Patents Assigned to Autonetworks Technologies
  • Patent number: 10892081
    Abstract: A reactor including: a coil that includes a winding portion; a magnetic core that includes an inner core portion that is located inside the winding portion and an outer core portion that is located outside the winding portion; an inner interposed member that is interposed between an inner surface of the winding portion and the inner core portion; and an end surface interposed member that is interposed between an end surface of the winding portion and the outer core portion. The inner interposed member is provided with first positioning portions that engage with the end surface interposed member and are located so as to respectively face a first pair of surfaces of the outer core portion to position the outer core portion, the first pair of surfaces being composed of a pair of surfaces that face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouhei Yoshikawa, Kouji Nishi, Takashi Takada, Shintaro Nanbara
  • Patent number: 10893611
    Abstract: A circuit assembly includes: a substrate with an electrically conducting path; plate-shaped busbars that have connection portions connected to the electrically conducting path of the substrate, and are arranged in an orientation in which plate surfaces thereof intersects with a surface of the substrate; a heat discharge member that is laid on a side of the substrate opposite to the busbars, and is configured to discharge heat of the substrate; and a resin frame that extends along the busbars, and holds the busbars while being in intimate contact with the busbars, wherein the frame includes mounting portions mounted on at least either the substrate or the heat discharge member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Tsuchida, Shigeki Yamane
  • Publication number: 20210005866
    Abstract: A power storage pack includes a plurality of power storage modules each including a power storage element group with a plurality of power storage elements having electrode terminals, and an external connection module electrically connected to the electrode terminals and including a short bus bar and a long bus bar for outputting power of the power storage element group, and an insulating member for insulating and holding the short bus bar and the long bus bar, the insulating member including a first unit for holding one end portion of the long bus bar and a second unit for holding another end portion of the long bus bar, the first unit has a first overlapping portion, the second unit has a second overlapping portion, and the first overlapping portion and the second overlapping portion have a variable length overlapping margin in which they overlap each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki FUKUSHIMA, Osamu NAKAYAMA, Mitsutoshi MORITA, Tetsuya FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20210006048
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Housei MIZUNO
  • Patent number: 10884445
    Abstract: A power supply control device includes a switch disposed in a first current path of a current flowing from a battery. A first comparator compares a voltage value of a current input end of the switch to which the current is inputted with a voltage threshold. When the voltage value of the current input end is less than the voltage threshold, a drive circuit turns off the switch. The battery supplies, via a second current path, power to a starter that starts an engine of a vehicle. The voltage threshold is less than the voltage value of the current input end of the switch in the case where the battery supplies the power to the starter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunichi Sawano, Yuuki Sugisawa, Kota Oda
  • Publication number: 20200406839
    Abstract: The wire harness protector includes: electrical wiring insertion parts in which electrical wirings constituting a wire harness are divided and housed, wherein electrical wiring insertion parts are arranged in parallel, at least one side of an arrangement direction of electrical wiring insertion parts is a branch direction of the electrical wirings, at least one branch electrical wiring window is provided in each of the electrical wiring insertion parts except for one of the electrical wiring insertion parts located farthest from the branch direction to extending in a longitudinal direction and be opened in both side surfaces, into which branch electrical wirings made up of a part of the electrical wirings can be inserted, and the branch electrical wiring insertion window is provided in at least a side surface on a side of the branch direction of one of the electrical wiring insertion parts located farthest from the branch direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuta TAKAKURA, Shigeki IKEDA, Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Takayuki SUZUKI, Housei MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20200410778
    Abstract: In the vehicle consumable management system, a gateway device of the vehicle collects information relating to consumables, and transmits the collected information to a server device, and the server device stores the received vehicle information. A smartphone used by a user receives vehicle information from the server device, and determines, based on the received vehicle information and a determination condition stored in the storage unit, the time to, for example, replace or refill the consumables of the vehicle, and displays a result of the determination as a notification screen to notify the user of the result of the determination. Furthermore, the smartphone accepts an operation for setting the determination condition for determining a replacement time, and changes the determination condition stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Aiba, Tomohiro Mizutani, Hiroshi Tateishi, Shogo Kamiguchi
  • Patent number: 10879689
    Abstract: A control circuit turns ON or OFF a switch that is provided at a midpoint of a wire. Thus, power supply via the wire is controlled. A current output circuit outputs a current that corresponds to a current flowing through the wire to a resistance circuit. In the resistance circuit, a series circuit of a resistor (R2) and a capacitor (C1) is connected in parallel to a resistor (R1). The control circuit) turns OFF the switch if the end-to-end voltage value of a voltage across both ends of the resistance circuit is larger than or equal to a reference voltage value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunichi Sawano, Yuuki Sugisawa, Kota Oda, Keisuke Mase
  • Patent number: 10880989
    Abstract: An electrical junction box includes: a circuit board on which an electronic component having a main body is mounted on a mounting surface; a frame inside of which the circuit board is accommodated; a cover portion covering the circuit board from the mounting surface side; and a heat transfer member disposed between the main body and the cover portion, and the frame includes a heat transfer member holding portion holding the heat transfer member at a position where the heat transfer member is in heat conductive contact with both the main body and the cover portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Tanaka, Yukinori Kita
  • Publication number: 20200402738
    Abstract: With a power supply control device, if semiconductor switches of a switch circuit are on and a relay contact is off, a controller determines whether or not a switch electric current detected by an electric current sensor is at least a threshold. If the controller has determined that the switch electric current is at least the threshold, then an electric current supply unit switches on the relay contact, and a drive circuit switches off the semiconductor switches. The controller changes the above-described threshold in accordance with the length of the lapse of time from when an electric current flows through the switch circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuma TSUKAMOTO, Kota ODA
  • Patent number: 10874017
    Abstract: A board unit including: a circuit assembly including a circuit board and a bus bar disposed on one side of the circuit board; a frame-like case that forms a housing space for housing the circuit board, and the bus bar includes: a main body to which the circuit board is joined; a plurality of facing portions that protrude from opposite sides of the main body, and that face a surface of the frame-like case, the facing portions and the frame-like case include a locking structure for interlocking the facing portions and the frame-like case with each other to hold the circuit assembly at the predetermined position in the frame-like case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuuichi Hattori
  • Publication number: 20200395143
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy wire composed of an aluminum alloy, wherein the aluminum alloy contains more than or equal to 0.03 mass % and less than or equal to 1.5 mass % of Mg, more than or equal to 0.02 mass % and less than or equal to 2.0 mass % of Si, and a remainder of Al and an inevitable impurity, Mg/Si being more than or equal to 0.5 and less than or equal to 3.5 in mass ratio, and the aluminum alloy wire has a dynamic friction coefficient of less than or equal to 0.8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    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
  • Patent number: 10868470
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle power supply device that is capable of executing non-synchronous rectification control and synchronous rectification control while switching therebetween and can suppress, during switching from the non-synchronous rectification control to the synchronous rectification control, an output voltage value from significantly deviating from a target voltage value. If a determination unit determines, during the execution of the non-synchronous rectification control, that a current-increasing state arises, a driving unit performs switching to the synchronous rectification control in which a PWM signal with a duty cycle of a fixed value is supplied to a first switch unit, and then performs the synchronous rectification control in which a PWM signal with a duty cycle that is calculated by a feedback operation unit based on the target output voltage value and the detection result of the detecting unit is supplied to the first switch unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisanori Kanbara, Naoya Koda
  • Patent number: 10869400
    Abstract: A case is provided with a drainage channel that smoothly drains water while also being able to suppress the intrusion of water into a housing space. The case includes a first case body in which a channel extending from a region serving as the housing space is formed. The channel includes a first channel portion having one end side connected to a first outlet and another end side connected to a second outlet, and a second channel portion connects the first channel portion and the housing space. Out of the opening edges of the second channel portion that face the first channel portion, a second-side opening edge, which is the edge on the second outlet side of the first channel portion, is located nearer to the housing space than a first-side opening edge, which is the edge on the first outlet side of the first channel portion, is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Tahara, Kazuyoshi Ohara, Munsoku O, Arinobu Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20200388890
    Abstract: A coolant includes a refrigerant, a porous plate-shaped heat insulator, and an enclosure in which the refrigerant and the heat insulator are enclosed in a sealed state, and the heat insulator has a thermal conductivity per unit area of 300 W/(K·m2) or less and a thickness equal to or greater than 0.5 mm and equal to or less than 10.0 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koma NUMATA, Masatoshi MAJIMA, Kazuki OKUNO, Hiroki HIRAI, Tetsuji TANAKA, Makoto HIGASHIKOZONO, Junichi ONO
  • Patent number: 10861663
    Abstract: A relay device wherein power can be supplied to a load from at least two power storage units and can detect when an abnormality such as an open-circuit failure occurs in a path of one of the power storage units, accurately. A control unit in a relay device functions as a switching control unit, if the current value becomes lower than a current threshold value in a first conduction path and a second conduction path, the control device switches a relay unit to an OFF state. Furthermore, the control unit functions as a determination unit and determines whether, if it switches one of the relay units to the OFF state, a voltage value detected by a voltage detection unit provided in the path in which the relay unit that was switched to the OFF state is lower than a predetermined voltage threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takahiro Saito
  • Patent number: 10862703
    Abstract: An in-vehicle communication system includes first and second switch devices that perform a relay process of relaying data in an in-vehicle network, the first switch device includes a switch unit and a processing unit that performs the relay process via the switch unit, the switch unit transmits target data to the second switch device instead of outputting the target data to the processing unit when an abnormality in the processing unit is detected, the target data being data which is received from a device other than the second switch device and is to undergo the relay process performed by the processing unit, and the second switch device performs a proxy process of relaying the target data received from the switch unit instead of the processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Ogawa, Hirofumi Urayama, Koichi Takayama, Takeshi Hagihara, Yasuhiro Yabuuchi
  • Publication number: 20200373702
    Abstract: Provided is a connector including: at least one plate-like housing body; a plurality of groove-like terminal housing chambers each opened in an upper surface of the housing body and parallelly arranged; a plurality of connection terminals provided at ends of a plurality of electrical wirings and housed and disposed in the terminal housing chambers, respectively; an electrical wiring support part supporting the plurality of electrical wirings extending from a back end side opening part of the terminal housing chambers; a sheet-like reinforced member which is placed on an upper surface of the electrical wiring support part and the plurality of electrical wirings are fixed to in a state of parallelly arranged; and a cover part overlapping with the upper surface of the housing body to cover the terminal housing chambers and sandwiching the sheet-like reinforced member between the cover part and the electrical wiring support part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke EBATA, Motohiro YOKOI, Shigeki IKEDA, Ryuta TAKAKURA, Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Haruka NAKANO, Kenta ARAI, Yasuo OMORI
  • Patent number: 10847914
    Abstract: A male terminal disclosed in this specification is a male terminal 10 fittable to a female terminal 20 including at least a pair of resilient contact pieces, and includes a terminal contact portion 11 having a pin shape and configured to contact the resilient contact pieces 21 of the female terminal 20 when the male terminal 10 is fit to the female terminal 20, and projections 12 projecting from an outer peripheral surface of the terminal contact portion 11 and arranged to be fit between side edges 24 of pairs of adjacent ones of the resilient contact pieces 21 of the female terminal 20 when the male terminal 10 is fit to the female terminal 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Kobayashi, Noriyuki Uematsu
  • Patent number: 10844889
    Abstract: The present disclosure reduces the manufacturing costs of a support member with a portion made from resin that supports a conductive member. The support member is equipped with: a resin main body portion that has a support surface for supporting a conductive member such as an electric wire; and a metal plate that has a through-hole for a bolt and is for attachment to a device. The main body portion has a receptacle portion into which the plate is press-fitted and fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kosuke Sone, Kazuyoshi Ohara