Minoru Ando
20Patents
7h-index
22Co-inventors
69Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 17, 1974 → Mar 3, 2011
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7257136B2 | Laser apparatus | Electricity | 76 | Expired |
| US5210457A | Outer electrode for spark plug and a method of manufacturing thereof | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US7013696B2 | Method of making a flanged tubular metallic part | Performing Operations; Transporting | 13 | Expired |
| US5815945A | Pit membrane-broken wood drying method and apparatus | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 12 | Expired |
| US5760533A | Spark plug for an internal combustion engine | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US7348517B2 | Laser cutting apparatus with a high quality laser beam | Performing Operations; Transporting | 7 | Expired |
| US5962957A | Spark plug for internal combustion engine | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US4882925A | Method of making terminal nut for ignition plug by plastic working | Electricity | 6 | Expired |
| US7172483B2 | Method of making metallic shell for spark plug, method of making spark plug having metallic shell and spark plug produced by the same | Electricity | 2 | Expired |
| US7830935B2 | Laser | Electricity | 2 | Active |
| US8264785B2 | Imaging lens | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US7586969B2 | Method for discriminating anomaly in gas composition and discharge excitation type gas laser oscillator | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US8643944B2 | Infrared zooming lens | Physics | 1 | Active |
| USD468712S1 | Hard disc video recorder | General | 1 | Expired |
| US7149237B2 | Laser oscillator | Electricity | 1 | Expired |
| US5128986A | Pair facsimile devices | Electricity | 1 | Expired |
| US5257308A | Pair facsimile devices | Electricity | 1 | Expired |
| US7436872B2 | High frequency discharge excited gas laser oscillator | Electricity | 0 | Active |
| US7154925B2 | Gas laser oscillator | Electricity | 0 | Expired |
| USD243277S | Television receiver | General | 0 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.