Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Kakuta

Hirokazu Kakuta 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).

  • Electrical junction box
    Patent number: 6796809
    Abstract: An electrical junction box includes a lower case containing wiring boards with busbars such that the boards stand upright, an upper case combined with the lower case, upper and lower connection terminals extended from each wiring board and vertically penetrating through an inclined upper terminal supporting member and a lower terminal supporting member, respectively. The upper terminal supporting member forms part of drain path which has a rim formed at a peripheral edge thereof except for the lower end thereof. Water that has entered the junction box is guided along the inclined upper terminal supporting member, and then drops from the lower end thereof into a drainpipe of the lower case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kakuta, Mitsuo Tanaka, Takayuki Uchiyama
  • Electrical junction box
    Publication number: 20030219998
    Abstract: An electrical junction box includes a lower case containing wiring boards with busbars such that the boards stand upright, an upper case combined with the lower case, upper and lower connection terminals extended from each wiring board and vertically penetrating through an inclined upper terminal supporting member and a lower terminal supporting member, respectively. The upper terminal supporting member forms part of drain path which has a rim formed at a peripheral edge thereof except for the lower end thereof. Water that has entered the junction box is guided along the inclined upper terminal supporting member, and then drops from the lower end thereof into a drainpipe of the lower case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2003
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kakuta, Mitsuo Tanaka, Takayuki Uchiyama