Akihiko Yamano
53Patents
19h-index
44Co-inventors
80Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 27, 1990 → Dec 20, 2007
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5304924A | Edge detector | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 101 | Expired |
| US5721721A | Two scanning probes information recording/reproducing system with one probe to detect atomic reference location on a recording medium | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 66 | Expired |
| US5734361A | Electron-beam generating device having plurality of cold cathode elements, method of driving said device and image forming apparatus applying same | Electricity | 59 | Expired |
| US5299184A | Information processing apparatus with held distance control on track edge detection | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 54 | Expired |
| US5471458A | Multi-probe information recording/reproducing apparatus including a probe displacement control circuit | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 54 | Expired |
| US5519686A | Encoder for controlling measurements in the range of a few angstroms | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 49 | Expired |
| US5349735A | Information detection apparatus and displacement information measurement apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 48 | Expired |
| US5329122A | Information processing apparatus and scanning tunnel microscope | Physics | 37 | Expired |
| US5717680A | Information processing apparatus with mechanism for adjusting interval between substrate for supporting a plurality of probes and recording medium | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 35 | Expired |
| US5392275A | Information recording unit and method for information recording/reproduction | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 34 | Expired |
| US5289455A | Information recording and/or reproducing apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 31 | Expired |
| US5526334A | Information processing apparatus with multiple probes and method therefor | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 30 | Expired |
| US6677706B1 | Electron emission apparatus comprising electron-emitting devices, image-forming apparatus and voltage application apparatus for applying voltage between electrodes | Electricity | 26 | Expired |
| US5510858A | Television receiver having an STM memory | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 25 | Expired |
| US6822397B2 | Method of manufacturing image forming apparatus | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US5323003A | Scanning probe microscope and method of observing sample by using such a microscope | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 23 | Expired |
| US5251200A | Tracking method for memory apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 20 | Expired |
| US5371727A | Scanning tunnel microscopy information processing system with noise detection to correct the tracking mechanism | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 20 | Expired |
| US5394388A | Multiple microprobe arrays for recording and reproducing encoded information | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 19 | Expired |
| US5778134A | Apparatus for recording and reproducing image information in a recording medium wherein scanning probes are controlled based on editing information | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 18 | Expired |
| US5432771A | Information recording/reproducing apparatus for performing recording/reproduction of information by using probe | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 18 | Expired |
| US5485451A | Information processing apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 18 | Expired |
| US6580407B1 | Electron-beam generating device having plurality of cold cathode elements, method of driving said device and image forming apparatus applying same | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US5812516A | Maintaining interatomic distance between an STM probe and a recording layer | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 17 | Expired |
| US5535018A | Information processing apparatus | Physics | 16 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.