Kichi Toyoda 1867 to 1930 he was a businessman and was called the king of inventors. He was a carpenter by trade, and this able to work with his hands. He had his first patent in 1980. And in 1987, invented the first Japanese power loom. A prime concept used at loom works was jidoka. Automation with a human touch.

This invention was designed to stop the loom whenever a thread broke, a human did not always have to be present to oversee each loom. This enabled workers to handle more than one loom and provide more value added work. He followed up with the founding of Toyota automatic loom works in 1926 in 1929, the sale of the patent rights to the Platt brothers in England 400,000 Thousand British pounds. That is 1 million yen provided the research funds for entry into the automotive industry which is today called Toyota