Patents by Inventor Nori Inoue
Nori Inoue 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).
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Patent number: 6290531Abstract: A cable includes a conductive wire, preferably of copper, and an insulating sheath, preferably of synthetic resin, covering the wire. The conductive wire has, for example, a rectangular cross section. The cable can be pressed into a slit of a cramping terminal with an improved operability and a temperature increase of the conductive wire 21 can be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1995Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Onizuka, Nori Inoue, Yoshito Oka, Yuuki Saka, Makoto Kobayashi
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Patent number: 6280225Abstract: A connector provided with a half-fitting prevention function has a simplified configuration. A spring 40 is provided with a spring member 44 located to the posterior of a spring pressing member 41 which is pressed directly by a female housing. This spring member 44 is compressed when it receives a pressing force. The spring pressing member 41 and the spring member 44 are formed in a unified manner from plastic. The spring 40 is housed within a spring housing chamber 30 of a male housing 20. If the fitting of the two housings is halted part-way through the operation, the spring member 44 which has been compressed is released, the force which has been accumulated thus far is released, and the female housing is thereby caused to move in a direction of separation.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2000Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Satoru Nishide, Nori Inoue, Hajime Kawase
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Patent number: 6241549Abstract: A pressure-contact terminal is formed by punching and bending a metal plate. A base portion has a pair of sandwiching pieces extending from it, to form a slot for accommodating an electrical cable. A pair of bent-up reinforcing portions extends along the outer edges of the sandwiching pieces. The distance between the outer faces of the reinforcing portions is substantially equal to the outer diameter of the electrical cable. A pair of coating-peeling portions projecting beyond the ends of the sandwiching pieces extend from the reinforcing portions. The gap between the coating-peeling portions is smaller than the outer diameter of the electrical cable and greater than the outer diameter of the conductor of the electrical cable. In this way a terminal of small width is obtained, permitting an electrical connection box containing such terminals to be compact.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 1999Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuji Saka, Nori Inoue
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Patent number: 6215870Abstract: This invention relates to a phone holder. The phone holder includes a holder main body with an outer box, and a holder connector which is connectable with a mobile phone when the mobile phone is inserted in the holder main body. The position of the holder connector along a direction normal to a connecting direction with the mobile phone is adjusted by bolts and nuts (fixing means). Further, the holder connector is selectively set in the holder main body in a state that a top thereof is oriented upward or downward.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 1998Date of Patent: April 10, 2001Assignees: Harness System Technologies Research, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki Hirai, Masashi Sugimoto, Tetsuji Tanaka, Shigeki Sakai, Yoshito Sakai, Nori Inoue, Yuichiro Tsutsumi
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Patent number: 6168456Abstract: An electrical connection box includes a casing having an upper casing (10) and a lower casing (11). Terminal holes (19, 20) are formed on the outer wall of the casing. An insulating plate (12), mounted in the casing, has a several of wiring grooves (13) formed on at least one of its opposite faces (12a, 12b). Terminal driving portions (24 and 25), obtained by increasing a width of the wiring grooves (13), are provided at predetermined locations in the wiring grooves (13). Wires (14, 15) having first and second diameters are inserted into and held in the wiring grooves (13). Pressing contact terminals (16, 17) includes a pressing contact portion (16a, 17a) and an input-output terminal portion (16b, 17b) formed at its opposite ends, respectively. The pressing contact portions (16a, 17a) are driven into the terminal driving portions (24, 25) to connect through pressing contact to the wires (14, 15) held in the wiring grooves.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 1999Date of Patent: January 2, 2001Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuji Saka, Takahiro Onizuka, Yoshito Oka, Makoto Kobayashi, Nori Inoue, Jun Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 6097810Abstract: This invention relates to a phone holder. The phone holder includes a holder main body with an outer box. The holder main body is provided with movable members such as side walls which are movable in a direction orthogonal to a direction of inserting a mobile phone. The position of the movable members is adjusted by a position adjuster such as a screw shaft.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 1998Date of Patent: August 1, 2000Assignees: Harness System Technologies Research, Ltd, Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki Hirai, Masashi Sugimoto, Yuichiro Tsutsumi, Tetsuji Tanaka, Yasuhiro Hiura, Shigeki Sakai, Yoshito Sakai, Nori Inoue
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Patent number: 6036524Abstract: The connector is structured such that a spring piece member 30 supported by a male side connector housing 10 can be compressed in the two directions of the sliding motion of the connector when the connector is mounted and removed, a seesaw type lever piece member 40 disposed so as to be seesawable in the sliding direction of a female connector housing 20 can be inclined forwardly and backwardly into engagement with the two end portions of the spring piece member 30, and the seesaw type lever piece member 40 can be inclined according to the fitted state of the connector by a waiting side guide projection piece 17 and a movable side guide 45 respectively provided in the male side and female side connector housings 10 and 20.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 1999Date of Patent: March 14, 2000Assignees: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Harness System Technologies Research, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Masaji Suzuki, Nori Inoue, Kensaku Takada
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Patent number: 5965847Abstract: A shield layer 13 of a shielded cable W and a metal shell 30 are electrically connected via a connection member 40. This connection member 40 is tubular and includes a receiving portion 41 which is insertable under the shield layer 13, a shield layer fastening portion 42 for fastening the shield layer 13 to the receiving portion 41, and a contact portion 43 to be brought into pressing contact with the inner circumferential surface of the metal shell 30. The portions 41 to 43 are integrally or unitarily formed. With this construction, if the shield layer fastening portion 42 is fastened after the receiving portion 41 is inserted under the shield layer 13, the shield layer 13 is tightly held between the receiving portion 41 and the fastening portion 42. As a result, the shield layer 13 and the metal shell 30 are connected electrically even if the rigidity of an insulation layer 12 is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 1997Date of Patent: October 12, 1999Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Tanaka, Nori Inoue
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Patent number: 5940502Abstract: A phone holder for detachably holding a mobile phone in an automotive vehicle is provided with a holder main body including an inner casing having a phone accommodating portion, a phone urging device having a phone actuating roller and the like for urging the mobile phone being inserted into the phone accommodating portion in a direction opposite from an inserting direction of the mobile phone, and a phone locking device which can be switched between a locking state where the mobile phone is locked in a specified accommodation position in the phone accommodating portion against a urging force of the phone urger and an unlocking state where the locking is released. The phone locking device is switched to the locking state as the mobile phone is inserted into the phone accommodating portion. The above locking is releasable by moving the mobile phone in its locked state in the inserting direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1997Date of Patent: August 17, 1999Assignees: Harness System Technologies Research, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki Hirai, Masashi Sugimoto, Shigeki Sakai, Yoshito Sakai, Nori Inoue, Tetsuji Tanaka, Yuichiro Tsutsumi
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Patent number: 5938466Abstract: The connector is structured such that a spring piece member 30 supported by a male side connector housing 10 can be compressed in the two directions of the sliding motion of the connector when the connector is mounted and removed, a seesaw type lever piece member 40 disposed so as to be seesawable in the sliding direction of a female connector housing 20 can be inclined forwardly and backwardly into engagement with the two end portions of the spring piece member 30, and the seesaw type lever piece member 40 can be inclined according to the fitted state of the connector by a waiting side guide projection piece 17 and a movable side guide 45 respectively provided in the male side and female side connector housings 10 and 20.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 1996Date of Patent: August 17, 1999Assignees: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Harness System Technologies Research, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Masaji Suzuki, Nori Inoue, Kensaku Takada
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Patent number: 5934929Abstract: An electrical connection box includes a casing having an upper casing (10) and a lower casing (11). Terminal holes (19, 20) are formed on the outer wall of the casing. An insulating plate (12), mounted in the casing, has a several of wiring grooves (13) formed on at least one of its opposite faces (12a, 12b). Terminal driving portions (24 and 25), obtained by increasing a width of the wiring grooves (13), are provided at predetermined locations in the wiring grooves (13). Wires (14, 15) having first and second diameters are inserted into and held in the wiring grooves (13). Pressing contact terminals (16, 17) includes a pressing contact portion (16a, 17a) and an input-output terminal portion (16b, 17b) formed at its opposite ends, respectively. The pressing contact portions (16a, 17a) are driven into the terminal driving portions (24, 25) to connect through pressing contact to the wires (14, 15) held in the wiring grooves.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 1997Date of Patent: August 10, 1999Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuji Saka, Takahiro Onizuka, Yoshito Oka, Makoto Kobayashi, Nori Inoue, Jun Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 5920034Abstract: An upper casing and a lower casing together form a casing of an electrical connection box. An insulating plate is provided within the casing. A first space is thereby defined within the casing between the insulating plate and the one of the upper and lower casings, and a second space defined within the casing between the insulating plate and the remaining one of the upper and lower casings. A first circuit, formed by bus bars, is disposed in the first space. A second circuit is formed by wires and pressing contact terminals in pressing contact with the wires. Wires of a portion of the second circuit are shifted to the first space, and wires of the remaining portion of the second circuit are disposed within the second space.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1995Date of Patent: July 6, 1999Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuji Saka, Nori Inoue, Takahiro Onizuka, Yoshito Oka, Makoto Kobayashi
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Patent number: 5888089Abstract: Opposed inner surfaces of lower and upper casings making up a connection box are flat, and wire arrangement grooves are formed in the inner surfaces. Insertion holes communicate with the wire arrangement grooves in specified positions and are open to the outer surfaces of the casings. A wire is laid into the wire arrangement grooves and is pressed into the slots of the cramping terminals mounted in the insertion holes. The tabs on the cramping terminals project from the outer surfaces of the casings. The casings are held together by nuts and bolts or other devices after the flat inner surfaces are in contact with each other.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1996Date of Patent: March 30, 1999Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Hisashi Konoya, Nori Inoue
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Patent number: 5866847Abstract: A wire assembly is formed by insertion of a wire into a wire guide including a wire guide which is either a receiving groove or pairs of guide projections in or on an insulation substrate. Cramping terminals may be connected to the wire, and the wire may be cut in desired positions to separate it into a plurality of circuits. A retainer is provided which is at an angle to the leading end of the wire guide at a starting position. The wire is inserted into the wire guide after its leading end has been introduced into the wire retainer.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1996Date of Patent: February 2, 1999Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuji Saka, Nori Inoue, Takahiro Onizuka, Yoshito Oka, Hideo Matsuoka
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Patent number: 5851129Abstract: A terminal main body 3 has a supporting member 2 that clamps the periphery of a battery post P, and a pair of clamp arms 7. Each arm 7 has two angled bolt through holes 6. When a bolt 4 is attached, the attachment axis L and the attachment axis M of the post P are inclined at an angle thus increasing access possibilities for a wrench 15.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 1997Date of Patent: December 22, 1998Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Takao Hata, Nori Inoue
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Patent number: 5826473Abstract: A continuous strand of wire is laid in a wire groove or between pairs of guides on a substrate and is cut at desired locations to form individual circuits. At least one recess below the level of the wire laying plane is positioned to correspond to a scrap wire portion to be cut off. The recess is wide enough to allow insertion of cutters. The cutters include pairs of first and second cutting blades located at opposite sides of the wire which are moved toward the wire so that both ends of the scrap wire portion are cut by the first cutting blades and by the second cutting blades, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 1996Date of Patent: October 27, 1998Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuji Saka, Nori Inoue, Takahiro Onizuka, Yoshito Oka, Hideo Matsuoka
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Patent number: 5797763Abstract: An electrical connection box includes an internal circuit in which a several pressing contact terminals are brought into pressing contact with a wire. Input-output terminals of the pressing contact terminals are connected to external circuits. The wire includes an electrically operative portion between one of the pressing contact terminals connected to an external electrical heating element (such as a relay, a fuse, or the like) and another one of the pressing contact terminals. In one example (FIGS. 5 and 6), the electrically operative portion is shifted from a minimal distance path, which takes into account other wires and obstacles, between the one pressing contact terminal and the another pressing contact terminal. This lengthens the wiring path of the wire to a region having a low wiring density which provides additional surface area for heat dissipation. In another examples, (FIGS. 7 and 8) inoperative ends (b, c) of the wire are extend and used to dissipate heat.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1995Date of Patent: August 25, 1998Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuji Saka, Nori Inoue, Takahiro Onizuka, Yoshito Oka, Makoto Kobayashi
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Patent number: 5791933Abstract: A wiring construction of an electrical connection box which has an internal circuit including a wire and a plurality of pressing contact terminals connected to the wire and in which an insulating plate is accommodated in a casing, the wiring construction comprising: a plurality of wiring grooves for receiving the wire or a plurality of pairs of wiring projections for guiding the wire therebetween, which are provided on at least one of opposite faces of the insulating plate such that predetermined portions of the wiring grooves or the wiring projections extend to an outer peripheral edge of the insulating plate; wherein a nonconnective portion of the wire is disposed at the outer peripheral edge of the insulating plate by cutting from the wire a portion of the wire projecting out of the outer peripheral edge of the insulating plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 1995Date of Patent: August 11, 1998Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuji Saka, Takahiro Onizuka, Yoshito Oka, Makoto Kobayashi, Nori Inoue
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Patent number: 5778528Abstract: A wiring construction of an electrical connection box which has an internal circuit including a wire and a plurality of pressing contact terminals connected to the wire and in which an insulating plate is accommodated in a casing, the wiring construction comprising: a plurality of wiring grooves for receiving the wire or a plurality of pairs of wiring projections for guiding the wire therebetween, which are provided on at least one of opposite faces of the insulating plate such that predetermined portions of the wiring grooves or the wiring projections extend to an outer peripheral edge of the insulating plate; wherein a nonconnective portion of the wire is disposed at the outer peripheral edge of the insulating plate by cutting from the wire a portion of the wire projecting out of the outer peripheral edge of the insulating plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1996Date of Patent: July 14, 1998Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuji Saka, Takahiro Onizuka, Yoshito Oka, Makoto Kobayashi, Nori Inoue
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Patent number: 5718598Abstract: An electrical connection box having an internal circuit includes a first circuit having a large current carrying capacity and a second circuit having a small current carrying capacity. The first circuit includes wires each having stranded conductors and contact bonding terminals contact bonded to the stranded conductors and the second circuit includes a single conductor and pressing contact terminals.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1995Date of Patent: February 17, 1998Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuji Saka, Nori Inoue, Takahiro Onizuka, Yoshito Oka, Makoto Kobayashi