000
7090330 Liquid discharge apparatus, printer head, and method for making liquid discharge apparatus Takaaki Murakami, Koichi Igarashi, Shogo Ono, Toru Tanikawa 2006-08-15 $690,000
7066571 Liquid ejection apparatus Takeo Eguchi, Takaaki Miyamoto, Kazuyasu Takenaka, Tatsumi Ito 2006-06-27 $699,000
7063406 Printer head chip and printer head Takeo Eguehi, Shinichi Horii, Takumi Namekawa 2006-06-20 $751,000
7028402 Method of manufacturing a liquid dispenser Takaaki Miyamoto, Manabu Tomita, Shogo Ono, Osamu Tateishi 2006-04-18 $1,052,000
7004561 Liquid discharge apparatus, printer head, and method for making liquid discharge apparatus Takaaki Murakami, Koichi Igarashi, Shogo Ono, Toru Tanikawa 2006-02-28 $1,067,000
6969147 Printer head chip and printer head Takeo Eguchi, Shinichi Horii, Takumi Namekawa 2005-11-29 $435,000
6874865 Printer head chip and printer head Takeo Eguchi, Shinichi Horii, Takumi Namekawa 2005-04-05 $576,000
6848770 Liquid dispenser and printer Takaaki Miyamoto, Manabu Tomita, Shogo Ono, Osamu Tateishi 2005-02-01 $537,000
6592209 Printer, printer head, and method of producing the printer head Takaaki Miyamoto, Toru Tanikawa 2003-07-15 $498,000