The system of
industrial rights in Japan celebrated 100 years of its existence in 1985. In celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Japanese system of industrial property rights, the
Japan Patent Office
The is a Japanese governmental agency in charge of industrial property right affairs, under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The Japan Patent Office is located in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo and is one of the world's largest pa ...
selected ten great inventors whose contributions were particularly memorable and of historical significance in the
industrial development of Japan.
s of these inventors were created and presented in the lobby of the Japan Patent Office to commemorate their achievements and introduce them to Japanese people.
The inventors
The ten inventors are:
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Sakichi Toyoda Patent Number 1195, Wooden Weaving Machine Driven by Human Power
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Kōkichi Mikimoto Patent Number 2670,
Cultured pearl
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Jōkichi Takamine Patent Number 4785,
Adrenaline
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Kikunae Ikeda Patent Number 14805,
Sodium Glutamate
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Umetaro Suzuki Patent Number 20785,
Vitamin B1
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Kyota Sugimoto
was a Japanese inventor who developed the first practical Japanese typewriter. He received the Blue Ribbon Award and the Small Asahi Ribbon. Out of the thousands of kanji characters, Sugimoto's typewriter used 2,400 of them.
Biography
Kyota ...
Patent Number 27877,
Japanese typewriter
The first practical was invented by Kyota Sugimoto in 1915. Out of the thousands of kanji characters, Kyota's original typewriter used 2,400 of them. He obtained the patent rights to the typewriter that he invented in 1929. Sugimoto's typewrite ...
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Kotaro Honda Patent Number 32234,
KS Steel
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Hidetsugu Yagi
was a Japanese electrical engineer from Osaka, Japan. When working at Tohoku Imperial University, he wrote several articles that introduced a new antenna designed by his assistant Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world.
The Yagi antenna, ...
Patent Number 69115,
Yagi Antenna
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Yasujiro Niwa
was a Japanese electrical scientist from Matsusaka, Mie. In the 1920s, he invented a simple device for phototelegraphic transmission through cable and later via radio, a precursor to mechanical television. He later became the Director of the ...
Patent Number 84722, Phototelegraphic Method
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Tokushichi Mishima
was a Japanese metallurgist and inventor. He discovered that aluminum restored magnetism to non-magnetic nickel steel. He invented MKM steel, which was an extremely inexpensive magnetic substance that has been used in many applications. It is al ...
Patent Number 96371,
MKM steel
See also
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List of inventors
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List of Japanese inventions
References
Japanese inventors
1985 in Japan
Japanese patent law