Patents by Inventor Etsuji Matsumoto

Etsuji Matsumoto has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5067905
    Abstract: An electric connection box including an insulative board having a plurality of through holes for a plurality of terminal holders formed on the lower case of the connection box. A plurality of bus bars are pressed relative to, and are mounted fixedly in bus bar mounting grooves in the insulative board so as to assemble a bus bar circuit board. This design compensates for possible slight precision defects in press-connecting pieces of the bus bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1991
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Etsuji Matsumoto, Mamoru Araki, Keiichi Ozaki
  • Patent number: 5011417
    Abstract: A structure of connection between a bus bar and a press-connecting branch terminal in an electric connnection box is disclosed wherein a plurality of bus bars constituting a circuit are accommodated within a casing composed of an upper case and a lower case; a housing having tab insertion holes at its bottom is formed on at least one of the upper and lower cases; a branch tab formed on one side portion of a press-connecting branch terminal is extended through the tab insertion hole into the housing to thereby constitute a connector insertion portion; and a desired one of the bus bars is press-fitted in and connected to a U-shaped slot formed in a press-connecting portion formed on the other side portion of the press-connecting terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Etsuji Matsumoto, Mamoru Araki, Keiichi Ozaki
  • Patent number: 4943241
    Abstract: Apparatus is provided for installing a wire harness of an automobile which facilitates installation of a wire harness onto a car body. First of all the wire harness and electrical equipment are fixed on a carrier panel. In the fixing them, the connectors of the wire harness are positioned for connection to the articles of electrical equipment. Some connectors of the wire harness fixed on the carrier panel are adapted to be connected to the connectors of the wire harness on the car body. The thus prepared assembly of carrier panel, the wire harness, the electrical equipment is bodily attached to the car body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1990
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsugu Watanabe, Kazuhiko Kaneko, Etsuji Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 4750265
    Abstract: A method of and apparatus for installing a wire harness of an automobile which facilitates installation of a wire harness onto a car body. First of all the wire harness and electrical equipment are fixed on a carrier panel. In the fixing them, the connectors of the wire harness are positioned for connection to the articles of electrical equipment. Some connectors of the wire harness fixed on the carrier panel are adapted to be connected to the connectors of the wire harness of the car body. The thus prepared assembly of carrier panel, the wire harness, the electrical equipment is bodily attached to the car body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1988
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsugu Watanabe, Kazuhiko Kaneko, Etsuji Matsumoto
  • Patent number: D305531
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1990
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Suzuki, Etsuji Matsumoto
  • Patent number: D318850
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Etsuji Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Kurematsu
  • Patent number: D318852
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Etsuji Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Kurematsu