Patents Assigned to Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
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Patent number: 11832424Abstract: Provided is an electronic module including a housing case for housing a relay, a heat transfer sheet placed on one wall portion of the housing case, a bus bar that is connected to the relay and is partially in contact with the heat transfer sheet, and a pressing portion that presses the bus bar against the heat transfer sheet.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventor: Kazuya Komaki
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Patent number: 11830650Abstract: A reactor includes a coil having a wound part, a magnetic core, and a holding member holding an end face of the wound part in an axial direction and the outer core part. The holding member being a frame-shaped body having a through hole into which an end portion of the inner core part in the axial direction is inserted, the outer core part having an inward surface opposing the inner core part, an outward surface on an opposite side to the inward surface, and a plurality of peripheral surfaces joining between the inward surface and the outward surface. The reactor includes an outer retraining member pressing the outer core part against the holding member. The outer retraining member has a pressing piece pressing the outward surface of the outer core part, and an engaging leg piece extending from the pressing piece and having a distal end engaging the holding member.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Kohei Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 11831107Abstract: A connector disclosed by this specification is provided with a shielded cable including a conductive shield portion for covering outer peripheries of two coated wires and a sheath portion for covering an outer periphery of the shield portion, a first outer conductor including a tubular portion and to be connected to the shield portion, a second outer conductor including two plate-like fixing barrels to be crimped to wind around an outer surface of the tubular portion in a circumferential direction, and a housing including a module accommodating portion for accommodating an outer conductor formed by the first and second outer conductors by the fixing barrels being crimped to the tubular portion. The module accommodating portion includes a central ceiling wall capable of pressing the fixing barrels toward proper crimping positions in the process of accommodating the outer conductor.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyoshi Maesoba, Toshifumi Ichio
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Patent number: 11827165Abstract: A wire harness including a wire harness body including an electric wire, an exterior tube that covers an outer circumferential surface of the electric wire, and a first path regulator configured to be attached to an outer circumferential surface of the exterior tube and regulate a path of the exterior tube; and an attachment configured to be attached to an outer circumferential surface of the first path regulator in a lengthwise portion of the first path regulator.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Kosuke Tanaka, Katsutoshi Izawa, Ryuta Saito
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Patent number: 11830638Abstract: A covered electrical wire comprises a conductor and an insulating covering layer provided outside the conductor, the conductor being a stranded wire composed of a plurality of copper alloy wires composed of a copper alloy and twisted together, and having a wire diameter of 0.5 mm or less, the copper alloy containing Fe in an amount of 0.1% by mass or more and 1.6% by mass or less, P in an amount of 0.05% by mass or more and 0.7% by mass or less, and one or more elements selected from Ni, Al, Cr and Co in an amount of 0.01% by mass or more and 0.7% by mass or less in total, with a balance being Cu and impurities.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd.Inventors: Kei Sakamoto, Akiko Inoue, Tetsuya Kuwabara, Yusuke Oshima, Minoru Nakamoto, Kazuhiro Nanjo, Taichiro Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Nakai, Yasuyuki Otsuka, Fumitoshi Imasato, Hiroyuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11827164Abstract: A wire harness routing member that routes a plurality of electric wires in a vehicle, the wire harness routing member including: a base plate that is arranged below a floor panel of a passenger compartment; and a wire harness having the plurality of electric wires fixed to the base plate, wherein at least one electric wire out of the plurality of electric wires is a continuous electric wire with a first end extending from a surface of the base plate or an edge of the base plate and being arranged in a front space of the vehicle or a rear space of the vehicle, and a second end extending from the edge of the base plate and being arranged in the front space of the vehicle or the rear space of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Hiroki Hirai, Ryoya Okamoto, Taiji Yanagida
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Publication number: 20230378684Abstract: A wiring member includes: a connector housing including at least one housing body, with an opening in one main surface and a housing groove concaved toward another main surface, and a cover attached to the housing body; a wire-like transmission member including an end portion housed in the housing groove; and a filling member filling the housing groove. The housing body includes a bottom wall part and a sidewall part as wall parts of the housing groove. The cover includes a cover body part overlapped with the one main surface of the housing body to cover the housing groove. The filling member is also provided between a portion of the one main surface serving as a tip end surface of the sidewall part and the cover body part.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2021Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicants: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daisuke EBATA, Takuya KABA, Masaki MIZUSHITA, Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Yusuke MITANI, Itsuo WAKABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230378735Abstract: A wire harness including: an electric wire; an exterior tube that covers an outer periphery of the electric wire; a path regulator that extends along a lengthwise direction of the exterior tube while covering a portion in a circumferential direction of an outer periphery of the exterior tube, and regulates a path along which the electric wire is routed; and a fixing member that holds the path regulator and is fixed to a vehicle body.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2021Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Kosuke TANAKA, Katsutoshi IZAWA, Ryuta SAITO
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Publication number: 20230373410Abstract: A wire harness to be attached to a vehicle body, the wire harness including: a wire harness main body having an electrical wire and an exterior tube covering the electrical wire; a first path restrictor attached to an outer periphery of the exterior tube and restricting a path of a straight part which is a portion of a path of the wire harness main body that is straight; a second path restrictor attached to the outer periphery of the exterior tube and restricting a path of a bent part which is a portion of the path of the wire harness main body that bends; and a connector having an annular shape surrounding the outer periphery of the exterior tube and an outer periphery of the second path restrictor, and connecting the exterior tube and the second path restrictor to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2021Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Katsutoshi IZAWA, Kosuke TANAKA, Ryuta SAITO
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Patent number: 11824334Abstract: A wiring member includes: a main line portion in which a plurality of electric wires are gathered; a plurality of branch line portions formed by branching the plurality of electric wires from an end portion of the main line portion; a water sealing portion that closes a gap between the plurality of branch line portions at a branch portion where the plurality of branch line portions branch from the end portion of the main line portion; and a resin portion molded to cover the water sealing portion in a state in which the resin portion is in close contact with an outer peripheral portion of the main line portion adjacent to the branch portion and outer peripheral portions of the plurality of branch line portions adjacent to the branch portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Hironobu Yamamoto, Kyungwoo Kim, Toshinari Kobayashi, Moriyuki Shimizu, Yukitoshi Terasaka
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Patent number: 11824284Abstract: A trunk cable 12 includes a signal trunk conductor 31 that is electromagnetically shielded by a shield layer 35. A branch cable 13 includes a signal branch conductor 38 that is electromagnetically shielded by a shield layer 42. The signal trunk conductor 31 and the signal branch conductor 38 are electrically connected to each other by a relay bus bar 64 that is electromagnetically shielded by a base shielding member 65 and a cover shielding member 27.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Yamamoto, Hiroki Hirai, Makoto Higashikozono, Kazuyoshi Ohara, Hisashi Sawada
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Patent number: 11824313Abstract: The present disclosure provides a connection terminal and a connector capable of suppressing a temperature increase during energization. A vehicle-side connector 10 includes a vehicle-side terminal 50 made of metal and a heat storage body 60 held in the vehicle-side terminal 50. The vehicle-side terminal 50 includes a terminal connecting portion 51 to be electrically connected to a charger-side terminal 82, a wire connecting portion 54 to be electrically connected to a wire 70 and a holding portion 56 integrally formed to the terminal connecting portion 51 and the wire connecting portion 54. The heat storage body 60 is held in the holding portion 56.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yuki Hashimoto, Katsuhiko Aizawa, Akihiro Hayashi
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Patent number: 11824296Abstract: A terminal includes a tube portion 33, into which a mating terminal is inserted, and a resiliently deformable resilient piece 34 disposed in the tube portion 33. The resilient piece 34 includes an inner contact point 37 located inside the tube portion 33 to contact the mating terminal, and an outer contact point 40 located outside the tube portion 33 to contact a conductor different from the mating terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Shinji Nozaki
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Patent number: 11824335Abstract: The present invention aims to suppress a case in which paths of linear transmission members are disturbed on a sheet-shaped member or linear transmission members separate from a sheet-shaped member when a wiring member obtained by fixing linear transmission members on a sheet-shaped member is folded. The wiring member includes a sheet-shaped member and multiple linear transmission members that are fixed on the sheet-shaped member. The plurality of linear transmission members are fixed on the sheet-shaped member such that a portion of the plurality of linear transmission members branches with respect to another said linear transmission member at a branching portion. An intersection location of the plurality of linear transmission members is located at only the branching portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hidetoshi Ishida, Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Haruka Nakano, Suguru Yasuda
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Publication number: 20230365078Abstract: A door wiring module includes a service hole cover having a main surface with a groove, at least one wiring member housed in the groove, and a wiring cover covering an opening of the groove. A first attachment part and a second attachment part are provided on both sides of the groove in the main surface of the service hole cover. The service hole cover and the wiring cover are provided so that they can be in a free state where a space is formed between the second end portion and the second attachment part in a temporal attachment state where the first end portion of the wiring cover is attached to the first attachment part and the second end portion of the wiring cover is not attached to the second attachment part.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Housei MIZUNO, Koji YAMAGUCHI, Makoto HIGASHIKOZONO, Junichi SHIRAKAWA, Satoru AOI
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Publication number: 20230365852Abstract: A thermally conductive filler can exhibit high thermal conductive properties with a reduced specific gravity, a thermally-conductive composite material and a wire harness contains such a thermally conductive filler, and a method manufactures a thermally conductive filler. A thermally conductive filler contains base particles and a coating layer coating the particles, the coating layer contains a gel-like substance that is bonded to the surfaces of the base particles through chemical bonding and coats the surfaces of the base particles, and a thermally-conductive substance that is dispersed in the layer of the gel-like substance and has a higher thermal conductivity and a larger specific gravity than the base particles and the gel-like substance. Also, a thermally-conductive composite material is obtained by dispersing the thermally conductive filler in a matrix material. Furthermore, a wire harness contains the thermally-conductive composite material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATIONInventors: Naoyuki OSHIUMI, Takehiro HOSOKAWA, Kazuo NAKASHIMA, Hironobu RACHI, Takashi KAWAKAMI, Yusaku MAEDA, Makoto MIZOGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230365851Abstract: A thermally conductive additive is excellent in thermal conductivity improvement effect and has high processability, and a thermally conductive composite material and a wire harness each contain such a thermally conductive additive. The thermally conductive additive includes an organic component and a metal-containing component, where the organic component is configured as an organic compound including a coordination part that can multidentate-coordinate to a metal, and at least one functional group bonded to the coordination part and having a conjugated ?-electron system, and the organic component coordinates in the coordination part to a metal atom constituting the metal-containing component to form a coordination complex. The thermally conductive composite material includes the thermally conductive additive and a matrix material, where the thermally conductive additive is dispersed in the matrix material. The wire harness includes the thermally conductive composite material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATIONInventors: Naoyuki OSHIUMI, Takehiro HOSOKAWA, Makoto MIZOGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230365080Abstract: A door wiring module includes: a first service hole cover covering a first service hole formed in an inner panel; a second service hole cover covering a second service hole formed in the inner panel; and a plurality of wiring members, wherein the plurality of wiring members include: a first wiring member held by the first service hole cover to be directed to a first door apparatus; and a second wiring member held by the second service hole cover to be directed to a second door apparatus, and the plurality of wiring members include a connection route portion connecting the first service hole cover and the second service hole cover, and being bendable.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Koji YAMAGUCHI, Housei MIZUNO
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Patent number: 11817236Abstract: A grommet includes an opposing portion 32 that opposes a portion surrounding a mounting hole 12 in a vehicle body panel 11, and a second water-blocking portion 34 that extends from the opposing portion 32 and comes in contact with the vehicle body panel 11. The second water-blocking portion 34 is formed in an annular shape that is to surround the mounting hole 12. The second water-blocking portion 34 is provided with a base portion 40 that extends from the opposing portion 32 toward the vehicle body panel 11, a first lip portion 41 that extends from the leading end of the base portion 40 and comes in contact with the vehicle body panel 11, and a second lip portion 42 that extends from the leading end of the base portion 40 and comes in contact with the vehicle body panel 11.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventor: Yusuke Ando
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Publication number: 20230356676Abstract: A door wiring module includes a plurality of wiring members and an inner side route regulation member and an outer side route regulation member regulating routes of the plurality of wiring members. The plurality of wiring members include: an outer side regulation route portion disposed between the outer panel and the inner panel so that a route of the outer side regulation route portion is regulated by the outer side route regulation member; an inner side regulation route portion disposed closer to an inner side of a vehicle interior than the outer side regulation route portion so that a route of the inner side regulation route portion is regulated by the inner side route regulation member; and a connection route portion between the inner side regulation route portion and the outer side regulation route portion. The connection route portion includes an easy-bending part bended more easily than the outer side regulation route portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Housei MIZUNO, Koji YAMAGUCHI