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Mitsuru Ida — 20 Patents

Sony: 19 patents #2,195 of 25,231Top 9%
TOToto: 1 patents #620 of 1,113Top 60%
Koshigaya, JP: #10 of 242 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Mitsuru Ida has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in March 2001. Mitsuru Ida ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Mitsuru Ida in Koshigaya, JP.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6208607 Disk loading apparatus with interlocked shutter mechanism, elevator mechanism and eject mechanism Koichi Numata, Taizo Ogawa 2001-03-27 $1,714,000
5867355 Recording and/or reproducing apparatus with external controller and headset and separate take-up reels therefor Toshio Arai, Kazutaka Nakashima 1999-02-02 $675,000
5706353 Recording and/or reproducing apparatus Toshio Arai, Takashi Kubo, Kazutaka Nakashima, Kiminobu Ichimura 1998-01-06 $472,000
5677585 Motor Hiroshi Murata, Shinjiro Akiha 1997-10-14 $428,000
5120211 Slip casting device Haruyuki Ito, Masanobu Hisaeda, Toshiaki Sasaki, Yasuo Hirakawa 1992-06-09
5097367 Cassette holding structure for a cassette tape player Yasuhiro Yamaguchi 1992-03-17 $113,000
5029036 Normal/reverse mode changing mechanism for tape transport apparatus Yasuhiro Yamaguchi 1991-07-02 $212,000
5018401 Translation cam means Yasuhiro Yamaguchi 1991-05-28 $152,000
4839759 Tape bed and mode-changing mechanism arrangement for thin cassette type recorder Noriyuki Koga 1989-06-13 $356,000
4799116 Apparatus for controlling an auto-reverse tape recorder having a mode-changing mechanism Noriyuki Koga 1989-01-17 $236,000
4739423 Cassette tape recording and/or reproducing apparatus including an improved head base assembly 1988-04-19 $367,000
4701816 Capstan friction drive apparatus of tape recorder 1987-10-20 $408,000
4661865 Battery holder of single head minimum size cassette tape player Minoru Shimada 1987-04-28 $340,000
4630149 Compact cassette tape player with capstan drive motor under spindle 1986-12-16 $193,000
4623946 Mode changing mechanism for cassette tape recording and/or reproducing apparatus 1986-11-18 $637,000
4604662 Automatic mode-change mechanism for tape recorder Minoru Shimada 1986-08-05 $392,000
4542431 Mode changing mechanism for cassette tape player 1985-09-17 $172,000
4511941 Cassette tape apparatus with adjustable head positioning characteristics 1985-04-16 $166,000
4491287 Pushbutton actuated cassette tape transport 1985-01-01
4453189 Tape transport mechanism for cassette tape player 1984-06-05 $176,000