Patents Assigned to Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd.
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Publication number: 20250105528Abstract: An antenna module includes: an antenna mounted to a mount surface; and an artificial magnetic conductor having a plate shape and arranged so as to be adjacent to the antenna, the artificial magnetic conductor having a first surface on which a plurality of first unit cells are regularly arrayed. The artificial magnetic conductor has a base end adjacent to the antenna, and the first surface extends from the base end along the mount surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2022Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yutaro MIKI, Suguru YAMAGISHI, Ichiro KUWAYAMA
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Publication number: 20250106069Abstract: A relaying apparatus is installed in a vehicle and relays data transmitted and received between a plurality of vehicle-mounted ECUs. The relaying apparatus includes: a plurality of communication units for communicating with each of the vehicle-mounted ECUs; a plurality of control units that one-to-one correspond to the plurality of communication units; and a storage unit that is accessible from each of the plurality of control units. Each of the plurality of control units separately performs an initialization process. When a control unit that has completed the initialization process has acquired relay target data to be relayed via a communication unit corresponding to another control unit that has not completed the initialization process, the control unit stores part of the acquired relay target data in the storage unit by writing in a shared area that is shared with the other control unit that has not completed the initialization process.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Tatsuya NAKAJIMA
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Publication number: 20250100481Abstract: An electrical junction box includes: a resin case; and a component mount that protrudes from the resin case for mounting an electrical component. The component mount includes a peripheral wall portion extending along an outer peripheral surface of the electrical component. The peripheral wall portion includes a first and second wall portions disposed circumferentially adjacent to each other and extending in mutually intersecting directions. Pressure contact ribs are provided on an inner surface of at least one of the first and second wall portions, the pressure contact ribs being pressed against the outer peripheral surface of the electrical component. The first and second wall portions are circumferentially coupled to each other via a deformation-allowing wall portion, the deformation-allowing wall portion allowing outward deformation of whichever of the first and second wall portions has the pressure contact ribs provided thereon when the pressure contact ribs are pressed against the electrical component.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takumi EJIMA, Takayuki TAKEUCHI, Chiharu SAKA
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Publication number: 20250100468Abstract: A wire harness includes: an apparatus connector connected to a connector of an apparatus; a first harness connector connected to a connector of a first counterpart wire harness; a second harness connector connected to a connector of a second counterpart wire harness; a first apparatus wiring connecting the apparatus connector and the first harness connector; a second apparatus wiring connecting the apparatus connector and the second harness connector; and a flat base member holding the first apparatus wiring and the second apparatus wiring.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hideaki ITO, Daichi ASHIDA
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Publication number: 20250103378Abstract: An in-vehicle control device includes a control unit, a storage unit, and a communication unit, and a management unit that generates a plurality of virtual machines by allocating the physical resources for each allocation time. A first virtual machine executes processing that cannot be carried over to the next cycle. A second virtual machine executes processing that can be carried over to the next cycle. The management unit executes a first change control for changing the allocation time of each of the first virtual machine and the second virtual machine. The first change control includes a control for acquiring a processing time of the first virtual machine in a first cycle, and a control for extending the allocation time of the first virtual machine and shortening the allocation time of the second virtual machine in a cycle, when a buffer time is lower than a first predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2022Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Tadahiro TAKAZAWA
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Patent number: 12260970Abstract: A communication cable 1 is provided with a conductor 2, an insulation layer 3 containing an organic polymer and covering an outer periphery of the conductor 2, a metal foil 5 for covering an outer periphery of the insulation layer 3, and a magnetic sheath layer 7 containing an organic polymer and a powdered magnetic material and covering an outer periphery of the metal foil 5. A tensile modulus of elasticity of the magnetic sheath layer 7 is lower than that of the insulation layer 3. Assuming that an organic polymer having a melting point of 100° C. or lower is a low melting point polymer and a mass ratio of the low melting point polymer to organic polymer components constituting each layer is a low melting point component ratio, the low melting point component ratio is larger in the magnetic sheath layer 7 than in the insulation layer 3.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yuta Yasuyoshi, Tatsuya Shimada
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Patent number: 12262497Abstract: A circuit structure includes a first busbar, a second busbar, an insulating member including an insulating portion located between the first busbar and the second busbar, a first wiring board provided on one main surface of the first busbar, one main surface of the second busbar and the insulating portion, and a first electronic component provided on the first wiring board. The first electronic component has a first connection terminal electrically connected to the first busbar and bonded to the first wiring board, and a second connection terminal electrically connected to the second busbar and bonded to the first wiring board.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Akira Haraguchi
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Patent number: 12261424Abstract: A fixing structure of a wiring member includes: an electrical wire bundle; an exterior member externally mounted to the electrical wire bundle; and an adherend having a main surface as a flat surface, wherein the exterior member has an outer surface as a flat surface, and the outer surface and the main surface have surface contact with and are bonded to each other while the electrical wire bundle is disposed on the main surface of the adherend.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hirotaka Kato, Hiroki Hirai, Makoto Higashikozono, Kosuke Sone, Hirokazu Komori
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Patent number: 12257961Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there are provided a clamp and a wire harness which are capable of enhancing versatility. This clamp (30) is applied to two electric wires (20), which respectively have core wires (21) all having flat cross-sectional shapes and are parallel to each other, is configured to be fixable to a panel P, and holds the two electric wires (20). The clamp (30) comprises: a fixed member (40) fixed to the panel P; and two holding members (50) which are detachably attached to the fixed member (40) and respectively hold the two electric wires (20).Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Tatsuro Sakai
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Patent number: 12261387Abstract: A connector is provided with a terminal, a die-cast member for surrounding an outer periphery of the terminal, a dielectric to be arranged between the terminal and the die-cast member, and a housing into which the die-cast member is mounted. The die-cast member includes a locking protrusion, and the housing includes a locking recess recessed in a mounting direction of the die-cast member. The locking protrusion is press-fit into the locking recess. A closing portion shut off from outside is formed between a tip part of the locking protrusion in the mounting direction and a back end part of the locking recess in the mounting direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kazuki Hiramatsu, Taiga Kadoyama, Hidekazu Matsuda, Toshikazu Suzuki, Toshifumi Ichio
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Patent number: 12261398Abstract: A shield connector is provided with a dielectric 40 including a plurality of accommodation chambers 44 defined in a width direction by a separation wall portion 43, and a plurality of inner conductors 21 having a shape elongated in a front-rear direction and individually accommodated in parallel in the plurality of accommodation chambers 44. The separation wall portion 43 is formed with a front opening 53 and a rear opening 60 for interposing air layers between the accommodation chambers 44 adjacent via the separation wall portion 43.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hidekazu Matsuda, Kazuki Hiramatsu, Taiga Kadoyama, Ai Hirano, Masanao Yamashita
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Publication number: 20250095880Abstract: A cable with an abnormality sign detection function and a wire abnormality sign detection system that can perform stepwise detection of signs leading to breakage in a wire accurately. The cable contains a target wire containing a wire conductor and a wire covering that covers the conductor and a detection line containing a detection line conductor and a detection line covering that covers the detection line conductor, where the detection line conductor has a shorter flex life than the wire conductor and contains long-life elemental wires and short-life elemental wires having a shorter flex life than the long-life elemental wires, each of the long-life and short-life elemental wires containing a solid wire made of a conductive material and an insulation covering layer covering the solid wire, and in the detection line conductor, the short-life elemental wires are arranged in a layer around a bundle of the long-life elemental wires.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2023Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hirokazu KOMORI, Takahiro MURATA, Fujio SONODO, Masato IZAWA, Takumi OOSHIMA
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Publication number: 20250097295Abstract: An on-board apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to receive, via a transmission path, a plurality of pieces of change information respectively indicating changes in measurement results of a plurality of sensors mounted in a vehicle, a delay processing unit configured to perform delay processing for delaying and outputting at least one of the plurality of pieces of change information received by the receiving unit, and a detection unit configured to detect an abnormality based on an internal output sequence that is an output sequence in which the delay processing unit outputs the plurality of pieces of change information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2022Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Tomoya KONO
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Publication number: 20250096541Abstract: An electrical junction box includes a busbar, a molded resin portion that is insert-molded using the busbar as an insert component, a case that covers the molded resin portion to form a waterproof space, a blocking portion that blocks a first opening of a through hole passing through the molded resin portion, and a waterproofing resin that is filled in the through hole. The through hole is formed between the first holding portion and the second holding portion and the entire periphery of an intermediate portion of the busbar is exposed in the through hole. The blocking portion is a member that is provided separately from the molded resin portion. The waterproofing resin reaches the blocking portion while entirely covering the periphery of the intermediate portion of the busbar.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2022Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuya DAIDOJI, Arinobu NAKAMURA, Heng CAO
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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