Patents by Inventor Keiji Kuroda

Keiji Kuroda 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: 6739907
    Abstract: A coaxial connector contact has a bonding portion to which the exposed portion of a center conductor of a coaxial cable is to be bonded with solder while being in contact with the bonding portion at a prescribed position, a first positioning portion that is provided at a position to be located on the front side of the exposed portion of the center conductor and is formed so as to be able to support the side faces of the exposed portion of the center conductor from both sides, and a second positioning portion that is provided at a position to be located on the rear side of the exposed portion of the center conductor and is formed so as to be able to support the side faces of the exposed portion of the center conductor from both sides and to be in contact with the end face of an insulator that covers the center conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Kuroda, Kiyoshi Aramoto
  • Patent number: 6702619
    Abstract: A horizontal electric connector includes an insulating housing, a first electric contact, with a contacting part that is press-fitted into the housing from the rear and contacts a counterpart conductive part, and a leg that extends from the contacting part, comes out of the housing at the rear and descends, and a second electric contact, with a contacting part that is press-fitted into the housing from the rear at a position lower than the first electric contact and contacts a counterpart conductive part, and a leg that extends from the contacting part, comes out of the housing at the rear and extends forward along the bottom of the housing. A leg supporting part is provided on the bottom of the housing, into which the leg of the second electric contact is press-fitted from the rear, to prevent deformation of the leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: J. S. T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Kuroda, Daichi Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20040043669
    Abstract: A pair of irreversible female and male connectors (2,1) fitting one in another have respectively female and male housings (22, 2), and the female housing (22) has a cavity (23) with a front opening so as to fit on the male housing (2) along an insertion direction. The female housing (22) has pin contacts (28) in placed the cavity and partitions (25) formed in it along the direction so as to separate the contacts (28) one from another. Socket contacts (42) engaging the pin contacts are placed in the male housing (2) that has cutouts (6) fitting on the partitions (25), and each partition having opposite sides (35,36) asymmetrical about a cross section center of the partition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Aramoto, Keiji Kuroda
  • Patent number: 6672885
    Abstract: A high-voltage connector constructed as a base connector has an insulated housing (2) and two pin contacts (3, 4) held in two compartments (8, 9) separated by a partition (7) that is formed as an integral portion of the housing. Each pin contact consists of a connecting pin and a lead continuing from it, the connecting pins protruding in parallel towards the front opening of the housing (2), and each lead having a lower end to be soldered to a printed circuit board. The compartments (8, 9) are arranged in parallel and up and down on the circuit board. The leads of the pin contacts (23, 27) respectively extend down along the side walls (14, 15) of the housing, and the leads' lower ends (24, 28) are offset fore and aft relative to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Kuroda, Daichi Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 6670552
    Abstract: A housing is disclosed, which includes a housing main body for containing a contact connected with a central conductor of a coaxial cable, a housing lid formed such that one side of an upper edge portion of the housing main body constitutes a fixed end thereof, for covering an upper side of the contact by being bent to fold at the fixed end such that a free end side thereof is brought into contact with other side of the upper edge portion of the housing main body, and a first latching mechanist formed at the other side of the upper edge portion of the housing main body and the free end side of the housing lid for maintaining a state of bringing the housing lid and the housing main body into contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Kuroda, Hiroaki Kukita, Kiyoshi Aramoto
  • Publication number: 20030236035
    Abstract: A socket connector (35) has a socket contact (1) installed in it, the contact being for connection with a wire end (20) in isolated compartment (26) of an insulating housing (25), the contact having a body (2) U-shaped in cross section composed of bent-up lateral walls (4) and a bottom (3). A lance (10) formed by punching the bottom protrudes outwards to be of the same width as a transverse width of the bottom and have two bent portions. One of the bent portions is located at a basal end (11) of the lance, and the other at a middle region (14) of the lance, thereby affording improved rigidity and resiliency to the lance. The bottom (3) has a broadened inner end (17) of the same width as a transverse width of contact body (2), so that the lance is of an improved rigidity and resiliency to be firmly retained in a connector housing not to slip off, even if made smaller in size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Publication date: December 25, 2003
    Inventors: Keiji Kuroda, Kiyoshi Aramoto, Koji Iwashita
  • Patent number: 6652296
    Abstract: An electric connector for shielded cable, which improves the reliability of connection between a ground terminal and an external conductor and secures stable impedance characteristics. In this electric connector, a first housing is primarily molded on the external conductor, the external conductor is provided with a support protrusion that protrudes inside of the external conductor and contacts the ground terminal, and the second housing being secondarily molded is provided with a through hole, which is formed by a core pin that protrudes inwards from a mold and presses the ground terminal at a position where the second housing faces the support protrusion with the ground terminal in between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Kuroda, Hideaki Horiuchi
  • Publication number: 20030178219
    Abstract: A housing is disclosed, which includes a housing main body for containing a contact connected with a central conductor of a coaxial cable, a housing lid formed such that one side of an upper edge portion of the housing main body constitutes a fixed end thereof, for covering an upper side of the contact by being bent to fold at the fixed end such that a free end side thereof is brought into contact with other side of the upper edge portion of the housing main body, and a first latching mechanism formed at the other side of the upper edge portion of the housing main body and the free end side of the housing lid for maintaining a state of bringing the housing lid and the housing main body into contact with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: Keiji Kuroda, Hiroaki Kukita, Kiyoshi Aramoto
  • Publication number: 20030181100
    Abstract: A coaxial connector contact has a bonding portion to which the exposed portion of a center conductor of a coaxial cable is to be bonded with solder while being in contact with the bonding portion at a prescribed position, a first positioning portion that is provided at a position to be located on the front side of the exposed portion of the center conductor and is formed so as to be able to support the side faces of the exposed portion of the center conductor from both sides, and a second positioning portion that is provided at a position to be located on the rear side of the exposed portion of the center conductor and is formed so as to be able to support the side faces of the exposed portion of the center conductor from both sides and to be in contact with the end face of an insulator that covers the center conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: Keiji Kuroda, Kiyoshi Aramoto
  • Patent number: 6585543
    Abstract: An electrical connector of the present invention includes a contact having a first retaining portion; and a housing having an accommodating cavity for accommodating the contact and a second retaining portion that confronts the first retaining portion in such a manner as to prevent the contact from moving in a direction for the contact to be taken out from the cavity when the contact is in the state of being accommodated in the cavity. The housing comprising a first member arranged at a side from which the contact is inserted in the cavity and provided with the second retaining portion; and a second member assembled to the first member so that the second retaining portion can be covered by the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Kuroda, Kiyoshi Aramoto
  • Publication number: 20030040203
    Abstract: An electric connector for shielded cable, which improves the reliability of connection between a ground terminal and an external conductor and secures stable impedance characteristics. In this electric connector, a first housing is primarily molded on the external conductor, the external conductor is provided with a support protrusion that protrudes inside of the external conductor and contacts the ground terminal, and the second housing being secondarily molded is provided with a through hole, which is formed by a core pin that protrudes inwards from a mold and presses the ground terminal at a position where the second housing faces the support protrusion with the ground terminal in between.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Kuroda, Hideaki Horiuchi
  • Publication number: 20020123268
    Abstract: To prevent deformation of the leg of the second electric contact, which has a contacting part that is fixed to the insulating housing at a position lower than that of the first electric contact and the leg that extends from the contacting part, comes out of the insulating housing at the rear thereof and extends forwards along the bottom of the insulating housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2002
    Publication date: September 5, 2002
    Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Kuroda, Daichi Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20020064977
    Abstract: A high-voltage connector constructed as a base connector has an insulated housing (2) and two pin contacts (3, 4) held in two compartments (8, 9) separated by a partition (7) that is formed as an integral portion of the housing. Each pin contact consists of a connecting pin and a lead continuing from it, the connecting pins protruding in parallel towards the front opening of the housing (2), and each lead having a lower end to be soldered to a printed circuit board. The compartments (8, 9) are arranged in parallel and up and down on the circuit board. The leads of the pin contacts (23, 27) respectively extend down along the side walls (14, 15) of the housing, and the leads' lower ends (24, 28) are offset fore and aft relative to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Inventors: Keiji Kuroda, Daichi Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 6358089
    Abstract: A connector includes a connector body having an insertion space for receiving its counterpart connector. The connector body includes a synthetic-resin housing for retaining contacts, and a metallic shell. A part of the insertion space is defined by an upper plate of the shell. The upper plate of the shell has extensions extended therefrom along corresponding side walls of the housing. The extensions include legs soldered to a conductive portion on a printed wiring board surface. The legs are outwardly extended and confined in an outline of the connector body as viewed in plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., LTD
    Inventors: Keiji Kuroda, Kiyoshi Aramoto
  • Patent number: 6333588
    Abstract: A piezoelectric transformer-accommodating case (1) is an insulated flat and rectangular box having two input terminals (3) and two output terminals (4) for connection with input electrodes and output electrodes of the transformer (45). The input terminals are respectively at transverse opposite end walls of the case (1), and a lead (21) connecting the input terminals to each other is held in a groove (11) that is longitudinally formed in the case and along its lateral wall so as not to contact any wall of the groove. Support lugs (12) are formed integral with a rim surrounding the opening of the case and shaped such as to bear against a circuit board (46) in a manner that the case set in place is lifted out of the board. An engagement protrusion (13) and a guide protrusion (14) are formed integral with the transverse end wall and fitted in a base connector (30) that thus mates with the case and connects wires to the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Kuroda, Isao Kodani
  • Publication number: 20010029132
    Abstract: An electrical connector of the present invention includes a contact having a first retaining portion; and a housing having an accommodating cavity for accommodating the contact and a second retaining portion that confronts the first retaining portion in such a manner as to prevent the contact from moving in a direction for the contact to be taken out from the cavity when the contact is in the state of being accommodated in the cavity. The housing comprising a first member arranged at a side from which the contact is inserted in the cavity and provided with the second retaining portion; and a second member assembled to the first member so that the second retaining portion can be covered by the second member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Inventors: Keiji Kuroda, Kiyoshi Aramoto
  • Patent number: 6280206
    Abstract: A high-voltage connector consists of a male assembly (1) that mates a female assembly (2) having an insulating housing (3) and pin contacts (4). Each pin contact has a pin body (15) parallel to an axis of the housing and facing its opening, a lead (17,18) continuing from the body and an exposed portion (19) to be soldered to a printed circuit board. The leads are bent sideways in opposite directions to make the soldered portions more spaced than the pin bodies. The male assembly has a partition (7) in the housing and intermediate the pin bodies, its free end located close to the opening. The female assembly has a housing (21) and socket contacts (22) secured on wire ends, this housing inserted into the first housing (3) causes the socket contacts to fit on the pin bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Kuroda, Isao Kodani
  • Patent number: D461449
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: J.S.T. Mfg., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Kuroda, Daichi Miyamoto
  • Patent number: D461769
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: J.S.T. Mfg., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Kuroda, Daichi Miyamoto
  • Patent number: D462053
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Kuroda, Daichi Miyamoto