Patents by Inventor Akemi Maebashi

Akemi Maebashi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10063041
    Abstract: An electronic component unit includes a housing that accommodates electronic components therein and that is provided with connecting units connected to electric wires on a vertical-direction lower surface. The housing has protruding ribs protruding downward in a vertical direction from the vertical-direction lower surface, positioned between the connecting units and respective side wall surfaces of the housing provided to sides of the vertical-direction lower surface, and extending from one end to the other end of the vertical-direction lower surface along the side wall surfaces. The electronic component unit having this configuration can prevent adhesion of water to the connecting units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akemi Maebashi, Pharima Akanitsuk, Yusuke Noda, Hiroki Kawakami
  • Patent number: 9758115
    Abstract: An electronic component unit and a wire harness include a bus bar plate. The bus bar plate is equipped with a resistor that has a main body and a pair of terminals protruding from the main body, and a substrate main body in which a metallic bus bar is built in a resin material and which has a component mounting section with the resistor mounted thereon. The component mounting section includes a pair of through-holes that penetrates the resin material and the bus bar and allows the terminals to pass, and a recess that is provided between the pair of through-holes, extends in a straight line shape connecting the pair of through-holes, and is capable of supporting the main body of the resistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akemi Maebashi, Pharima Akanitsuk
  • Patent number: 9699919
    Abstract: An electronic component unit and a wire harness are provided with a bus bar plate. The bus bar plate is provided with a metallic bus bar that is built in a resin material, and including a through-hole in which a terminal of a relay mounted on a mounting surface is soldered. The through-hole is provided with a bus bar through-hole which penetrates the bus bar, and a resin material through-hole which penetrates the resin material and is formed to be larger than the bus bar through-hole to expose the surface of the bus bar. When an inner diameter of the bus bar through-hole is defined as r and an inner diameter of the resin material through-hole is defined as R, 1.5r?R is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akemi Maebashi, Pharima Akanitsuk
  • Patent number: 9623816
    Abstract: A locking structure includes a locking recess that is formed in a recessed shape on one of a housing which houses an electronic component and a holding member to which the housing is assembled; and a locking protrusion that is formed in a protrusion shape capable of being fitted to the locking recess on the other of the housing or the holding member and capable of being locked to the locking recess. The locking recess has a recess side corner that is formed in a curved shape at an end of the recess side locking surface that is a locking surface with the locking protrusion, and the locking protrusion has a protrusion side corner formed in a curved shape and facing the recess side corner at an end of the protrusion side locking surface that is a locking surface with the locking recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Akemi Maebashi, Pharima Akanitsuk
  • Publication number: 20160345455
    Abstract: An electronic component unit includes a housing that accommodates electronic components therein and that is provided with connecting units connected to electric wires on a vertical-direction lower surface. The housing has protruding ribs protruding downward in a vertical direction from the vertical-direction lower surface, positioned between the connecting units and respective side wall surfaces of the housing provided to sides of the vertical-direction lower surface, and extending from one end to the other end of the vertical-direction lower surface along the side wall surfaces. The electronic component unit having this configuration can prevent adhesion of water to the connecting units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicants: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akemi MAEBASHI, Pharima AKANITSUK, Yusuke NODA, Hiroki KAWAKAMI
  • Patent number: 9496693
    Abstract: An electronic component unit includes a plate made of a resin material configured to embed metallic bus bars in the resin material and mount electronic components thereon, and a supporting member to which the plate is assembled. The plate has a plurality of exposed ends at which the bus bars are partially exposed on edge surfaces of the plate. The supporting member includes protrusions that are formed on opposed surfaces facing the edge surfaces of the plate such that the protrusions face the edge surfaces of the plate, protrude from the opposed surfaces toward the edge surface sides of the plate, and are each located between the adjacent exposed ends in an arrangement direction of the multiple exposed ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akemi Maebashi, Pharima Akanitsuk, Hiroki Shiraiwa, Yasuhiro Tokumasu
  • Publication number: 20160242305
    Abstract: An electronic component unit and a wire harness include a bus bar plate. The bus bar plate is equipped with a resistor that has a main body and a pair of terminals protruding from the main body, and a substrate main body in which a metallic bus bar is built in a resin material and which has a component mounting section with the resistor mounted thereon. The component mounting section includes a pair of through-holes that penetrates the resin material and the bus bar and allows the terminals to pass, and a recess that is provided between the pair of through-holes, extends in a straight line shape connecting the pair of through-holes, and is capable of supporting the main body of the resistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Akemi MAEBASHI, Pharima AKANITSUK
  • Publication number: 20160242290
    Abstract: An electronic component unit and a wire harness are provided with a bus bar plate. The bus bar plate is provided with a metallic bus bar that is built in a resin material, and including a through-hole in which a terminal of a relay mounted on a mounting surface is soldered. The through-hole is provided with a bus bar through-hole which penetrates the bus bar, and a resin material through-hole which penetrates the resin material and is formed to be larger than the bus bar through-hole to expose the surface of the bus bar. When an inner diameter of the bus bar through-hole is defined as r and an inner diameter of the resin material through-hole is defined as R, 1.5r?R is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Akemi MAEBASHI, Pharima AKANITSUK
  • Publication number: 20160242303
    Abstract: A locking structure includes a locking recess that is formed in a recessed shape on one of a housing which houses an electronic component and a holding member to which the housing is assembled; and a locking protrusion that is formed in a protrusion shape capable of being fitted to the locking recess on the other of the housing or the holding member and capable of being locked to the locking recess. The locking recess has a recess side corner that is formed in a curved shape at an end of the recess side locking surface that is a locking surface with the locking protrusion, and the locking protrusion has a protrusion side corner formed in a curved shape and facing the recess side corner at an end of the protrusion side locking surface that is a locking surface with the locking recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akemi MAEBASHI, Pharima AKANITSUK
  • Publication number: 20150303669
    Abstract: An electronic component unit includes a plate made of a resin material configured to embed metallic bus bars in the resin material and mount electronic components thereon, and a supporting member to which the plate is assembled. The plate has a plurality of exposed ends at which the bus bars are partially exposed on edge surfaces of the plate. The supporting member includes protrusions that are formed on opposed surfaces facing the edge surfaces of the plate such that the protrusions face the edge surfaces of the plate, protrude from the opposed surfaces toward the edge surface sides of the plate, and are each located between the adjacent exposed ends in an arrangement direction of the multiple exposed ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akemi MAEBASHI, Pharima AKANITSUK, Hiroki SHIRAIWA, Yasuhiro TOKUMASU
  • Patent number: 9084349
    Abstract: The electric connection box includes a case receiving various electric components, like a relay, a fuse, and a connector. The case includes a low-height area with a lower height about height than other area of the case. A plurality of ribs forming a grid shape by intersecting to each other is provided on a bottom surface of the low-height area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Akemi Maebashi, Masanobu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8523612
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an electric connection box which can prevent a fuse attaching portion from being heated to high temperature. The electric connection box includes a fuse attaching portion in which a plurality of fuses are directly aligned and attached, a case body having a plurality of the fuse attaching portions on an upper surface thereof, and a hole provided between the fuse attaching portions, the hole passing through the case body from a lower surface to the upper surface thereof. The hole is separated into a small hole smaller than a size of the fuse by a partition wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Akemi Maebashi
  • Patent number: 8426737
    Abstract: The electric connection box includes a case main body; a lower cover to be attached at the case main body; a harness-through opening to be structured into a cylindrical shape with the case main body and the lower cover; a wiring harness to be passed through the harness-through opening; and a water-protect elastic sheet wound around the wiring harness to be arranged in the harness-through opening. The harness-through opening has a large diameter portion, which has an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of the part of the wiring harness wound with the water-protect sheet, and a small diameter portion, which has an inner diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the part of the wiring harness wound with the water-protect sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Akemi Maebashi
  • Patent number: 8338708
    Abstract: An electric junction box is provided having a receiving portion enabling a joint to be securely press-fitted into a joint, even if the outer diameter of the joint varies within a wide range. An electric junction box is comprised of a joint having electrical conduits that are electrically connected to each other at their terminals, and a cap disposed on the terminals, and a receiving portion which the joint is press-fitted into. The receiving portion comprises a recess having an inner surface facing an outer surface of the joint, and a rib projection disposed on the inner surface of the recess. The rib projection has a tapered portion inclined toward the bottom of the recess thus approximating the center portion of the bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Akemi Maebashi, Shigeharu Tsukui
  • Publication number: 20100155134
    Abstract: The electric connection box includes a case receiving various electric components, like a relay, a fuse, and a connector. The case includes a low-height area with a lower height about height than other area of the case. A plurality of ribs forming a grid shape by intersecting to each other is provided on a bottom surface of the low-height area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Akemi Maebashi, Masanobu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20100144170
    Abstract: It is object of the present invention to provide an electric junction box having a receiving portion enabling a joint to be securely press-fitted into a joint, even if the outer diameter of the joint varies within a wide range. In accordance with the present invention, an electric junction box is comprised of a joint having electrical conduits that are electrically connected to each other at their terminals, and a cap disposed on the terminals, and a receiving portion which the joint is press-fitted into. The receiving portion comprises a recess having an inner surface facing an outer surface of the joint, and a rib projection disposed on the inner surface of the recess. The rib projection has a tapered portion inclined toward the bottom of the recess thus approximating the center portion of the bottom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Akemi Maebashi, Shigeharu Tsukui
  • Publication number: 20100136805
    Abstract: The electric connection box includes a case main body; a lower cover to be attached at the case main body; a harness-through opening to be structured into a cylindrical shape with the case main body and the lower cover; a wiring harness to be passed through the harness-through opening; and a water-protect elastic sheet wound around the wiring harness to be arranged in the harness-through opening. The harness-through opening has a large diameter portion, which has an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of the part of the wiring harness wound with the water-protect sheet, and a small diameter portion, which has an inner diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the part of the wiring harness wound with the water-protect sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Akemi Maebashi
  • Publication number: 20100136836
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an electric connection box which can prevent a fuse attaching portion from being heated to high temperature. The electric connection box includes a fuse attaching portion in which a plurality of fuses are directly aligned and attached, a case body having a plurality of the fuse attaching portions on an upper surface thereof, and a hole provided between the fuse attaching portions, the hole passing through the case body from a lower surface to the upper surface thereof. The hole is separated into a small hole smaller than a size of the fuse by a partition wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Akemi Maebashi
  • Patent number: 7425156
    Abstract: Circuit members and electrical parts, connected to the circuit members, are mounted within a pair of division housings and terminals, extending from the circuit members, project outwardly from the division housings, and the two division housings are joined together to form a connector. Walls of the pair of division housings are alternately superposed together. An opening is formed in an outer wall of each of the two division housings, and the circuit members are exposed through the opening. The electrical parts, mounted within the two division housings, are arranged alternately. The pair of division housings, jointed together, are received within a case, and the case has a hood portion for the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Akemi Maebashi, Hiroaki Yamada
  • Patent number: 7422443
    Abstract: An electric connection box includes a harness holding portion formed on a lower wall of a lower cover and extending downwardly from the lower cover, and a fixing member which fixes a wire harness, led out through a harness lead-out through hole, to the harness holding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Nobutaka Kaneko, Akemi Maebashi