Hideki Nishimura
84Patents
13h-index
120Co-inventors
87Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 19, 1981 → Jun 5, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US8020315B2 | Substrate processing method, substrate processing apparatus, and program storage medium | Electricity | 500 | Active |
| US5743509A | Elastic mount having two axially compressed elastic members | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 59 | Expired |
| US4467414A | Cashe memory arrangement comprising a cashe buffer in combination with a pair of cache memories | Physics | 55 | Expired |
| US5138209A | Spindle motor | Electricity | 44 | Expired |
| US5270006A | Automatic sample analyzer | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US7329174B2 | Method of manufacturing chemical mechanical polishing pad | Performing Operations; Transporting | 30 | Active |
| US6836388B2 | Spindle motor and disk drive utilizing the spindle motor | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 25 | Expired |
| US6914358B2 | Spindle motor and disk drive furnished therewith | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 21 | Expired |
| US7357703B2 | Chemical mechanical polishing pad and chemical mechanical polishing method | Performing Operations; Transporting | 20 | Active |
| US7305967B1 | Control apparatus for an internal combustion engine | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 17 | Active |
| US6888278B2 | Spindle motor and disk drive utilizing the spindle motor | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 16 | Expired |
| USD481719S1 | Personal digital assistant | General | 15 | Expired |
| US5214331A | Lead holder for a spindle motor | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US7336494B2 | Electronic device having compact heat radiation structure | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US6920013B2 | Disk drive spindle motor with radial inward thrust area annular protruding portion and bearing member communicating passage | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 11 | Expired |
| US8379345B2 | Spindle motor having dynamic pressure fluid bearing for use in a storage disk drive | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 10 | Active |
| US8873096B2 | Media processing device and POS system | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US9591078B2 | Media processing device and POS system | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US9224275B2 | Media processing method using multiple processing units for performing multiple processes | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US8913284B2 | Media processing device and systems with multiple processing units | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US7290934B2 | Fluid dynamic-pressure bearing device and spindle motor | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US8510933B2 | Method of manufacturing a field pole magnet | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 6 | Active |
| US7578621B2 | Fluid dynamic-pressure bearing device and spindle motor | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US8873198B1 | Motor and disk drive apparatus | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 5 | Active |
| US6854889B2 | Hydrodynamic pressure bearing, spindle motor in which it is utilized, and disk-drive device furnished with the spindle motor | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 5 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.