Patents Assigned to Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20250055726
    Abstract: An on-board device mounted in a vehicle includes: a processor; a communication port; a first communication integrated circuit that is connected to the processor and that is configured to output a frame, which has been received via the communication port from outside the on-board device, to the processor; a second communication integrated circuit that is connected to the processor and is operable when a frame received via the communication port satisfies a predetermined condition, to output the received frame to the processor; and a first switching unit for switching the communication port between being connected to the first communication integrated circuit and being connected to the second communication integrated circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shota USHIRO
  • Patent number: 12224742
    Abstract: In a switch device, an output voltage output by a microcomputer is input to one end of a resistor. A driving circuit switches a main switch on or off according to a resistor voltage at the other end of the resistor. When all of a plurality of specific voltages included in a plurality of output voltages output by the microcomputer are an output threshold or more, an AND circuit of an adjustment circuit reduces the resistor voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryohei Sawada, Masaya Ina
  • Patent number: 12224511
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a terminal fitting and a connector capable of ensuring connection reliability. A terminal fitting includes a terminal connecting portion to be connected to a mating terminal fitting and a board connecting portion to be connected to a circuit board. The terminal connecting portion is provided in a first member. The board connecting portion is provided in a second member different from the first member. The first member and the second member are so coupled that relative positions of the terminal connecting portion and the board connecting portion are displaceable. A housing includes a supporting portion for rotatably supporting the first member and the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Asano, Yutaka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12224455
    Abstract: Provided is an in-vehicle wiring module that is attached to a plurality of power storage elements that include electrode terminals, and includes a busbar that is connected to the electrode terminals, and a flexible substrate that is electrically connected to the busbar, the flexible substrate has a folded-over structures where the flexible substrate is folded along folding portions, the folded-over structure includes protrusions that protrude from outer edges of the flexible substrate in an expanded state before the flexible substrate is folded along the folding portions, and slits into which the protrusions are to be inserted, the folding portions are disposed between the protrusions and the slits of the flexible substrate in the expanded state, and, as a result of the protrusions being inserted into the slits, the flexible substrate is kept from deforming so as to return to the expanded state from a state of being folded along the folding portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Matsumura
  • Patent number: 12224086
    Abstract: A wiring member includes: a wire-like transmission member (for example, an electric wire); a first sheet member including one main surface to which the wire-like transmission member is fixed; and a second sheet member fixed to the first sheet member on a side of another main surface of the first sheet member. The first sheet member is suitable for fixing of the wire-like transmission member in comparison to the second sheet member. One member of the first sheet member and the second sheet member includes a space into which another member being melted can be filled. The first sheet member and the second sheet member overlap each other with the another member out of the first sheet member and the second sheet member being melted, filled and then solidified in the space of the one member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Miyu Aramaki, Housei Mizuno, Daichi Fukushima
  • Patent number: 12224522
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a connector of a novel structure capable of suppressing or preventing the transmission of the swing of a wire to a terminal in a connector. A connector 10 is provided with a housing 16 for accommodating a terminal 12, a back retainer 20 mounted in a rear end part of the housing 16 from which a wire 18 connected to the terminal 12 is pulled out, a wire insertion hole 62 provided in the back retainer 20, and a wire holding piece 72 projecting in a pull-out direction of the wire 18 from a peripheral edge part of the wire insertion hole 62. The wire 18 pulled out from the wire insertion hole 62 is tied and fixed to the wire holding piece 72 by a tying tool 82.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Kobayashi, Sunghyun Byun
  • Publication number: 20250044370
    Abstract: In a power supply control device, an upstream switch and a downstream switch are respectively disposed upstream and downstream of a load in a current path for a current flowing through the load. One end of a first resistor is connected to a connection node between the upstream switch and the load. One end of a series circuit including a connection switch and a second resistor is connected to a connection node between the load and the downstream switch. A constant voltage is applied to the other end of the series circuit. A microcomputer detects any failure of the upstream switch, the downstream switch, and the load based on one of the values of voltages at the two connection nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koki SAKAKIBARA, Kota ODA
  • Patent number: 12218474
    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 heat shrinkable tube 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 heat shrinkable tube and an outer peripheral surface of the terminal. The inner peripheral surface of the heat shrinkable tube and an outer peripheral surface of the insulation coating are directly in contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Hamaguchi, Takashi Kawakami, Kazuo Nakashima
  • Patent number: 12219694
    Abstract: A battery wiring module includes a plurality of connecting members to be connected to electrode terminals and a flexible printed circuit board having a plurality of voltage detection lines for detecting the voltages of a plurality of power storage elements via the plurality of connecting members, at least one of the plurality of voltage detection lines being constituted to include a front surface wiring and a back surface wiring respectively formed on a front surface and a back surface of the flexible printed circuit board, and a front-back conduction part passing through the flexible printed circuit board in the plate thickness direction and connecting the front surface wiring and the back surface wiring, and the resistance value per unit length of the front-back conduction part being less than or equal to the maximum resistance value per unit length of the front surface wiring and the back surface wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo Takahashi, Shinichi Takase
  • Patent number: 12217895
    Abstract: A reactor is provided with a coil including a pair of winding portions, a magnetic core to be arranged inside and outside the winding portions, a holding member for specifying mutual positions of the coil and the magnetic core, a case for accommodating an assembly including the coil, the magnetic core and the holding member, and a sealing resin portion to be filled into the case. The case includes a bottom plate portion on which the assembly is placed, a side wall portion for surrounding the assembly, and an opening facing the bottom plate portion. The side wall portion includes a pair of long side parts facing each other and a pair of short side parts facing each other. The assembly is so accommodated into the case that an axial direction of each winding portion is along a depth direction of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takehito Kobayashi, Kohei Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 12218448
    Abstract: A connector is provided with a connecting member including a contact point portion, a housing for holding the connecting member and a protecting member displaceable with respect to the connecting member to a protection position for protecting the contact point portion and a connection position for bringing the contact point portion into contact with a circuit board. The housing includes a lock portion for holding the protecting member at the protection position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Miyamura, Daisuke Saito, Yutaka Kobayashi, Masanori Moriyasu
  • Patent number: 12218475
    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure is to provide a connector enabling good heat dissipation. A connector 11 according to the one aspect of the present disclosure is provided with a housing 13 made of metal, a flat plate-like busbar 14 to be held in the housing 13, a first ceramic member 18 to be interposed between one flat surface 14a of the busbar 14 and a first contact portion 17 of the housing 13, a second ceramic member 20 to be interposed between another flat surface 14a of the busbar 14 and a second contact portion 19 of the housing 13, and a bolt 21 and a nut 22 for collectively fastening the busbar 14, the first and second ceramic members 18, 20 and the first and second contact portions 17, 19.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Kanematsu, Junichi Mukuno
  • Patent number: 12218422
    Abstract: An antenna device includes: a conductive ground conductor plate; a plate-shaped radiating element disposed without being in contact with the ground conductor plate; a feeding line including a conductor and a shield member that surrounds the conductor, the shield member being connected to the ground conductor plate; and a conductive feeding element that includes a facing plate portion that faces the radiating element with an air layer provided therebetween, and is connected to the conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuhei Terada, Norichika Oomi, Kosuke Sone, Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Ai Takehisa, Ichiro Kuwayama, Suguru Yamagishi, Yutaro Miki
  • Publication number: 20250033585
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted apparatus is mounted in a vehicle and is connected to a plurality of actuators. The vehicle-mounted apparatus includes: a control unit for generating control signals for controlling the actuators; an output processing unit for outputting the control signals, which have been generated by the control unit, via signal pins to which the plurality of actuators are connected, and at least one internal pin that connects the control unit and the output processing unit and transmits the control signals, wherein the internal pins are fewer in number than the signal pins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji YASUDA
  • Publication number: 20250035712
    Abstract: A ground fault detection apparatus is used for an on-board system. The on-board system includes a power source unit, a power storage unit, a conductive path, and a disconnection unit. The conductive path includes a first conductive path, a second conductive path, and a third conductive path. The disconnection unit includes a first disconnection unit and a second disconnection unit. A second load is connected to one path out of the second conductive path and the third conductive path, and a third load is connected to the other path. The ground fault detection apparatus includes a detection unit (a current detection unit and a control circuit) configured to detect a ground fault on at least one of the second conductive path and the third conductive path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Michio ARIMURA
  • Patent number: 12208752
    Abstract: Provided are an in-vehicle information processing apparatus, a program execution restriction method and a computer program that can be expected to provide users with an opportunity to fully use the trial version of an application program. An in-vehicle information processing apparatus according to one embodiment is an in-vehicle information processing apparatus to be mounted in a vehicle and for executing a program, the apparatus including a processing unit, whereby the processing unit determines whether the travel distance of the vehicle from when usage of the program is started exceeds a threshold value, and, if it is determined that the travel distance exceeds the threshold value, restricts subsequent execution of the program. The processing unit of the in-vehicle information processing apparatus may acquire the program and information relating to the threshold value from a device provided externally to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Norihiro Ono
  • Patent number: 12208753
    Abstract: A wiring module includes: a functional sheet disposed between a roof panel forming a roof part of a vehicle and an interior member forming a ceiling shape of a vehicle interior to planarly extend over the roof panel and the interior member; a transmission member provided to the functional sheet; a roof-side apparatus provided to the functional sheet; and a rigid member provided to the functional sheet, wherein the functional sheet includes a layer having at least one selected from the group consisting of a heat insulation function, an acoustic insulation function, and a radio wave shielding function, and at least one end of the transmission member is provided along a wiring route connected to the roof-side apparatus in the functional sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Sone, Hiroki Hirai, Makoto Higashikozono, Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Ai Takehisa
  • Patent number: 12212085
    Abstract: It is aimed to prevent the damage of terminal fittings. A connector device (A) is provided with a case formed with an opening portion in a front surface and having an open lower surface, and a board connector including L-shaped terminal fittings and a housing to be mounted into the opening portion. The terminal fitting includes a penetrating portion extending in a front-rear direction and a board connecting portion extending downward from a rear end of the penetrating portion and to be accommodated into the case. The housing includes a terminal holding member for holding the penetrating portions penetrating therethrough, the terminal holding member being mounted into the opening portion from behind, and a protecting member separate from the terminal holding member, the protecting member surrounding front end parts of the penetrating portions by being mounted into the opening portion from front.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Makino, Toshikazu Sakurai
  • Patent number: 12212091
    Abstract: Provided is a connector apparatus including: a circuit board; a connector; and a mold resin portion, wherein the circuit board includes a conductor path, the connector includes a housing with a cylindrical shape and made of a resin, and a terminal projecting outward in an axial direction of the housing from inside the housing, the terminal being configured to connect to the conductor path, the mold resin portion collectively covers the circuit board, the terminal located outside the housing, and a portion of the housing; the housing and the mold resin portion include a welded portion formed by welding together constituent materials of the housing and the mold resin portion, and the welded portion is provided around an entire periphery of the housing and has a difference between a maximum width and a minimum width along a circumferential direction of the housing of 30% or less of the maximum width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Yamashita, Tatsuo Hirabayashi
  • Publication number: 20250028521
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device is an in-vehicle device including a control unit configured to obtain an update program transmitted from an external server outside a vehicle and to perform processing for updating a program of an in-vehicle ECU mounted in the vehicle, wherein the control unit obtains an update program to be applied to the in-vehicle device from the external server, selects, as a substitute ECU, one in-vehicle ECU whose program is not an update target among a plurality of in-vehicle ECUs mounted in the vehicle, and performs activation processing for applying the obtained update program to the in-vehicle device in response to an activation instruction from the selected substitute ECU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken FURUTO, Hiroshi TATEISHI, Takayuki SHIOZAWA