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Yuji Kimura — 104 Patents

Sony: 36 patents #858 of 25,231Top 4%
SCShin-Etsu Chemical Co.: 15 patents #293 of 2,176Top 15%
MCMurata Manufacturing Co.: 10 patents #773 of 5,295Top 15%
MCMitsumi Electric Co.: 10 patents #76 of 935Top 9%
Ricoh Company: 9 patents #2,463 of 9,818Top 30%
Denso: 7 patents #1,924 of 11,792Top 20%
DEDexerials: 7 patents #65 of 387Top 20%
Hitachi: 4 patents #8,948 of 28,497Top 35%
NCNippondenso Co.: 4 patents #582 of 3,479Top 20%
TLTokyo Electron Limited: 2 patents #2,602 of 5,567Top 50%
EAE.I. Du Pont De Nemours And: 1 patents #8,424 of 12,129Top 70%
HKHamamatsu Photonics K.K.: 1 patents #936 of 1,436Top 70%
KSKobe Steel: 1 patents #937 of 1,773Top 55%
MCMishima Paper Co.: 1 patents #6 of 19Top 35%
NSNational Institute For Materials Science: 1 patents #361 of 901Top 45%
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba: 1 patents #13,641 of 21,451Top 65%
Tochigi, JP: #15 of 2,789 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #13,407 of 4,157,543Top 1%
104 Patents All Time
Yuji Kimura has been granted 104 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in November 2025. Yuji Kimura ranks #13,407 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.32%). Patent records list Yuji Kimura in Tochigi, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2002.peak 91996: 6 patents19961997: 1 patents1998: 4 patents1999: 3 patents19992000: 1 patents2001: 1 patents2002: 9 patents20022003: 5 patents2004: 8 patents2005: 2 patents20052006: 2 patents2007: 3 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents2010: 1 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 4 patents2014: 4 patents20142015: 5 patents2016: 2 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 4 patents2019: 2 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 2 patents2022: 3 patents2023: 5 patents20232024: 1 patents2025: 4 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 104 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12474297 Method for trapping microparticle and microparticle trapping device Kaito SUZUKI, Ryo MAKINO, Hiroto Itoh 2025-11-18
12444623 Substrate processing system and substrate processing method Keita HIRASE, Yuki Saito, Akihiro Teramoto, Koji Tanaka, Shota Takei +4 more 2025-10-14
12283723 Protecting device and battery pack Chisato Komori 2025-04-22
12228126 Liquid supply device, microdevice system, and liquid supply method Hiroyasu Itoh 2025-02-18
11997432 Display apparatus 2024-05-28
11851768 Film-forming powder, film forming method, and film-forming powder preparing method Yasushi Takai, Shigeyuki Nakamura 2023-12-26
11804347 Protecting device and battery pack Chisato Komori 2023-10-31
11791116 Protecting device and battery pack Chisato Komori 2023-10-17
11742223 Substrate processing apparatus Yoshihiro Kai 2023-08-29
11549185 Film-forming powder, film forming method, and film-forming powder preparing method Yasushi Takai, Shigeyuki Nakamura 2023-01-10
11460690 Light scanning apparatus and method of controlling light scanning apparatus Takayuki Kurokawa 2022-10-04
11345031 Method for acquiring weld pass information and welding robot system Syunsuke Miyata, Kenji Sadahiro, Youzhuo Jiao 2022-05-31
11243459 Image projection apparatus and image projection method Toyoki Tanaka, Motoi Komatsu 2022-02-08
11169372 Light scanning apparatus and method for controlling light scanning apparatus 2021-11-09
11054634 Optical scanning apparatus and method of controlling optical scanning apparatus Riichiro Hibiya 2021-07-06
10699672 Display device 2020-06-30
10451867 Light scanning device and light scanning method 2019-10-22
10341607 Display device Motoi Komatsu, Riichiro Hibiya 2019-07-02
10120185 Image projection apparatus and compensation method Toyoki Tanaka 2018-11-06
10078259 Optical scanning control device Riichiro Hibiya 2018-09-18
9978531 Solid electrolytic capacitor and method for manufacturing same Hitoshi Kuromi, Koji Fujimoto 2018-05-22
9951671 Heat transfer device, temperature controller, internal combustion engine, exhaust system thereof, and melting furnace Mitsuhiro Kataoka, Susumu Sobue 2018-04-24
9733639 Dynamic facility management system Tetsuo Otani, Shigeki Katayama 2017-08-15
9530630 Thermionic power generator Mitsuhiro Kataoka, Susumu Sobue, Daisuke Takeuchi, Hiromitsu Kato, Satoshi Yamasaki 2016-12-27
9508533 Thermionic converter and manufacturing method of electrode of thermionic converter Mitsuhiro Kataoka, Susumu Sobue 2016-11-29