Patents Assigned to Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd.
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Patent number: 12255757Abstract: A relay device system is a relay device system to be installed in a vehicle, the relay device system including a wireless relay device configured to wirelessly communicate with a communication device provided outside the vehicle, a plurality of wired relay devices that are connected in a ring to the wireless relay device, and an in-vehicle network formed in a ring by a communication line connecting the wireless relay device and the plurality of wired relay devices, in which the plurality of wired relay devices each include an ECU communication unit configured to communicably connect to an ECU for controlling an on-board device installed in the vehicle, and the wireless relay device and the plurality of wired relay devices are configured to communicate with each other through the in-vehicle network, using two clockwise and counterclockwise paths.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Hiromichi Yasunori
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Patent number: 12256523Abstract: A board unit includes: a board stack including a first circuit board and a second circuit board that are supported while being spaced apart from each other; an electronic component mounted on the first circuit board; a first heat dissipation member that covers the board stack from outside of the first circuit board; a second heat dissipation member that covers the board stack from outside of the second circuit board; a first heat transfer portion that thermally connects the electronic component and the first heat transfer portion; and a second heat transfer portion that thermally connects the electronic component and the second circuit board. The electronic component has a body located between the first circuit board and the second circuit board, and the second heat transfer portion is partially provided at a position that corresponds to the body of the electronic component.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shun Takamizawa, Shigeki Yamane
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Patent number: 12252084Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to enable a wire and a refrigerant pipe to be mounted in a compact form in a vehicle. A temperature management system with a wire includes a refrigerant pipe through which a refrigerant for performing heat exchange in a heat exchange target device that is mounted in a vehicle passes and at a wire at least a portion of which extends along at least a portion of the refrigerant pipe.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Kenichi Mitani
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Patent number: 12255958Abstract: A plurality of communication units of an on-board relay device include a remote communication unit to which a communication device outside a vehicle for communicating with an external server is connected, and a local communication unit to which a diagnostic device is connected, and a control unit of the on-board relay device performs lower layer side control for relay based on a lower side layered protocol in communication, and upper layer side control for relay based on an upper side layered protocol rather than the lower side layered protocol, and performs adjustment processing with respect to a conflict of a plurality of maintenance processings by the upper layer side control when information relevant to the plurality of maintenance processings with respect to any one on-board ECU of a plurality of on-board ECUs is input through the local communication unit and the remote communication unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Darmawan Go, Hideki Maeda, Takeshi Hagihara, Yosuke Shimizu, Tatsuya Izumi, Hirofumi Urayama, Masashi Amesara, Hisashi Furukawa, Shu Ishizuka, Hideki Goto
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Publication number: 20250087383Abstract: A wire harness including: at least one electric wire; a connector provided at an end of the at least one electric wire; and an exterior sheet that surrounds an outer periphery of the at least one electric wire, wherein the exterior sheet is wrapped around the outer periphery of the at least one electric wire and includes a water repellant, which has water repellency, on at least part of an outer surface of the exterior sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2022Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Kazuaki AOI
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Patent number: 12249815Abstract: A wiring body with assembly assisting component includes a wiring body and an assembly assisting component. The wiring body includes a wiring component (for example, an electrical wiring). The wiring body is a wire harness, for example. The assembly assisting component detachably holds at least a part of the wiring body along a certain route.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tetsuya Nishimura, Housei Mizuno
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Patent number: 12246663Abstract: A door wiring module includes: a first service hole cover covering a first service hole formed in an inner panel; a second service hole cover covering a second service hole formed in the inner panel; and a plurality of wiring members, wherein the plurality of wiring members include: a first wiring member held by the first service hole cover to be directed to a first door apparatus; and a second wiring member held by the second service hole cover to be directed to a second door apparatus, and the plurality of wiring members include a connection route portion connecting the first service hole cover and the second service hole cover, and being bendable.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Housei Mizuno
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Patent number: 12246664Abstract: A power supply structure 11 for a headrest 10 for supplying power to the headrest 10 attached to a seat body 13 includes: a power supply coil 16 that is located in the seat body 13; a power reception coil 30 that is located in the headrest 10 and receives power from the power supply coil 16; and an elastic member 21 that is located in at least one of the seat body 13 and the headrest 10 and urges the power supply coil 16 and the power reception coil 30 in a direction that approaches each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masami Ono, Hidetoshi Ishida, Satoshi Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 12249444Abstract: An insulated electric wire with a water-stopping portion, and a wire harness including the insulated electric wire. The insulated electric wire includes a conductor with multiple metal material elemental wires twisted together, and an insulation covering covers an outer circumference of the conductor. The insulated electric wire includes an exposed portion wherein the insulation covering is removed, a covered portion where the insulation covering covers the conductor, the exposed and covered portions are adjacent to each other in a longitudinal axis direction, and a water-stopping portion wherein gaps between the wires in the exposed portion are filled with a water-stopping agent. At least a portion of the water-stopping agent contacting the wires is made of a resin material that cures upon contact. A wire harness includes the insulated electric wire, and electric connections at both ends, each capable of other device connection.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2024Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kenichiro Araki, Toyoki Furukawa
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Patent number: 12249697Abstract: A temperature measurement module is for measuring the temperature of a temperature measurement target and includes a flexible printed circuit board that includes an insulating sheet member and circuit patterns routed in the sheet member, a temperature sensor attached to the flexible printed circuit board, and a heat transfer member thermally fixed to the temperature sensor. The sheet member is provided with through holes located outward of a region overlapped with the temperature sensor, and the heat transfer member includes heat receiving portions that are arranged inside the through holes and receive heat from the temperature measurement target.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Xueqing Dong, Hiroomi Hiramitsu, Yuto Sato, Masato Tsutsuki
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Patent number: 12249732Abstract: A wiring module is configured to attach to a power storage element group of an arranged plurality of power storage elements, each one of the power storage elements including an electrode terminal, including a bus bar that connects to the electrode terminal; a circuit board on which a conductive path is formed; and a relay member that connects the bus bar and the circuit board, wherein the relay member includes a bus bar connection portion that connects to the bus bar and a board connection portion that connects to the conductive path of the circuit board, the relay member includes a connection portion with a plate-like shape that joins the bus bar connection portion and the board connection portion and extends in a direction intersecting an arrangement direction of the plurality of power storage elements, and the connection portion includes a first deformation portion capable of deforming in the arrangement direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hideyuki Kuboki, Hiroomi Hiramitsu, Xueqing Dong, Masato Tsutsuki, Yuto Sato
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Patent number: 12240395Abstract: An electrical junction box includes: a bus bar; a frame that holds the bus bar; and a temperature detection member that detects the temperature of the bus bar, wherein the temperature detection member includes a detection main body part capable of detecting temperature, and a wiring part extending from the detection main body part, and is held by one or more holding parts, the frame is integrally molded in a shape including a frame part surrounding a periphery of at least a part of the bus bar that includes a detection target portion to be subjected to detection by the temperature detection member, and at least one holding part of the one or more holding parts, and the at least one holding part of the one or more holding parts is provided so as to be located inward of the frame part.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shun Takamizawa, Shigeki Yamane
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Publication number: 20250069776Abstract: A wiring member includes: a base member; a first wire-like transmission member group including a plurality of first wire-like transmission members; and a second wire-like transmission member group including a plurality of second wire-like transmission members. The first wire-like transmission member group includes a first parallel section, the second wire-like transmission member group includes a second parallel section in a position adjacent to the first parallel section, and an interval between the first parallel section and the second parallel section is larger than an interval between the first wire-like transmission members in the first parallel section and an interval between the second wire-like transmission members in the second parallel section.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2023Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Housei MIZUNO, Kyousyou KOU, Miyu ARAMAKI, Junichi SHIRAKAWA, Ryo ARAGAKI, Tatsunori TSUTSUMI
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Publication number: 20250070541Abstract: An in-vehicle-component circuit unit includes a circuit constituent member, a case, a connection bus bar including an internal connection portion and an external connection portion, a first window portion facing the internal connection portion and a first bolt insertion hole in the case, and a second window portion facing the external connection portion and a second bolt insertion hole in the case, The first bolt insertion hole and the second bolt insertion hole are each sized to include a tolerance absorbing gap, the connection bus bar is accommodated so as to be displaceable relative to the case in a tolerance absorbing direction, the first window portion is open with a size that enables a bolt fastening operation to be performed through the first window portion, and the second window portion is open with a size that enables a bolt fastening operation to be performed through the second window portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Taiji YANAGIDA, Hiroki SHIMODA
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Publication number: 20250065827Abstract: A wire harness routing device 10 according to this disclosure is for routing a wire harness 60 under a sliding seat 1. The wire harness routing device 10 includes an extra length storing case 20 and a protector 30. The extra length storing case 20 is disposed on a floor 2 that is opposite a lower surface 5 of the sliding seat 1. The protector 30 is movable with respect to the extra length storing case 20. The wire harness 60 includes an inner extra length portion and an outer extra length portion. The inner extra length portion is disposed in the extra length storing case 20 and extends toward the protector 30 and the outer extra length portion extends outside the extra length storing case 20 from the protector 30 toward the lower surface 5 of the sliding seat 1. The sliding seat 1 includes a pair of contact members 6, 7 that come into contact with the protector 30 according to movement of the sliding seat 1 and move the protector 30.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2022Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Adient US LLCInventors: Tomoka SHIDA, Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Kazuyoshi OHARA, Minho YANG, Yasuhiro NAGAI
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Publication number: 20250071036Abstract: An in-vehicle device is an in-vehicle device connected to an in-vehicle ECU mounted on a vehicle such that communication is available, and includes a control unit performing processing relevant to transmission data transmitted from the in-vehicle ECU, in which the control unit receives transmission data transmitted from the in-vehicle ECU, registers the received transmission data in association with a reception time point of the transmission data in a chronological database, specifies abnormal transmission data from the transmission data registered in the chronological database, and registers information relevant to the specified abnormal transmission data in an abnormality history database.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2022Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL, AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Ryo Kurachi, Hiroaki Takada, Hiroshi Ueda
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Patent number: 12237602Abstract: It is aimed to prevent a reduction in connection reliability. A terminal fitting is to be mounted into a housing having a board accommodation space and is provided with a connection terminal including a resilient contact piece to be brought into contact with a circuit board inserted into the board accommodation space and a protection terminal separate from the connection terminal and attached to the connection terminal. The connection terminal is movable with respect to the protection terminal between a protection position where the resilient contact piece is accommodated in the protection terminal and a connection position where the resilient contact piece is exposed to outside of the protection terminal to be contactable with the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tetsuya Miyamura, Yutaka Kobayashi, Daisuke Saito, Masanori Moriyasu, Shinji Tanaka
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Patent number: 12237611Abstract: It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a technique for facilitating the insertion of a sealing member-equipped electric wire into a connector housing. The connector housing includes: a housing main body that is provided with a cavity. The cavity includes a first portion that includes one opening portion of the cavity, a second portion that includes the other opening portion of the cavity, and a third portion that is located between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion has a polygonal horizontal cross section, and the third portion has a circular horizontal cross section that is smaller than the horizontal cross section of the first portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yoshitaka Ikeda, Kosuke Sone, Takahiro Maruyama, Yasuto Takeda, Tomoyuki Kondo, Naomichi Kawashima
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Patent number: 12237638Abstract: Resonance between outer conductors is prevented. A connector includes: a plurality of shield terminals each having an inner conductor surrounded by an outer conductor; and a resonance restriction member that restricts resonance between the shield terminals by connecting the outer conductors to each other and holding the outer conductors at the same potential. Resonance between the shield terminals can be prevented by preventing a potential difference from being generated between the outer conductors.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yorikazu Murabayashi, Suguru Yamagishi
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Patent number: 12237598Abstract: An in-vehicle wiring module is configured to be attached to a plurality of electricity storage elements having electrode terminals. The in-vehicle wiring module includes busbars to be connected to the electrode terminals, flexible substrates having a first conductive path that is electrically connected to the busbars, and a rigid substrate having a second conductive path that is electrically connected to the first conductive paths. The flexible substrates overlap the rigid substrate. The flexible substrates each have a first opposing surface that is opposed to the rigid substrate. The first conductive paths each have first lands that are arranged on the first opposing surface. First slits that are open at edges of the flexible substrates are formed between the first lands of the flexible substrates. The rigid substrate has a second opposing surface that is opposed to the flexible substrates.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki Matsumura, Shinichi Takase