Patents Assigned to YAZAKI CORPORATION AND
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Publication number: 20240145997Abstract: A wire harness includes a twisted cable and a connector, wherein the connector includes a plurality of connector terminals to which conductor portions respectively extending from end portions of the plurality of coated electric wires in the untwisted portion to be in an exposure state are fusion welded; and a connector housing formed of an insulating resin and in which a plurality of terminal accommodation rooms are provided, wherein each of the plurality of terminal accommodation rooms is formed in a tubular shape, and the plurality of connector terminals together with the plurality of coated electric wires in the untwisted portion are accommodated in the plurality of terminal accommodation rooms in a one-to-one correspondence by an accommodation length that is at least longer than a conductor length of the conductor portion connected to each connector terminal in a length direction of each coated electric wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Hirohito NAKATA
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Publication number: 20240145125Abstract: A water-stop structure of a wire bundle includes a plurality of wires, a thermoplastic resin sheet being provided to be wound around the plurality of wires, and a heat shrinkable tube with which the thermoplastic resin sheet is covered. A gap between the plurality of wires is filled with the thermoplastic resin sheet being heated and softened.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Eiichi TOHYAMA, Michitake MASUDA, Hideyuki WADA
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Publication number: 20240145124Abstract: A water-proof structure for electric wire includes a pair of electric wires, a pair of first positioning members, and a molded body. The electric wires include core wire exposed parts each in which a core wire is exposed by peeling off an insulation sheath. The first positioning members hold the electric wires spaced from each other and position the electric wires in a height direction of the electric wires. The molded body is molded with resin such that the core wire exposed parts are sealed in a state where the electric wires are positioned by the first positioning members.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Eiichi Tohyama, Michitake Masuda, Hideyuki Wada
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Patent number: 11972379Abstract: A component manufacturing system includes a main base, a first production base and a second production base. The main base designs a common wire harness and optional wire harnesses. The main base has a first order function of determining the number of common wire harnesses to be produced based on temporary order information and placing an order with the first production base, and a second order function of acquiring order confirmation information from the customer at a timing closer to a delivery date than the temporary order information and placing an order with the second production base for the completed wire harness based on the confirmation information.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Takanori Fujisawa, Tetsuya Onoda
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Patent number: 11971768Abstract: A power supply control device controls charging and discharging of a power supply device including a plurality of power supply units which are connected in parallel to a load and a power generation unit. The power supply control device has relationship information indicating a relationship among a discharge current flowing from the power supply device to the load, a discharge current ratio that is a ratio of output currents of the plurality of power supply units, and a power loss of the power supply device, acquires a measured value of the discharge current, obtains, from the relationship information, the discharge current ratio at which the power loss of the power supply device corresponding to the acquired measured value of the discharge current is minimized, and adjusts the discharge current ratio so as to match with the discharge current ratio obtained from the relationship information.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Syouda
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Publication number: 20240133056Abstract: A control unit is configured to communicate with a terminal owned by a power company. When a hydrogen generation request is received from the terminal, the control unit determines whether hydrogen is to be generated based on a state of a hydrogen generation device, and transmits a determination result to the terminal. When a power sale request is received from the terminal, the control unit determines whether power is to be sold based on a state of the hydrogen generation device, and transmits a determination result to the terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Koji IKEGAYA
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Publication number: 20240132058Abstract: A vehicle system includes a plurality of devices and a controller. The plurality of devices are mounted on the vehicle, and each of the devices implements a function having a safety standard of a predetermined level set therein. The controller is capable of executing processing related to the safety standard on the devices, and includes a plurality of ECUs respectively allocated for the levels of the safety standards. The plurality of ECUs are respectively connected to the devices in which the safety standards of the allocated levels are set without being connected to the devices in which the safety standards of different levels are set, and execute, on the connected devices, processing related to the safety standards according to the allocated levels. Accordingly, the vehicle system can appropriately construct a system that secures safety.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Nobuhiro SUGIYAMA, You Yanagida, Naomi Kisu, Katsumi Sato, Hiromu Ike
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Publication number: 20240133223Abstract: An open-and-close structure 1A for a cap includes a housing 2, a cap 3 rotatably supported on the housing 2, and a biasing member 43 configured to apply a biasing force near a rotation shaft 42 of the cap 3, wherein open position-maintaining means configured to maintain the cap 3 at an open position by a biasing force of the biasing member 43 and reaction force application means configured to apply a reaction force in a closing direction by the biasing member 43 to the cap 3 in response to a further movement of the cap 3 in an open direction from the open position are provided on at least one of a support portion 32 that is a cap-side sliding contact portion or a sliding contact member 45 that is a biasing member-side sliding contact portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Tomokazu IWAMI, Yoshinobu FURUYA
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Publication number: 20240136757Abstract: A charging inlet includes: an inlet housing including a connection mechanism and a connection mechanism wall surface surrounding the connection mechanism, the connection mechanism being configured for connection to a partner connector; and a design cover including a design surface and a cover inner wall surface, the design surface having a hole in which the connection mechanism being exposed, wherein the cover inner wall surface faces the connection mechanism wall surface and the design cover is attached to the inlet housing with the design surface covering a circumferential outer region of the connection mechanism, wherein a plurality of crushed ribs is provided on the cover inner wall surface, the crushed ribs being in contact with the connection mechanism wall surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Shintaro HIRABAYASHI, Shigeyuki OGASAWARA
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Publication number: 20240136769Abstract: A connector includes a housing and a detection member. The housing can be engaged with a mating housing. The detection member is movably mounted to the housing, and detects an engagement state of the mating housing and the housing by moving between a temporary locking position and a final locking position. The housing is provided with a restrained portion. The detection member is provided with a restraining portion that is engaged with the restrained portion in the final locking position of the detection member to restrain a movement to the temporary locking position of the detection member.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Tomoya Sato
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Publication number: 20240136087Abstract: A water-proof structure for electric wire includes an electric wire, a primary molded body, and a secondary molded body. The electric wire includes a core wire exposed part in which a core wire is exposed by peeling off an insulation sheath. The primary molded body is molded with resin and includes a groove portion for receiving therein an end portion of the electric wire including the core wire exposed part. The secondary molded body is molded with resin and covers the primary molded body in a state where the end portion of the electric wire is received in the groove portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Eiichi TOHYAMA, Michitake Masuda, Hideyuki Wada
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Publication number: 20240136758Abstract: A connector includes a housing, a terminal configured to be assembled to the housing, and a cover configured to be assembled to the housing. The terminal has a first connection part configured to be electrically connected to a first mating terminal, and a second connection part configured to be electrically connected to a second mating terminal. The housing, the terminal, and the cover are formed to be assembled along a first axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Shinsuke AZUMA, Hiroki GOTOU
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Publication number: 20240136768Abstract: A connector mating structure includes a male connector and a female connector mated with each other. The female connector includes a mating securing member. In a state where the male connector and the female connector of the connector mating structure are in a mating state and the mating securing member is positioned in a mating securing position, a forward end of a female locking section is positioned between an upper locking protrusion and a protrusion of an upper locking section. In this manner, assembling instability between a male housing, a female housing and the mating securing member in a forward-rearward direction is suppressed. Furthermore, a short circuit spring is in elastic contact with a short circuit release section and thus presses the female housing upward. In this manner, assembling instability between the male housing, the female housing and the mating securing member in an upward-downward direction is suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Motoyoshi SUZUKI, Tomoyoshi FUKAYA, Masatoshi NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 11967814Abstract: An electrical junction box includes a housing, a bus bar, a nut, and an insulating cap. A through hole of the housing has a first end side and a second end side, and the first end side is opened in a bus bar placement surface of the housing. The bus bar is placed on the bus bar placement surface and is fixed to the housing such that a first bolt hole of the bus bar and the through hole communicate with each other. The cap is attached to the housing. A terminal having a second bolt hole is fixed to the bus bar by fastening a bolt inserted into the second bolt hole and the first bolt hole in this order to the nut so as to sandwich the bus bar and the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Masato Munezuka, Masayo Matsuura, Eisuke Suzuki
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Publication number: 20240128683Abstract: The CPA-attached connector 1a includes a connector body 11 and a CPA member 12. The connector body 11 includes a temporary latch portion 112 for the CPA member 12, a full latch portion 113 which, before the mating with a mating connector, restricts full latch of the CPA member, and which, during the mating, cancels restriction of the full latch by the mating connector, and a hood portion 114 configured to cover, in a manner of a canopy, a portion of the CPA member 12 in the full latch state. The CPA member 12 includes a CPA body 121 and a finger rest portion 122 provided on the CPA body 121, a portion of the finger rest portion 122 being exposed from the hood portion 114 even in the full latch state, an inclined surface 122a being formed in the exposed portion to incline toward a central axis of the connector body 11 in accordance with a distance from the hood portion 114.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicants: Yazaki Corporation, MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Koki Tokumoto, Yusuke Tsutagawa, Yasuhiro Otsuta, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Yoshio Nakamura, Yo Yamada
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Patent number: 11961634Abstract: A method for manufacturing a terminal-equipped electric wire includes a step of crimping a first terminal to one end of an electric wire, a step of crimping a second terminal to the other end of the electric wire with a tubular seal member, a first waterproofing step of providing, at the one end of the electric wire, an anticorrosion member that covers an element wire bundle of the electric wire, and a second waterproofing step of providing, at the other end of the electric wire, a sealing member so as to fill gaps between conductive element wires of the element wire bundle in a tubular insulating sheath. The second waterproofing step is performed after the first waterproofing step is performed.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Kenzo Tanaka
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Patent number: 11961633Abstract: An electric wire protection member covering and protecting an outer periphery of an electric wire, the electric wire protection member includes an exterior member made of a flexible resin and having a tubular body in which peak portions and valley portions are alternately formed in an axial direction over a peripheral direction orthogonal to the axial direction, and a tubular bending restriction member accommodated in the exterior member and capable of bending in one direction with one side portion as an inner side. The bending restriction member includes a cut-out portion and a plurality of divided tubular portions connected by a connecting portion formed in the one side portion. The cut-out portion is inclined in the axial direction with respect to a radial direction of the bending restriction member.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Naoto Kogure
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Patent number: 11958420Abstract: A wire harness includes a wiring member, an exterior member through which the wiring member is inserted, and a protector that is fixed to a vehicle and holds the exterior member. The protector includes a holding member that holds the exterior member, a fixing member that is fixed to the vehicle, and a tubular member that is formed in a tubular shape and on which the holding member and the fixing member are disposed. At least one of the holding member or the fixing member includes a columnar structure that is formed in a columnar shape and is slidingly fittable into the tubular member.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Enomoto, Tomokazu Kato, Yoshio Shionome, Shinichi Tadokoro
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Patent number: 11961430Abstract: A display device for a vehicle includes a moving speed calculation unit that calculates a moving speed of a pupil based on a position of the pupil detected by a pupil detection unit. In a case in which the moving speed of the pupil is equal to or lower than a threshold, a pupil diameter calculation unit calculates a pupil diameter at a present time based on the pupil at the present time, and outputs the calculated pupil diameter at the present time to a brightness adjustment unit. On the other hand, in a case in which the moving speed of the pupil exceeds the threshold, the pupil diameter calculation unit outputs a pupil diameter calculated at a previous time to the brightness adjustment unit as the pupil diameter at the present time.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Masaya Hatakeyama
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Patent number: 11955785Abstract: A resin structure includes first and second resin bodies including first and second wall portions and first and second engagement portions, respectively. One of the first engagement portions engages with one of the second engagement portions and form a first engaging part. Another one of the first engagement portions engages with another one of the second engagement portions and form a second engaging part. The first engaging part is positioned on a further front side than the second engaging part in an attaching direction of the second resin body to the first resin body. When the second resin body is rotated toward the first resin body with the first engaging part as a center of rotation and with the one of the first engagement portions being engaged with the one of the second engagement portions, the first wall portion is prevented from interfering with the second wall portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Kei Tomita, Kengo Ishida, Yukihiro Koyama