Toshimitsu Kawase
49Patents
17h-index
46Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 27, 1990 → Apr 21, 2010
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5304924A | Edge detector | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 101 | Expired |
| US5072116A | Microprobe preparation thereof and electronic device by use of said microprobe | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 83 | Expired |
| US5187367A | Cantilever type probe, scanning tunneling microscope and information processing device equipped with said probe | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 76 | Expired |
| US5721721A | Two scanning probes information recording/reproducing system with one probe to detect atomic reference location on a recording medium | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 66 | Expired |
| US5276672A | Micro-displacement type information detection probe device and scanning tunneling microscope, atomic force microscope, information processing device by use thereof | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 66 | Expired |
| US5260567A | Cantilever unit and atomic force microscope, magnetic force microscope, reproducing apparatus and information processing apparatus using the cantilever unit | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 56 | Expired |
| US5426631A | Information recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing information by using a probe electrode | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 52 | Expired |
| US5412641A | Information recording/reproducing apparatus for recording/reproducing information with probes | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 51 | Expired |
| US5373494A | Information recording and/or reproducing apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 49 | Expired |
| US5349735A | Information detection apparatus and displacement information measurement apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 48 | Expired |
| US6114804A | Image apparatus having recessed envelope for placement of electrode | Electricity | 45 | Expired |
| US5297130A | Driving apparatus and a recording and/or reproducing apparatus using the same | Physics | 42 | Expired |
| US5321685A | Cantilever type probe, scanning tunnel microscope and information processing apparatus using the same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 40 | Expired |
| US4998016A | Probe unit, driving method thereof, and scanning device for detecting tunnel current having said probe unit | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 38 | Expired |
| US5412597A | Slope detection method, and information detection/writing apparatus using the method | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 27 | Expired |
| US5994698A | Microprobe, preparation thereof and electronic device by use of said microprobe | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 21 | Expired |
| US6476547B1 | Image forming substrate having lead wiring connected to a conductive terminal | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US5812516A | Maintaining interatomic distance between an STM probe and a recording layer | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 17 | Expired |
| US6528939B1 | Image-forming apparatus and method of manufacture therefor | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US5255258A | Microprobe, preparation thereof and electronic device by use of said microprobe | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 14 | Expired |
| US5132533A | Method for forming probe and apparatus therefor | Performing Operations; Transporting | 14 | Expired |
| US5680387A | Detachable sealed container enclosing an information recording/reproducing probe and a recording medium | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 13 | Expired |
| US5488602A | Information record/reproducing apparatus and information recording medium | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 13 | Expired |
| US5130554A | Two-dimensional scanning device for detecting position between two relatively movable objects | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US5432346A | Relative position change amount detecting apparatus having bi-directional probe with compensated movement | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 13 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.