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Tsutomu Kobayashi — 111 Patents

Tdk: 29 patents #137 of 3,796Top 4%
Panasonic: 13 patents #1,879 of 21,108Top 9%
Honda Motor Co.: 12 patents #1,548 of 21,052Top 8%
YCYoshino Kogyosho Co.: 10 patents #45 of 361Top 15%
Ngk Spark Plug Co.: 10 patents #172 of 1,594Top 15%
SESeiko Epson: 7 patents #2,406 of 7,774Top 35%
The Procter & Gamble: 6 patents #2,501 of 10,297Top 25%
F-F-Tech: 5 patents #1 of 100Top 1%
DIDaikin Industries: 5 patents #682 of 2,957Top 25%
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba: 4 patents #6,732 of 21,451Top 35%
RARockwell Automation: 3 patents #1,206 of 4,211Top 30%
SMSuzuki Motor: 3 patents #180 of 1,209Top 15%
FIFujifilm Business Innovation: 2 patents #3,180 of 5,238Top 65%
JEJeol: 2 patents #192 of 669Top 30%
NTNTT: 1 patents #2,911 of 4,871Top 60%
TCTeikoku Piston Ring Co.: 1 patents #41 of 95Top 45%
The Yokohama Rubber Co.: 1 patents #666 of 1,136Top 60%
JRJapan Synthetic Rubber: 1 patents #256 of 558Top 50%
Sony: 1 patents #17,321 of 25,231Top 70%
CCCasio Electronics Manufacturing Co.: 1 patents #54 of 107Top 55%
Casio Computer Co.: 1 patents #1,284 of 1,970Top 70%
PIPixtronix: 1 patents #47 of 73Top 65%
RCRohto Pharmaceutical Co.: 1 patents #45 of 138Top 35%
Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha: 1 patents #2,094 of 3,782Top 60%
Overall (All Time): #11,724 of 4,157,543Top 1%
111 Patents All Time
Tsutomu Kobayashi has been granted 111 US patents while listed as an inventor at Tdk. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in August 2025. Tsutomu Kobayashi ranks #11,724 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.28%). Patent records list Tsutomu Kobayashi in Osaka, MH, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 15 patents in 2019.peak 151993: 3 patents19931995: 2 patents1996: 1 patents1997: 1 patents19971998: 3 patents1999: 1 patents2000: 1 patents20002001: 2 patents2002: 3 patents2004: 2 patents20042006: 1 patents2007: 5 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 4 patents2010: 2 patents2011: 1 patents20112012: 2 patents2013: 1 patents2014: 3 patents20142015: 6 patents2016: 6 patents2017: 5 patents20172018: 4 patents2019: 15 patents2020: 5 patents20202021: 5 patents2022: 1 patents2023: 7 patents20232024: 3 patents2025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 111 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12389131 Imaging device and camera system Kazuko Nishimura, Yasuo Miyake, Sanshiro Shishido 2025-08-12
12362089 Common mode filter Toshio Tomonari, Kazunori Arimitsu 2025-07-15
12340934 Common mode filter Toshio Tomonari, Kazunori Arimitsu, Yuma Komaya 2025-06-24
12143089 Common mode filter Yugo Asai, Daisuke Urabe, Hiroshi Suzuki, Emi Ito, Toshio Tomonari 2024-11-12
12081878 Imaging device and camera system Kazuko Nishimura, Yasuo Miyake, Sanshiro Shishido 2024-09-03
11984253 Common mode filter Toshio Tomonari, Kazunori Arimitsu 2024-05-14
11817844 Common mode filter Yugo Asai, Daisuke Urabe, Hiroshi Suzuki, Emi Ito, Toshio Tomonari 2023-11-14
11665436 Imaging device and camera system Kazuko Nishimura, Yasuo Miyake, Sanshiro Shishido 2023-05-30
11636973 Common mode filter Toshio Tomonari, Kazunori Arimitsu, Yuma Komaya 2023-04-25
11605485 Common mode filter Yugo Asai, Daisuke Urabe, Hiroshi Suzuki, Emi Ito, Toshio Tomonari 2023-03-14
11563415 Common mode filter Yugo Asai, Daisuke Urabe, Hiroshi Suzuki, Emi Ito, Toshio Tomonari 2023-01-24
11553147 Imaging device and imaging system Takayuki Nishitani 2023-01-10
11545296 Common mode filter Toshio Tomonari, Kazunori Arimitsu 2023-01-03
11284016 Imaging device and camera system Kazuko Nishimura, Yasuo Miyake, Sanshiro Shishido 2022-03-22
11076116 Imaging device and camera system that controls a period in which the clock signal is supplied to the counter in the counting period of a second pixel based on a signal level of a first pixel Yuusuke SHIMIZU 2021-07-27
11064139 Imaging device 2021-07-13
10958233 Common mode filter Yugo Asai, Daisuke Urabe, Hiroshi Suzuki, Emi Ito, Toshio Tomonari 2021-03-23
10958857 Imaging device and imaging system Takayuki Nishitani 2021-03-23
10910144 Common mode filter Toshio Tomonari, Kazunori Arimitsu 2021-02-02
10805554 Imaging device and camera system Kazuko Nishimura, Yasuo Miyake, Sanshiro Shishido 2020-10-13
10755848 Common mode filter Toshio Tomonari, Kazunori Arimitsu 2020-08-25
10666887 Imaging device and camera system that controls an operation current of a comparator during analog to digital conversion of a second pixel based on the digital signal of a previous pixel Yuusuke SHIMIZU 2020-05-26
10600555 Common mode filter Toshio Tomonari, Kazunori Arimitsu, Yuma Komaya 2020-03-24
10541516 Spark plug 2020-01-21
10518542 Liquid ejecting apparatus Toshiyuki Ochiai, Takeshi Tanaka 2019-12-31