Inventor · Yokohama, JP

Sumio Ashida

31Patents
7h-index
31Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 6, 1987 → Sep 20, 2010

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6554972B1 Information recording medium and its manufacturing method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 52 Expired
US7214416B2 Phase-change optical recording medium Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 32 Expired
US6296915A Optical recording medium Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US7883930B2 Phase change memory including a plurality of electrically conductive bodies, and manufacturing method thereof Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Active
US5175714A Method of magneto-optically recording/erasing information and magneto-optical information storage medium including recording and bias layers satisfying certain conditions Physics 13 Expired
US7245576B2 Optical recording medium and optical recording-reproducing method Physics 11 Expired
US8169879B2 Optical recording system to record information with light Physics 8 Active
US6805935B2 Optical recording medium Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US4839861A Information recording medium rewritable by utilizing two metastable phases of a recording layer and method using the same Physics 7 Expired
US6240060A Phase change optical recording medium Physics 6 Expired
US5105400A Method of magneto-optically recording and erasing information onto a magneto-optical information storage medium Physics 5 Expired
US7455951B2 Information recording medium and its manufacturing method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Expired
US5412627A A magneto-optical recording system including a recording medium having a reversal preventive layer for preventing a magnetization reversal of a bias layer which is magnetostatically coupled to a recording layer Physics 4 Expired
US6944116B2 Optical information recording medium Physics 4 Expired
US6842419B2 Optical information recording medium and optical disk drive Physics 3 Expired
US7357969B2 Phase-change optical recording medium Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Expired
US7335459B2 Phase-change optical recording medium Physics 3 Expired
US7542404B2 Optical recording media Physics 3 Active
US7477586B2 Optical disk apparatus for distinguishing recording media including single-layer and double-layer H-L media and L-H medium Physics 2 Active
US7858166B2 Phase change recording medium Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US7510990B2 Sputtering target, optical thin film and manufacturing method thereof using the sputtering target, and optical recording medium Physics 2 Active
US7767285B2 Phase-change optical recording medium Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US7510753B2 Phase-change optical recording media Physics 1 Active
US8487345B2 Information recording and reproducing device Physics 1 Active
US7294382B2 Phase-change optical recording medium Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.