Nakamatsu Yoshirō

Nakamatsu Yoshirō

Nakamatsu Yoshirō ( Japanese 中 松 義 郎 , Nakamatsu Yoshirō ; born June 26, 1928 in Tokyo Prefecture ), also known as Dr. NakaMats ( ド ク タ ー ・ 中 松 , dokutā Nakamatsu ), is a Japanese inventor who claims to own most of the patents.

Life

Nakamatsu, a graduate of the University of Tokyo , worked for Mitsui Bussan and KK EIE International for some time after graduating . He later founded his own company, today's Dokutā Nakamatsu Sōken ( ド ク タ ー 中 松 創 研 ).

Nakamatsu claims to own more than 3,200 patents , making it the most patented person in the world. In fact, according to the INPADOC international patent database, he only holds 395 patents, 14 of them in the USA. The actually most productive inventor in the world, Kia Silverbrook , holds 9042.

In 1952 he received a patent for an early form of floppy disk including a drive. He claims to have licensed about a dozen patents to IBM in 1979 , which an IBM spokesman denied. Further patents such as on a putt practice device for golfers, an apparatus for the direct conversion of radiant energy such as light or heat into rotational energy or an energy system for supplying a hydrogen-gasoline mixture in engines show the enormous variety of NakaMat. In 2005 he was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for Nutrition - he has been documenting and analyzing his food for over 30 years.

He markets his inventions through the Dr. NakaMats Hi-Tech Innovation Corp. He is the author of 32 best-selling books.

As a politician, he ran several times for the national parliament and as governor of Tokyo since the early 1990s , initially under his real name Nakamatsu Yoshirō, since 1999 as dokutā Nakamatsu . He received the most personal votes in the 1995 Sangiin election , when 101,547 voters gave him their votes in the Tokyo constituency (four seats). In the 2007 gubernatorial election in Tokyo Prefecture, he landed in fifth place with 85,946 (1.56%) votes. In 2009 he participated in the founding of the Kōfuku-jitsugen-tō , in which he is "special chairman " ( tokubetsu-daihyō ).

Web links

• Personal website (Japanese)
• PingMag: Twilight Zone: Dr. NakaMats' inventions (Interview, English, Japanese)
• Articles about Dr. NakaMats

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} David Lazarus: 'Japan's Edison' Is Country's Gadget King: Japanese Inventor Holds Record for Patent . In: The New York Times . April 10, 1995 ( nytimes.com ).
2. ↑ global INPADOC search for Yoshiro Nakamatsu as inventor
3. ↑ INPADOC patent search for Kia Silverbrook
4. ↑ James Barron: What a Stroke of ... Um, Ingenuity, Anyhow . In: The New York Times , Nov. 11, 1990. Retrieved May 3, 2010. 
5. ↑ JANJAN, The Senkyo: Constituency Results Tokyo 1995 ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Nakamatsu is the family name, Yoshirō the first name.