Patents Assigned to Yazaki Corporation
  • WIRE HARNESS
    Publication number: 20230271573
    Abstract: Provided is a harness body that is a wiring component that electrically connects a first electrical connection target installed on a slide door and a second electrical connection target installed on a vehicle body, and is wired along a link mechanism that couples the slide door and the vehicle body and reciprocates the slide door in a sliding direction with respect to the vehicle body; and a harness temporary holding structure at least at one position capable of temporarily holding the harness body assembled to the link mechanism before the link mechanism is assembled to the slide door and the vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto KOGURE, Hikaru SANO, Seiichi SUMIYA
  • Vehicle communication device
    Patent number: 11743698
    Abstract: A vehicle communication device includes a vehicle-to-vehicle communication unit, an information extraction unit, and a Wi-Fi module. The vehicle-to-vehicle communication unit is mounted on an own vehicle and receives AP information required for wireless connection to an access point for communication relay from another vehicle in the vicinity. The information extraction unit extracts, from vehicle-to-vehicle AP information, which is AP information received from the other vehicle in the vicinity by the vehicle-to-vehicle communication unit, connected AP information, which is AP information received from the other vehicle in front in a traveling direction of the own vehicle and AP information of the access point to which the other vehicle in front is being connected. The Wi-Fi module wirelessly connects to the access point based on the connected AP information extracted by the information extraction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Sagane, Eita Itou, Ryohei Nishizaki
  • High-frequency coaxial electrical connector with shields covering cable conductors and terminals
    Patent number: 11742624
    Abstract: A female high-frequency connector includes a female inner terminal connected to a core wire of a cable in which an outer periphery of an insulator covering the core wire is covered with a braid, a female inner housing accommodating the female inner terminal in an inner terminal accommodating chamber, a tubular female shield body covering an outer periphery of the female inner housing, a female crimping member having a braid crimping piece that is crimped from above the braid, and a tubular female shield sleeve having a tubular braid covered portion that is inserted between the insulator and the braid and having a fitting portion that extends from the braid covered portion and is inserted between the outer periphery of the female inner housing and an inner periphery of the female shield body to cover a gap between the braid crimping piece and the female shield body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Kameyama, Michikazu Aono
  • Fuse puller accommodating structure and an electrical junction box
    Patent number: 11742170
    Abstract: A fuse puller accommodating structure includes a puller main body, a puller accommodating section, an accommodating side protrusion provided within the puller accommodating section, a puller side protrusion provided on the puller main body, wherein the puller side protrusion is configured to be locked to the accommodating side protrusion, and a pushing-up section provided at a bottom of the puller accommodating section, wherein the pushing-up section is configured to bias a forward end of the puller main body accommodated in the puller accommodating section in a pushing-up direction in order to push the puller side protrusion against the accommodating side protrusion, wherein the forward end is oriented forward with respect to an inserting direction, and wherein the pushing-up direction is opposite to the inserting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiko Mitsui, Yosuke Ogawa
  • Corrugated tube and wire harness
    Patent number: 11742643
    Abstract: A corrugated tube includes a tube body having a tubular shape and configured to accommodate an electric wire inside, and a protection layer laminated on the inner circumferential surface of the tube body. The tube body has a bellows-shaped region having projections and recesses axially alternately continuous, and includes two circumferential ends circumferentially formed, and is circumferentially closed by the two circumferential ends facing each other. The protection layer is laminated in end regions corresponding to the two circumferential ends, respectively, of the inner circumferential surface, and has a hardness lower than the hardness of the tube body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaru Kiuchi
  • CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY, WIRE HARNESS, AND CONNECTOR COVER
    Publication number: 20230268683
    Abstract: A connector assembly applied to a wire harness includes a connector and a connector cover that is attached to the connector. Furthermore, the connector cover includes: a wall part that forms a connector housing space part for housing an end part of the connector and a locking release part, and a routing space part which is positioned adjacent to the connector housing space part and in which a wiring material is routed; a hole part that is formed in the wall part, while being positioned adjacent to the locking release part and communicating inside and outside of the connector housing space part in a state of being attached to the connector; and a restriction part that is formed in the wall part and blocks the hole part from the routing space part in a state of being attached to the connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro URASHIMA, Hiroyasu FURUYA, Yu SUGAWARA
  • Vehicle management system
    Patent number: 11731643
    Abstract: A vehicle management system includes an imaging device provided in a shared vehicle to capture a plurality of passengers on the vehicle, a detection unit that detects that a user, who is one of the passengers, has performed a predetermined motion which is a motion registered in advance, based on a capturing result by the imaging device, and a controller that controls the vehicle based on a predetermined command, which is a command registered in advance as a command corresponding to the predetermined motion, when the predetermined motion is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideto Miyake, Shinichi Okamoto, Kentaro Otomo, Daiki Saito, Koji Ishii
  • Electrical connection box
    Patent number: 11735840
    Abstract: An electrical connection box is provided with a conductive bus bar, an insulating housing body, a cover, and a power supply line. The cover opens or closes with respect to the housing body at a fully open position and a fully closed position. The housing body has a connector at a position exposed to the outside, with the connector configured so that a terminal provided at a tip of the power supply line is attachable or detachable to or from the connector. A restriction portion, which restricts the power supply line from moving in the longitudinal direction is provided in the cover. In the state where the terminal is connected to the connector, the tension is created on the power supply line in the longitudinal direction by the restriction portion during moving the cover from the fully closed position to the fully open position side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Kobayashi, Kohei Toyoshima, Kenji Segawa, Masahiro Fujiwara
  • Water-stop structure and water-stop parts for shielded cable
    Patent number: 11735335
    Abstract: A water stop structure for a shield cable includes a lead-in port formed in a sheet metal of a housing, a grommet to be liquid-tightly fitted into the lead-in port, a shield shell disposed outside the housing so as to surround the grommet and with an end portion of a braid of the shield cable being crimped, and a spacer configured to adjust an attachment height of the shield shell with respect to the sheet metal so as to fasten the shield shell to the sheet metal in a state where conduction is ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuji Okada
  • Bus bar module
    Patent number: 11735798
    Abstract: A bus bar module includes bus bars electrically connected with battery cells included in a battery module, and an insulating case including a housing unit that accommodates the bus bars and a routing path in which a voltage detection line connected with the bus bars is routed. The bus bars include a first bus bar group arrayed in a direction in which the battery cells are arranged, and a second bus bar group parallel to the first bus bar group and arrayed in the direction in which the battery cells are arranged. The routing path includes a first routing path extending along the first bus bar group, a second routing path extending along the second bus bar group, and at least one connection path connecting the first routing path and the second routing path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsuya Toriyama, Tatsuya Tokuda
  • Pressure-welding structure, terminal-attached electric wire, and manufacturing method for terminal-attached electric wire
    Patent number: 11735836
    Abstract: A core-wire exposed portion in an electric wire and at least one pair of pressure-welding pieces made of an electroconductive material are included. The core-wire exposed portion is a portion is which a core wire composed of a plurality of element wires is exposed. The pair of pressure-welding pieces are provided with a core wire pressure-welding section in which pressure-welding end surfaces are disposed facing each other at a distance and Kate the core-wire exposed portion press-fitted between the pressure-welding end surfaces. The core wire pressure-welding section is formed as a section that brings all of the element wires in the core-wire exposed portion, between the pressure-welding end surfaces, into contact with either of the pressure-welding end surfaces while being in an aligned state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki Ito
  • WIRE HARNESS
    Publication number: 20230256922
    Abstract: A wire harness includes: an electric wire; a leaf spring member; an exterior member; and a protector integrally holding an end portion of the exterior member and a portion of the electric wire and the leaf spring member led out from the end portion of the exterior member. The protector includes a protector main body having a routing space portion in which the electric wire, the leaf spring member, and the exterior member are routed along an axial direction, a lid portion attached to the protector main body to close the routing space portion, a protrusion portion protruding from the protector main body toward the lid portion and sandwiching a part of the electric wire between the protrusion portion and a second fitting stand portion of the lid portion, and a plurality of first protrusions and second protrusions locking the exterior member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicants: Yazaki Corporation, AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoto KOGURE, Kyosuke OKUDA
  • WIRE HARNESS
    Publication number: 20230261449
    Abstract: A wire harness includes an electric wire, an exterior member, and a protector integrally holding an end portion of the exterior member and a portion of the electric wire led out from the end portion of the exterior member. The protector includes a protector main body having a routing space portion in which the electric wire and the exterior member are routed along an axial direction, a lid portion attached to the protector main body to close the routing space portion, and a plurality of first protrusions and second protrusions protruding from the lid portion toward the protector main body and locking the exterior member, and height positions of distal ends of the plurality of first protrusions and second protrusions varies according to a formation position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicants: Yazaki Corporation, AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoto KOGURE, Kosuke TOMOSADA, Kyosuke OKUDA
  • Terminal and terminal fixing structure
    Patent number: 11728580
    Abstract: A terminal includes: a flat surface portion; an extending portion continuous with the flat surface portion; a branch portion continuous with the extending portion and extending in a direction different from that in which the extending portion extends; and rotation stop portions continuous with the branch portion. When the terminal is attached to a bolt protruding from a fixing member and including a seat separated from the fixing member, the flat surface portion contacts the seat, the rotation stop portions extend from the branch portion toward a base end of the bolt in a protruding direction of the bolt, and at least a pair of the rotation stop portions are positioned to sandwich the seat in a direction intersecting the protruding direction to prevent rotation of the terminal with respect to the bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takatatsu Yamamoto
  • Method of electric wire routing
    Patent number: 11728630
    Abstract: A method of electric wire routing includes: routing an electric wire in an electric wire routing path which is provided in a case and has a concave shape in a cross-sectional view; and covering an upper portion of the electric wire routing path with a cover. A pair of guide pins are inserted into a through hole formed in a bottom portion of the electric wire routing path in the case from below to a position above a side wall portion which forms the electric wire routing path. The electric wire is passed between the guide pins. The cover is assembled to the upper portion of the electric wire routing path while the guide pins are pulled out from the through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Adachi, Yuji Migimatsu
  • Connection structure of bus bar and cable
    Patent number: 11721916
    Abstract: A connection structure of a bus bar and a cable has: a bus bar that serves as an external terminal; a cable that has a core wire exposed from an insulation sheath at a terminal, the core wire being joined with the bus bar; a protective member that covers at least a joining portion of the bus bar and the core wire of the cable; and a cut portion that is formed in the core wire at the joining portion with the bus bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma Watanabe, Hideki Mizuno, Yasuhiro Yamaguchi
  • Protector
    Patent number: 11721959
    Abstract: A protector includes a protector body, a lid member, and an engagement mechanism. The lid member has a ceiling and a protrusion. When a first wiring member and a second wiring member are accommodated in an accommodating space in a non-regular arrangement in which a peripheral surface of the first wiring member contacts a bottom and a peripheral surface of the second wiring member contacts the peripheral surface of the first wiring member, the peripheral surface of the second wiring member contacts the protrusion on the way of the transition of the engagement mechanism from a non-engagement state to an engagement state. When accommodated in a regular arrangement, the engagement mechanism transitions from the non-engagement state to the engagement state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akitoshi Kimura, Masayoshi Ogawa, Kazuya Takahashi
  • Terminal-equipped electric wire, connector and manufacturing method of connector
    Patent number: 11721925
    Abstract: A terminal-equipped electric wire, a connector including the terminal-equipped electric wire and a manufacturing method of the connector are provided. The terminal-equipped electric wire includes an electric wire including a conductor core wire formed of a conductor material and a terminal formed of a composite metal material in which a plurality of types of metal materials are clad-bonded with each other. The terminal includes a first connection portion and a second connection portion, each of which is formed of a metal material of respective one of the plurality of types of metal materials. The conductor core wire is electrically connected to one of the first and second connection portions, the one corresponding to the conductor material forming the conductor core wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taku Furuta, Ryo Hamada
  • Display device for a vehicle
    Patent number: 11718224
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a display device for a vehicle which brings a relation between a linear display section of a display panel placed at a dashboard and a linear lighting placed at the dashboard. A display device for a vehicle includes a display panel and a linear lighting placed at a dashboard of an automobile, a linear lighting placed on a lining of a door on a driver seat side, and a linear lighting placed on a lining of a door on a passenger seat side. The display panel is a panel with liquid crystal on its full range, and includes a linear display section which is continuous with an end of the linear lighting. The linear lighting and the linear display section are capable of linked light emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Harutoshi Nakajima, Ami Shibahara, Hiroyuki Oishi, Teruomi Sano
  • Connector with an interlocking rotation mechanism
    Patent number: 11721926
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing configured to accommodate a connection terminal, a shutter that is rotatably provided in the housing and is configured to open and close a front opening of the housing, a rotation lever that is rotatably supported to the housing about a rotation axis, and an interlocking rotation mechanism provided between the rotation lever and the shutter and configured to rotate the shutter in accordance with rotation of the rotation lever. A pressing force of the mating connector, whose fitting tip end portion is moved to a position facing the front opening, acts on a lever front end portion of the rotation lever so as to rotate the rotation lever, and thus the shutter is rotated by the interlocking rotation mechanism so as to open the front opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Kozono, Yoshitaka Tsushima, Masaya Okamoto