Patents by Inventor Shinji Katou
Shinji Katou 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: 11085948Abstract: An electric connection device includes: a probe (11); a probe head (12) that holds the probe (11); and an electrode substrate (13) on which an electrode pad (131) to be connected to a proximal end of the probe (11) is provided. The probe head (12) is provided with a guide pin (14) for alignment of the probe head (12) and the electrode substrate (13), and the electrode substrate (13) is provided with a guide hole group composed of a plurality of guide holes corresponding to the guide pin (14).Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon MicronicsInventor: Shinji Katou
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Publication number: 20200011897Abstract: An electric connection device includes: a probe (11); a probe head (12) that holds the probe (11); and an electrode substrate (13) on which an electrode pad (131) to be connected to a proximal end of the probe (11) is provided. The probe head (12) is provided with a guide pin (14) for alignment of the probe head (12) and the electrode substrate (13), and the electrode substrate (13) is provided with a guide hole group composed of a plurality of guide holes corresponding to the guide pin (14).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2018Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventor: Shinji KATOU
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Patent number: 9987415Abstract: An equipment mounting apparatus on which a plurality of equipment devices are mountable, each equipment device having, in a memory thereof, drug dosage information associated with drug usage location information, includes a main body having a plurality of installation portions, each installation portion being configured to receive one of the equipment devices. Each of the equipment devices is configured such that, when the drug usage location information is specified, the equipment device displays the related drug dosage information based on the drug usage location information that is specified. The equipment mounting apparatus is configured to set a standard specifying drug usage location information and to use the standard specifying drug usage location information to cause the drug usage location information of each of the plurality of equipment devices to coincide with the standard specifying drug usage location information.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichiro Asama, Shinji Katou, Yuuya Tounooka
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Patent number: 9713991Abstract: A wire harness is routed from a luggage compartment of an automobile along a hinge arm and toward a luggage door. An extra wire length accommodation case is positioned between the hinge arm and a vehicle body panel of the luggage compartment in a vertical direction which is an operation direction of the hinge arm. The extra wire length accommodation case has a shape that includes an arced wire entrance having a wire harness outlet linked with an arced portion of the hinge arm, and an extra wire length bypass continuous with the arced wire entrance. The wire harness is passed into the extra wire length bypass of the extra wire length accommodation case, then is drawn out through the outlet of the arced wire entrance and routed along the arced portion of the hinge arm toward the luggage door.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2014Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Shinji Katou, Yoshikazu Sakakibara
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Patent number: 9573536Abstract: A branch wire branching from a trunk wire of a floor harness routed to an automobile is used as a wire harness supplying power to the sliding seat. The wire harness is inserted within an extra length accommodation case, and in addition, the extra length accommodation case is fixated, facing downward, to a seat rail to which the sliding seat is slidably mounted, and is accommodated in a space below the seat rail. The wire harness U-turned within the extra length accommodation case is passed through the slider and extracted to a sliding seat side and connected to the seat harness within the sliding seat. A bottom portion of the slider is slidably mounted to a straight line direction slider sliding groove provided on a top end of the extra length accommodation case and a top portion of the slider is fixated to the sliding seat.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Shinji Katou, Tsutomu Ootani, Yoshikazu Sakakibara, Satoshi Ujita
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Publication number: 20160288740Abstract: A branch wire branching from a trunk wire of a floor harness routed to an automobile is used as a wire harness supplying power to the sliding seat. The wire harness is inserted within an extra length accommodation case, and in addition, the extra length accommodation case is fixated, facing downward, to a seat rail to which the sliding seat is slidably mounted, and is accommodated in a space below the seat rail. The wire harness U-turned within the extra length accommodation case is passed through the slider and extracted to a sliding seat side and connected to the seat harness within the sliding seat. A bottom portion of the slider is slidably mounted to a straight line direction slider sliding groove provided on a top end of the extra length accommodation case and a top portion of the slider is fixated to the sliding seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Shinji KATOU, Tsutomu OOTANI, Yoshikazu SAKAKIBARA, Satoshi UJITA
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Publication number: 20160280157Abstract: A caterpillar-shaped outer cover material for a wire harness is improved. An outer cover material for a wire harness that is made of an injection molded article and is caterpillar-shaped includes coupling plates that are provided along two edges of a band-shaped central plate in a width direction so as to protrude in parallel to each other. One of the coupling plate has locking claws that are provided at intervals in a length direction protruding from an end of that coupling plate, the other of the coupling plates has locked frames to which the locking claws are respectively locked and coupled, and that protrude from an end of that coupling plate, and the central plate has folding lines constituted by two grooves that extend in the length direction at a distance in the width direction, and has slits extending in the width direction that are provided at intervals in the length direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2014Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventors: Shinji KATOU, Yoshikazu SAKAKIBARA
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Publication number: 20160264073Abstract: A wire harness is routed from a luggage compartment of an automobile along a hinge arm and toward a luggage door. An extra wire length accommodation case is positioned between the hinge arm and a vehicle body panel of the luggage compartment in a vertical direction which is an operation direction of the hinge arm. The extra wire length accommodation case has a shape that includes an arced wire entrance having a wire harness outlet linked with an arced portion of the hinge arm, and an extra wire length bypass continuous with the arced wire entrance. The wire harness is passed into the extra wire length bypass of the extra wire length accommodation case, then is drawn out through the outlet of the arced wire entrance and routed along the arced portion of the hinge arm toward the luggage door.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Shinji KATOU, Yoshikazu SAKAKIBARA
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Patent number: 9308833Abstract: A harness wiring apparatus wires a harness between a floor of a car and a seat, which is supported by a supporting member mounted at a long-tube-shaped support rail fixed at the floor. The harness wiring apparatus 1A includes a slider 10 holding the harness 4, which is led through an opening arranged at one end 7a in a direction of lengthwise of the support rail 7 into the support rail 7, and sliding interlockingly with the seat and the supporting member 11, and leading the harness 4 out of the support rail 7 through a slit 75 arranged at the support rail to the seat; and a receiving section 8 arranged in parallel to the support rail 7, and receiving an extra-length of the harness 4, which is led to an outside of the support rail 7 and folded to U-shape.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2009Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Tomoyasu Terada, Shinji Katou
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Publication number: 20150190567Abstract: An equipment mounting apparatus on which a plurality of equipment devices are mountable, each equipment device having, in a memory thereof, drug dosage information associated with drug usage location information, includes a main body having a plurality of installation portions, each installation portion being configured to receive one of the equipment devices. Each of the equipment devices is configured such that, when the drug usage location information is specified, the equipment device displays the related drug dosage information based on the drug usage location information that is specified. The equipment mounting apparatus is configured to set a standard specifying drug usage location information and to use the standard specifying drug usage location information to cause the drug usage location information of each of the plurality of equipment devices to coincide with the standard specifying drug usage location information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2015Publication date: July 9, 2015Applicant: Terumo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koichiro ASAMA, Shinji KATOU, Yuuya TOUNOOKA
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Publication number: 20140339376Abstract: The present invention includes one harness rail having a straight line shape, the harness rail extending in a front-back direction adjacent to a lateral surface of a seat rail of a sliding seat mounted in a vehicle; and an extra length accommodation case linked to a front end of the harness rail. The harness rail includes a first slider sliding portion extending in the front-back direction, while the extra length accommodation case includes a second slider sliding portion linked to a front end of the first slider sliding portion and extending in a straight line front-back direction until reaching a front end arced portion. A slider connected to the sliding seat and displacing in the straight line front-back direction is slidably nested with the first and second slider sliding portions. The wire harness is inserted through the slider and into the harness rail and the extra length accommodation case.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Shinji KATOU, Yoshikazu SAKAKIBARA
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Patent number: 8841551Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a compact sliding device having a simple structure configured to reduce the number of cut lines formed on a mat mounted on a cabin of a vehicle. A sliding device 1 for routing an electric wire 5 between a vehicle floor and a seat includes: a rail 9 having a supporting rail 7 to which a supporting body 11 of the seat is attached, and a receiving part 8 extended along the supporting rail 7; a corrugate tube 4 receiving the electric wire 5; a slider 10 configured to slide in conjunction with the supporting body 11 while holding the corrugate tube 4 extracted into an inside of the supporting rail 7; and a guiding member 12 for bending the corrugate tube 4 extracted out of the supporting rail 7 in a U-shape, and guiding the corrugate tube 4 into an inside of the receiving part 8, and for guiding the corrugate tube 4 onto an inner side wall 81 of the receiving part 8 away from the supporting rail 7.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2010Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Tomoyasu Terada, Shinji Katou
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Publication number: 20120024564Abstract: A harness wiring apparatus wires a harness between a floor of a car and a seat, which is supported by a supporting member mounted at a long-tube-shaped support rail fixed at the floor. The harness wiring apparatus 1A includes a slider 10 holding the harness 4, which is led through an opening arranged at one end 7a in a direction of lengthwise of the support rail 7 into the support rail 7, and sliding interlockingly with the seat and the supporting member 11, and leading the harness 4 out of the support rail 7 through a slit 75 arranged at the support rail to the seat; and a receiving section 8 arranged in parallel to the support rail 7, and receiving an extra-length of the harness 4, which is led to an outside of the support rail 7 and folded to U-shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2009Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Tomoyasu Terada, Shinji Katou
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Publication number: 20110290522Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a compact sliding device having a simple structure configured to reduce the number of cut lines formed on a mat mounted on a cabin of a vehicle. A sliding device 1 for routing an electric wire 5 between a vehicle floor and a seat includes: a rail 9 having a supporting rail 7 to which a supporting body 11 of the seat is attached, and a receiving part 8 extended along the supporting rail 7; a corrugate tube 4 receiving the electric wire 5; a slider 10 configured to slide in conjunction with the supporting body 11 while holding the corrugate tube 4 extracted into an inside of the supporting rail 7; and a guiding member 12 for bending the corrugate tube 4 extracted out of the supporting rail 7 in a U-shape, and guiding the corrugate tube 4 into an inside of the receiving part 8, and for guiding the corrugate tube 4 onto an inner side wall 81 of the receiving part 8 away from the supporting rail 7.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2010Publication date: December 1, 2011Inventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Tomoyasu Terada, Shinji Katou
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Patent number: 5764063Abstract: For measuring a temperature with a thermistor, an electrical circuit including the thermistor and resistors for voltage division has to be maintained in the normally energized state and a variation in the voltage caused by resistance variation is detected. This requires a considerable amount of power consumption. On the other hand, thermal reed switches SW1 to SWn are mounted on the surfaces of the unit cells 1-1 to 1-n included in the battery pack 10. Each of the thermal reed switches is connected at one end to a common power source VDD and at the other end to a corresponding input terminal of a selector switch 20. The selector switch 20 is responsive to a switch signal from a determining unit 30a for passing selectively and periodically input signals of the input terminals to the determining unit 30a which in turn detects the temperature of a corresponding unit cell on the basis of the input signal selected by the switch signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 1996Date of Patent: June 9, 1998Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinji Katou, Yasuyuki Sando
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Patent number: 5202088Abstract: Ferritic heat-resisting cast steel, which intends to highten the applicability for use of the exhaust manifold of a vehicle engine without losing oxidation resistance, machinability and structural stability, containing, on a weight basis, 0.05 to 0.5% C, 1.0 to 2.0% Si, less than 0.6% Mn, less than 0.04% P, less than 0.04% S, less than 0.5% Ni, 10 to 20% Cr, 0.1 to 1.0% V, 0.5 to 1.0% Nb, 0.08 to 0.50% Mo, less than 0.01% W and 0.01 to 0.2% Ce, the balance of its composition being iron. Alternatively, it may contain 0.1 to 1.5% Mn and 0.01 to 0.2% S, and may further contain 0.01 to 0.2% Te and/or 0.01 to 0.3% Al. Further, it may contain 0.1 to 5.0% Co and/or 0.1 to 5.0% Ti. The cast steel is annealed at a temperature of 850.degree. C. to 1000.degree. C. for one to five hours.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1991Date of Patent: April 13, 1993Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshikazu Genma, Shinji Katou, Masami Suzuki, Shinya Mizuno, Tsutomu Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 4573519Abstract: A method for forming metal base composite use a retainer made of water soluble salt with a high melting point. Molten metal and a reinforcement are compounded in the retainer and then solidified. After solidification the retainer is dissolved away by water.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1984Date of Patent: March 4, 1986Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tadashi Donomoto, Atsuo Tanaka, Shinji Katou
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Patent number: 4369010Abstract: A vehicle body structure at mounting portions of tractive or fastening hooks of an automobile comprises U-shaped members welded to vehicle body members whose joint flanges surrounded by the U-shaped members are formed with apertures to reinforce the joint flange by bolts passing through the apertures, thereby preventing separations and cracks in the joint flanges during a transport for a long distance.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1980Date of Patent: January 18, 1983Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hisao Ichinose, Shinji Katou, Masashi Matsui, Kouji Hori