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Minoru Takeda — 56 Patents

Sony: 25 patents #1,521 of 25,231Top 7%
NCNippon Precision Circuits: 9 patents #8 of 85Top 10%
Panasonic: 9 patents #2,948 of 21,108Top 15%
Sumitomo Electric Industries: 4 patents #6,367 of 21,551Top 30%
SCSynztec Co.: 3 patents #10 of 62Top 20%
NONok: 2 patents #242 of 725Top 35%
TCTeijin Seiki Co.: 2 patents #43 of 143Top 35%
SDShowa Denko: 1 patents #231 of 593Top 40%
HCHokkai Can Co.: 1 patents #39 of 86Top 50%
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba: 1 patents #13,641 of 21,451Top 65%
JEJeol: 1 patents #309 of 669Top 50%
PEPentax: 1 patents #515 of 761Top 70%
Hirakata, JP: #9 of 1,801 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #44,020 of 4,157,543Top 2%
56 Patents All Time
Minoru Takeda has been granted 56 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in March 2021. Minoru Takeda ranks #44,020 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list Minoru Takeda in Hirakata, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2010.peak 61980: 1 patents19801983: 2 patents1995: 4 patents1996: 3 patents19961997: 1 patents1998: 3 patents2000: 3 patents20002001: 2 patents2002: 2 patents2003: 4 patents20032004: 3 patents2005: 3 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 2 patents2008: 2 patents2010: 6 patents20102011: 6 patents2012: 3 patents2013: 1 patents20132015: 1 patents2017: 1 patents2021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 56 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10947633 Method of producing electrocast belt Shingo SUGIYAMA, Akira NISHIDA, Masaya Suzuki 2021-03-16
9745664 Method for producing a fixation belt 2017-08-29
8965260 Image-fixation member having multi-layer metallic structure Shingo SUGIYAMA, Akira NISHIDA 2015-02-24
8491853 Substrate and device for bioassay and method for making the substrate Motohiro Furuki, Tatsumi Ito 2013-07-23 $184,000
8212746 Method for driving a plasma display panel by using a holding period between subfield groups Keiji Akamatsu, Kenji Ogawa, Hiroshi Ibaraki 2012-07-03 $62,000
8212745 Method for driving a plasma display panel using subfield groups Kenji Ogawa, Keiji Akamatsu 2012-07-03 $62,000
8207913 Plasma display device and method for controlling an amplitude of a waveform used for driving a plasma display panel based on temperature Hiroshi Ibaraki, Keiji Akamatsu, Kenji Ogawa, Nobuhiko Nakamura 2012-06-26 $64,000
8085222 Plasma display device and method for driving the same Taku Okada, Yohei Koshio, Shinichiro Hashimoto, Kenji Ogawa 2011-12-27 $64,000
8035843 Recording medium processing device, printing method, and computer program Makoto Ando, Tatsumi Ito, Koji Ashizaki, Takahiro Toyoda, Seiji Kobayashi 2011-10-11 $125,000
8031134 Method of driving plasma display panel Kenji Ogawa, Shigeo Kigo 2011-10-04 $60,000
8013808 Method of driving plasma display panel, and plasma display device Shigeo Kigo, Takeru Yamashita, Tooru Kawase 2011-09-06 $52,000
7995006 Method of driving plasma display panel, and plasma display device Shigeo Kigo, Yasuaki Mutou 2011-08-09 $75,000
7969388 Plasma display device Hidehiko Shoji 2011-06-28 $95,000
7815271 Recording medium driving device and recording medium driving method Makoto Ando, Takahiro Toyoda, Tatsumi Ito, Koji Ashizaki, Seiji Kobayashi 2010-10-19 $492,000
7807338 Method of manufacturing magnetic disk 2010-10-05 $326,000
7748813 Print apparatus, print method and recording medium driving apparatus Tatsumi Ito, Makoto Ando, Koji Ashizaki, Takahiro Toyoda 2010-07-06 $184,000
7750871 Image display method Hidehiko Shoji, Takahiko Origuchi, Akira Yawata, Hiroko Yamamoto 2010-07-06 $122,000
7712853 Printer-equipped disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus Koji Ashizaki, Tatsumi Ito, Makoto Ando, Takahiro Toyoda, Seiji Kobayashi 2010-05-11 $231,000
7681964 Recording medium processing apparatus, printing method, and computer program Makoto Ando, Tatsumi Ito, Koji Ashizaki, Takahiro Toyoda, Seiji Kobayashi 2010-03-23 $595,000
7446734 Method of driving plasma display panel Shigeo Kigo, Yasuaki Mutou 2008-11-04 $393,000
7317668 Information recording and/or reproducing apparatus Masataka Shinoda, Shingo Imanishi 2008-01-08 $2,176,000
7180833 Information recording and/or reproducing apparatus Masataka Shinoda, Shingo Imanishi 2007-02-20 $1,141,000
7171676 Stamper for producing optical recording medium, optical recording medium, and methods of producing the same Nobuyuki Arakawa, Motohiro Furuki, Shingo Imanishi 2007-01-30 $1,015,000
7062119 Optical device Masayuki Togawa, Morio Kobayashi, Masahiro Kanbara 2006-06-13
7034319 Electron beam irradiation apparatus, electron beam irradiation method, original disk, stamper, and recording medium Yuichi Aki, Takao Kondo, Masanobu Yamamoto, Shin Masuhara, Toshiyuki Kashiwagi 2006-04-25 $945,000