Tomihisa Kato
21Patents
13h-index
20Co-inventors
77Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 24, 1997 → Jun 29, 2011
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6423012B1 | Medical guide wire | Human Necessities | 233 | Expired |
| US7117703B2 | Wire-stranded hollow coil body, a medical equipment made therefrom and a method of making the same | Textiles; Paper | 96 | Expired |
| US7377910B2 | Reagent injection device | Human Necessities | 91 | Expired |
| US6881194B2 | Wire-stranded medical hollow tube, and a medical guide wire | Human Necessities | 84 | Expired |
| US7182757B2 | Medical guide wire | Human Necessities | 73 | Expired |
| US6884225B2 | Medical guide wire | Human Necessities | 64 | Expired |
| US6926692B2 | Medicinal liquid injection catheter | Human Necessities | 56 | Expired |
| US6648837B2 | Medical guide wire | Human Necessities | 46 | Expired |
| US7278974B2 | Medical guide wire | Human Necessities | 41 | Expired |
| US7434437B2 | Method of making a metallic thin wire for a medical tool | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 30 | Active |
| US7150723B2 | Medical device including guide wire and balloon catheter for curing a coronary artery | Human Necessities | 27 | Expired |
| US7399283B2 | Medical guide wire having a stepwisely thickness-reduced but breadth-increased distal tip structure | Human Necessities | 18 | Expired |
| US7918947B2 | Method of making a guide wire by using a heat mold device | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 13 | Active |
| US8157811B2 | Treatment device for endoscope | Human Necessities | 8 | Expired |
| US7553444B2 | Heat mold device and a method of making a guide wire by using the same heat mold device | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 7 | Active |
| US5851192A | Connecting structure of the guide wire used for medical treatment | Human Necessities | 7 | Expired |
| US8551073B2 | Catheter device | Human Necessities | 5 | Active |
| US8845551B2 | Medical guide wire, an assembly of microcatheter and guiding catheter combined with the medical guide wire, and an assembly of ballooncatheter and guiding catheter combined with the medical guide wire | Human Necessities | 3 | Active |
| US7442184B2 | Medicinal liquid injection catheter | Human Necessities | 2 | Expired |
| US8211039B2 | Medical guide wire, a method of making the same, an assembly of balloon catheter and guiding catheter combined with the medical guide wire, an assembly of microcatheter and guiding catheter combined with the medical guide wire | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 1 | Active |
| US8894587B2 | Medical guide wire, method of making the same, and assembly of balloon catheter and guiding catheter combined with the medical guide wire | Human Necessities | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.