Masashi Yoshikawa

This inventor holds 30 USPTO granted patents and 7 published patent applications and 11 EPO patents, primarily in Metal Plating Technology. Top assignees: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha, Primetals Technologies Japan, Ltd., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited. Active years: 1992-2025.

USPTO Granted Patents = 30 (Patent Applications = 7)

% Patents Active = 90.0

EPO Patents = 11 (Patent Applications = 13)

Average Co-Inventor Count = 2.6

ph-index = 10

Forward Citations = 557(Granted Patents)

Location History:

Kanagawa, JP (1993)
Hiroshima-ken, JP (2008)
Hiroshima, JP (1998 - 2022)
Tokyo, JP (1992 - 2023)

Company Filing History:

13 out of 2,419

Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha

patents

9 out of 52

Primetals Technologies Japan, Ltd.

patents

3 out of 4,738

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

patents

4. 3 out of 17

Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery, Inc.

Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

patents

7. 1 out of 85

Preferred Networks, Inc.

patents

where one patent can have more than one assignee

Years Active: 1992-2025

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Areas of Expertise:

Pickling Apparatus

Plating Adhesion Control

Cooling Apparatus

Acid Solution Preparation

Metal Strip Processing

Hot-Dip Plating

Sphygmomanometer

Intra-Vascular Catheter

Blood Processing Filter

Gas Wiping Apparatus

Rolling Method

Exhaust Gas Treatment

30 patents (USPTO):Sort by Forward CitationsExplore Patents

1. 12481255 - Control system, control method, and control program for determining operation data by repeatedly calculating control target data indicating a predicted value of a control target in a plant (2025-11-25),

2. 12371800 - Pickling apparatus and pickling method (2025-07-29),

3. 12139797 - Acid solution preparation device, acid solution supply apparatus, and pickling facility (2024-11-12),

4. 12091757 - Method for pickling steel plate and pickling apparatus (2024-09-17),

5. 11814736 - Pickling facility and operation method of pickling facility (2023-11-14),

6. 11478833 - Crossbow correction device, molten metal plating facility, and crossbow correction method (2022-10-25),

7. 11286539 - Cooling apparatus for metal strip and continuous heat treatment facility for metal strip (2022-03-29),

8. 11248288 - Plating adhesion amount control mechanism and method for controlling an adhesion amount by comparing a plating adhesion amount estimation value at an upstream position and a plating adhesion actual amount at a downstream position (2022-02-15),

9. 10815559 - Molten metal plating facility and method (2020-10-27),

10. 9951407 - Wiping nozzle of hot-dip metal plating equipment and wiping position control device for hot-dip metal plating equipment (2018-04-24),

11. 9939209 - Gas cooler (2018-04-10),

12. 8616148 - Gas wiping apparatus (2013-12-31),

13. 8429834 - Gas wiping apparatus (2013-04-30),

14. 8079323 - Liquid wiping apparatus (2011-12-20),

15. 7462330 - Exhaust gas treatment apparatus (2008-12-09),

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