Patents by Inventor Eriko Yuasa
Eriko Yuasa 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).
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Patent number: 7108943Abstract: In a structure of connecting battery terminals 101 and 102 to bus bars 16 and 17 wherein the plus terminal 102 and the minus terminal 101, projecting from an upper surface of a battery 100, are connected respectively to the pair of bus bars 17 and 16projecting from a relay block 10, an insulative-resin cover portion 11b, which covers at least an upper surface of one (17) of the bus bars, and another insulative-resin cover 11g, which covers at least a lower surface of the other bus bar 16, project from a block body 11 of the relay block 10, thereby preventing short-circuit between the two bus bars 16 and 17.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2002Date of Patent: September 19, 2006Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shuji Yamakawa, Eriko Yuasa, Kouji Ota, Hiroki Hirai
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Patent number: 7040906Abstract: A connection structure is between bus bars and relay terminals in an electrical connection box to be mounted on an automobile. Each bus bar is produced by punching an aluminum-based metal plate into a desired circuit configuration. An end of each bus bar is bent so that the end is connected to each respective relay terminal. Each bus bar end is welded to the respective relay terminal. Connection parts between the bus bars and the relay terminals are embedded in a molded insulation. Alternatively, grease is applied to and fills in exteriors and clearances of the connection parts.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2003Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Shuji Yamakawa, Eriko Yuasa
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Patent number: 7004798Abstract: A bus bar, with a desired circuit configuration contained in an electrical connection box to be mounted on an automobile, has an aluminum-based metal plate punched into a desired circuit configuration to form a flat plate-like circuit body. An L-shaped terminal piece is made from a copper-based metal plate. A horizontal portion of the L-shaped terminal piece is secured to the flat plate-like circuit body by welding a conductive adhesive, riveting, or caulking so that a vertical portion of the terminal piece projects from the circuit body to form a tab.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2003Date of Patent: February 28, 2006Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Eriko Yuasa, Shuji Yamakawa
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Patent number: 6866537Abstract: An electrical cable is used to form an internal circuit in an electrical connection box to be mounted on an automobile. An aluminum-based metal conductor is covered with a heat-resistant resin, such as PE (polyethylene) or PBT (polybutylene terephthalate). The conductor is a single core wire or a twisted core wire, which has a plurality of element wires. The conductor is pushed into an insulation displacement slot in an insulation displacement terminal. The insulation displacement terminal is made from an aluminum-based metal or a copper-based metal. A welding material, made of an iron-based metal, welds a contact portion between the conductor and a blade section on an inner peripheral edge of the insulation displacement slot.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2003Date of Patent: March 15, 2005Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Eriko Yuasa, Shuji Yamakawa
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Patent number: 6803523Abstract: An electrical conductor assembly contained in an electrical connection box to be mounted on an automobile has a bus bar produced by punching an aluminum-based metal plate into a desired circuit configuration. The bus bar includes an end with a tab formed by bending the end. An intermediate terminal is to be coupled to the tab. The intermediate terminal includes a rectangular parallelepiped box. The box has openings in its opposite ends. The box is made of an iron-based metal plate having an elastic function. A pair of terminal plates oppose each other in the box. Each of the pair of terminal plates, on upper and lower positions, has arcuately bent contact portions. Spring portions are on each of opposed peripheral walls of the rectangular parallelepiped box. The spring portions contact rear surfaces of the contact portions. The tab of the bus bar is inserted into an end opening in the intermediate terminal. The tab is forcedly inserted between the contact portions on one side of the terminal plates.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2003Date of Patent: October 12, 2004Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Eriko Yuasa, Shuji Yamakawa
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Patent number: 6793510Abstract: A protecting device is constructed by detachably mounting a protection plug in a fixed member and connecting a movable circuit in the protection plug and a fixed circuit in the fixed member to supply a power to a load and designed to prevent an arc from being created between input and output terminals when the protection plug is detached to shut a power supply off.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2002Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Shuji Yamakawa, Eriko Yuasa
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Patent number: 6750561Abstract: A fixed member 11 is provided with an input terminal 2 to be connected with a battery 100 and an output terminal 9 to be connected with an electric load 101. A movable member 12 is provided with the first current pass 4 that has connecting terminals 1 and 8 to be connected with the terminal members 2 and 9 respectively in a state where the movable member 12 is attached to the fixed member 11. The fixed member 11 is provided with the second current pass 15 for connecting the terminals 2 and 9 separately from the first current pass 4, and terminal protecting contacts 30 and 31 included in the second current pass 15.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2002Date of Patent: June 15, 2004Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki Hirai, Kouji Ota, Yoshiyuki Miyazaki, Eriko Yuasa, Shuji Yamakawa
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Patent number: 6746275Abstract: An electric connection box 111 comprises a stationary unit 11 and a movable member 12. The stationary unit 11 is formed integrally with a box body 113. The movable member 12 is removably attached to the stationary unit 11. When the movable member 12 is detached from the stationary unit 11, the power supply from a battery to an electric load is interrupted.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2002Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shuji Yamakawa, Eriko Yuasa, Hiroki Hirai, Kouji Oota
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Patent number: 6723924Abstract: An electrical conductor assembly adapted to be contained in an electrical connection box to be mounted on an automobile has a bus bar produced by punching an aluminum-based metal plate into a desired circuit configuration. The bus bar has a press contact tab formed by bending an end of the bus bar. A reinforcement tab cover encloses an exterior of the press contact tab. The press contact tab is provided with a press contact slot that extends from a distal end of the tab to a proximal end of the tab. The tab cover is made of an elastic iron-based metal plate. The tab cover has insertion grooves in opposed sidewalls that communicate with the press contact slot in the press contact tab.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2003Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Eriko Yuasa, Shuji Yamakawa
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Publication number: 20040067678Abstract: An electrical cable is used to form an internal circuit in an electrical connection box to be mounted on an automobile. An aluminum-based metal conductor is covered with a heat-resistant resin, such as PE (polyethylene) or PBT (polybutylene terephthalate). The conductor is a single core wire or a twisted core wire, which has a plurality of element wires. The conductor is pushed into an insulation displacement slot in an insulation displacement terminal. The insulation displacement terminal is made from an aluminum-based metal or a copper-based metal. A welding material, made of an iron-based metal, welds a contact portion between the conductor and a blade section on an inner peripheral edge of the insulation displacement slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Inventors: Eriko Yuasa, Shuji Yamakawa
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Publication number: 20040048524Abstract: A bus bar, with a desired circuit configuration contained in an electrical connection box to be mounted on an automobile, has an aluminum-based metal plate punched into a desired circuit configuration to form a flat plate-like circuit body. An L-shaped terminal piece is made from a copper-based metal plate. A horizontal portion of the L-shaped terminal piece is secured to the flat plate-like circuit body by welding a conductive adhesive, riveting, or caulking so that a vertical portion of the terminal piece projects from the circuit body to form a tab.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2003Publication date: March 11, 2004Inventors: Eriko Yuasa, Shuji Yamakawa
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Publication number: 20040040733Abstract: An electrical conductor assembly contained in an electrical connection box to be mounted on an automobile has a bus bar produced by punching an aluminum-based metal plate into a desired circuit configuration. The bus bar includes an end with a tab formed by bending the end. An intermediate terminal is to be coupled to the tab. The intermediate terminal includes a rectangular parallelepiped box. The box has openings in its opposite ends. The box is made of an iron-based metal plate having an elastic function. A pair of terminal plates oppose each other in the box. Each of the pair of terminal plates, on upper and lower positions, has arcuately bent contact portions. Spring portions are on each of opposed peripheral walls of the rectangular parallelepiped box. The spring portions contact rear surfaces of the contact portions. The tab of the bus bar is inserted into an end opening in the intermediate terminal. The tab is forcedly inserted between the contact portions on one side of the terminal plates.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2003Publication date: March 4, 2004Inventors: Eriko Yuasa, Shuji Yamakawa
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Publication number: 20040043645Abstract: A connection structure is between bus bars and relay terminals in an electrical connection box to be mounted on an automobile. Each bus bar is produced by punching an aluminum-based metal plate into a desired circuit configuration. An end of each bus bar is bent so that the end is connected to each respective relay terminal. Each bus bar end is welded to the respective relay terminal. Connection parts between the bus bars and the relay terminals are embedded in a molded insulation. Alternatively, grease is applied to and fills in exteriors and clearances of the connection parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2003Publication date: March 4, 2004Inventors: Shuji Yamakawa, Eriko Yuasa
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Publication number: 20040040732Abstract: An electrical conductor assembly adapted to be contained in an electrical connection box to be mounted on an automobile has a bus bar produced by punching an aluminum-based metal plate into a desired circuit configuration. The bus bar has a press contact tab formed by bending an end of the bus bar. A reinforcement tab cover encloses an exterior of the press contact tab. The press contact tab is provided with a press contact slot that extends from a distal end of the tab to a proximal end of the tab. The tab cover is made of an elastic iron-based metal plate. The tab cover has insertion grooves in opposed sidewalls that communicate with the press contact slot in the press contact tab.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2003Publication date: March 4, 2004Inventors: Eriko Yuasa, Shuji Yamakawa
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Patent number: 6659792Abstract: An electric connection box includes a cover fitted on a lower side of a body having mounting portions, and the cover is fixedly secured to a vehicle body. A wire harness is extended outwardly from a portion of the body, disposed near to one corner portion thereof, through an escape groove. Plural lock mechanisms, in which a lock piece portion can be elastically fitted into a lock groove, are provided at fitting peripheral surfaces of the body and cover, and are disposed near to four corner portions thereof respectively. One lock mechanism, disposed near to a position where the wire harness is extended outwardly, has a semi-lock structure, and thus has a smaller retaining force than the other lock mechanisms.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Limited, Sumitomo Wiring Systems, LimitedInventors: Yuuji Saka, Eriko Yuasa, Takamichi Miyamukai, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Isao Yoneyama, Keiichi Ito, Yoshihide Tsukamoto, Masahiro Takamatsu, Koji Nomura
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Patent number: 6650087Abstract: An electrical connection box is provided for a vehicle which has a low-voltage battery of maximum output voltage selected from 14V and 28V, and a high-voltage battery of output voltage higher than that of said first battery structure. The electrical connection box has an insulation plate and, fixed on one face of said insulation plate, first bus bars connected in use to the first battery and second bus bars connected in use to the second battery so that the first and second bus bars are at different potentials. In order to reduce a risk of electrical leakage paths on the insulation plate, at least one of the following features is present: (i) the first bus bars and the second bus bars are separated on the face of the insulation plate by an air insulation zone of width in the range of from about 1 mm to about 30 mm, (ii) an insulation wall stands up on the insulation plate between the first bus bars and the second bus bars, (iii) the second bus bars are embedded in the insulating material.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2001Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Eriko Yuasa, Shuji Yamakawa, Shinshu Kato
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Patent number: 6629850Abstract: An electrical connection box for a vehicle has a low-voltage bus bar and a high voltage bus bar, received in groove structures of a first insulation plate. Each groove structure is defined by a base wall surface on which the bus bar is disposed and a pair of opposed upstanding side wall surfaces. The first insulation plate has a downward recess or through-hole between the groove structures. A second insulation plate superimposed on the first plate has a downward projection received in the recess or through-hole and extending to a lower end which is below the base wall surfaces of the groove structures. The structure inhibits leak currents between the bus bars.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2001Date of Patent: October 7, 2003Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Shinshu Kato, Eriko Yuasa
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Patent number: 6614203Abstract: An electrical connection box includes a protection apparatus attachment recess. The protection apparatus attachment recess accommodates a power supply breaker apparatus. The power supply breaker apparatus includes a fixed member and a movable member. The fixed member is attached to an box main body. The movable member is attached to the fixed member in an attachable and detachable manner. When the movable member is detached from the fixed member, the power supply breaker apparatus breaks the supply from a battery to an electrical load.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2002Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Eriko Yuasa, Shuji Yamakawa, Hiroki Hirai, Kouji Oota
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Patent number: 6603283Abstract: An electrical connection box is provided for a vehicle which has a low-voltage battery of maximum output voltage selected from a range of from about 14V to about 28V, and a high-voltage battery of output voltage higher than that of the first battery structure. The electrical connection box has an insulation material of plate-like shape and, embedded in the insulation material, first bus bars connected in use to the first battery and second bus bars connected in use to the second battery so that the first and second bus bars are at different potentials. Connection tabs of the bus bars project out of the insulation material. Risk of leakage currents between the bus bars is thus minimized.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2001Date of Patent: August 5, 2003Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Eriko Yuasa, Shinshu Kato
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Publication number: 20030108789Abstract: In a structure of connecting battery terminals 101 and 102 to bus bars 16 and 17 wherein the plus terminal 102 and the minus terminal 101, projecting from an upper surface of a battery 100, are connected respectively to the pair of bus bars 17 and 16′ projecting from a relay block 10, an insulative-resin cover portion 11b, which covers at least an upper surface of one (17) of the bus bars, and another insulative-resin cover 11g, which covers at least a lower surface of the other bus bar 16, project from a block body 11 of the relay block 10, thereby preventing short-circuit between the two bus bars 16 and 17.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2002Publication date: June 12, 2003Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shuji Yamakawa, Eriko Yuasa, Kouji Ota, Hiroki Hirai