Patents Assigned to Yazaki Corporation
  • DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20230111962
    Abstract: A display device includes a device housing that is configured to be installed such that an occulted portion including a portion of a peripheral wall of the device housing is hidden from an observer of a display screen, and a slide attaching part that is moved to slide in a sliding direction from a non-occulted portion to the occulted portion and attached so as to cover a back side of the device housing. A slide receiving part including the device housing includes a fixed part provided at the occulted portion and an engaged part provided at the non-occulted portion, and the slide attaching part includes a fixing part provided at a portion corresponding to the occulted portion and configured to be fixed to the fixed part, and an engaging part provided at a portion corresponding to the non-occulted portion and configured to be engaged with the engaged part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi IKUMI, Masaaki SANO, Naoki UENO, Akira MASUDA, Takahiro SHIMADA, Takeshi IWAMOTO, Shota KOSUGA, Ryuta SUZUKI, Satoru KANAZAWA, Junnosuke NISHIMURA
  • FLEXIBLE THIN SHEET-SHAPED ELECTRIC WIRE AND BUS-BAR MODULE
    Publication number: 20230113159
    Abstract: A flexible thin sheet-shaped electric wire includes: a body part having electrical insulation; and a conductor part that is arranged in the body part. Further, the conductor part includes a conductor body, and a fuse part that is formed in a part of the conductor body and of which a cross-sectional area is smaller than a cross-sectional area of the conductor body. Still further, the body part includes a conductor region in which the conductor body is arranged and a fuse region in which the fuse part is arranged. The fuse part includes an enclosing part that is arranged to enclose the entire circumference of at least a part of the fuse region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka MUKASA, Kazuhiko TSUCHIYA
  • FLAT ELECTRIC WIRE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING FLAT ELECTRIC WIRE
    Publication number: 20230116494
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a flat electric wire and a method for manufacturing a flat electric wire. The flat electric wire includes a plurality of conductors arranged in parallel in a width direction and having substantially a same cross-sectional area with each other, resin films provided on one side and the other side of the plurality of conductors in a thickness direction orthogonal to the width direction, and an insulator covering the plurality of conductors together with the resin films. Each of the resin films have a Young's modulus of 2 GPa or more and a film thickness of 200 ?m or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Mizuki SHIRAI
  • DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20230112001
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel that includes a first hole and a device housing that is configured such that the display panel is fastened and fixed to the device housing by a screw passed through the first hole and screwed into the screw hole. The display panel includes a display-side positioning part which is configured to fit to a portion of the device housing to perform positioning of the display panel with respect to the device housing and which includes the first hole, and the device housing includes a housing-side positioning part which is configured to fit to the display-side positioning part to perform the positioning and which includes a second hole formed so as to communicate with the first hole when the housing-side positioning part is fitted to the display-side positioning part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi IKUMI, Masaaki Sano, Naoki Ueno, Akira Masuda, Takahiro Shimada, Takeshi Iwamoto, Shota Kosuga, Ryuta Suzuki, Satoru Kanazawa, Junnosuke Nishimura
  • Connector
    Patent number: 11626682
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing, a terminal, and an electric wire line. The housing is fittable to a mating housing that houses a mating terminal. The terminal is housed in the housing, and includes a tubular electric connection portion into which the mating terminal is inserted. The electric wire line includes at least a terminal end portion housed in the housing, and is electrically connected to the terminal. In the connector, the electric connection portion houses a multi-contact coil spring that is formed to have an elastically-deformable annular shape, is electrically connected to the electric connection portion, and is brought into contact at a plurality positions with the mating terminal inserted thereinto, and the terminal and at least the terminal end portion of the electric wire line are insert-molded in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yamaguchi, Kazuma Watanabe
  • Wire harness manufacturing system and wire harness manufacturing method
    Patent number: 11626216
    Abstract: A wire harness manufacturing system includes a conduction inspection device configured to inspect a conductive state at a position of other end of each of a plurality of sub-harnesses in a state that one end of each of the plurality of sub-harnesses is connected to a control box, and an information writing device configured to write terminal information of the plurality of sub-harnesses in a box side storage portion of the control box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Nakamura, Satoshi Enomoto, Yoshio Shionome, Akiyoshi Kanazawa, Tomokazu Kato
  • Connector including a terminal retaining member for retaining a terminal fitting housed in a housing
    Patent number: 11626684
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal fitting, a housing that houses the terminal fitting at a housing complete position, and a terminal retaining member that, at an assembling complete position to the housing, retains the terminal fitting remaining at the housing complete position. The terminal fitting includes a penetration hole. The terminal retaining member includes a retaining protrusion that is, at the assembling complete position, inserted into the penetration hole at the housing complete position, and retains the terminal fitting while the terminal fitting remains at that position. The penetration hole is formed to have a left-right asymmetric shape including a first hole part on the left side and a second hole part having a shape different from a shape of the first hole part and arranged on the right side of the first hole part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Satoki Masuda, Takeo Ida
  • Electric wire and wire harness
    Patent number: 11621102
    Abstract: An electric wire includes a flat stranded conductor having a flat shape in cross sectional view and configured by a plurality of conductive wires each having a wire diameter of 1.2 mm or less and which are stranded to each other, and a flat covering portion that is an insulator and covers the flat stranded conductor. The flat covering portion has a uniform elongation of 43.5% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Abe, Hiroki Kondo
  • Projection device
    Patent number: 11619868
    Abstract: A projection device includes a housing including a wall part including an opening, and a cover with a plate shape having a light-transmitting property and closing the opening. The wall part includes a pair of edge parts facing each other with the opening therebetween and extending along a first direction, and a plurality of claw parts disposed at each of the pair of edge parts. The pair of edge parts is curved to the inside of the housing. The cover includes through holes disposed correspondingly to the claw parts. The claw part includes a base part protruding from the corresponding edge part and a holding part protruding from the base part along the first direction. The housing sandwiches and holds the cover between an edge part and the holding parts inserted into the through holes in a state where the cover is curved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Katsumata, Hitoshi Kodama, Yusuke Sugiura, Katsuyoshi Itahana, Kohji Matsuura, Yu Kobayashi, Yuki Miyoshi
  • Wireless communication system and in-vehicle system
    Patent number: 11622251
    Abstract: A wireless communication system and an in-vehicle system which can establish communication without manually inputting code information such as a pairing ID are provided. In the wireless communication system, when a long-pressing operation of a lamp switch is performed, a pairing ID required for establishing wireless communication with a mobile device is acquired from a wireless unit, and the pairing ID is converted to an optical signal and transmitted from a lamp. The mobile device receives the optical signal by an imaging unit and acquires the pairing ID to establish the wireless communication with the wireless unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Terumitsu Sugimoto
  • Waterproof connector and device with connector
    Patent number: 11621106
    Abstract: A waterproof connector that is easy to design and manufacture and that can provide sufficiently close contact with respect to a through hole including a tapered opening is provided. A sealing member that provides waterproofness of the waterproof connector includes an inner tube portion and an outer tube portion, and the connector body includes a holding projection. The holding projection is configured to be inserted between the inner tube portion and the outer tube portion from a rear side in an insertion direction and configured to push the outer tube portion against an inner circumferential face of the tapered opening when the sealing member is received between the outer circumferential face of the connector body and the inner circumferential face of the tapered opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Aoshima, Takeo Ida
  • Terminal, wire harness, and electric wire with terminal
    Patent number: 11621501
    Abstract: A terminal includes: a tubular box portion to receive a mating terminal; a spring portion extending in a beam shape from a front end portion of the box portion; and a pressing piece configured to restrict a bending range of the spring portion. A free end of the spring portion is inside the box portion, and the spring portion has a contact point with the mating terminal. The pressing piece is placed at a pressing position located inside the box portion and away from the contact point in the bending direction. The pressing piece is configured to restrict the bending range of the spring portion to achieve at least part of the spring portion closer to the free end than the contact point is located on the bending direction side with respect to the pressing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Syunsuke Yaoita, Makoto Koshiishi
  • TERMINAL INSERTION METHOD AND TERMINAL INSERTION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20230097349
    Abstract: A terminal insertion method includes a reference position setting process of capturing an image of a subject for reference position measurement gripped by the chuck and setting a reference position based on a captured image, a posture correction process of capturing an image of the terminal gripped by the chuck, obtaining an inclination of the terminal for a specific part of the terminal in the captured image, and correcting a posture of the terminal, a terminal position calculation process of capturing again the image of the terminal whose posture is corrected and calculating a position of the terminal based on the captured image, and an insertion process of correcting the position of the terminal using a difference between a calculated measurement position of the terminal and the reference position as a correction value and inserting the terminal into the cavity of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime NAGANO, Kazuhiko TAKADA
  • TERMINAL INSERTION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20230096446
    Abstract: A terminal insertion device includes a chuck gripping a terminal, a housing holder holding a housing, an imaging unit to capture an image of the housing, a driving mechanism and a control unit. The control unit measures a distance from a reference point of a field of view of the imaging unit to a positioning target portion in the field of view based on an image obtained, measures a movement amount of a gripping point of the chuck when a measurement pin gripped by the chuck is aligned with the positioning target portion, calculates a reference distance between the gripping point and the reference point based on the distance and the movement amount, captures an image to identify a position of a cavity of the housing, drives the driving mechanism based on the calculated reference distance, and aligns and inserts the terminal into the identified cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime NAGANO, Kazuhiko TAKADA, Katsuya YAMAZAKI
  • COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL
    Publication number: 20230097744
    Abstract: Provided is a communication system including multiple communication terminals, which are layered in a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The communication system includes at least two first communication terminals provided in the first layer. The communication system includes multiple second communication terminals provided in the second layer and capable of directly communicating with the first communication terminals. The communication system includes multiple third communication terminals provided in the third layer and capable of directly communicating with some of the second communication terminals. The second communication terminals and the third communication terminals are provided in multiple separate areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Genki HOSOKAWA, Tadahide KUNITACHI
  • TERMINAL INSERTION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20230098980
    Abstract: A terminal insertion device inserts a terminal connected to an electric wire into a cavity of a housing. The terminal insertion device includes a rear chuck portion to grip the electric wire, a front chuck portion to grip the electric wire at a position closer to the terminal than is the rear chuck portion, the front chuck portion being movable toward and away from the rear chuck portion along an extending direction of the electric wire, a driving mechanism to advance and retreat the rear chuck portion and the front chuck portion relative to the housing, and a control part to control the rear chuck portion, the front chuck portion, and the drive mechanism. The control unit causes the terminal insertion device to execute an electric wire gripping operation, a sliding operation, an insertion operation, a switching operation and a reinsertion operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime NAGANO, Kazuhiko TAKADA, Mamoru ARAKI
  • ELECTRIC CONNECTION BOX AND WIRE HARNESS
    Publication number: 20230102856
    Abstract: There are provided an electric connection box and a wire harness including: a body including an accommodating portion inside the body, the accommodating portion being configured to accommodate an electronic component. The body includes an electric wire holding portion inside the body, the electric wire holding portion having a slit-shaped groove configured to radially sandwich and hold an electric wire extending from a connector to be connected to the electronic component. The groove of the electric wire holding portion includes: a groove inlet portion; a groove deepest portion; and a narrow portion between the groove inlet portion and the groove deepest portion. A groove width in the narrow portion is narrower than a groove width in the groove inlet portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicants: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akinori NAKASHIMA, Keita MIYAHARA, Kazuya KUSHIBIKI
  • POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, DC/DC CONVERTER
    Publication number: 20230095408
    Abstract: A power supply system including: a first voltage subsystem including a first battery connected to a load via a relay; a second voltage subsystem including a second battery, the second battery having a lower voltage than the first battery; and a DC/DC converter disposed between the first voltage subsystem and the second voltage subsystem, wherein before switching the relay to be closed, the DC/DC converter is configured to: provide a lower voltage than a voltage of the second battery to the first voltage subsystem; subsequently provide the voltage of the second battery to the first voltage subsystem; and subsequently increase the voltage of the second battery to be equal to a voltage of the first battery and provide the voltage of the second battery to the first voltage subsystem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki TAKAMATSU
  • Electrical connection box and wire harness
    Patent number: 11615935
    Abstract: Flat surfaces out of two flat surfaces of each of flat electrical connection bodies of a relay bus bar and a bus bar of an electronic component are mating surfaces brought into contact with each other by a fixing structure. At least one of the flat electrical connection bodies of the relay bus bar and the bus bar applies a reaction force accompanying the elastic deformation to the other flat electrical connection body, to which the one flat electrical connection body is to be connected, in a state in which the flat electrical connection body of the bus bar at an accommodation completion position in a housing has not been connected to the relay bus bar. The housing includes a receiving portion receiving a force applied to the flat electrical connection body of the bus bar from the flat electrical connection body of the relay bus bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Tashiro, Ryouichi Yokoyama, Takuma Kaneko
  • Folded antenna
    Patent number: 11616303
    Abstract: A folded antenna includes: a substrate including a dielectric base material and a ground disposed on a first surface of the dielectric base material; and an antenna element including a bent portion bent in a direction perpendicular to the substrate, and a folded portion further bent in a direction parallel to the substrate from the bent portion and capacitively coupled to the ground via the dielectric base material. An impedance of the folded antenna is adjusted by adjusting an area of the folded portion by changing a width dimension of the folded portion without changing a height dimension of the bent portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Tsuchiya