Satoru Inami
28Patents
12h-index
37Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 30, 1992 → Dec 27, 2012
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6337964B2 | Agitating member, developing apparatus and process cartridge | Physics | 45 | Expired |
| US5765077A | Charging member, charging device and process cartridge detachably mountable to image forming apparatus | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US6128462A | Cleaning member, image forming apparatus provided with a cleaning blade member, and process cartridge detachably attachable on the image forming apparatus | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US5475471A | Changing member having a charging surface arranged with respect to a tangent line | Physics | 32 | Expired |
| US5946522A | Image forming apparatus and cartridge mountable on the same | Physics | 26 | Expired |
| US6175703A | Image forming apparatus and process cartridge | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US5646718A | Cleaning blade for use in electrophotography, process cartridge and image forming apparatus | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US5682585A | Developing apparatus generating electric field between developer carrying member and developer layer regulating member | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US6169869A | Image forming apparatus and process cartridge | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US5790927A | Charging member and process cartridge having same | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US5543899A | Charging member having a foamed layer of a material with specified density and pore properties, charging device, process cartridge and image forming apparatus featuring the charging member | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US6163663A | Image forming apparatus using a developer of a given polarity and an externally added additive of an opposite polarity | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US5995785A | Image forming apparatus having a mechanism for preventing stripping off of a lubricant from a cleaning blade | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US6317574A | Charging member, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US6038414A | Developing apparatus with magnetic seals for preventing toner leakage | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US7430378B2 | Image forming apparatus setting an image forming condition based on characteristics of a cartridge, cartridge used in the image forming apparatus, and storage medium mounted on the cartridge | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US5805951A | Image forming apparatus detecting useful life of an image bearing member | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US7444092B2 | Image forming apparatus | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US7426482B2 | Image processing apparatus, method of placing order for expendables of image processing apparatus, storage medium, and program | Physics | 5 | Expired |
| US7454160B2 | Developing apparatus including a cylindrical developer carrying member conveying a magnetic mono-component developer | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US6873350B2 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method | Physics | 3 | Expired |
| US6636251B2 | Image forming apparatus and method | Electricity | 3 | Expired |
| US7995931B2 | Image forming apparatus | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US7346300B2 | Developing apparatus | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US8175475B2 | Image forming apparatus | Physics | 2 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.