Patents Assigned to Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20240421647
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core and a coil. The coil includes at least a first winding wire and a second winding wire, and connection states of the first winding wire and the second winding wire are switched. The first winding wire includes a first insertion portion that passes through a slot. The second winding wire includes a second insertion portion that passes through the slot through which the first insertion portion passes. Both the first insertion portion and the second insertion portion are disposed in the same slot. The first insertion portion includes a first core wire and a first coating portion that covers the first core wire. The second insertion portion includes a second core wire and a second coating portion that covers the second core wire. A thickness of the second coating portion is smaller than a thickness of the first coating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kanzo ISHIHARA
  • Patent number: 12170417
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a connector capable of ensuring connection reliability with a circuit board. A connector includes a housing and a terminal fitting to be disposed in the housing. The terminal fitting includes a terminal connecting portion to be connected to a mating terminal fitting, a board connecting portion to be connected to a circuit board and a shaft portion located between the terminal connecting portion and the board connecting portion. The housing includes a supporting portion for rotatably supporting the terminal fitting by being engaged with the shaft portion. The terminal fitting has a center of gravity on a side closer to the board connecting portion than the shaft portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Makino, Yasunori Asano, Yutaka Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20240414848
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board includes an electrically conductive line, and a land connected to the electrically conductive line and to be connected to a terminal, the land including soldering portions that have metal surfaces and to which the terminal is to be soldered. The terminal includes an overlapping section that overlaps the flexible printed circuit board and a protruding section that protrudes outward from the flexible printed circuit board and is soldered to a connecting member that connects electrode portions of power storage elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Hideo TAKAHASHI, Shinichi TAKASE, Hiroki SHIMODA, Tsutomu KITAJIMA, Yoshiro ADACHI, Yuuki OOHASHI, Manabu SUDOU
  • Publication number: 20240413489
    Abstract: An inter-electrode-terminal connection component is capable of improving stability of connection to electrode terminals while flexibly absorbing locational shifting or displacement of the electrode terminals. An inter-electrode-terminal connection component includes a plurality of electrode connection portions that are to be respectively connected to a plurality of electrode terminals adjacent to each other, and an intermediate conductive portion that is disposed between the electrode connection portions adjacent to each other and in which the electrode connection portions are coupled to the two ends. The electrode connection portions are each constituted by a single flat metal plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuhei YAMADA, Nobuyuki MATSUMURA, Masaya TANAKA
  • Patent number: 12166342
    Abstract: A power supply control device controls a supply of power by switching a FET on or off. A current that rises when a current flowing through the FET rises flows through a resistor circuit. A drive circuit makes a notification when a voltage across both ends of the resistor circuit reaches a voltage greater than or equal to a reference voltage. A microcomputer instructs an application circuit to apply a voltage to the resistor circuit. As a result, the application circuit applies a voltage greater than or equal to the reference voltage to the resistor circuit. After instructing the application circuit to stop applying the voltage to the resistor circuit, the microcomputer determines whether or not the drive circuit is making the notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shunichi Sawano
  • Patent number: 12166325
    Abstract: A terminal-equipped wire for charging inlet is provided with a wire including a conductor and an insulation coating, and a terminal to be connected to the conductor exposed from an end part of the wire. The insulation coating has an olefin-based resin as a main component. The terminal-equipped wire is further provided with a molded resin portion for covering a region from a connection point of the conductor and the terminal to the insulation coating, and a primer layer provided between an inner peripheral surface of the molded resin portion and an outer peripheral surface of the terminal. The inner peripheral surface of the molded resin portion and an outer peripheral surface of the insulation coating are directly in contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Hamaguchi, Takashi Kawakami, Kazuo Nakashima, Yusaku Maeda
  • Patent number: 12164629
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted communication system in which a plurality of communication devices and a determination device for determining an abnormality regarding the communication devices are connected to each other via a bus, wherein the determination device includes: a transmitting unit that transmits a determination signal at a predetermined voltage to each of the communication devices; and a determination unit that determines the abnormality based on a response signal transmitted from each of the communication devices in response to the determination signal, each of the communication devices includes: a signal output unit that outputs a first logical value signal based on a unique voltage threshold, in response to a determination signal that is received; and a generating unit that generates a second logical value signal based on the first logical value signal, and the signal output unit outputs the response signal to the bus based on the second logical value signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masayuki Inoue
  • Patent number: 12166307
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal fitting and an upper housing and a lower housing slidable in a direction orthogonal to an overlapping direction while being overlapped to sandwich the terminal fitting. A resilient lock piece cantilevered in the overlapping direction with respect to the lower housing is formed on a side edge part of the upper housing. A lock projection to be locked by the resilient lock piece when the both housings are overlapped is formed on a side surface of the lower housing. A stopper for locking the resilient lock piece when the both housings are slid is formed on the side surface of the lower housing. The stopper is disposed at a position further separated from a base end portion of the resilient lock piece than the lock projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Pipatthana Phatiwuttipat, Kenji Makino
  • Patent number: 12166339
    Abstract: A circuit structure includes a first busbar constituted by a cladding material, a second busbar, an insulating member including an insulating portion located between the first busbar and the second busbar, and an electronic component provided on the first busbar and the second busbar so as to straddle the insulating portion. The electronic component has a connection terminal bonded to the first busbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Haraguchi
  • Patent number: 12166305
    Abstract: A female terminal is provided with a pair of connecting portions arranged to face each other across a male terminal insertion gap, a spring member held on the pair of connecting portions while sandwiching the pair of connecting portions and configured to bias the pair of connecting portions in mutually approaching directions along a facing direction, and a stopper protrusion projecting on at least one of the pair of connecting portions and configured to come into contact with the other of the pair of connecting portions to hold the male terminal insertion gap by restricting displacements of the pair of connecting portions in the approaching directions. Displacements in separating directions of the pair of connecting portions are allowed against a biasing force of the spring member, whereby a male terminal is press-fit into the male terminal insertion gap and disposed between the pair of connecting portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Seido Nishijima
  • Patent number: 12166318
    Abstract: An electromagnetic shield connector is provided with a terminal-equipped shielded cable formed by mounting a terminal on an end of a shielded cable, an insulating inner housing including a first terminal fitting opening and a first wire insertion opening and configured to accommodate the terminal of the terminal-equipped shielded cable, a shield sleeve to be connected to a shield member of the shielded cable on the shielded cable and to be externally mounted on the shielded cable further on the side of the shielded cable than the terminal, an outer housing made of conductive metal, including a second terminal fitting opening and a second wire insertion opening, configured to accommodate the inner housing and to be connected to the shield sleeve, and a grounding portion provided on the outer housing and connectable to an external grounding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Seido Nishijima, Akio Kimura
  • Patent number: 12166323
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a crimp terminal in which a core wire is kept from coming loose. The crimp terminal 14 includes a plate-like crimp portion 15 that is to be crimped to a core wire of an electric wire by being deformed so as to wrap around the core wire, and a protruding portion 16 that protrudes from the inner surface of the crimp portion 15. A groove 21 that extends along a direction that intersects the extending direction of the core wire is provided in the protruding portion 16.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES. LTD., SUMITOMOM WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya Nishimura, Taiji Mochizuki, Kenji Miyamoto, Kazuhiro Washio
  • Publication number: 20240404726
    Abstract: A wiring member includes a first wiring member including a first sheet, and a plurality of first wire-like transmission members fixed onto the first sheet. The plurality of first wire-like transmission members include a second wire-like transmission member, and a third wire-like transmission member extending over the second wire-like transmission member and crossing the second wire-like transmission member. The wiring member further includes a holding member configured to hold a positional relationship between the second and third wire-like transmission members at a crossing part of the second and third wire-like transmission members. The holding member includes a second sheet fixed to the first sheet so as to cover the crossing part. The second sheet includes a fixed region fixed to the first sheet located around the crossing part, and the second sheet includes a non-fixed region that is not fixed to the first sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Daisuke EBATA, Masaki MIZUSHITA, Ryusuke KUDO, Shintaro SUMIDA, Hidetoshi ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240403027
    Abstract: Provided is an in-vehicle device obtains an update program transmitted from an external server outside a vehicle and performs processing for updating a program of an in-vehicle ECU mounted in the vehicle. The in-vehicle device includes a control unit configured to perform processing related to the update program, wherein the control unit obtains, from the external server, an operation check scenario for performing operation check of an in-vehicle ECU to be updated when obtaining the update program, outputs, to the in-vehicle ECU to be updated, the obtained update program and operation check scenario, and performs processing related to the operation check of the in-vehicle ECU to be updated, based on the operation check scenario.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takayuki SHIOZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240405536
    Abstract: A wire harness that includes: a plurality of shielded electric wires that each have a core wire and an electromagnetic shield that covers an outer circumference of the core wire; a terminal where the plurality of core wires are connected to each other; an insulative cover that covers an outer circumference of the terminal; an underlay cover that covers an outer circumference of the insulative cover; a metal pipe that covers an outer circumference of the underlay cover; and a water sealing plug interposed between an inner circumferential surface of an end of the metal pipe in a length direction and an outer circumferential surface of the shielded electric wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya HAMAMOTO, Daisuke HASHIMOTO, Takeshi SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240405379
    Abstract: A wiring module is directed to a wiring module configured to be attached to a plurality of power storage elements having electrode terminals. The wiring module includes: a plurality of busbar units: and wires connected to the busbar units. Each of the busbar units includes: a busbar connected to the electrode terminals; a circuit board; and a fixing means configured to fix the circuit board to the busbar. A conductive path is routed on the circuit board, and the conductive path includes: a connection land electrically connected to the busbar; and a wire land soldered to the corresponding wire. The busbar includes a crimping part that fixes the wire, and the wire is interposed between the crimping part and the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shuya IKEDA, Osamu NAKAYAMA, Nobuyuki MATSUMURA
  • Patent number: 12160062
    Abstract: A terminal that is to be coupled to a mate terminal. The terminal includes a tubular portion and a spring tab. The mate terminal is to be inserted in the tubular portion and the spring tab is within the tubular portion, and includes a spring-side wall, connection wall, a first side wall that is continuous from the connection wall and the spring-side wall, a second side wall that is continuous from the spring-side wall, and an opening limiter portion. The spring tab presses the mate terminal, which is inserted in the tubular portion, from the spring-side wall toward the connection wall. The tubular portion includes a connection portion that connects the spring tab and connection wall. The tubular portion includes the opening limiter portion that contacts the connection portion from an opposite direction from a pressing direction, in which the spring tab presses the mate terminal, toward the connection wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nungna Wi, Masaaki Tabata, Hajime Matsui, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Takeshi Amakawa
  • Patent number: 12160024
    Abstract: A wiring module to be attached to a plurality of power storage elements each having an electrode terminal, the wiring module including: a bus bar to be connected to the electrode terminals; and a flexible substrate that is flexible, wherein the bus bar has an extension portion that extends toward the flexible substrate, the extension portion has a through hole, the flexible substrate side of the through hole is closed off by the flexible substrate, the flexible substrate has a first conductive path for detecting the temperature of an object, and the first conductive path is connected to a thermistor, and the thermistor is disposed in the through hole, the through hole is filled with a resin, and the thermistor is covered with the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kuboki, Hiroomi Hiramitsu, Xueqing Dong, Masato Tsutsuki, Yuto Sato
  • Patent number: 12159131
    Abstract: An in-vehicle information processing apparatus includes a client processing unit configured to be provided with a service and perform processing, the client processing unit receives, from a server processing unit configured to provide a service, a service providing message that includes identification information and version information of a service to be provided, determines whether or not the version information included in the received service providing message and version information of a service that the client processing unit desires to be provided match, and, if it is determined that the two types of version information do not match, the client processing unit examines whether or not it is possible to receive the service with different version information, and, if it is possible to receive the service with different version information based on an examination result, the client processing unit receives the service and performs processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Noda
  • Publication number: 20240392074
    Abstract: An insulated wire includes a wire conductor and an insulation covering that is made of a crosslinked polymer material and covers the outer periphery of the wire conductor, the crosslinked polymer material includes a metal ion and a silicone resin having a side chain which includes a substituent group capable of forming an ionic bond with the metal ion, and the silicone resin forms a crosslinked product through the ionic bond between the substituent group and the metal ion. A crosslinkable polymer composition including a metal compound from which the metal ion is released by heat and the silicone resin is disposed on an outer periphery of the wire conductor, and then the crosslinked product is formed from the crosslinkable polymer composition by heating to produce the insulation covering made of the crosslinked polymer material, and thus the insulated wire is produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi SATO, Takehiro HOSOKAWA, Tatsuya SHIMADA, Makoto MIZOGUCHI