Akira Arimoto
88Patents
21h-index
123Co-inventors
91Inventor score
Filing activity: May 8, 1981 → Aug 17, 2007
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5467417A | Prism plate for efficiently emitting light flux within a predetermined range, and liquid crystal indicator and indicator illumination method using the same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 158 | Expired |
| US5361244A | Optical head and information recording apparatus | Electricity | 71 | Expired |
| US5070488A | Optical integrated circuit and optical apparatus | Physics | 67 | Expired |
| US5461501A | Liquid crystal substrate having 3 metal layers with slits offset to block light from reaching the substrate | Physics | 58 | Expired |
| US5627926A | Prism plate for efficiently emitting light flux within a predetermined range, and liquid crystal indicator and indicator illumination method using the same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 46 | Expired |
| US5818554A | Reflective liquid crystal display apparatus which does not require a back light | Physics | 45 | Expired |
| US5889748A | Object lens and optical head for reproducing data from optical disks in different thickness of substrate | Physics | 45 | Expired |
| US5006705A | Light beam scanning apparatus with controller for varying spacing between a plurality of scanning beams | Electricity | 41 | Expired |
| US5025268A | Optical scanning apparatus and asymmetrical aspheric scanning lens | Physics | 40 | Expired |
| US6421174B1 | Directional reflection screen and display system using the same | Electricity | 40 | Expired |
| US4861128A | Optical pickup using a waveguide | Physics | 37 | Expired |
| US4768043A | Optical system for changing laser beam spot size during scanning of scanning line | Electricity | 37 | Expired |
| US4770507A | Prism optics and optical information processing apparatus | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US6081380A | Directional reflection screen and projection display | Electricity | 31 | Expired |
| US5394257A | Optical neural network system | Physics | 30 | Expired |
| US4561717A | Optical system for information processing | Electricity | 25 | Expired |
| US4768183A | Optical reproducing apparatus | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US4792197A | Fabrication method and equipment for diffraction gratings | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 24 | Expired |
| US4760407A | Laser printing apparatus with device for combining a plurality of optical beams provided with an integral-order wave plate | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US4644160A | System for holding plural light beams in predetermined relative positions | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US4779943A | Optical system for semiconductor laser and optical information processing equipment utilizing the same | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US5289001A | Laser beam scanning apparatus having a variable focal distance device and the variable focal distance device for use in the apparatus | Electricity | 20 | Expired |
| US5053619A | Variable density scanning apparatus | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US5411430A | Scanning optical device and method for making a hybrid scanning lens used therefor | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US5315573A | Non-linear optical saturable absorber layer in an optical disk to discriminate wavelength above or below a threshold level of intensity | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 17 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.