Toyota Sakichi

Toyoda Sakichi (Japanese: Toyoda Sakichi/Toyoda Sakichi, March 19, 1867 (February 14, Keio 3) - October 30, 1930 (Showa 5)) was born in Yamaguchi Village, Toe Kuni (now Kosai City, Shizuoka Prefecture). He was a Japanese inventor and industrialist. He saw foreign looms at the Domestic Industry Exhibition in Tokyo, and independently invented the "Toyota-style wooden manual loom" and later invented the "G-type endless interchangeable Toyota automatic loom." During his career, he obtained 84 invention patents, 13 foreign invention patents and 35 utility models. Sakichi Toyoda established "Toyota Boshoku", "Toyota Textile Mills" and "Toyota Automatic Loom Manufacturing Co., Ltd." and was the founder of the Toyota Group. His son is Kiichiro Toyoda, the founder of Toyota Motor.