was a Japanese inventor and

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. He was the first chairman of the

Japan Patent Attorneys Association The (JPAA), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is the only one national, professional bar association of Japanese patent attorneys ( Benrishi) with approximately 10,000 members. History The Japanese Patent Attorney System was established on July 1, ...

Career

After graduating from the

University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project b ...

, Nobuchika joined

Shibaura Seisakusho was the new name given to the company Tanaka Seisakusho (Tanaka Engineering Works), after it was declared insolvent in 1893 and taken over by Mitsui Bank. In 1910, it formed a tie-up with GE USA, which, in exchange for technology acquired about ...

as a mechanical engineer. During his career there, he created 12 patented inventions including a US patent. In 1920, he was qualified as a patent attorney and transferred to work in Shibaura's patent division. He was the first in-house patent attorney in Japan. In 1923, he left Shibaura and founded Sugimura International Patent and Trademark Attorneys. In 1925, he assisted Hidetsugu Yagi in securing a patent for the

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. Yagi is listed among the Ten Japanese Great Inventors by the

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for this very invention. In 1961, he was awarded by the

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with the

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with Blue Ribbon (藍綬褒章) for all his contributions as a patent attorney.

Select works

Irène Joliot-Curie Irène Joliot-Curie (; ; 12 September 1897 – 17 March 1956) was a French chemist, physicist and politician, the elder daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Jointly with her husband, Joliot-Curie was awar ...

's Atomic Energy Generation Device Case * Hidetsugu Yagi's directional antenna (

Yagi antenna Yagi may refer to: Places * Yagi, Kyoto, in Japan * Yagi (Kashihara), in Nara Prefecture, Japan * Yagi-nishiguchi Station, in Kashihara, Nara, Japan * Kami-Yagi Station, a JR-West Kabe Line station located in 3-chōme, Yagi, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima ...

) * 水力電気鉄筋混凝土管: 設計及工作法（Maruzen、1918、ASIN B0093ED2VS）

References

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