Noboru Inoue
33Patents
12h-index
29Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 9, 1978 → Mar 31, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4708141A | Soluble suturing device for an intestine | Human Necessities | 1,820 | Expired |
| US4310115A | Apparatus for suturing a rectum | Human Necessities | 89 | Expired |
| USD354568S | Hearing aid | General | 80 | Expired |
| US4744600A | Cushioning mechanism for use with seat of chair and interlocking cushioning mechanism for seat and backrest | Human Necessities | 64 | Expired |
| US5964503A | Chair | Human Necessities | 50 | Expired |
| US4986601A | Tilting mechanism for supporting seat portion and backrest of chair in integral fashion | Human Necessities | 39 | Expired |
| US5186491A | Auto ignition device | Performing Operations; Transporting | 23 | Expired |
| US5468385A | Charged coalescer type oil-water separating apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 22 | Expired |
| US5244550A | Two liquid separating methods and apparatuses for implementing them | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 21 | Expired |
| US4941962A | Electrostatic adsorptive fluid filtering apparatus | Performing Operations; Transporting | 20 | Expired |
| US4830431A | Interlocking cushioning mechanism for supporting seat portion and backrest of chair in integral fashion | Human Necessities | 19 | Expired |
| USD375556S | Hearing aid | General | 18 | Expired |
| US4254779A | Brain wave analysis apparatus for use in diagnosing living body conditions | Human Necessities | 12 | Expired |
| US5102170A | Pipe joint | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 12 | Expired |
| US5338421A | Method of and apparatus for separation by agglomeration | Performing Operations; Transporting | 12 | Expired |
| US7142203B2 | Semiconductor display device and method of driving a semiconductor display device | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US5494586A | Oil-water separation apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 10 | Expired |
| US9817032B2 | Measurement device | Physics | 9 | Active |
| US5593560A | Fluid-filtering device for filtering out particulates in fluid | Performing Operations; Transporting | 8 | Expired |
| US4302627A | Dental stethoscope | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US5512104A | Method to separate and recover resin and steel pipe from resin-coated steel pipe | Performing Operations; Transporting | 6 | Expired |
| US8009159B2 | Semiconductor display device and method of driving a semiconductor display device | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US4778584A | Liquid filter device | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 4 | Expired |
| US4358379A | Process for refining electric insulating liquids | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 4 | Expired |
| US8984061B2 | Conferencing system, server, image display method, and computer program product | Electricity | 2 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.