Shintaro Uda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Shintaro Uda

Japanese engineer

Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1896

Place of Birth: Toyama Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 18-Aug-1976

Profession: engineer, inventor, university teacher

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Shintaro Uda (?? ???, Uda Shintaro, June 1, 1896 – August 18, 1976) was a Japanese inventor, and assistant professor to Hidetsugu Yagi at Tohoku University, 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 U.S.
Patent 1,860,123 ("Variable Directional Electric Wave Generating Device") was issued in May 1932 and assigned to the Radio Corporation of America.