Patents Assigned to Yazaki Corporation
  • Patent number: 11809357
    Abstract: A communication system includes a central, zone ECUs capable of communicating with the central ECU via a communication bus, and zone ECUs capable of communicating with the central ECU via a communication bus. The central ECU periodically transmits, to the communication buses, a count signal including a count value counted up every time the count signal is transmitted, transmits a control signal including a start count value and control content to the communication buses, and sets a transmission priority of the count signal to be higher than a transmission priority of the control signal. The zone ECUs receive the count signal and the control signal, after the control signal is received, when the count value included in the received count signal becomes equal to the start count value included in the control signal, an operation corresponding to the control content included in the control signal is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sadaharu Okuda
  • Publication number: 20230354528
    Abstract: An electronic component module includes a first board, a second board, and an inter-board connecting portion disposed between the first and second boards and including terminal portions and a holding portion having a plurality of insertion holes into which the terminal portions are inserted. The terminal portion includes a protruding portion provided between one end and another end of the terminal portion in an insertion direction of the terminal portion into the insertion hole and protruding from the terminal portion in a direction intersecting the insertion direction. The one end and the other end of the terminal portions are electrically connected to the first and second boards, respectively. The inter-board connecting portion includes a partition wall partitioning first insertion hole and second insertion hole adjacent to each other and extending to a position in the insertion direction beyond the protruding portions of the terminal portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicants: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Teppei DOI, Joh FUJIMOTO, Yoku MURAYAMA, Gota MURAI, Akihito TSUKAMOTO, Toshiki NUNOTANI
  • Publication number: 20230352867
    Abstract: A terminal plating material includes a metallic base that contains copper or a copper alloy, and a carbon composite silver plating layer that disposed on the metallic base and contains either silver or a silver alloy and carbon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi FUJITA, Hideki MIZUNO, Yasuo YAMAUCHI, Satoka OHNISHI
  • Publication number: 20230352856
    Abstract: An electric wire with a terminal includes an electric wire and a terminal. The electric wire includes a core wire and an insulation coating covering the core wire. The terminal includes a coating crimp portion crimped to an outer periphery of the insulation coating and having a front end and a rear end. A chamfer is provided on at least one of an edge of the front end facing the insulation coating or an edge of the rear end facing the insulation coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiko WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11804700
    Abstract: A sheath structure includes an outer member, and an inner member formed in a cylindrical shape in a state in which a first portion and a second portion are engaged with an engaging portion, and capable of being fitted into the outer member from an end portion of the outer member. In the inner member, the first portion and the second portion are not engaged with the engaging portion but interfere with the end portion of the outer member and are not capable of being fitted into the outer member, when a maximum insertable number of the predetermined routed members insertable into the outer member are inserted therein. The first portion and the second portion are engaged with the engaging portion and capable of being fitted into the outer member, when the predetermined routed members of a prescribed number smaller than the maximum insertable number are inserted therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayumu Takagi, Takashi Nomoto, Katsuya Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11804687
    Abstract: An opening and closing drive mechanism allows the ring-shaped claw portions on the outer peripheries of the opening rollers to press against the base end portion of the exposed braid via the opening and closing blocks, in this state, the rotation body is rotated by the rotation drive mechanism, and the opening rollers attached to the opening and closing blocks revolve around the outer periphery of the braid, so that the tip end side of the exposed braid is opened outward in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, JAPAN CHAIN TERMINAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke Sugawara
  • Patent number: 11804684
    Abstract: A method including an electric wire placing step for inserting a core-wire exposing portion of a terminal end of an electric wire between inner wall surfaces of a pair of piece portions of a terminal fitting that has a core wire connector composed of a bottom portion and the piece portions projected from two opposite ends of the bottom portion; and an electric wire holding-down step for holding down, by use of a holding-down jig made of a laser-transmissive material having a higher melting point than the core-wire exposing portion and the core wire connector have, the core-wire exposing portion from one sides of free ends of the piece portions and pressing the core-wire exposing portion against an inner wall surface of the bottom portion by use of the holding-down jig.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kei Sato
  • Patent number: 11804701
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norio Ito, Naoya Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20230340275
    Abstract: An anti-corrosive material contains an ultraviolet curable resin including a polymerizable compound including at least one of a photopolymerizable (meth)acrylate monomer or a photopolymerizable (meth)acrylate oligomer. The anti-corrosive material has a viscosity of 18,900 mPa·s or less. The anti-corrosive material has an elongation rate of 60% or greater as a result of heating at 120° C. for 4,000 hours after curing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki MANO, Kenji OSADA
  • Publication number: 20230344184
    Abstract: A connector includes a coated electric wire, a connector terminal, a connector housing, and a holder. The connector housing includes an insertion portion having an insertion hole in which the coated electric wire is inserted, a housing portion that surrounds a periphery of the terminal portion of the coated electric wire inserted in the insertion hole, and an electric wire covering portion that protrudes to a back surface side of the insertion portion and covers an outer circumference of a coating portion of the coated electric wire. The holder includes a housing holding portion that holds an outer surface of the electric wire covering portion and an electric wire holding portion that holds an outer circumference of at least a part of the coating portion of the coated electric wire protruding from the electric wire covering portion to a back surface side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromitsu TAKAGI, Hiroshi HIRATA
  • Patent number: 11794767
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a travel environment; a prediction unit that predicts a behavior of another vehicle traveling ahead of a vehicle of a driver, based on the travel environment; and a display unit that, when the behavior of the other vehicle is predicted to become unstable, displays the predicted behavior of the other vehicle to the driver of the vehicle. The vehicle display device may include: a prediction unit that predicts a behavior of a vehicle, based on the travel environment; and a display unit that, when the behavior of the vehicle is predicted to become unstable, displays the predicted behavior of the vehicle to a driver of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Yoshida, Shinichi Okamoto, Yoshiharu Matsuo, Sosuke Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11799222
    Abstract: There is provided a connector including: a terminal fitting including a terminal portion, a conductor connection portion, and a connecting portion that connects the terminal portion and the conductor connection portion; a housing including an accommodating chamber that accommodates the terminal fitting from the terminal portion to the connecting portion, and a terminal drawing port that allows the conductor connection portion to be drawn out of the accommodating chamber toward a removal direction of the terminal portion; and a conductive component soldering a conductor to the conductor connection portion inserted into a through-hole, in which the connecting portion includes a first coupling portion that is coupled to the terminal portion, a second coupling portion that is coupled to the conductor connection portion, and a third coupling portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kotaro Wada, Naoki Takamura, Kaoru Sawairi
  • Patent number: 11799234
    Abstract: A protector includes a base member and a cover member. The base member includes hooking portions, locking parts, inclined guides that go in the lower direction as going in the attachment direction, and horizontal guides that extend along the attachment direction. The cover member includes hooked portions provided on attachment direction-side ends of cover bilateral-side portions, locked portions provided on detachment direction-side ends and locked on the locking parts, and guided parts that are provided between the hooked portions and the locked parts in the attachment direction, and contact at least one of the inclined guides and the horizontal guides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Toyoda, YoungHo Jang
  • Publication number: 20230331088
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes an output unit that outputs output light of display information to be visually recognized as a virtual image by an occupant in a vehicle cabin, a reflector that directly or indirectly receives the output light, and reflects the output light toward an eye box indicating a region in which the occupant can visibly recognize the virtual image, and a controller that controls an operation of the output unit. The output unit includes a display unit that emits the display information as display light, a turning-back mirror that reflects, as the output light, the display light emitted from the display unit, a holding member that holds the display unit and the turning-back mirror without changing relative positions of the display unit and the turning-back mirror, and a drive mechanism that can reciprocate the holding member along an optical axial direction of the turning-back mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi ICHIKAWA, Nobuyuki TAKAHASHI, Jun SHIHAKU
  • Publication number: 20230335779
    Abstract: A battery stack plate including a housing is provided. The housing has a first sub housing and a second sub housing. Each of the first and second sub housings has a coupling portion coupling the first and second sub housings to each other. The coupling portion includes a protruding portion provided on a coupling plate side face on which the first sub housing and the second sub housing are coupled to each other, and a recessed portion provided on the coupling plate side face at a position shifted from the protruding portion in the up-down direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicants: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Satoshi MORIOKA, Motoyoshi Okumura, Hiromi Ueda, Naoto Morisaku, Hirotaka Hasegawa, Shinichi Yanagihara
  • Patent number: 11791588
    Abstract: A liquid discharge structure includes a bottom wall with a discharge opening for liquid, the liquid being collected inside a casing which is configured to be installed in a vehicle, a blocking wall disposed outside the bottom wall so that 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, and a pair of vertical walls extending towards the bottom wall from the blocking wall in a front-rear direction of the vehicle, the pair of vertical walls being opposed to each other in a width direction of the vehicle, wherein the pair of vertical walls is configured to define a discharge path together with the bottom wall and the blocking wall, the discharge path being opened towards both of a front and rear side of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Yokoyama, Yusuke Nagai, Makoto Goto
  • Patent number: 11787307
    Abstract: A MPU controls a changeover switch, which is an FET switch that connects a main battery and a sub-battery having a low rated voltage. The changeover switch is set to an ON state in a case where a potential difference, which is a difference between a voltage of the main battery and a voltage of the sub-battery, is equal to or greater than a positive first predetermined value. A PWM signal is output to a driver to cause the changeover switch to be in a half-ON state in a case where the potential difference is less than the first predetermined value and is greater than a second predetermined value equal to or less than 0. The changeover switch is set to an OFF state in a case where the potential difference is equal to or less than the second predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11791653
    Abstract: In a power supply control apparatus, a control unit configured to turn on a first switch and turn off a second switch when a backup power supply is to be charged, and turn off the first switch and turn on the second switch when electric power is to be supplied from the backup power supply to a backup load. The control unit sets an upper limit value of a state of charge of the backup power supply based on an output voltage to the backup load obtained by subtracting, from an open circuit voltage of the backup power supply, a voltage drop from an internal portion of the backup power supply to an output to a backup load side via the second switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masato Sasahara
  • Patent number: 11789263
    Abstract: A display device for a vehicle includes a liquid crystal display device including a display surface for displaying an image; and an optical system including a reflecting surface, and forming an optical path of display light from the display surface toward an eye point of a vehicle. The optical system includes a first reflecting surface placed closest to the display surface in the optical path of the display light, and a magnifying reflecting surface that magnifies and reflects the display light. When viewed from an image horizontal direction, the display surface is inclined toward an optical axis of the display light extending from the display surface toward the first reflecting surface. The optical system is configured so that a width of the optical path of the display light in an image vertical direction is reduced, gradually from the display surface toward the first reflecting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Ichikawa, Tetsuya Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11791069
    Abstract: A grommet includes a fitting body causing a circumferential edge portion of a through hole provided in a wall body to be fitted into a fitting groove provided in an outer wall, and a first cylinder and a second cylinder causing a harness body to be extracted through the cylinder. The fitting body includes a cylindrical portion, a plurality of ribs rising from an outer circumferential wall surface of the cylindrical portion and disposed on the outer circumferential wall surface at equal intervals in a circumferential direction, and a first support portion and a second support portion provided for each of the ribs. The first support portion and the second support portion project from the outer circumferential wall surface to be high enough to suppress elastic deformation of the rib in the circumferential direction toward the outer circumferential wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Kiyota, Masaru Kiuchi, Takeshi Onoda, Junya Kato