Patents Assigned to Autonetworks Technologies
  • Patent number: 10994700
    Abstract: A processing device that processes detection strengths detected at a first detection position and a second detection position by a detector for detecting detection targets generated from a plurality of sources, includes a two-dimensionalization unit converting detection strengths a pair of sources into a two-dimensional distribution of coordinate points in which the detection strength for one source is represented by an X-axis value, and the detection strength for the other source is represented by a Y-axis value; a demarcation unit demarcating in the two-dimensional distribution of coordinate points, a predetermined region including a mixed region in which coordinate points relating to the first detection position and coordinate points relating to the second detection position are mixed; and a replacement unit replacing the two-dimensional distribution of coordinate points in a demarcated region that has been demarcated, with a two-dimensional distribution of coordinate points relating to another pair of sou
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryota Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10998713
    Abstract: Provided is a relay device that can switch conduction of a current flow path between power storage units on and off, and can suppress a decrease in the output of the power storage units if an abnormality occurs. A relay device includes: a conductive path between a first power storage unit and a second power storage unit, the conductive path serving as a path through which a current flows; a switch unit that is switched between an ON state in which a current can flow through the conductive path, and an OFF state in which the conductive path is in a predetermined no current flow state; a coil that is connected in series to MOSFETs constituting the switch unit, and has an inductance component; and a control unit configured to switch off the switch unit if a value detected by a current detection unit is a predetermined abnormal value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Yasunori, Kosei Maekawa
  • Patent number: 10992169
    Abstract: A device capable of switching the supply source to a power storage unit without interrupting power supply to a power supply target even in the case where power supply from a power source unit cuts out is realized with a simple configuration. A backup device includes a discharging circuit that steps up or steps down a voltage applied to a power storage unit-side conduction path and applies the resulting voltage to an output-side conduction path, a control unit (5) that controls the discharging circuit to apply, to the output-side conduction path, a predetermined target voltage that is lower than a voltage that is applied to a power path in the case where a power source unit is fully charged, and a diode (element unit) that is provided between the power path and the output-side conduction path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazushi Fukae
  • Publication number: 20210118590
    Abstract: A wire harness includes: an electrical wire including a core wire and an insulating covering for covering the core wire; and a sheet material in which the electrical wire is disposed on a resin main surface, and a part of the main surface having contact with the electrical wire is thermally processed with the insulating covering of the electrical wire, thereby forming an electrical wire fixing part. A part of the sheet material including the electrical wire fixing part is softer than the insulating covering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Housei MIZUNO, Hiroki HIRAI, Makoto HIGASHIKOZONO, Yasuyuki OTSUKA, Satoshi MURAO, Toyoki FURUKAWA
  • Patent number: 10985357
    Abstract: In a battery wiring module that is attached to a unit cell group, a configuration that can inhibit noise propagation to signal lines is implemented in a more compact manner. A battery wiring module is attached to a unit cell group in which a plurality of unit cells are aligned. The battery wiring module includes: a wiring pattern configured as a signal transmission path on one side of a board main body portion; and a guard pattern that is formed in the vicinity of the wiring pattern on the one side of the board main body portion, and is kept at a predetermined reference potential while being insulated from the wiring pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20210110947
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy contains at least 0.03 mass % and at most 1.5 mass % of Mg, at least 0.02 mass % and at most 2.0 mass % of Si, and a remainder composed of Al and an inevitable impurity, a mass ratio Mg/Si being not lower than 0.5 and not higher than 3.5. In a transverse section of the aluminum alloy wire, a rectangular surface-layer void measurement region having a short side of 30 ?m long and a long side of 50 ?m long is taken from a surface-layer region extending by up to 30 ?m in a direction of depth from a surface of the aluminum alloy wire. A total cross-sectional area of voids present in the surface-layer void measurement region is not greater than 2 ?m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Misato KUSAKARI, Tetsuya KUWABARA, Yoshihiro NAKAI, Taichiro NISHIKAWA, Yasuyuki OTSUKA, Hayato OOI
  • Publication number: 20210111545
    Abstract: An attachment structure of a wiring member includes a metal member provided in a vehicle and a wiring member flatly formed to be disposed to have surface contact with the metal member and connecting an electrical component mounted to the vehicle. For example, the wiring member includes a plurality of electrical wires and a sheet material with one main surface having surface contact with the metal member and the other main surface on which the plurality of electrical wires are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi HASEGAWA, Yuya FUKAMI, Masaki MIZUSHITA, Motohiro YOKOI, Housei MIZUNO
  • Patent number: 10976356
    Abstract: A voltage detector detects a voltage of a positive electrode of a battery, and outputs a detection value indicating a detected voltage value. A target voltage to be detected is applied to one end of a resistor, via a first switch. A current is input to an output circuit from the other end of the resistor. The output circuit outputs a current whose current value substantively coincides with the current value of the current input from the resistor to one end of a resistor, while maintaining a voltage value of the other end of the resistor substantively at a predetermined voltage value. A voltage value of the one end of the resistor is output to a microcomputer as the detection value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kota Oda, Yuki Sugisawa
  • Publication number: 20210098976
    Abstract: A wiring member integrated door resin component includes a built-in component (for example, a door resin component) and a wiring member. The built-in component is a component having a wiring member housing groove in one main surface and incorporated into a box-like member to partition an inner side and outer side of the box-like member. The wiring member is held by the built-in component in a state where at least a part thereof in an extension direction is housed in the wiring member housing groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji YAMAGUCHI, Hiroki HIRAI, Makoto HIGASHIKOZONO, Housei MIZUNO
  • Patent number: 10965493
    Abstract: An on-vehicle communication system is an on-vehicle communication system mounted on a vehicle, comprises: a plurality of on-vehicle devices including a first on-vehicle device and a second on-vehicle device; an acquisition unit that acquires error information concerning an error of data received by the first on-vehicle device from the second on-vehicle device; and a determination unit that performs determination processing of determining whether or not a communication route from the second on-vehicle device to the first on-vehicle device is to be switched to another communication route from the second on-vehicle device to the first on-vehicle device by way of another on-vehicle device based on the error information acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihito Iwata, Takeshi Hagihara, Yasuhiro Yabuuchi
  • Patent number: 10960835
    Abstract: An in-vehicle power supply apparatus supplies power to an external load while bypassing the occurrence of an overcurrent, even when there is a failure on a main battery side or a failure on a sub-battery side includes a main battery and a sub-battery and two relays. One of the relays is connected to the main battery via the other relay, and transitions from a closed to an open state when an overcurrent flows thereto after the other relay transitions from the closed state to the open state. The other relay transitions from the closed state to the open state when an overcurrent flows thereto. The sub-battery is connected to the main battery via both of the relays. The main battery is connected to a backup load, bypassing both of the relays. A sub-power supply path connects the sub-battery and the backup load via the one relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiromichi Yasunori
  • Patent number: 10965046
    Abstract: A terminal 20 includes a terminal connection portion 21 connected to a counterpart terminal and a board connection portion 24 connected to a conductive path 13 of a board 11. The board connection portion 24 has a plate shape portion 25 that is a plate shape. The plate shape portion is disposed behind the terminal connection portion 21 and is soldered to the conductive path 13 of the board 11. The board connection portion has a plate-shape first projection walls 28A to 28D that are bent from edge portions of a lateral direction side of the plate shape portion 25 and that project to an opposite side to the board 11 side. The plate shape portion 25 and the first projection walls 28A to 28D have a plating layer 37 that is formed on a plate surface of the plate shape portion and the first projection walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Printed Circuits, Inc.
    Inventors: Takanobu Shimada, Hiroki Hirai, Jyunichi Ono, Yoshio Oka, Yoshifumi Uchita, Yoshiro Adachi
  • Patent number: 10958055
    Abstract: A circuit assembly includes a busbar substrate with busbars and a resin part that is in intimate contact with the busbars, a press-fit member that is made of metal with a thickness greater than the thickness of the busbars, and is press-fitted in the busbar substrate, an electronic component connected to the press-fit member, solder that connects the busbars and the press-fit member, and a solder accumulating portion that is formed with the resin part, and in which the solder is accumulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koki Uchida, Yukinori Kita
  • Patent number: 10951020
    Abstract: A power supply control device prevents an electrical wire and a switch element from smoking. The power supply control device includes a switch element provided at a midpoint in an electrical wire that connects a power supply and a load. A current detection unit detects the current value of current flowing in the electrical wire. A temperature estimation unit estimates the wire temperature of the electrical wire based on the current value detected by the current detection unit. A control unit turns on or off the switch element based on the wire temperature estimated. The control unit estimates the smoking temperature of the switch element by changing the heat dissipation time constant of the electrical wire used in temperature calculation to a smaller value, and turns off the switch element if the wire temperature is greater than or equal to the estimated smoking temperature of the switch element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuki Sugisawa, Shunichi Sawano
  • Patent number: 10944392
    Abstract: In a switch circuit for use in a vehicle, conduction between a drain electrode and a gate electrode of each of a first main transistor and a second main transistor is switched on or off depending on a voltage between the gate electrode and a source electrode. A first surge protection device is connected between the drain electrodes of the first main transistor and the second main transistor. The first surge protection device keeps a voltage that is applied to the first surge protection device at a first predetermined voltage or lower. A sub transistor is provided between the gate electrodes and the source electrodes of the first main transistor and the second main transistor. The sub transistor is turned on when the first main transistor and the second main transistor are turned off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Yano, Katsuma Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 10938596
    Abstract: A switch device being equipped with an acquisition section for acquiring environmental information indicating the surrounding environment of a vehicle provided with a plurality of function sections; a switching section for performing relay processing for relaying communication data from at least one of the function sections to at least one of the other function sections; and a setting section for setting the priority level of the communication data in the relay processing on the basis of the environmental information acquired by the acquisition section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Ogawa, Akihito Iwata, Hirofumi Urayama, Takeshi Hagihara, Yashuhiro Yabuuchi
  • Publication number: 20210057895
    Abstract: A circuit assembly includes: a substrate formed with a ground pattern and a through-hole; a metal member that is inserted into the through-hole and electrically connected to the ground pattern; a heat dissipation member made of metal, that is overlaid on the substrate and can be connected to an external ground potential; and conductive paste that connects the metal member and the heat dissipation member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shun Takamizawa, Koki Uchida
  • Patent number: 10930578
    Abstract: A plate-shaped conductor is placed on an upper surface of a plate-shaped heat dissipation member with an insulation member interposed therebetween. A heat insulation member is placed at a location that is different from a location where the conductor is placed, on the upper surface of the heat dissipation member. An FET is electrically connected to the conductor. When current flows through the FET, the FET generates heat. A microcomputer that outputs a control signal for controlling operation of the FET is connected to an upper surface of the circuit board and is located opposite to the heat insulation member with the circuit board interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Haraguchi
  • Patent number: 10931038
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal-attached electric wire including: an electric wire having a conductor made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy whose outer circumference is covered with an insulating layer; and a terminal member made of copper or a copper alloy and attached to a conductor-exposed portion exposed from the insulating layer at an end portion of the electric wire. The terminal member includes a coating layer made of an electrically conductive material and formed at a terminal-exposed portion except for a place of contact with the conductor in a surface of the terminal member, and an oxide film of the electrically conductive material formed in a surface of the coating layer. The electrically conductive material is a metal or an alloy which forms an oxide film having a thickness of more than or equal to 20 nm in a surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hasui, Yoshiaki Yamano, Hiroshi Sudou, Takayasu Sugihara, Misato Ueki
  • Patent number: 10929120
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted device determination system capable of determining validity of a vehicle-mounted device, and an information collecting device are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshikuni Shimomura