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MINOLTA CAMERA KK

Overview
  • Total Patents
    17,667
About

MINOLTA CAMERA KK has a total of 17,667 patent applications. Its first patent ever was published in 1960. It filed its patents most often in Japan, United States and Germany. Its main competitors in its focus markets optics, audio-visual technology and computer technology are CANON CAMERA CO, SHIYASHIN KOGYO KK and TAMERAN INC.

Patent filings per year

Chart showing MINOLTA CAMERA KKs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Taniguchi Nobuyuki 901
#2 Ito Masazumi 576
#3 Ishida Tokuji 481
#4 Ueda Hiroshi 414
#5 Nakai Masaaki 401
#6 Otsuka Hiroshi 397
#7 Hamada Masataka 380
#8 Iino Shuji 349
#9 Ueda Hideaki 331
#10 Osawa Mochikiyo 328

Latest patents

Publication Filing date Title
DE10020802A1 Printing material removal apparatus e.g. for toner, controls immersion time of paper based on temperature of liquid for desorption
DE10014684A1 Sheet cleaning apparatus has reservation unit that is used to clean the completely printed sheets in the paper feed tray chosen arbitrarily
DE10007999A1 Device for cleaning printed pages includes a container with liquid for steeping the pages before feeding them in sequence through brush rollers.
DE10002592A1 Recyclable copying medium, useful in copier, printer etc., e.g. electrophotographic copier or printer, has base, intermediate layer of resin and surfactant or finely-divided particles and surface layer of resin swelling in water
DE19958258A1 Recycling imaging medium, e.g. paper or overhead projection film used in copier and printer, involves removing print and adding surfactant or fine particles
DE19948888A1 Sheet cleaning apparatus includes scraper brush with elastic hair-like structure, that rakes out toner collected in filter
DE19943129A1 Copying medium useful as a re-usable base for copies, e.g. toner prints, comprises water-swellable resin containing cationic groups
DE19859555A1 Monitoring system for a copier
US6167201A Camera having a power zoom function
US5659844A Fixing device for thermally fixing toner onto a paper sheet and having a controller for controlling the amount of heat received by the paper sheet
US5687965A Sheet supplying device
DE19624875A1 Imaging device
US5883660A Digital copier for two-sided reading using various writing modes
DE19601704A1 Sheet cleaning device
US5673116A Image forming apparatus wherein data is converted between multi-level data and bi-level data
US5572630A Image forming apparatus
US5633759A Zoom lens system
US5539500A Image forming apparatus with humidity controlling device
US5630032A Image generating apparatus having a memory for storing data and method of using same
USRE35583E Camera capable of correcting blurring