Patents by Inventor Hidetoshi Sugino

Hidetoshi Sugino 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).

  • Publication number: 20180174705
    Abstract: A wire harness that has a relatively simple structure, is highly versatile, and includes a conductive portion that can be electrically connected to a device that is located midway along the routing path. A wire harness includes a conductive portion extending along a routing path to form a circuit. The conductive portion is formed of a single-core wire or a pipe. A branch connection portion configured to be flat against a portion of the conductive portion that is adjacent thereto is provided in the conductive portion midway in an extension direction thereof. A branching wire is connected to the branch connection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Hidetoshi SUGINO
  • Publication number: 20180174704
    Abstract: A wire harness WH is provided with a pipe, through which wires are passed. The pipe has multiple split portions split in the longitudinal direction. The wires are branched in the longitudinal direction. The locations of branching of the wires are defined by locations corresponding to the split portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Hidetoshi SUGINO
  • Publication number: 20180175596
    Abstract: A wire harness capable of combining low voltage wires and high-voltage wires without using shielded wires. The harness is provided with high-voltage wires, which are passed through a pipe possessing shielding properties and shape retention properties, and a low voltage wire, in which a shape-retaining conductor that runs parallel to the pipe and possesses electrically conductive properties and shape retention properties is encased by an insulating member. The low voltage wire is placed on the outside of the pipe and, as a result, the low voltage wire is not affected by the electromagnetic noise of the high voltage wires, which makes it possible to combine the high-voltage wires and the low voltage wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Hidetoshi SUGINO
  • Patent number: 9923348
    Abstract: A wire harness and an electric wire protecting pipe that can prevent holes from being formed by flying gravel while the vehicle is moving and includes a bending pipe portion that can be bent easily. The electric wire protecting pipe is a resin pipe into which electric wires are insertable, and includes a bending pipe portion that is easily bent and is provided with protruding portions and recessed portions that are alternately continuous with each other in an axial direction, and a straight pipe portion that is flat and is not easily bent in the axial direction. A thickness of a lower wall portion that is disposed on a lower side when the electric wire protecting pipe is attached to a vehicle is greater than a thickness of a left wall portion and a right wall portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Sugino, Hidehiko Iwakawa
  • Publication number: 20170324227
    Abstract: A wire harness and an electric wire protecting pipe that can prevent holes from being formed by flying gravel while the vehicle is moving and includes a bending pipe portion that can be bent easily. The electric wire protecting pipe is a resin pipe into which electric wires are insertable, and includes a bending pipe portion that is easily bent and is provided with protruding portions and recessed portions that are alternately continuous with each other in an axial direction, and a straight pipe portion that is flat and is not easily bent in the axial direction. A thickness of a lower wall portion that is disposed on a lower side when the electric wire protecting pipe is attached to a vehicle is greater than a thickness of a left wall portion and a right wall portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Hidetoshi SUGINO, Hidehiko IWAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20170313267
    Abstract: A wire harness and an electric wire protecting pipe that can protect electric wires without including a separate component for shielding a drain hole. The electric wire protecting pipe is a resin pipe into which electric wires are insertable, and a lower wall portion is provided integrally with a projecting portion that projects outward, and a circumferential wall portion of the projecting portion is provided with a drain hole. According to such a configuration, the electric wires are protected from flying gravel, splashing water, or the like, by the projecting portion that is formed integrally with the electric wire protecting pipe, and thus the electric wires can be protected without including a separate component for shielding the drain hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Hidetoshi SUGINO, Hidehiko IWAKAWA
  • Patent number: 9793694
    Abstract: A shielded conductive path capable of being easily managed in terms of a length of a portion of a single core wire protruding from a shield pipe includes a shield pipe electromagnetically shielding a plurality of single core wires inserted therein and a spacer having insertion holes individually receiving the single core wires. Each single core is made of a single conductor as a core wire. The spacer is fitted inside of the shield pipe while being restricted from displacement in directions perpendicular to an axial direction of the shield pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Sugino
  • Patent number: 9732888
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide better configurations of a partition-attached metal pipe as an external cover material for a wire harness, including: a metal pipe through which a wire harness including a plurality of electrical wires can be inserted; and a separate metal partition member that is to be assembled by being inserted into the pipe; wherein a plurality of electrical wire insertion spaces that are partitioned by the partition member and a circumferential wall of the pipe are provided continuously in an axial direction of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kouki Shiga, Hidetoshi Sugino
  • Patent number: 9698581
    Abstract: A shielded conductive path with which a clamp that can be easily attached to a vehicle body. The shielded conductive path includes a shielding pipe having an insertion space into which an electrical wire is insertable, a resin pipe (a resin portion) surrounding an outer circumference of the shielding pipe, and a clamp that is fitted to the outside of the resin pipe and is to be attached to a vehicle body. An engagement protrusion is provided on one of the clamp and the resin pipe, the engagement protrusion protruding toward the other of the clamp and the resin pipe, and an engagement receiving portion for receiving the engagement protrusion is provided on the other of the clamp and the resin pipe, the engagement receiving portion having an opening to the side of the one of the clamp and the resin pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems. Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Sugino
  • Patent number: 9676348
    Abstract: A shield conductive path may include a tubular shield portion that surrounds a plurality of electric wires. The shield conductive path may further include a partition portion that partitions an interior space of the shield portion into a plurality of electrical wire insertion paths. A specific electrical wire may be inserted through a specific electrical wire insertion path of the plurality of electrical wire insertion paths and may be guided out from a guiding-out opening formed in the shield portion, to the outside of the shield portion, and this guiding-out opening can be formed within an area, of the shield portion, provided with the partition portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Sugino, Masanori Kuwahara, Hidehiko Iwakawa
  • Patent number: 9666955
    Abstract: A connection portion between a single-core line electrical line and a stranded electrical line is prevented from bulging in the diameter direction. A conductor exposed portion is formed on an end portion of the single-core line electrical line, and an individual wire exposed portion is formed on an end portion of the stranded electrical line. A collapsed portion is formed on the conductor exposed portion, and a connection block portion is formed by welding together individual wires of the individual wire exposed portion. The compressed portion and the connection block portion are joined in an overlapping state. At this time, the collapsed portion is bent such that a level difference is formed in the diameter direction such that the single-core line electrical line and the stranded electrical line are joined approximately coaxially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Sugino
  • Publication number: 20170129423
    Abstract: A shielded conductive path that can be easily manufactured. A shielded conductive path includes a tubular shielding pipe having an insertion space into which an electrical wire is insertable, and a resin pipe that is separate from the shielding pipe and is removably fitted to the outside of the shielding pipe. There is little concern that the coating of the resin pipe is peeled off when the resin pipe is bent, and thus a predetermined identification function can be exhibited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventor: Hidetoshi SUGINO
  • Publication number: 20170133827
    Abstract: A shielded conductive path with which a clamp that can be easily attached to a vehicle body. The shielded conductive path includes a shielding pipe having an insertion space into which an electrical wire is insertable, a resin pipe (a resin portion) surrounding an outer circumference of the shielding pipe, and a clamp that is fitted to the outside of the resin pipe and is to be attached to a vehicle body. An engagement protrusion is provided on one of the clamp and the resin pipe, the engagement protrusion protruding toward the other of the clamp and the resin pipe, and an engagement receiving portion for receiving the engagement protrusion is provided on the other of the clamp and the resin pipe, the engagement receiving portion having an opening to the side of the one of the clamp and the resin pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventor: Hidetoshi SUGINO
  • Patent number: 9504193
    Abstract: A shielded conductive path that can facilitate manufacturing operations is provided. A shielded conductive path includes a shielding pipe that is configured to have a tubular shape into which an electric wire can be inserted, by combining together a pair of divided bodies into which the shielding pipe is divided along its axis, and an overlapping fitting portion that is provided at a joint portion of the pair of divided bodies and allows the pair of divided bodies to be fitted to each other while overlapping each other in an inside-outside direction when the pair of divided bodies are combined together. Thus, the operations for manufacturing the shielded conductive path can be performed easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Sugino, Masanori Kuwahara, Hidehiko Iwakawa
  • Publication number: 20160071630
    Abstract: A connection portion between a single-core line electrical line and a stranded electrical line is prevented from bulging in the diameter direction. A conductor exposed portion is formed on an end portion of the single-core line electrical line, and an individual wire exposed portion is formed on an end portion of the stranded electrical line. A collapsed portion is formed on the conductor exposed portion, and a connection block portion is formed by welding together individual wires of the individual wire exposed portion. The compressed portion and the connection block portion are joined in an overlapping state. At this time, the collapsed portion is bent such that a level difference is formed in the diameter direction such that the single-core line electrical line and the stranded electrical line are joined approximately coaxially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventor: Hidetoshi SUGINO
  • Publication number: 20150334882
    Abstract: A shielded conductive path capable of being easily managed in terms of a length of a portion of a single core wire protruding from a shield pipe includes a shield pipe electromagnetically shielding a plurality of single core wires inserted therein and a spacer having insertion holes individually receiving the single core wires. Each single core is made of a single conductor as a core wire. The spacer is fitted inside of the shield pipe while being restricted from displacement in directions perpendicular to an axial direction of the shield pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventor: Hidetoshi SUGINO
  • Publication number: 20150263496
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are directed to a shield conductive path that can reduce the height of a shield pipe, and eliminate the need of installation of new equipment. A shield conductive path includes a metal shield pipe that surrounds and shields an electrical wire, and has the cross-sectional shape such that a portion on the upper or lower side of the shield pipe when it is arranged in a vehicle is cut away, and the remaining portion has a shape that corresponds to the shape of a substantially perfect circle. With this, it is possible to reduce the height of the shield pipe, and to eliminate the need of installation of new equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Hidetoshi SUGINO, Masanori KUWAHARA, Hidehiko IWAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20150250079
    Abstract: A shielded conductive path that can facilitate manufacturing operations is provided. A shielded conductive path includes a shielding pipe that is configured to have a tubular shape into which an electric wire can be inserted, by combining together a pair of divided bodies into which the shielding pipe is divided along its axis, and an overlapping fitting portion that is provided at a joint portion of the pair of divided bodies and allows the pair of divided bodies to be fitted to each other while overlapping each other in an inside-outside direction when the pair of divided bodies are combined together. Thus, the operations for manufacturing the shielded conductive path can be performed easily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Hidetoshi SUGINO, Masanori KUWAHARA, Hidehiko IWAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20150246647
    Abstract: A shield conductive path may include a tubular shield portion that surrounds a plurality of electric wires. The shield conductive path may further include a partition portion that partitions an interior space of the shield portion into a plurality of electrical wire insertion paths. A specific electrical wire may be inserted through a specific electrical wire insertion path of the plurality of electrical wire insertion paths and may be guided out from a guiding-out opening formed in the shield portion, to the outside of the shield portion, and this guiding-out opening can be formed within an area, of the shield portion, provided with the partition portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Hidetoshi SUGINO, Masanori KUWAHARA, Hidehiko IWAKAWA
  • Patent number: 8987601
    Abstract: A plurality of wires are prevented from being damaged from contact with an edge of an end portion of a shield pipe through which the wires are inserted. A shield pipe through which a wire harness including a plurality of wires routed in a hybrid automobile or an electric automobile has partition walls separating the plurality of inserted wires one by one and projecting continuously in an axis direction of the pipe from an inner surface of a peripheral wall of a pipe main body. The partition walls corresponding to the number of wires inserted through the shield pipe are provided radially in a cross section. Each of the partition walls has at least one bending portion extending in the axis direction of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouki Shiga, Hidetoshi Sugino