Patents Assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
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Publication number: 20240054821Abstract: A management device to be used in an in-vehicle network including a plurality of function units installed in a vehicle includes: a state information acquisition unit configured to acquire state information indicating a state of the vehicle; and an allocation unit configured to change allocation of transmission bands of a plurality of logical paths between the function units in accordance with the state of the vehicle indicated by the state information acquired by the state information acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2020Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd.Inventors: Kenta OGATA, Tatsuya IZUMI, Yusuke YAMAMOTO, Yojiro SUYAMA, Hideyuki TANAKA, Junji YANO, Darmawan GO
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Publication number: 20240052199Abstract: An insulated wire comprising a conductor and an insulating layer covering the conductor, wherein: the insulating layer comprises a resin and a first filler; the resin comprises a polyimide; the first filler is present in the form of a primary particle or a secondary particle having a plurality of the primary particles aggregated; the primary particle is a silica or alumina particle; the secondary particle has a particle diameter of 0.03 ?m or more and 5 ?m or less; and the percentage of the total area of the secondary particles to the sum of the total area of the primary particles and the total area of the secondary particles in the cross section of the insulated wire is 50% or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC WINTEC, INC.Inventors: Hideaki SAITO, Takuya MURAKAMI, Masaaki YAMAUCHI
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Publication number: 20240052173Abstract: A resin composition for primary coating of an optical fiber contains a photopolymerizable compound, a photopolymerization initiator, and a silane coupling agent, wherein the photopolymerizable compound contains a urethane (meth)acrylate and an ultraviolet curable polyrotaxane, and the content of the polyrotaxane is 0.05% by mass or more and 11% by mass or less based on the total amount of the photopolymerizable compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Katsushi HAMAKUBO, Noriaki IWAGUCHI, Takashi FUJII
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Patent number: 11901597Abstract: A redox flow battery cell includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and each of the positive electrode and the negative electrode is an assembly containing a plurality of carbon fibers, and a quantity per unit area of the negative electrode is larger than a quantity per unit area of the positive electrode.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Yuta Ochi
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Patent number: 11901655Abstract: A pin terminal includes a bar-like base material and a plating layer covering a predetermined region of the base material. A constituent material of the base material is pure copper or a copper alloy. The plating layer includes a tin-based layer made of metal containing tin. One end side of the base material includes a tip covering portion covering an entire region in a circumferential direction of the base material. The tin-based layer includes the tip covering portion. The tip covering portion includes a thin film portion and a thick film portion at positions different in the circumferential direction of the base material. The thin film portion is provided in contact with the base material. The number of whiskers present on a surface of the thin film portion is 15 or less in a square visual field having one side length of 0.35 mm.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Mikio Sato, Akihiro Kato, Mitsuhiro Kumondai, Yoshifumi Saka
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Patent number: 11901946Abstract: An optical transmitter according to one embodiment includes a housing with an emission end, a light emitting element mounted on a first mounting portion of the housing, and a light receiving element mounted on a second mounting portion of the housing to monitor output light from the light emitting element. The second mounting portion is provided with a carrier, a first resin located on an emission end side of a lower side of the carrier, and a second resin located on a light emitting element side of the lower side of the carrier. A coefficient of thermal expansion of the first resin is smaller than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the second resin.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Satoshi Yoshimura, Hiroshi Hara, Eiji Tsumura, Masanobu Kawamura
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Patent number: 11901773Abstract: This axial gap motor includes: a stator; and a rotor provided so as to be opposed to the stator in an axial direction. The rotor includes an annular rotor yoke, and a plurality of magnets provided to contact one surface of the rotor yoke so as to be arranged at predetermined intervals along a circumferential direction with magnetic poles thereof being different alternately. The one surface includes a plurality of facing areas facing and contacting the plurality of magnets, and a non-facing area not facing the plurality of magnets. The non-facing area includes partial areas each located between a pair of the facing areas adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction among the plurality of facing areas. The partial areas are formed to be recesses recessed in the axial direction relative to the facing areas.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD.Inventors: Yuuichi Nakamura, Tomoyuki Ueno, Tatsuya Saito
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Patent number: 11901825Abstract: An isolated DC-DC converter includes a transformer, a full-bridge switching circuit, a protective circuit, a control unit, an inductor, and an output circuit. The isolated DC-DC converter includes a first voltage detection unit that detects a voltage value between a first conductive path and a second conductive path, and a first current detection unit that detects a current value of the inductor. The control unit determines at least one of a first dead time and a second dead time on the basis of the voltage value detected by the first voltage detection unit and the current value detected by the first current detection unit, using a method that increases the dead time as the voltage value increases and reduces the dead time as the current value increases.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Ibuki Kawamura, Takumi Uemura
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Patent number: 11898059Abstract: A surface protection composition having a compound represented by the formula (1) in an amount of 0.1 to 10 mass % in terms of phosphorus element with respect to the total amount of the composition, the compound (b) the metal-containing compound in an amount of 0.1 to 10 mass % in terms of a metal element with the total amount of the composition or the amine compound in an amount of 0.1 to 5.0 mass % in terms of nitrogen element the total amount of the composition, the compound (c) (meth)acrylate having 2 or more carbon-carbon double bonds and hydrocarbon chains having four or more carbon atoms in an amount of 1.0 to 70 mass % with the total amount of the composition, the compound (d) a photopolymerization initiator in an amount of 0.1 to 10 mass % with the total amount of the composition.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATIONInventors: Naoyuki Oshiumi, Takehiro Hosokawa, Makoto Mizoguchi
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Patent number: 11901887Abstract: In a semiconductor switch, a resistance value between a current input terminal to which a current is input and a current output terminal from which a current is output decreases as a voltage of a control terminal based on a potential of the current output terminal increases. A booster circuit is disposed on a path extending from the current input terminal to the control terminal. The booster circuit boosts a voltage input from the current input terminal side and applies the boosted voltage to the control terminal. A switch is connected between the control terminal and the current output terminal of the semiconductor switch. The switch is switched off by power consumption. The power consumption stops and the switch switches on if the supply of power to the booster circuit stops.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Keisuke Wakazono, Yuuki Sugisawa
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Patent number: 11898915Abstract: A circuit assembly that includes a circuit board, a switching element that is mounted on one side of the circuit board, a folded portion that extends from a peripheral edge portion of the circuit board and is folded towards the one side, and a temperature measuring device that is mounted on the folded portion and is in contact with the switching element.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Akira Haraguchi
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Patent number: 11899043Abstract: Provided is current detection apparatus for detecting current flowing through a power supply path of a power supply control apparatus. The power supply path includes a first conductor and a second conductor. The current detection apparatus includes: a first and a second shunt resistor connected in parallel between the first and the second conductor, and a current detection circuit detecting: (1) current flowing through the first shunt resistor; and (2) current flowing from the first to the second conductor via both the first and second shunt resistors. The current detection apparatus further includes an arithmetic circuit that calculates current flowing through the power supply path based on a correlative relationship between the current flowing from the first to the second conductor via both the first and the second shunt resistor and current flowing through the first shunt resistor, and the current detected by the current detection circuit.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Ryosuke Masuda, Masayuki Kato, Shunichi Sawano
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Patent number: 11898903Abstract: An optical sensor includes a support layer, a thermoelectric conversion material portion disposed on the support layer and including a strip-shaped first material layer that converts thermal energy into electrical energy and a strip-shaped second material layer that is electrically conductive, and a light absorbing film disposed on the thermoelectric conversion material portion to form a temperature difference in a longitudinal direction of the first material layer. The first material layer includes a first region and a second region. The second material layer includes a third region and a fourth region connected to the second region. The optical sensor further includes a first electrode electrically connected to the first region, and a second electrode disposed apart from the first electrode and electrically connected to the third region. The first material layer has a width, perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, of 0.1 ?m or more.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kotaro Hirose, Masahiro Adachi, Yoshiyuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11901673Abstract: It is aimed to provide a connector capable of adjusting transmission characteristics while suppressing a manufacturing cost increase. A connector is provided with a housing including an accommodating portion and mounting portions, a terminal fitting to be accommodated into the accommodating portion, and a shield member to be mounted into the mounting portions for shielding electromagnetic waves. The mounting portions are provided at a plurality of positions at different distances from the accommodating portion. For example, the mounting portion is in the form of a groove and one end is open in one surface of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Yasunori Asano
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Patent number: 11897323Abstract: A vehicle mounting structure including: a vehicle frame having a floor panel mounted thereabove; and a power storage device assembled under the vehicle frame, wherein: a protrusion is arranged in the power storage device that can be vertically fitted into a recess in the vehicle frame, and a plurality of electrical wires are arranged inside the protrusion arranged in the power storage device.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Hiroki Hirai, Ryoya Okamoto, Taiji Yanagida
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Publication number: 20240045150Abstract: An optical module includes a substrate including a main surface, an optical component including a bottom surface, and a first side surface and a second side surface each extending in a direction intersecting the bottom surface and facing each other, and an adhesion portion fixing the optical component to the substrate. The optical component is mounted on the substrate such that the bottom surface faces the main surface. In this optical module, the adhesion portion includes a plurality of first adhesion portions provided along the first side surface and a plurality of second adhesion portions provided along the second side surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kensaku SHIMADA, Takeshi INOUE, Taisuke NAGASAKI, Toshihisa YOKOCHI
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Publication number: 20240047944Abstract: A photonic-crystal surface emitting laser includes a first semiconductor layer, a photonic crystal layer having a refractive index higher than a refractive index of the first semiconductor layer and provided on the first semiconductor layer, and an active layer provided opposite to the first semiconductor layer with respect to the photonic crystal layer. The photonic crystal layer has a first region and a plurality of second regions each having a refractive index different from a refractive index of the first region and periodically disposed in the first region in a plane of the photonic crystal layer. The second regions extend from the photonic crystal layer to the first semiconductor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Kyoto UniversityInventors: Naoya KONO, Yuki ITO, Naoki FUJIWARA, Susumu NODA, Takuya INOUE, Menaka De ZOYSA, Kenji ISHIZAKI
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Publication number: 20240042565Abstract: A processing system includes a cutting tool, a sensor attached to the cutting tool, an analog-to-digital (AD) converter configured to perform sampling on an analog signal output from the sensor to generate a digital signal, and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to, based on a rotation rate [rpm] of a rotor; an upper-limit period that is an upper-limit value of a process period; and an upper-limit pitch that is an upper-limit value of an angle pitch [degree], determine the process period and a sampling frequency with which the AD converter performs sampling such that a set value of the angle pitch is equal to the upper-limit pitch or less in a time period taken by the rotor to rotate N times with the process period that is equal to the upper-limit period or shorter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Yusuke KOIKE
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Publication number: 20240047590Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light-receiving element of the present disclosure includes forming a first contact layer at one surface of a substrate, forming a light receiving layer on the first contact layer, forming a second contact layer on the light receiving layer, removing a portion of each of the second contact layer, the light receiving layer, and the first contact layer and forming a first groove at which the first contact layer is exposed, filling the first groove with a resin, and after filling the first groove with the resin, removing the second contact layer and forming a second groove separating pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Daisuke KIMURA
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Patent number: D1014585Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd, Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.Inventors: Masashi Harada, Daisuke Murakami, Taisuke Higashi