Patents Assigned to Autonetworks Technologies
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Patent number: 10741961Abstract: A male connector 1 includes a housing 11 made of resin and to be fit to a female connector, a male terminal 12 made of metal, partially embedded in the housing 11, projecting forward in a connecting direction from the housing 11 and formed into a tubular shape, resin 12G being filled inside the male terminal, and a resin cap 13 configured to cover a tip of the male terminal 12 on a front side in the connecting direction. The male terminal 12 is provided with a communication opening 12F in a part embedded in the housing 11, the communication opening allowing communication between inside and outside of the male terminal 12, and a projection 12D is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the embedded part. The housing 11 is formed with a recess 12J configured to expose the projection 12D to outside.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shiro Nishida, Seido Nishijima
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Patent number: 10741977Abstract: A shield terminal (T) includes inner conductors (52) connected to cores (62) of a shielded cable (60) and a dielectric (46) accommodates the inner conductors (52). A body (11) of an outer conductor (10) includes a tubular holding portion (14) that surrounds the dielectric (46) and a crimping portion (32) connected to a front of a shield layer (65) of the shielded cable (60). An upper member (35) of the outer conductor (10) is separate from the body (11) and with the body (11) surrounds the cores (62) over an entire periphery. A second hook (39) on a front part of the upper member (35) is lockable to a rear edge of the holding portion (14). A second guide means (29) guides the upper member (35) to a proper position while allowing the upper member (35) to swing with the second hook (39) as a fulcrum.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyoshi Maesoba, Toshifumi Ichio
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Patent number: 10734740Abstract: A press-fit terminal includes an end part that is to be inserted into a through-hole of a circuit board. The end part is connected electrically to the through-hole by being in elastic contact with an inner wall of the through-hole. The press-fit terminal also includes a base part opposite to the end part. Two elastic contact pieces are between the end part and the base part and are disposed to face each other through an opening. A stress dispersion part is provided in at least one of a region that includes a border between the end part and the elastic contact pieces and a region that includes a border between the base part and the elastic contact pieces. The stress dispersion part protrudes in the same direction as an expanding direction in which the elastic contact pieces expand.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takuya Yamanaka, Tetsuya Ito, Kazumasa Kobayashi, Yuichi Nakanishi, Shigeki Shimada
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Patent number: 10734745Abstract: A terminal (10) of a connector (1) includes a case (20) and a first conductive member (40). The first conductive member (40) includes a junction (43) for connection with a mating terminal. The junction (43) is movable in the compression direction (Y) in which the coil spring (30) is compressed. The case (20) is composed of metal and includes a front wall (22) bent at a front end (21A) of the top wall (21) toward the first conductive member. The front wall (22) is at such a distance from the coil spring (30) that movement of the first conductive member (40) in the compression direction (Y) is not prevented. The front wall (22) includes a support (28) that supports one end (45) of the first conductive member on the front wall side, the one end (45) being movable in the compression direction (Y) at the support when the junction moves.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Akio Kimura, Seido Nishijima
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Patent number: 10734748Abstract: A male internal conductor and a female internal conductor are reliably connected. When female-side and male-side dielectric bodies (16, 41) approach each other in an opposing positional relationship, a tab (32) of a male internal conductor (30) is inserted into a female-side dielectric body (41) and connected to a female internal conductor (42). The female-side dielectric body (41) has an opposing surface (41S) facing the male-side dielectric body (16) and formed with a female-side positioning portion (47). The male-side dielectric body (16) has an opposing surface (22S) facing the female-side dielectric body (41) and formed with a male-side positioning portion (25) which is disposed ahead of the tab (32) and which can be fitted with the female-side positioning portion (47) in a state where the tab (32) is not in contact with the female-side dielectric body (41).Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuya Miyamura, Masaaki Tabata, Yasuo Omori, Kimiyasu Okumura, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Ryutaro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 10734628Abstract: A bus bar terminal includes an electrode connection portion that connects electrode terminals of power storage elements to each other, and a wire connection portion that is to be connected to an electrical wire. Restriction portions are provided between the electrode connection portion and the wire connection portion, and restrict the movement of a liquid adhered to the electrode connection portion toward the wire connection portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2016Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hideo Takahashi, Shinichi Takase, Hiroki Shimodo
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Publication number: 20200238925Abstract: A fixing structure of a vehicle non-electrical wiring member includes: a plate-like member including a first layer and a second layer softer than the first layer; a vehicle non-electrical wiring member mounted on a vehicle together with the plate-like member; and a fixing member attached to the vehicle non-electrical wiring member to fix the vehicle non-electrical wiring member to the plate-like member. The fixing member includes: a through locking piece formed to be able to pass through the first layer and locked to the first layer while passing through the first layer; a regulation piece provided with a space between the regulation piece and the through locking piece to stop the through locking piece from passing through a surface of the plate-like member; and a column connecting the through locking piece and the regulation piece.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2018Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Housei MIZUNO, Shigeki IKEDA, Haruka NAKANO, Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Masaki MIZUSHITA, Takahide TSUJIMURA, Takashi SHODA
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Publication number: 20200234841Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Misato KUSAKARI, Tetsuya KUWABARA, Yoshihiro NAKAI, Taichiro NISHIKAWA, Yasuyuki OTSUKA, Hayato OOI
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Patent number: 10714863Abstract: A male connector (10) includes a male terminal supporting body (30) and a male terminal covering body (50) slidable relative to each other, and a male housing (70) capable of accommodating the male terminal supporting body (30) and the male terminal covering body (50). The male terminal covering body (50) is relatively slidable to a protection position where a covering part (66) covers male tabs (22) and an exposed position where the covering part (66) exposes the male tabs (22). A female connector (100) includes female terminal fittings (120) to be fit into a receptacle (72) and connected to the male tabs (22) at the time of fitting, and has a pressing surface (133) configured to displace the covering part (66) toward the exposed position by pressing the covering part (66) in the process of fitting the female connector into the receptacle (72).Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Miyamura, Masaaki Tabata
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Patent number: 10714872Abstract: A connector structure enables replacement of an STP cable (10B) and a UTP cable (10A) without a large structural change. UTP connection terminals (21A) connected to respective wires (11) of the UTP cable (10A) are accommodated in accommodating portions (26) of a UTP dielectric (22A) such that insertion areas (53) for male terminals (91) are close to each other in a width direction. STP connection terminals (21B) connected to respective wires (11) of the STP cable (10B) are accommodated in accommodating portions (26) of an STP dielectric (22B) such that insertion areas (53) for male terminals (91) are farther apart in the width direction than in the case of the UTP connection terminals (21A). The UTP connection terminals and the STP connection terminals that are accommodated in the accommodating portions (26) have protrusions (34) that are oriented in the same direction when.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyoshi Maesoba, Toshifumi Ichio
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Patent number: 10714842Abstract: An electrical connection assembly and a connection method enable conductors of first and second wires (10A, 10B) to be connected by a simple structure. The electrical connection assembly has first and second wires (10A, 10B) and first and second terminals (20A, 20B) corresponding to the first and second wires (10A, 10B). First and second connecting members (70A, 70B) made of solder are fixed to wire connection surfaces (27a) of the first and second terminals (20A, 20B), and an insulating housing holds the terminals. The first connecting member (70A) includes a bulging portion (72A) bulging from the wire connection surface (27a) of the first terminal (20A) and to be connected electrically to the conductor of the second wire (10B).Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shunya Takeuchi, Yasuo Omori
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Patent number: 10714860Abstract: A joint connector includes shorting members (30), a housing body (HB) having a shorting member accommodating portion (50) for holding the shorting members (30), and a shorting member retainer (70). The shorting member (30) includes a base (32) extending in a shorting direction and shorting-side terminals (34, 36) projecting from this base (32) in a fitting direction. The shorting member retainer (70) is mounted into the housing body (HB) in a mounting/detaching direction intersecting both the shorting direction and the fitting direction. The shorting member retainer (70) includes shorting member constraining portions (74) configured to cross the shorting members (30) in the mounting/detaching direction to restrict movements of the shorting members (30) in the fitting direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiro Washio, Yasuo Omori
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Publication number: 20200220838Abstract: An in-vehicle communication device is an in-vehicle communication device that performs a relay process of relaying data between functional units in an in-vehicle network, and includes a communication unit that performs the relay process using correspondence information indicating a correspondence relation between an Internet protocol (IP) address and a media access control (MAC) address of one or more functional units, an address managing unit that generates the correspondence information, and an authenticating unit that performs an authentication process for the functional unit, in which the authenticating unit performs the authentication process for the functional unit in which an IP address and a MAC address are newly registered in the correspondence information by the address managing unit, and the address managing unit deletes the correspondence relation of the functional unit from the correspondence information when the authentication process for the newly registered functional unit is not successfullyType: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2018Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro OGAWA, Hideki MAEDA, Hirofumi URAYAMA, Takeshi HAGIHARA, Yasuhiro YABUUCHI
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Patent number: 10707586Abstract: A terminal (20) is connected to a core (12) of a wire (13). The terminal (20) includes two wire barrels (25L, 25R) extending from a bottom portion (22) on which the core (12) is placed. The wire barrels (25L, 25R) are crimped to wind around the core (12). The core (12) includes strands (11) made of metal having a larger tensile strength than metal of the female terminal (20). At least first, second and third strands (11J, 11K) and (11L) are disposed side by side in a direction intersecting an extending direction of the core (20) inside the wire barrels (25L, 25R). A tip of the wire barrels (25L, 25R) is inserted between the first and second strands (11J, 11K) and a tip of the other of the pair of wire barrels (25L, 25R) is inserted between the second and third strands (11K, 11L).Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Takanobu Shimada
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Patent number: 10706986Abstract: An aluminum alloy wire is composed of an aluminum alloy. The aluminum alloy contains equal to or more than 0.005 mass % and equal to or less than 2.2 mass % of Fe, and a remainder of Al and an inevitable impurity. In a transverse section of the aluminum alloy wire, a surface-layer crystallization measurement region in a shape of a rectangle having a short side length of 50 ?m and a long side length of 75 ?m is defined within a surface layer region extending from a surface of the aluminum alloy wire by 50 ?m in a depth direction, and an average area of crystallized materials in the surface-layer crystallization measurement region is equal to or more than 0.05 ?m2 and equal to or less than 3 ?m2.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Misato Kusakari, Tetsuya Kuwabara, Yoshihiro Nakai, Taichiro Nishikawa, Yasuyuki Otsuka, Hayato Ooi
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Publication number: 20200213340Abstract: This detection device is configured to detect an unauthorized message in an on-vehicle network mounted in a vehicle, and includes: a message acquisition unit configured to acquire one or a plurality of transmission messages in the on-vehicle network; a data acquisition unit configured to acquire a set of a plurality of types of data that are included in the transmission messages acquired by the message acquisition unit and that correspond to the same time; a storage unit configured to store a detection condition, the detection condition being created in advance and based on a plurality of the sets that respectively correspond to a plurality of times; and a detection unit configured to detect the unauthorized message on the basis of the set acquired by the data acquisition unit and the detection condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2018Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd.Inventor: Yoshihiro HAMADA
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Publication number: 20200203036Abstract: A wire harness includes an electrical wire with sheet material and a tension bearing part. The electrical wire with sheet material includes a sheet material and an electrical wire fixed to the sheet material. The tension bearing part is provided on the sheet material to bear part of tension applied to the electrical wire in a state where the tension is applied to the electrical wire with sheet material.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Housei MIZUNO, Hiroki HIRAI, Makoto HIGASHIKOZONO, Hidetoshi ISHIDA, Yasuo OMORI
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Publication number: 20200203037Abstract: A wire harness includes a base material and electrical wires including a first electrical wire and a second electrical wire and disposed to be stacked in layers on the base material. A fixing means in a first fixing position for keeping the first electrical wire disposed on the base material and a fixing means in a second fixing position for keeping the second electrical wire disposed on the first electrical wire are different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Koji YAMAGUCHI, Housei MIZUNO
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Publication number: 20200198557Abstract: A wire harness fixing structure includes; a silencer disposed between a floor mat and a body in a vehicle; a wire harness disposed along a main surface of the silencer; and fixing member fixing the wire harness to the silencer while being passed through a through hole formed to pass through the silencer in a thickness direction. An inner peripheral surface of the through hole in the silencer is closely attached to the fixing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Housei MIZUNO, Satoshi UJITA, Motohiro YOKOI, Shigeki IKEDA, Daisuke EBATA, Haruka NAKANO
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Publication number: 20200195619Abstract: The on-vehicle communication device is an on-vehicle communication device to be mounted on a vehicle and is provided with: a storage unit configured to store a first encryption time that is a time required for encryption of data in another on-vehicle communication device, and a first decryption time that is a time required for decryption of data in the on-vehicle communication device itself; and a synchronization processing unit configured to perform synchronization processing of carrying out time synchronization of the on-vehicle communication device itself with the another on-vehicle communication device on the basis of the first encryption time and the first decryption time.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2018Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Akihito IWATA, Takeshi HAGIHARA, Yasuhiro YABUUCHI