Kinya Kato
92Patents
23h-index
93Co-inventors
91Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 29, 1983 → Dec 20, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6795169B2 | Exposure apparatus, optical projection apparatus and a method for adjusting the optical projection apparatus | Physics | 256 | Expired |
| US5751452A | Optical devices with high polymer material and method of forming the same | Physics | 207 | Expired |
| US5162933A | Active matrix structure for liquid crystal display elements wherein each of the gate/data lines includes at least a molybdenum-base alloy layer containing 0.5 to 10 wt. % of chromium | Physics | 186 | Expired |
| US5748272A | Method for making an optical device using a laser beam interference pattern | Physics | 148 | Expired |
| US6618104B1 | Optical device having reverse mode holographic PDLC and front light guide | Physics | 126 | Expired |
| US5041224A | Ion permeable membrane and ion transport method by utilizing said membrane | Physics | 117 | Expired |
| US5729331A | Exposure apparatus, optical projection apparatus and a method for adjusting the optical projection apparatus | Physics | 91 | Expired |
| US7209097B2 | Optical device and three-dimensional display device | Electricity | 88 | Expired |
| US5124769A | Thin film transistor | Electricity | 79 | Expired |
| US4889998A | Apparatus with four light detectors for checking surface of mask with pellicle | Physics | 75 | Expired |
| US5764361A | Interferometer, adjusting method therefor, stage apparatus having the interferometer, and exposure apparatus having the stage apparatus | Physics | 53 | Expired |
| US5830643A | Partially double-stranded oligonucleotide and method for forming oligonucleotide | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 43 | Expired |
| US6469683B1 | Liquid crystal optical device | Electricity | 41 | Expired |
| US4999510A | Apparatus for detecting foreign particles on a surface of a reticle or pellicle | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US4744663A | Pattern position detection apparatus using laser beam | Physics | 36 | Expired |
| US8314939B2 | Reference sphere detecting device, reference sphere position detecting device, and three-dimensional-coordinate measuring device | Physics | 35 | Active |
| US6714174B2 | Optical device and three-dimensional display device | Electricity | 35 | Expired |
| US4918504A | Active matrix cell | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US5614988A | Projection exposure apparatus and method with a plurality of projection optical units | Physics | 32 | Expired |
| US4965630A | Projection exposure apparatus | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US6462250B1 | Method for decomposing halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbon compounds having adsorption process and apparatus for decomposition having adsorption means | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 28 | Expired |
| US5850279A | Alignment method, projection exposure method, and projection exposure apparatus | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US4636626A | Apparatus for aligning mask and wafer used in semiconductor circuit element fabrication | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US7336244B2 | Optical device and three-dimensional display device | Electricity | 23 | Expired |
| US4566762A | Dual focus optical system | Physics | 22 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.