was a Japanese inventor, and assistant to Professor Hidetsugu Yagi at

Tohoku Imperial University , or is a Japanese national university located in Sendai, Miyagi in the Tōhoku Region, Japan. It is informally referred to as . Established in 1907, it was the third Imperial University in Japan and among the first three Designated Natio ...

, where together they invented the Yagi–Uda antenna in 1926. In February 1926, Yagi and Uda published their first report on the wave projector antenna in a Japanese publication. Yagi applied for patents on the new antenna both in Japan and the United States. His ("Variable Directional Electric Wave Generating Device") was issued in May 1932 and assigned to the Radio Corporation of America.

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Scanning the Past: A History of Electrical Engineering from the Past

see chapter "Yagi-Uda's invention". {{DEFAULTSORT:Uda, Shintaro 20th-century Japanese engineers 20th-century Japanese inventors 1896 births 1976 deaths