Patents Examined by Paresh Paghadal
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Patent number: 11975662Abstract: The wire harness 11 disclosed by the present specification includes: a sheet-shaped base member 12; and a plurality of covered electric wires W fixed side by side along the base member 12, in which the transverse cross-sectional area of at least one of the plurality of covered electric wires W is different from the transverse cross-sectional area of another covered electric wire W, and the thickness of the covered electric wire W is substantially the same as the thickness of the covered electric wire W adjacent thereto.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Yamamoto, Makoto Higashikozono, Hidetoshi Ishida, Yasuyuki Otsuka, Toyoki Furukawa, Hayato Ooi, Hirotaka Kato
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Patent number: 11975663Abstract: A wire harness routing apparatus includes a case and a wire harness accommodated in the case. An axial portion is provided inside the case, and the wire harness is wound around the axial portion, and the wire harness includes at least one wire and a protective member that protects the wire. The protective member includes an insertion path through which the wire is inserted, and the insertion path is formed between a sheet-shaped base sheet and a sheet-shaped cover sheet that overlaps the base sheet, and the protective member includes joining portions where the base sheet and the cover sheet are joined together at both lateral edges of the insertion path.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masami Ono, Satoshi Yamamoto, Hirotaka Kato, Nahoko Furuhata
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Patent number: 11967808Abstract: A wire harness including; a wire harness main body including an electric wire and an outer cover enclosing an outer circumference of the electric wire; a route-regulating cover that is attached to an outer circumference of the outer cover and regulates a route of the wire harness main body; and an attachment attached to an outer circumference of a portion in a lengthwise direction of the route-regulating cover.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Kosuke Tanaka, Ryuta Saito, Katsutoshi Izawa
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Patent number: 11967809Abstract: A wire harness including: a wire harness body that includes an electric wire and an outer sheath configured to cover an outer circumference of the electric wire; a first route regulator that is to be attached to an outer circumference of the outer sheath and is configured to regulate a route of the wire harness body; and a fixing member configured to fix the first route regulator to an attachment target.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Ryuta Saito, Katsutoshi Izawa, Kosuke Tanaka
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Patent number: 11968782Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a coupler and a base station antenna.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Xiaotuo Wang, Changfu Chen, Hangsheng Wen
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Patent number: 11956900Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve the component mounting efficiency. An electronic control unit of the present invention includes: a power board 23 that includes a first insertion hole portion R1A having a plurality of holes 23Aa-2U, 23Aa-2V, and 23Aa-2W through which a coil wire of a first system is inserted and a second insertion hole portion R2A having a plurality of holes 23Aa-2U, 23Aa-2V, and 23Aa-2W through which a coil wire of a second system is inserted; a control board 25 provided on an upper part of the power board 23; and a board-to-board connector 105 that electrically connects the power board 23 and the control board 25. The first insertion hole portion R1A and the second insertion hole portion R2A are collectively arranged on the same side of the power board 23.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiro Fukuda, Yoshiaki Mizuhashi
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Patent number: 11945380Abstract: A structure for attaching a wire harness at a vehicle door includes: a slit formed in a door panel of the vehicle door; an introduction hole provided in the door panel so as to be connected to one end portion of the slit; a tube that covers a peripheral surface of the wire harness; and an elastically deformable clip that is fixed to the tube, wherein the clip includes a first contact portion that is configured to move via the introduction hole from a side of one surface of the door panel to a side of another surface of the door panel and contact the another surface, an insertion portion that is slidably inserted into the slit when the first contact portion contacts the another surface, a second contact portion that contacts the one surface of the door panel when the insertion portion is inserted into the slit.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yohichi Tsujikawa
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Patent number: 11932180Abstract: An electric wire protection cover structure includes an electric wire housing part in which an electric wire is inserted through an opening and housed, an electric wire protection cover that closes the opening, a hinge part that moves the electric wire protection cover relative to the opening between an open position and a closed position, a regular locking mechanism that locks the electric wire protection cover to the electric wire housing part at the closed position where the opening is closed, and a temporary locking mechanism that locks the electric wire protection cover to the electric wire housing part at the open position where the opening is not closed.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi Nomoto
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Patent number: 11931099Abstract: A catheter flexible printed wiring board which includes: a long flexible insulating base member having a tip end portion and a base end portion; and a conductive pattern formed on the flexible insulating base member and extending from the base end portion to the tip end portion, wherein the conductive pattern at the base end portion is wider than the conductive pattern at the tip end portion and thicker than the conductive pattern at the tip end portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NIPPON MEKTRON, LTD.Inventors: Akio Yoshida, Ryoichi Toyoshima, Mitsunori Sasaki, Hiroyasu Hasegawa
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Patent number: 11919459Abstract: A wire harness including: a wire harness main body that includes an electric wire, an exterior tube that covers an outer circumferential surface of the electric wire, and a first path restrictor that is attached to an outer circumferential surface of the exterior tube and is configured to restrict a path of the exterior tube; and an attachment that is attached to an outer circumferential surface of a portion of the first path restrictor in a lengthwise direction thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Ryuta Saito, Katsutoshi Izawa, Kosuke Tanaka
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Patent number: 11919458Abstract: A wire harness including: an electrical wire; and a fixing member that fixes the electrical wire to an attachment target, wherein: the fixing member has: a bolt fixing portion to be fixed to a bolt of the attachment target; and a holder that holds the electrical wire, the bolt fixing portion includes: a side surface that opposes the attachment target; a bolt insertion opening provided in the side surface and into which the bolt is to be inserted; an engagement that engages, in an axial direction, the bolt inserted into the bolt fixing portion through the bolt insertion opening; and a biasing part that is provided on the side surface and comes into contact with the attachment target.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Ryuta Saito, Katsutoshi Izawa, Kosuke Tanaka
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Patent number: 11912215Abstract: A wire harness including: a wire harness main body that includes an electric wire and an exterior tube that covers an outer circumferential surface of the electric wire; a first path restrictor that is attached to an outer circumferential surface of the exterior tube and is configured to restrict a path of the wire harness main body; and an attachment that is attached to an outer circumferential surface of a portion of the first path restrictor in a lengthwise direction thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Ryuta Saito, Katsutoshi Izawa, Kosuke Tanaka
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Patent number: 11910525Abstract: Structures are described having thin flexible polymer substrates with electrically conductive films on each opposing surface while having high optical transmittance and good optical properties. The structures can have total thicknesses of no more than about 30 microns and good flexibility. Processing approaches are described that allow for the coating of the very thin structures by providing support through the coating process. The structures are demonstrated to have good durability under conditions designed to test accelerated wear for touch sensor use.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: C3 Nano, Inc.Inventors: Xiaofeng Chen, Byunghwan Kang, Jackie Chen, Yadong Cao, Vicki Luo, Arthur Yung-Chi Cheng, Andrew Hyeongjoo Moon, Xiqiang Yang, Ajay Virkar
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Patent number: 11901714Abstract: A wiring member includes: a first wire like transmission member; a second wire like transmission member that is more easily bent and deformed than the first wire like transmission member; and a base member to which the first wire like transmission member and the second wire like transmission member are fixed, in which the first wire like transmission member is fixed to the base member through a plurality of first fixing parts, the second wire like transmission member is fixed to the base member through a plurality of second fixing parts, the plurality of first fixing parts are aligned at a first interval in a direction along the first wire like transmission member, and the plurality of second fixing parts are aligned at a second interval smaller than the first interval in a direction along the second wire like transmission member.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Kenta Arai, Daisuke Ebata, Ryusuke Kudo, Masaki Mizushita, Tetsuya Nishimura, Haruka Nakano
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Patent number: 11884220Abstract: Provided is a wire harness apparatus 80 that uses a protector 10 for a wire harness that includes a body portion 16 into which a wire harness W is to be inserted; a cover body 18 that covers an opening portion 56 of the body portion 16; a joining portion 20 with flexibility that is formed thinner than the body portion 16 and the cover body 18 and rotatably joins the cover body 18 to a first side wall 22a of the body portion 16; a body contact portion 40 provided on the first side wall 22a of the body portion 16; and a cover body contact portion 58 provided on the cover body 18 that transfers a load applied to the cover body 18 to the body portion 16 by the cover body contact portion 58 coming into contact with the body contact portion 40.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Kazuma Isoda, Hiroki Uno, Hiroshi Inoue
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Patent number: 11887757Abstract: An insulated electric wire that has a superior water-stopping performance and has a configuration in which, even if water enters the insulated electric wire, the water is unlikely to stay inside the insulated electric wire, and a wire harness containing such an insulated electric wire. An insulated electric wire contains: an exposed portion in which an insulation covering is removed from the outer circumference of a conductor; in which the insulation covering covers the outer circumference of the conductor, and a water-stopping portion that is provided in an area extending from a part of the exposed portion to a part of the first covered portion, and in which gaps between the elemental wires constituting the conductor are filled with a water-stopping agent. A region of the second covered portion is a non-waterproof end that has a void between the elemental wires and/or between the conductor and the insulation covering.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kenichiro Araki, Toyoki Furukawa
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Patent number: 11875918Abstract: An electrical feedthrough assembly may include a lower assembly and an upper assembly coupled together. The lower assembly may include an outer body with a lower housing and an upper housing disposed within a bore of the outer body, and a first conductor extending from the lower housing to the upper housing. Additionally, the upper assembly may include an outer body with a pin end, the pin end is inserted into an opening of the lower assembly, a main body connected to the outer body, a second conductor disposed within the main body, a channel in the outer body open to an outside of the outer body and a chamber within the outer body, a piston disposed within the channel and configured to fluidly isolate the chamber from the outside of the outer body, and a dielectric fluid provided within the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: FMC Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Erik Van Mook, Matthew Keller, David Hilbeck, John Johansen
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Patent number: 11868576Abstract: A conducting structure is provided and includes a first layer; a first terminal on the first layer; a second layer overlapping the first layer via the first terminal; a second terminal on the second layer; a first hole which penetrates the second layer and the second terminal; an organic insulating layer located between the first terminal and the second layer, and having a second hole connected to the first hole; and a connecting material provided in the first and second holes to electrically connect the first terminal and the second terminal to each other, wherein a diameter of the second hole is greater than a diameter of the first hole.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Shuichi Osawa, Shoji Hinata, Yoshikatsu Imazeki, Yoichi Kamijo, Yoshihiro Watanabe
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Patent number: 11869683Abstract: An electric wire outer cover is provided which is to be fitted around an electric wire and which has a tubular housing portion where the electric wire is to be housed, the housing portion being formed of a sheet, the housing portion being formed in a folded state. Further, walls forming the housing portion include a first wall having a projection formed therefrom and a second wall having a hole formed therein, and the housing portion is formed by engagement between the first wall and the second wall through melting of the projection that has passed through the hole and welding of the melted projection to the second wall.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Takashi Oshino, Yoshikazu Kamei, Hiroshi Suyama, Naoyuki Kojima
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Patent number: 11869684Abstract: A wire harness including: a wire bundle that includes a plurality of wires, each wire of the plurality of wires includes a conductor and an insulating covering that covers an outer circumference of the conductor, and each wire of the plurality of wires includes an exposed portion at which the conductor is exposed from the insulating covering; a splice body; and a waterproofing cover, wherein: at the splice body, the exposed portions of the wires forming the wire bundle are bonded to each other, a portion of the wire bundle that is adjacent to the splice body and at which the conductors are covered by the insulating coverings is a covered region, the waterproofing cover integrally covers the splice body and the covered region with a resin material.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yutaka Takata, Shintaro Nambara