Patents Assigned to Yazaki Corporation
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Publication number: 20230069530Abstract: An electrical junction box includes a case body having a plurality of connector portions, a power supply side circuit board accommodated in the case body and a spare connector mounting portion provided in an upper portion of the case body and configured such that a spare connector is attached to and detached from the spare connector mounting portion. The spare connector includes a fuse configured to electrically connect the power supply side circuit board to a device side terminal connected to an end of an electric wire configured to be electrically connected to an electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Akinori NAKASHIMA, Hiroki GOTO, Takao NOGAKI
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Publication number: 20230064887Abstract: A storage battery control device controls a power storage system including a plurality of storage batteries connected in series with a load, a bypass unit configured to bypass the storage battery, and a control device. The control device is configured to execute: a detection process of, during a first discharge period in which a voltage value at discharge is equal to or less than a first discharge threshold value, detecting a zero current state in which the current value detected by a current sensor becomes zero; and a first bypass process of, in response to detecting the zero current state in the detection process, bypassing a storage battery having a voltage value or a state of charge equal to or less than the first discharge threshold value by the bypass unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: YAZAKI CorporationInventors: Chihiro ONO, Takahiro SYOUDA
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Publication number: 20230061287Abstract: There is provided a vehicular illumination device to be disposed on a ceiling portion in a vehicle passenger compartment includes: a left-row light source unit in which three or more light sources arranged side by side in a front-rear direction of the vehicle is disposed on a left side of a center in a width direction of the vehicle: and a right-row light source unit in which three or more light sources arranged in the front-rear direction of the vehicle is disposed on a right side of the center in the width direction of the vehicle. Optical paths of the light sources are set to be placed in a state where a light irradiation region of the left-row light source unit and a light irradiation region of the right-row light source unit partially overlap with each other on a floor surface in the vehicle passenger compartment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Shuichi Ishibashi
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Publication number: 20230064437Abstract: Provided is a pressure sensor including: a housing portion including a housing part housing a pressure sensor module, a concave portion facing the housing part across an inner wall, and a through hole part formed in the inner wall; a filter covering the through hole part; and a cover mounted on the housing portion while covering the concave portion and including cutout parts. The concave portion includes a bottom surface that is one surface of the inner wall, and two side surfaces perpendicular to the bottom surface and opposed to each other. The cover is formed with a rectangular upper plate and two rectangular side plates continuous with edges of the upper plate in a vertical direction and opposed to each other. The upper plate is arranged to face the bottom surface. The two side plates are arranged between the two side surfaces opposed to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Daichi MURAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230066985Abstract: An electrical junction box includes a case body having a plurality of connector portions, a power supply side circuit board accommodated in the case body and a general-purpose connector mounting unit provided in the case body and configured such that a plurality of types of connectors are selectively attached to and detached from the general-purpose connector mounting unit. The general-purpose connector mourning unit is configured such that a power supply side terminal of the plurality of types of connectors is electrically connected to a terminal connection portion of the power supply side circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Akinori Nakashima, Hiroki Goto, Takao Nogaki
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Publication number: 20230068924Abstract: An electrical junction box is configured such that an electric or electronic component is mounted thereon. The electrical junction box includes a case having an accommodation recess, a housing configured such that the electric or electronic component is held therein and configured to be attached in the accommodation recess, and a cable configured to be drawn into the accommodation recess. The housing includes a path restricting wall configured to restrict a wiring direction of the cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Norio ITO, Naoya AKIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230062109Abstract: A fixing structure of an electronic component includes a fixing member configured to fix an electronic component while pressing the electronic component against a wall surface of a housing in a pressing direction; and a fastened portion which is provided at a position away from the wall surface of the housing and to which the fixing member is fastened and fixed. The fixing member includes a fixing portion that is fastened and fixed to the fastened portion, a pressing portion that extends from the fixing portion toward the electronic component and is configured to press the electronic component against the wall surface in the pressing direction, and an engaging portion which is provided at the fixing portion. The fastened portion includes an engaged portion that is engaged with the engaging portion, and is configured to limit movement of the fixing portion in a direction opposite to the pressing direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Chiaki CHIDA, Kentaro IMOTO
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Patent number: 11594911Abstract: A power supply switching control system switches a power supply for supplying power to a load between a first power supply and a second power supply in a power supply system. The power supply switching control system includes a first switch provided between the first power supply and the load in the power supply path and configured to cut off a current flowing from the second power supply to the first power supply in an off state of the first switch, a second switch provided between the second power supply and the load in the power supply path and configured to cut off a current flowing from the first power supply to the second power supply in an off state of the second switch, and a control unit configured to set the second switch in an on state when the second power supply is charged.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Atsushi Takahashi
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Patent number: 11594840Abstract: A resin molded product includes a plate portion having a plate-like shape and having assembly locations in which a mating member is assembled on both surfaces of the plate portion in a plate thickness direction, a reference portion provided on one surface of the plate portion and used for alignment with the mating member, and a through hole which penetrates the reference portion in the plate thickness direction and opens on the both surfaces of the plate portion. The reference portion has a columnar shape extending in the plate thickness direction, and the through hole opens at an extending end of the reference portion and extends in the plate thickness direction to open on the other surface of the plate portion. The plate portion further includes a terminal provided so as to extend in the plate thickness direction at the assembly location on the other surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Arata Yagi, Isanori Shimizu, Masataka Nagayama, Shinji Ohtsuka
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Publication number: 20230058561Abstract: A storage battery control device for controlling an energy storage system including storage batteries connected in series, bypass units that bypass the storage batteries respectively, and a current sensor that detects a charge and discharge current flowing from or into the storage batteries. Each of the bypass units includes a bypass line that bypasses the storage battery, a bypass switch that connects and cuts off the bypass line, and a cutoff switch that connects and cuts off the storage battery. The storage battery control device is configured to detect a zero current state in a case that both the bypass switch and the cutoff switch are in a cutoff state in at least one of the bypass units, and perform offset correction of the current sensor based on an output of the current sensor when the zero current state is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Chihiro ONO, Takahiro SYOUDA
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Publication number: 20230055981Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Takahiro SYOUDA
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Publication number: 20230055043Abstract: An in-vehicle ventilation system includes a host ECU configured to acquire vehicle outside information using wireless communication, an air conditioner ECU configured to control an air conditioner installed in a vehicle compartment, a zone ECU configured to control a device in the vehicle compartment and to communicate with the host ECU and the air conditioner ECU and a power window unit configured to open and close a window of a vehicle. The zone ECU or the host ECU is configured to perform, based on information acquired inside the vehicle compartment and the vehicle outside information to be acquired by the host ECU, interlocked ventilation control interlockingly controls the power window unit and the air conditioner ECU.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Kazutaka KATAYAMA
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Patent number: 11588269Abstract: A connector includes a first connector housing including a first wall. The first connector housing is attachable to a second connector housing such that the first wall opposes a second wall of the second connector housing. The first connector housing includes: a fitting chamber defined at least by the first wall, the fitting chamber allowing a counterpart connector housing to be fitted therein; and an engaging arm provided on the first wall, the engaging arm being configured to engage an engaged arm provided on the second wall of the second connector housing when the first connector housing is completely attached to the second connector housing. The engaging arm serves as an attachment state detection mechanism configured to detect an incomplete attachment state in which the first connector housing is incompletely attached to the second connector housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Imamura, Kazuhide Ikeya, Hiroshi Miyazaki
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Patent number: 11589468Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to improve the discharge capacity for liquid collected within a casing while suppressing liquid entering a discharge opening from the outside. A liquid discharge structure includes a plate-shaped bottom wall with a discharge opening for liquid, the liquid being collected inside a casing 1 which is configured to be installed in a vehicle, a blocking wall outside the bottom wall, wherein the blocking wall is overlapped with the discharge opening in a plan view on the bottom wall and opposed to the bottom wall with a gap between the blocking wall and the bottom wall, and a fixing mechanism which is disposed not to be overlapped with the discharge opening in the plan view, wherein the fixing mechanism is configured to fix the blocking wall relative to the bottom wall in an attachable and detachable manner.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Yokoyama, Yusuke Nagai, Makoto Goto
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Patent number: 11586047Abstract: There is provided a head-up display device including: a display configured to emit a display light ray therefrom, a reflection member configured to pivot around a rotation axis and reflect the display light ray to project a display image; and a housing configured to accommodate the reflection member. The reflection member has a plurality of ribs protruding from a surface on an opposite side to a reflection surface which reflects the display light ray, and the plurality of ribs have a portion in which a height on an outer side in a rotational direction centered at the rotation axis is lower than that on an inner side in the rotational direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Naohisa Murata, Yasuhiro Katsumata, Koichiro Hagiwara, Yusuke Fujimoto
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Patent number: 11584316Abstract: A communication system includes a host control device and a vicarious inputting and outputting unit that controls an electric device by communicating with the host control device. The vicarious inputting and outputting unit includes a standard board provided with a first control circuit which controls the electric device and at least one of an input circuit and an output circuit for a standard electric device. The first control circuit has an extension terminal for connection to an extension board provided with at least one of an input circuit and an output circuit for an extended electric device and is provided so as to be able to operate in response to respective specifications of plural kinds of extension terminals, and a specification of the extension terminal is set through communication with the host control device.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Masashi Suzuki, Jun Goto, Hideo Takahashi, Sadaharu Okuda
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Patent number: 11588259Abstract: A battery terminal includes a terminal main body and a protector to be mounted to the terminal main body, wherein the terminal main body includes an operating section for clamping and tightening the battery post, and the protector includes a movable section provided with a contact section to be brought into contact with the upper surface of the battery main body, and a displacement section to be freely displaced between a covering position for covering the operating section and a retracted position with an external force applied on the contact section, wherein in the retracted position, the displacement section is retracted from the covering position, and wherein the displacement section is displaced to the retracted position by pressing the contact section against the upper surface of the battery main body so that the access to the operating section is allowed.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsumasa Itagaki, Tadahisa Sakaguchi, Takayuki Kato
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Patent number: 11588280Abstract: A connector includes a terminal, a housing, and a temperature sensor. The terminal includes a terminal connection portion that is electrically connected to a counterpart terminal, a wire connection portion that is electrically connected to a wire, and a tubular portion that is located between the terminal connection portion and the wire connection portion and is formed in a tubular shape having a space portion (accommodation space portion). The temperature sensor is disposed in the space portion of the terminal. The tubular portion is accommodated inside the housing in a state where the terminal is held by the housing.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Daisuke Yamanashi
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Patent number: 11588313Abstract: There is provided an electrical junction box including: a bolt holding portion that includes a stud bolt and a bolt holding portion body configured to hold the stud bolt; a first holding portion that includes a first busbar provided with a first connection terminal and a first holding portion body configured to hold the first busbar and a first electronic component; and a second holding portion that includes a second busbar provided with a second connection terminal and a second holding portion body configured to hold the second busbar and a second electronic component. The bolt holding portion, the first holding portion, and the second holding portion are assembled with a nut in a connection state in that the stud bolt is passed through the first connection terminal and the second connection terminal, and in that the first busbar and the second busbar are overlapped with each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Kei Tomita, Yukihiro Koyama
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Patent number: 11588257Abstract: A terminal is to be connected to a mating terminal having a flat surface portion. The terminal includes a conductive main body having an abutment surface, an annular terminal spring, the annular terminal spring being held on the abutment surface and a fastener holding the annular terminal spring on the abutment surface. The fastener includes a main body shaft being inserted into a central space of the annular terminal spring, a first end of the main body shaft being fixed to the conductive main body, and a plurality of arm portions extending outward in a radial direction of the fastener from a second end of the main body shaft, the second end being opposite to the first end, the plurality of arm portions being configured to hold the annular terminal spring at a contacting portion of the annular terminal spring, the contacting portion contacting the abutment surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Kazuma Watanabe, Yasuhiro Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Tanaka
