Masahiro Inata
41Patents
5h-index
43Co-inventors
65Inventor score
Filing activity: Feb 8, 1999 → Mar 27, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US9046949B2 | Electronic device | Physics | 23 | Active |
| US6839898B2 | Disk drive | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US6834393B2 | Disk device | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US7010798B2 | Disk drive | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US6661415B1 | Liquid crystal driver and optical head for tilt correction | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US8027579B2 | Camera driver | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US7340753B2 | Disk drive | Physics | 4 | Expired |
| US6697321B2 | Disc apparatus | Physics | 4 | Expired |
| US8181192B2 | Disk apparatus and disk drive unit including a lock mechanism that is released only when the display unit is in a closed state | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US7281254B2 | Optical disc drive having a traverse holder that is rotatable around an axis that is mutually different from the axis of a traverse base | Physics | 4 | Expired |
| US6178154A | Optical disk device having increased height at an outer periphery of the optical disk | Physics | 4 | Expired |
| US7260041B2 | Disk drive | Physics | 3 | Expired |
| US8780264B2 | Camera drive device | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US9918004B2 | Camera body capable of driving an image sensor along an optical axis in response to a change in an optical state of an object image | Electricity | 3 | Active |
| US7093271B2 | Disk drive | Physics | 2 | Expired |
| US9069384B2 | Electronic device | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| USD587275S1 | Disc cartridge | General | 1 | Expired |
| US8730335B2 | Imaging apparatus and imaging system | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US8823812B2 | Image capturing apparatus and method for displaying a subject of image capturing and indicating motion of the image capturing apparatus during the image capturing | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US9182821B2 | Electronic device, information providing system, and method for controlling electronic device | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US9094597B2 | Imaging apparatus and imaging system | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US7630152B1 | Optical pickup device, and optical disc device | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US8884908B2 | Electronic apparatus | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US8108885B2 | Disk cartridge | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US10073238B2 | Lens barrel and imaging apparatus | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.