Patents by Inventor Haruka Nakano
Haruka Nakano 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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Publication number: 20240145120Abstract: A wiring member includes: a wiring body including a plurality of wire-like transmission members, a first sheet to which the plurality of wire-like transmission members are fixed, and a second sheet to which at least some of the plurality of wire-like transmission members are fixed; and a connector provided to end portions of the plurality of wire-like transmission members. The second sheet is provided between the first sheet and the connector. Two or more wire-like transmission members including all of thinnest wire-like transmission members in the plurality of wire-like transmission members are fixed to the second sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Kenta ARAI, Kazuhiro NISHIMURA, Issei KANO, Haruka NAKANO
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Publication number: 20240145984Abstract: A wiring member includes a plurality of electrical wires, a connector, and a waterproof member. The waterproof member is formed by bending the sheet material to cover a region including a front surface, an upper surface, and a side surface continuously formed in the connector housing. The sheet material which has not been bended is connected in a part corresponding to two edge portions of any of an edge portion between the front surface and the upper surface, an edge portion between the front surface and the side surface, and an edge portion between the upper surface and the side surface, and is separated in a part corresponding to a remaining one edge portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Kenta ARAI, Kazuhiro NISHIMURA, Issei KANO, Haruka NAKANO
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Publication number: 20240109342Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a medium accommodating part, an image forming engine, a discharge part, a medium conveyer configured to convey a medium from the medium accommodating part to the image forming engine and to the discharge part, a medium holder configured to hold the medium discharged to the discharge part, and a controller. The controller selects a first discharge mode for causing the medium holder to continue to hold the medium when a holding condition is satisfied or a second discharge mode for causing the medium holder not to hold the medium or to hold the medium for a prescribed period and then release the medium. The holding condition includes at least one of a first condition being that material of the medium does not correspond to specific materials and a second condition being that a medium length is less than a first threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Satoru ARAKANE, Masashi OHHASHI, Koichi TSUGIMURA, Haruka AZECHI, Yasuhiro NAKANO
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Patent number: 11942242Abstract: A wiring member includes a wiring body and a pattern. The wiring body includes a plurality of wire-like transmission members and a base material. The plurality of wire-like transmission members are fixed to the base material in an aligned state, and the pattern is provided on the wiring body. The pattern makes a two-dimensional position of at least a part of a portion related to the base material recognizable in the wiring body.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Suguru Yasuda, Haruka Nakano, Motohiro Yokoi, Kenta Ito, Hiroki Hirai, Makoto Higashikozono, Koichiro Goto, Junichi Shirakawa, Yoshitaka Kami, Yasushi Nomura, Sofia Barillaro
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Patent number: 11901714Abstract: A wiring member includes: a first wire like transmission member; a second wire like transmission member that is more easily bent and deformed than the first wire like transmission member; and a base member to which the first wire like transmission member and the second wire like transmission member are fixed, in which the first wire like transmission member is fixed to the base member through a plurality of first fixing parts, the second wire like transmission member is fixed to the base member through a plurality of second fixing parts, the plurality of first fixing parts are aligned at a first interval in a direction along the first wire like transmission member, and the plurality of second fixing parts are aligned at a second interval smaller than the first interval in a direction along the second wire like transmission member.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Kenta Arai, Daisuke Ebata, Ryusuke Kudo, Masaki Mizushita, Tetsuya Nishimura, Haruka Nakano
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Patent number: 11837861Abstract: The present invention aims to suppress a case in which paths of linear transmission members are disturbed on a sheet-shaped member or the linear transmission members separate from the sheet-shaped member. The wiring member includes a sheet-shaped member and multiple linear transmission members that are fixed on the sheet-shaped member. The multiple linear transmission members are fixed on the sheet-shaped member such that a portion of the multiple linear transmission members intersects with respect to another said linear transmission member. An intersection location of the multiple linear transmission members is located away from a folding track.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hidetoshi Ishida, Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Haruka Nakano, Suguru Yasuda
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Patent number: 11824335Abstract: The present invention aims to suppress a case in which paths of linear transmission members are disturbed on a sheet-shaped member or linear transmission members separate from a sheet-shaped member when a wiring member obtained by fixing linear transmission members on a sheet-shaped member is folded. The wiring member includes a sheet-shaped member and multiple linear transmission members that are fixed on the sheet-shaped member. The plurality of linear transmission members are fixed on the sheet-shaped member such that a portion of the plurality of linear transmission members branches with respect to another said linear transmission member at a branching portion. An intersection location of the plurality of linear transmission members is located at only the branching portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hidetoshi Ishida, Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Haruka Nakano, Suguru Yasuda
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Patent number: 11801735Abstract: On an outer circumferential edge of the closing plate, an elastic fitting portion protruding to the outer side of the inner circumferential edge of the service hole and fitting with the inner circumferential edge projects with a thickness larger than the plate thickness of the closing plate and extends in the circumferential direction of the outer circumferential edge. The elastic fitting portion is provided with an inner circumferential edge accommodating recessed groove that opens in the center of a protruding end surface of the elastic fitting portion and extends in the circumferential direction to accommodate the inner circumferential edge of the service hole, and the inner circumferential edge of the service hole is clamped between a pair of elastic clamping pieces that face each other with the inner circumferential edge accommodating recessed groove interposed between the pair of elastic clamping pieces.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Haruka Nakano, Motohiro Yokoi, Shigeki Ikeda, Kenta Ito, Daisuke Ebata, Yuya Fukami, Masaki Mizushita, Tetsuya Nishimura, Ryuta Takakura, Housei Mizuno
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Patent number: 11787353Abstract: A wire harness fixing structure includes a plate-like member including a first layer and a second layer softer than the first layer, an electrical wire disposed along the plate-like member, and a fixing member attached to the electrical wire to fix the electrical wire to the plate-like member. The fixing member includes: a through locking piece formed to be able to pass through the first layer and locked to the first layer while passing through the first layer, a regulation piece provided with a space between the regulation piece and the through locking piece to stop the through locking piece from passing through a surface of the plate-like member, and a column connecting the through locking piece and the regulation piece.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Housei Mizuno, Shigeki Ikeda, Haruka Nakano, Tetsuya Nishimura, Masaki Mizushita
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Patent number: 11735336Abstract: A wiring body includes a wire-like transmission member and a base member to which the wire-like transmission member is fixed. A temporary joint part joins portions where a first part and a second part mutually extending in an opposite side from a bending position in the wiring body overlap with each other in a state where the wiring body is bended in an intermediate portion of the wire-like transmission member in an extension direction to maintain a bending state of the wiring body. The temporary joint part is formed to be able to resolve a state of joining the first part and the second part by a relative separation movement of the first part and the second part.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Haruka Nakano, Motohiro Yokoi, Kenta Ito, Takuya Kaba, Suguru Yasuda, Makoto Higashikozono
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Publication number: 20230106640Abstract: In a base member arrangement section, a plurality of wire-like transmission members are divided into at least a first wire-like transmission member bundle and a second wire-like transmission member bundle, and the cover member is fixed to the base member at positions on both sides of the first wire-like transmission member bundle and the second wire-like transmission member bundle and a position between the positions on the both sides to cover the first wire-like transmission member bundle and the second wire-like transmission member bundle. In a non-base member arrangement section, the plurality of wire-like transmission members include a large bundle part where the first wire-like transmission member bundle and the second wire-like transmission member bundle are bundled together.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Haruka NAKANO, Motohiro YOKOI, Kenta ITO, Toshio SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20230079882Abstract: A wiring member includes a sheet including a fusion layer, an adhesive tape including an adhesive layer and a base material layer, and a first wire-like transmission member to which the adhesive tape is fixed via the adhesive layer. The base material layer and the fusion layer are fused to each other, and the first wire-like transmission member is fixed to the sheet via the adhesive tape.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2021Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Kenta ARAI, Daisuke EBATA, Ryusuke KUDO, Masaki MIZUSHITA, Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Haruka NAKANO
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Publication number: 20230082327Abstract: A wiring member includes: at least one wire-like transmission member; a first sheet to which a first section located along a longitudinal direction in the wire-like transmission member is fixed; and a second sheet to which a second section located along a longitudinal direction in the wire-like transmission member is fixed, wherein the first sheet and the second sheet are separated, and at least one bending trace is formed in an intermediate section between the first section and the second section in the wire-like transmission member.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2020Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kenta ARAI, Daisuke EBATA, Ryusuke KUDO, Masaki MIZUSHITA, Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Haruka NAKANO, Housei MIZUNO
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Publication number: 20230047047Abstract: A wiring member includes: a plurality of wire-like transmission members; and a sheet to which the plurality of wire-like transmission members are fixed, wherein an intersection region portion where the plurality of wire-like transmission members are disposed on the sheet to intersect with each other is provided, and the intersection region portion includes a bending position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2020Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Motohiro YOKOI, Kenta ITO, Hidetoshi ISHIDA, Ryusuke KUDO, Masaki MIZUSHITA, Haruka NAKANO, Kenta ARAI, Daisuke EBATA
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Patent number: 11569004Abstract: The wiring member includes a wiring body and a shape maintaining member. The wiring body includes a sheet-like member and a wire-like transmission member fixed on the sheet-like member. The shape maintaining member is formed into a sheet-like shape having higher stiffness than the sheet-like member and covers at least one side of the wiring body along a front-back direction of the wiring body to maintain a shape of the wiring body.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD.Inventors: Haruka Nakano, Motohiro Yokoi, Kenta Ito, Shigeki Ikeda, Suguru Yasuda, Tetsuya Nishimura, Hiroki Hirai, Housei Mizuno, Koichiro Goto, Junichi Shirakawa, Yoshitaka Kami, Yasushi Nomura, Sofia Barillaro
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Publication number: 20230028014Abstract: On an outer circumferential edge of the closing plate, an elastic fitting portion protruding to the outer side of the inner circumferential edge of the service hole and fitting with the inner circumferential edge projects with a thickness larger than the plate thickness of the closing plate and extends in the circumferential direction of the outer circumferential edge. The elastic fitting portion is provided with an inner circumferential edge accommodating recessed groove that opens in the center of a protruding end surface of the elastic fitting portion and extends in the circumferential direction to accommodate the inner circumferential edge of the service hole, and the inner circumferential edge of the service hole is clamped between a pair of elastic clamping pieces that face each other with the inner circumferential edge accommodating recessed groove interposed between the pair of elastic clamping pieces.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Haruka NAKANO, Motohiro YOKOI, Shigeki IKEDA, Kenta ITO, Daisuke EBATA, Yuya FUKAMI, Masaki MIZUSHITA, Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Ryuta TAKAKURA, Housei MIZUNO
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Patent number: 11552462Abstract: A wiring member includes a sheet-shaped member and multiple linear transmission members that are fixed on the sheet-shaped member. The plurality of linear transmission members are fixed on the sheet-shaped member such that a portion of the plurality of linear transmission members branches with respect to another said linear transmission member at a branching portion. An intersection location of the plurality of linear transmission members is located at the branching portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tetsuya Nishimura, Motohiro Yokoi, Kenta Ito, Haruka Nakano, Masaki Mizushita, Ryusuke Kudo, Kenta Arai, Hidetoshi Ishida, Daisuke Ebata, Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Suguru Yasuda
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Publication number: 20220407295Abstract: A wiring member includes: a main wire including a plurality of wire-like transmission members; a branch wire in which some of the wire-like transmission members are branched from the main wire; a fixing sheet having one main surface to which the main wire is fixed; and a cover sheet, at least a part of which is provided in a position overlapped with the branch wire in another main surface of the fixing sheet, wherein a fusion position where the fixing sheet and the cover sheet are fused is provided on at least a lateral side of the main wire in a longitudinal direction, and is provided in a position away from the branch wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Ryusuke KUDO, Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Masaki MIZUSHITA, Haruka NAKANO, Kenta ARAI
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Publication number: 20220406488Abstract: A wiring member includes: a wire-like transmission member; a first sheet to which the wire-like transmission member is fixed; and a second sheet, at least a part of which is overlapped with the first sheet, wherein a first through hole is formed in one of the first sheet and the second sheet, a second through hole formed to be continuous with the first through hole and smaller than the first through hole is formed in another one of the first sheet and the second sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Ryusuke KUDO, Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Haruka NAKANO, Masaki MIZUSHITA, Kenta ARAI
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Publication number: 20220407296Abstract: A wiring member includes: a wiring body including a wire-like transmission member and a sheet to which the wire-like transmission member is fixed; a cover that covers the wiring body; and a buffer member, in which the wire-like transmission member includes a transmission wire body and a coating layer that covers the transmission wire body, the cover is a member harder than the coating layer, and the buffer member is provided at at least one end of the cover, and is disposed between the wire-like transmission member and the cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Masaki MIZUSHITA, Ryusuke KUDO, Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Haruka NAKANO, Kenta ARAI