Inventor · Nara, JP

Junji Hirokane

118Patents
17h-index
24Co-inventors
86Inventor score

Filing activity: May 3, 1984 → Mar 31, 2010

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4544443A Method for manufacturing an optical memory element Physics 53 Expired
US5428585A Magneto-optical recording medium comprising first, second and third magnetic layers and method of recording on same Physics 39 Expired
US5659537A Magneto-optical recording medium and method of reproducing from same Physics 37 Expired
US7180849B2 Optical storage medium enabling uniform light transmittance, optical read/write apparatus for same, and optical read/write method for same Physics 36 Expired
US7609605B2 Optical storage medium, optical read/write apparatus, and optical read/write method Physics 35 Active
US7586824B2 Optical storage medium, optical read/write apparatus, and optical read/write method Physics 34 Active
US5933411A Optical recording medium having a wobbling section for recording address information and methods of recording and reproduction using same Physics 33 Expired
US5644566A Magneto-optical recording medium Physics 31 Expired
US4610912A Magneto-optic memory element Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 29 Expired
US5128922A Optical disk with glass substrate and method of producing same Physics 24 Expired
US5640374A Magneto-optical recording medium having intermediate layer of in-plane magnetization and method of reproducing from the medium Physics 22 Expired
US4917751A Method of producing double sided optical memory disks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 21 Expired
US5079113A Photo-mask Physics 20 Expired
US4778747A Method of manufacturing optical memory element Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 19 Expired
US6295271A Optical recording medium having tracks, each track having a plurality of wobble sections/one-side wobble regions Physics 19 Expired
US5087535A Method of manufacturing photo-mask and photo-mask manufactured thereby Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US5939187A Magneto-optical recording medium Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 17 Expired
US5673250A Optical recording medium having pit rows on every other boundary and reproducing method thereof Physics 16 Expired
US5982715A Magneto-optical recording medium having a signal reproducing region of the reproducing layer larger than the record bit in the recording layer Physics 16 Expired
US4717628A Magnetooptical storage element Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Expired
US6122233A Optical disk having virtually constant width recording track and optical disk apparatus Physics 16 Expired
US5656385A Magnetic recording medium and information recording-reproduction method using the same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US5648162A Magneto-optical recording medium and a method of recording and/or reproducing using the same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US6430115B1 Magneto-optical recording device with three distinct layers Physics 15 Expired
US5633838A Magneto-optical recording medium having two reproduction layers and a method for reproducing thereof Physics 14 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.