Patents Assigned to Sumitomo Electric
  • Publication number: 20250257428
    Abstract: A magnetic wire made of an alloy containing iron and cobalt as main components, wherein the magnetic wire has a structure including at least an ? phase of the ? phase and a ? phase, the structure has a high angle grain boundary having a misorientation of 15° or more, the proportion of the area of the ? phase relative to the total area of the ? phase and the ? phase in a cross section of the magnetic wire is 90% or more, the average crystal grain size of the ? phase in the cross section is 2.5 ?m or less, and the proportion of the length of the high angle grain boundary relative to the total length of grain boundaries in the structure in the cross section is 60% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., DAIKOKU ELECTRIC WIRE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto FUJIMOTO, Tooru TANJI
  • Patent number: 12384598
    Abstract: A housing case for a fusion splicer is a housing case for housing the fusion splicer for an optical fiber. The housing case for a fusion splicer includes a case main body including a first side wall, and a lid body attached to the case main body to be openable and closable. The lid body includes a second side wall configured to match the first side wall when closed. At least one of the first side wall and the second side wall includes an insertion portion configured for a cable extending from the inside of the housing case to the outside thereof to be inserted through the insertion portion in a state where the lid body is closed with respect to the case main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Optifrontier Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta Ryono, Kazufumi Joko, Tomoyoshi Sasaki, Ryuichiro Sato
  • Patent number: 12388898
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted communication system includes multiple switch devices that are mounted on a vehicle. At least one of the multiple switch devices is capable of performing intermediate processing that is intermediate information processing on measurement information from a sensor that is mounted on the vehicle. The at least one of the multiple switch devices transmits at least information that is generated by the intermediate processing or the measurement information as relay information to another switch device. The other switch device transmits the relay information that is transmitted to a functional unit that is to perform a target process by using the relay information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Nagamura
  • Publication number: 20250253614
    Abstract: A semiconductor optical device includes a substrate having a silicon layer, a semiconductor element includes a mesa, and the semiconductor element is formed of a III-V group compound semiconductor and has an optical gain. The silicon layer includes a waveguide, a recess, and a first slab portion. The recess is a recessed portion lower than a surface of the waveguide and a surface of the first slab portion, and the recess is provided on each of two sides of the waveguide. The first slab portion is connected to the waveguide. The semiconductor element is bonded to the first slab portion. The mesa is located on or above the first slab portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takuo HIRATANI
  • Publication number: 20250249850
    Abstract: Disclosed is a control board configured to be mounted in a vehicle and capable of rewriting a circuit configuration, the control board including: a connector to which is connected a second end of a cable having a first end connected to a component mounted in the vehicle, the second end being located opposite to the first end; and a control unit configured to perform control of the component, wherein the control unit is configured to obtain, based on component information transmitted from the component via the cable, wiring data relating to an arrangement of a plurality of pins included in the connector, and a control program for controlling the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoya KONO
  • Publication number: 20250253621
    Abstract: A semiconductor optical device includes a substrate having a silicon layer, and a semiconductor element formed of a III-V group compound semiconductor and bonded to the silicon layer. The silicon layer includes a first waveguide, a first recess, a terrace, and a first slab portion. The first recess is a recessed portion lower than a surface of the first waveguide, a surface of the terrace, and a surface of the first slab portion. The first recess and the terrace are disposed in this order on each of two sides of the first waveguide. The first waveguide is connected to one end of the first slab portion. The first slab portion is connected to the terrace. The semiconductor element includes a second slab portion, a projecting portion, and a mesa. The second slab portion is located on or above the first slab portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuo HIRATANI, Takehiko KIKUCHI, Naoko INOUE
  • Publication number: 20250253068
    Abstract: A wire includes: a core; and a shell that covers an outer periphery of the core, wherein the core includes silver, the shell includes 33.0 mass % or more and 37.0 mass % or less of nickel, 9.0 mass % or more and 10.5 mass % or less of molybdenum, 19.0 mass % or more and 21.0 mass % or less of chromium, 0.5 mass % or more and 1.2 mass % or less of titanium, and a remainder including cobalt and an inevitable impurity, a diameter of the wire is 100 ?m or less, and an elongation of the wire is 12% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akiko INOUE, Tooru TANJI, Ryota MATSUGI, Tetsuya KUWABARA, Yuya NAMIKI, Yoshiaki OTAKE, Masamichi NIWATA, Yuji OCHI
  • Patent number: 12377802
    Abstract: A power supply control device includes a first switch, a second switch, and a control unit. The control unit performs a first control of turning the first switch on, and performs, if an abnormality is detected by an abnormality detection unit, on/off control of alternately turning the second switch on and off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Nakaguchi, Masayuki Kato, Kota Oda
  • Patent number: 12377474
    Abstract: A drill head includes a first attachment surface attached to a holder, a head tip surface opposite to the first attachment surface in an axial direction along the central axis, and a head outer peripheral surface continuous with the first attachment surface and the head tip surface. The head outer peripheral surface is provided with a first flute and a second flute extending helically about the central axis from the head tip surface to reach the first attachment surface. The first flute and the second flute are symmetric with respect to the central axis. Each of the first flute and the second flute has a first end and a second end that face each other with a space between them in a circumferential direction along a circumference centered on the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Ryusei Hamada, Kouki Matsubara, Kenta Nishi
  • Patent number: 12381337
    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure is to provide a connector enabling good heat dissipation. A connector 11 according to the one aspect of the present disclosure is provided with a housing 13 made of metal, a flat plate-like busbar 14 to be held in the housing 13, a ceramic member 20 to be interposed between one flat surface 14a of the busbar 14 and a contact portion 19 of the housing 13, and compression coil springs 21 for pressing another flat surface 14b of the busbar 14 toward the contact portion 19.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Kanematsu, Junichi Mukuno
  • Patent number: 12381864
    Abstract: A network having a new configuration is flexibly constructed through a simple process while ensuring security in the network. A setting device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an authentication result regarding a new function unit serving as a function unit newly added to an in-vehicle network including one or a plurality of function units; and a setting unit configured to, when the authentication result acquired by the acquisition unit is affirmative, perform a setting process for allowing the new function unit and an existing function unit serving as a function unit included in the in-vehicle network before the new function unit is added thereto, to perform communication via a plurality of relay devices capable of relaying information between the function units, the setting process being regarding at least one of the relay devices, the existing function unit, and the new function unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Yamamoto, Takeshi Hagihara, Darmawan Go, Yosuke Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12380197
    Abstract: The information providing system includes a mobile terminal and a server device that communicates with the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes: a sensor that reads a facility ID used to identify at least one facility; and a communication device that transmits, to the server device, the facility ID read by the sensor and a user ID used to identify a user of the mobile terminal. The server device includes: a memory that stores a plurality of types of facility-related information; a processor that extracts, from the plurality of types of facility-related information stored in the memory, facility-related information corresponding to the facility ID and the user ID transmitted from the mobile terminal; and a communication device that transmits, to the mobile terminal, the facility-related information extracted by the processor. The mobile terminal includes a display on which the facility-related information transmitted from the server device is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Masanobu Oe
  • Publication number: 20250247262
    Abstract: In a communication system, a plurality of control apparatuses control respective operations of a plurality of on-board devices. A communication apparatus communicates with the plurality of control apparatuses. A plurality of switches are provided for a plurality of supply paths for respectively supplying power to the plurality of control apparatuses. The plurality of switches are each associated in advance with one of the plurality of on-board devices. The communication apparatus includes a processing unit configured to perform processing. The processing unit is configured to provide an instruction to turn on a specific switch included in the plurality of switches. After providing the instruction to turn on the specific switch, the processing unit is configured to provide an instruction to transmit device data indicating an on-board device corresponding to the specific switch, to the plurality of control apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koki SAKAKIBARA, Kota ODA
  • Publication number: 20250246439
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor optical device is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor optical device including a substrate having a silicon layer and a semiconductor element having a III-V group compound semiconductor layer. The silicon layer is provided with a waveguide, a terrace, and an outgassing countermeasure structure, and the outgassing countermeasure structure includes a portion recessed from an upper surface of the silicon layer. The method includes bringing the semiconductor element into contact with the upper surface of the silicon layer by disposing the semiconductor element over the waveguide and the outgassing countermeasure structure, and bonding the semiconductor element to the substrate by performing a thermal treatment after the bringing into contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2024
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoko INOUE, Takehiko KIKUCHI, Naoki FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20250246825
    Abstract: A terminal block that is to be fixed to a case of a device and to which an electrically conductive member is to be fastened by a bolt, the terminal block including: a nut to which the bolt is to be screwed; a heat sink that includes a heat dissipation portion configured to come into contact with a coolant for cooling the device; and an insulator that electrically insulates the nut and the heat sink from each other, wherein the heat sink includes a rib located around the nut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki ABE, Daisuke HASHIMOTO, Masaharu SUETANI, Kentaro TACHI
  • Publication number: 20250242415
    Abstract: A cemented carbide consists of a first hard phase, second hard phases, and a binder phase, wherein the first hard phase is composed of tungsten carbide grains, a D10 and a D90 of grain sizes of the tungsten carbide grains are 0.40 ?m or more and 2.00 ?m or less respectively, the second hard phases are composed of at least one first compound selected from the group consisting of TaNbC, TaNbN, TaNbCN, TiCN, TiNbC, TiNbN, and TiNbCN, the cemented carbide includes 0.30% to 1.60% by volume of the second hard phases, an average of circularities of the second hard phases is 0.10 to 0.32, a standard deviation of the circularity is 0.094 to 0.130, the binder phase includes 50% by mass or more of cobalt, and the cemented carbide includes 8.0% to 12.0% by volume of the binder phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuki KIDO, Yoshihiro KIMURA, Atsuhiro YONEDA, Yuki TANAKA, Keiichi TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20250242416
    Abstract: A cemented carbide consisting of a first hard phase, second hard phases, and a binder phase, wherein the first hard phase is composed of tungsten carbide grains, a D10 and a D90 of grain sizes of the tungsten carbide grains are 0.40 ?m and 2.00 ?m respectively, the second hard phases are composed of at least one first compound selected from the group consisting of TaNbC, TaNbN, TaNbCN, TiCN, TiNbC, TiNbN, and TiNbCN, the cemented carbide includes 0.30% to 1.60% by volume of the second hard phases, a median of a distance between centroids of two of the second hard phases that are closest is 4 to 15 ?m, a coefficient of variation of the distance between centroids is 1.20 to 1.90, the binder phase includes 50% by mass or more of cobalt, and the cemented carbide includes 8.0 to 14.0% by volume of the binder phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuki KIDO, Yoshihiro KIMURA, Atsuhiro YONEDA, Yuki TANAKA, Keiichi TSUDA
  • Patent number: D1087190
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Yifan Wen, Yosuke Shimamoto, Naoya Tsuda
  • Patent number: D1087191
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Yifan Wen, Yosuke Shimamoto, Naoya Tsuda
  • Patent number: D1087192
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Yifan Wen, Yosuke Shimamoto, Naoya Tsuda