Patents Assigned to J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
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Publication number: 20250132511Abstract: A substrate connector includes a terminal and an inner housing. The terminal includes a first connecting portion extending in a first direction, a second connecting portion extending in a second direction, and a bridge portion. The bridge portion includes a first extending portion extending in the first direction from the first connecting portion, a second extending portion extending in the second direction from the second connecting portion, and a curved portion connecting the first extending portion and the second extending portion. The second extending portion includes a pair of press-fit protrusions protruding in directions opposite to each other in the third direction. The second extending portion and the curved portion are accommodated in an accommodation groove provided in an end surface of the inner housing in the first direction. A pair of press-fit protrusions are press-fitted and fixed in a pair of inner side surfaces of the accommodation groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2024Publication date: April 24, 2025Applicant: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji WADA, Kazumasa OI
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Publication number: 20250055224Abstract: An electrical connector includes a fixed housing, a movable housing, and a plurality of terminals. The movable housing includes a guide portion that is provided with an opening and receives a plurality of partner connection members, and a plurality of insertion holes that are arranged side by side inside the guide portion and respectively receive insertion of the partner connection members. An inner wall of the guide portion includes first inclined surfaces that are respectively provided at two end sides in the width direction and widen in a tapered manner while extending in the height direction and outward in the width direction. Second inclined surfaces, which are provided between each pair of the insertion holes adjacent to each other in the width direction, extend in a tapered manner toward the entrances of the insertion holes. The first inclined surfaces have a larger dimension in the width direction and dimension in the height direction than the second inclined surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoru SHINDO, Teppei UETSUJI, Masaki TAKEDA
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Publication number: 20240356272Abstract: A waterproof connector includes a terminal, a housing, an annular seal, a tubular cover, and a retainer. The housing includes a connector portion capable of being fitted to a fitting recess portion of a mating housing in a fitting direction. The seal is fitted to an outer peripheral surface of the connector portion and seal a space between the outer peripheral surface of the connector portion and an inner peripheral surface in the fitting recess portion of the mating housing. The cover includes an end wall portion and a tubular portion extending from the end wall portion in an opposite direction of the fitting direction, the tubular portion to be fitted to the outer peripheral surface of the connector portion. A regulating end surface of the tubular portion regulates movement of the seal in the fitting direction with respect to the connector portion by being abutted with a first annular end surface of the seal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinya MASADA, Saki KATSUMOTO, Chika KADONO
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Patent number: 12113318Abstract: The present invention provides a further miniaturized coaxial connector. A coaxial connector includes a contact by three-point contact, a housing including a first and a second connection base, and a shell including a cylindrical portion accommodating the first connection base and an extension portion accommodating the second connection base. The contact disposed inside an accommodation space on the first connection base, includes three terminals including a pair of fixed terminals and a movable terminal that are erected from a tip end side of a metal plate. The pair of fixed terminals are located at a set of vertices among vertices of a virtual equilateral triangle inscribed in a mating contact, the movable terminal is located at the other vertex of the virtual equilateral triangle, and a contact surface of the movable terminal is disposed in a state of facing an intermediate portion of the pair of fixed terminals.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Koga, Akihiko Otsu
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Publication number: 20240322464Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and a contact having a bellows contact structure. The contact has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped frame body including an upper-surface portion, a lower-surface portion, and a pair of side surface portions facing each other therebetween. At one end of the substantially rectangular parallelepiped frame body in a longitudinal direction, a contact-spring portion for contacting with a mating terminal is provided. At the other end of the substantially rectangular parallelepiped frame body in the longitudinal direction, a fixing portion that is fixed to the housing is provided. The contact has an elastic structure that is included in the substantially rectangular parallelepiped frame body interposed between the contact-spring portion and the fixing portion. The elastic structure of the contact is segmented into the upper-surface portion, the pair of side-surface portions, and the lower-surface portion of the substantially rectangular parallelepiped frame body.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaki TSUJIMOTO, Hideya OKAZAKI
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Publication number: 20240322469Abstract: A connector includes a housing that includes an insertion recess portion into which the connection member is insertable from an end of the connection member in an insertion direction, a contact, and an insertion-resistance-giving member to give insertion resistance to the connection member through a projection. The projection protrudes from a side opposite to a contact portion of the contact into the insertion recess portion at a position away from the contact portion in a direction opposite to the insertion direction. When the connection member is inserted into the insertion recess portion, the connection member moves through a predetermined distance in the insertion direction until the end of the connection member comes into contact with a halfway portion of an inclined portion of the contact after the projection completes a run-aground operation in which the projection runs aground on an outer surface of a reinforcement plate in the end of the connection member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicant: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuto MIURA, Daisuke ITO
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Publication number: 20240213714Abstract: Provided is an electrical connector capable of suppressing damage to a contact and facilitating insertion of a plug connector into an insertion opening. A base connector (10), which has an insertion opening (13a) into which a plug connector (2) is inserted, includes a pair of guide portions (14b) that are provided so as to be capable of protruding and retracting from both width-direction sides of the insertion opening (13a), and that guide both width-direction sides of the plug connector (2) that moves toward the insertion opening (13a).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masaki TSUJIMOTO
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Publication number: 20240204454Abstract: A connector includes at least one contact, a connector housing that holds the contact inside thereof and that includes a fixing slot in one of outer surfaces thereof and an introduction opening that communicates to the fixing slot on a rear side in a mating direction of the connector, a lock member that is press-fitted and fixed to the fixing slot by being inserted from the introduction opening along the mating direction, and keeps a mated state with a mating connector when being locked to a portion to be locked of the mating connector, and a retaining member that is fixed to the introduction opening by being inserted from a direction different from the mating direction and prevents movement of the lock member rearward in the mating direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki MATSUMOTO, Yoshinori HAYAKAWA, Kazuya IZAWA, Hayato CHIBA
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Publication number: 20240039356Abstract: A stator includes a core having a yoke having an annular shape, and teeth protruding toward a center of the yoke and provided at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction of the yoke, a coil disposed to surround the teeth, a power line connected to a coil end portion of the coil, protruding in an axial direction of the core, and having one end and the other end, the power line having a terminal portion connected to the other end opposite to the one end connected to the coil end portion, a bent portion bent to extend in a predetermined direction, and a coating portion coating the bent portion over both ends of the bent portion, and a mold portion surrounding the coil end portion and integrally surrounding the coil end portion, the one end of the power line, and at least part of the coating portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd., MATSUO INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Yosuke KURONO, Tsuyoshi Matsuo, Naoya Takeshita, Syunpei Kuno
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Patent number: 11888259Abstract: A retainer is inserted and fitted into an engagement hole that is open in a first direction of a housing where the first direction, a second direction, and a third direction are defined as mutually-orthogonal three directions. An engagement portion is disposed at each of a pair of inner wall surfaces facing each other in the second direction in an inner peripheral wall of the engagement hole. The retainer includes a pair of first outer surfaces facing each other in the first direction, a pair of second outer surfaces facing each other in the second direction, and a pair of third outer surfaces facing each other in the third direction. A long hole passing through the third outer surface in the third direction is formed so as to be adjacent to each of the second outer surfaces, and extends in the first direction defined as a longitudinal direction. A beam portion supported at both ends by a pair of longitudinal-direction end portions is formed between the long hole and the second outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki Obie, Yuji Miyazaki
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Patent number: 11848520Abstract: An electrical connection structure comprises a base member, a connector, and a mating connector. The electrical connection structure comprises a half-fitting detecting mechanism including a half-fitting detecting portion in the connector and a short-circuiting member in the mating connector. The half-fitting detecting portion includes a conductive member and an inspecting member. The half-fitting detecting portion allows a half-fitting state to be detected by the short-circuiting member being in non-contact with the inspecting member when in the half-fitting state. The inspecting member short-circuits with the conductive member via the short-circuiting member by the mating engaging portion of the short-circuiting member being engaged with the engaging portion of the connector and being in contact with a contact part of the inspecting member and the short-circuiting member being in contact with the conductive member when in a normal fitting state.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Yoshinori Hayakawa, Kazuya Izawa
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Publication number: 20230344181Abstract: A connector structure (CS) includes an adapter (1) to be fitted to an opposing connector (100) that includes opposing terminals (102, 103) in parallel with each other and a connector (2) to be fitted to the adapter (1) in a fitting direction (X1). The connector includes a connector housing (3), a center terminal (4), and an outer terminal (5). The center terminal (4) includes a center terminal portion (40) with a central axis (C1) extending in the fitting direction. The outer terminal (5) includes a cylindrical outer terminal portion (50) that concentrically encloses the center terminal portion (40). The adapter (1) includes an adapter housing (7), a first intermediate contact (8), and a second intermediate contact (9). The adapter housing (7) and the connector housing (3) are rotatable relative to each other about the central axis (C1).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki MATSUMOTO, Nozomi KAWAI
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Patent number: 11799236Abstract: A cable connector includes: a housing including a cylindrical fitting protrusion to be inserted into a fitting opening of a mating connector; and a retainer that enables insertion of the fitting protrusion into the mating connector only when a cable accommodated in the housing is at a regular insertion position, in which the retainer includes a lock protrusion that is at a position where fitting with the mating connector is prevented when a cable accommodated in the housing is at an irregular insertion position, and is movable to a position where fitting with the mating connector is enabled when the cable is at the regular insertion position.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Kenichi Nishimoto
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Publication number: 20230335949Abstract: A connector includes: a connector body including a lever arm having a first lock portion locked to a to-be-locked member of a mating connector when the connector body is fitted to the mating connector; and a second lock portion provided on the connector body so as to be slidable in a width direction orthogonal to a fitting direction to the mating connector. When the connector body is fitted to the mating connector, the second lock portion is released from a locked state to the connector body, by the mating connector, is slid in the width direction to a position where the second lock portion interferes with the lever arm, and restricts a release operation of the first lock portion from the to-be-locked member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki MATSUMOTO, Shinya MASADA, Hayato CHIBA
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Patent number: 11777263Abstract: The present invention provides a coaxial connector capable of reducing harness processing steps. A coaxial connector includes a contact by three-point contact, a housing including a first and a second connection base, and a shell including a cylindrical portion accommodating the first connection base and an extension portion accommodating the second connection base. The central conductor of a cable is placed on an installation surface of a contact located in a predetermined part of a housing, and a crimp housing with a slot cut out to allow pressure on the periphery of the center conductor is used. The crimp housing is held in the housing and enclosed and tightened by a pair of crimp barrels (the first barrel) provided in the shell. This allows the central conductor to be securely crimped to the installation surface of the contact.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Koga, Akihiko Otsu
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Patent number: 11769958Abstract: The present invention provides a connector that can be easily and properly connected to a sheet-like electrically conductive member that is provided with a plurality of electrically conductive portions arranged at different height positions in the thickness direction. A connector 1 includes a plurality of contacts 2, a body housing 5 that holds the contacts 2, and a cover housing 7 that is attached to the body housing 5. The body housing 5 has a plurality of holding portions 51 that hold the contacts 2. The holding portions 51 are provided in the body housing 5 so as to hold the contacts 2 at different height positions in the thickness direction of the body housing 5. A plurality of electrically conductive portions 101 come into contact with the contacts 2 in a state where an electrically conductive member 100 is sandwiched between the cover housing 7 and the body housing 5.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignees: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD., TATSUTA ELECTRIC WIRE & CABLE CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Maeta, Shouzaburo Koyama, Tsugumi Takamatsu, Takashi Iwamoto, Koujirou Ikoma, Hiroshi Araki
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Publication number: 20230246352Abstract: A connector of the present invention includes a fixed housing, a movable housing, a plurality of terminals, and a metal movement restricting member to be attached to the fixed housing. The movable housing includes a main body portion for insertion in a loose-fit state into an insertion hole of the fixed housing, and a protrusion portion projecting from the main body portion. In the state where the main body portion has been inserted into the insertion hole, the protrusion portion projects from the main body portion along a perpendicular direction that is perpendicular to both the insertion direction and the width direction. When the main body portion becomes displaced in a direction opposite to the insertion direction, the movement restricting member restricts the amount of displacement of the movable housing by abutting against the protrusion portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoru SHINDO, Hiroshi KITAMURA, Teppei UETSUJI
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Publication number: 20230178921Abstract: A contact is provided with an engaging portion for engaging with a housing. The housing is provided with an insertion end portion for insertion of the contact, a connection end portion for connection to a partner connection target, a contact insertion hole, and an engagement arm extending in a cantilevered manner from the connection end portion toward the insertion end portion. The engagement arm includes an engaged portion for engaging with the engaging portion, and an extension arm portion extending from the engaged portion toward the insertion end portion. The extension arm portion faces an inner wall defining the contact insertion hole with a space therebetween, and restricts the flexing amount of the engagement arm by the tip side of the extension arm portion abutting against the inner wall when the engagement arm flexes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co. Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitomo MASUTANI, Takahiro ISHIKAWA
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Patent number: 11658446Abstract: A relay connector connects a plurality of front female terminals that are fitted from a front side in a front-rear direction and a plurality of rear female terminals that are fitted from a rear side in the front-rear direction together. The relay connector includes a housing and a busbar. The housing includes a front insertion recess portion, a rear insertion recess portion, an intermediate wall portion, and a busbar holding portion disposed at the intermediate wall portion. The busbar includes a base portion, a rear tab, an extension portion extending from the base portion to the same side in an up-down direction, and a front tab extending from an extension end of the extension portion to the front-insertion-recess-portion side. The rear tab includes a rear held portion adjacent to the base portion and a rear male terminal portion housed in the rear insertion recess portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Shozaburo Koyama, Yuto Mantani
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Patent number: 11641069Abstract: A connector includes multiple first terminals, multiple second terminals, and a housing that holds the terminals. The first terminals are arranged side-by-side in a width direction of the housing, and the second terminals are also arranged side-by-side in the width direction. In the housing, the first terminals are arranged side-by-side with the second terminals in a front-rear direction that is perpendicular to the width direction. In a state where first electrical wires are connected to the first terminals and second electrical wires are connected to the second terminals, the first electrical wires are drawn out to one side in the front-rear direction of the housing, and the second electrical wires are drawn out to the other side in the front-rear direction of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.Inventor: Ryo Naemura