Patents by Inventor Katsuju AOKI

Katsuju AOKI 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: 11688531
    Abstract: Provided are a drawing creation method, a wire harness manufacturing method, and a drawing creation device. A drawing showing a wire harness is created by the drawing creation method. The wire harness is configured with wires bundled together. The wire harness includes wire branch points and branch lines. The drawing is created based on information including following (1) to (3) and at least one of following (4) or (5): (1) a path of the wire harness in a movable body, (2) a distance between path branch points where the path branches, (3) a length from each path branch point to a corresponding connection target of the wire harness, (4) identification information of the connection target of the wire harness, (5) identification information of the connection target of each wire. The drawing reflects a distance between the wire branch points and a length of each branch line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Proterial, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Kawase, Katsuju Aoki, Raifu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11521766
    Abstract: A wire harness electric wire length correcting device, which corrects a design value of an electric wire length of an electric wire included in a wire harness, includes an electric wire identifying means including an identification mark, which is attached to an end portion of the electric wire, and which is to be cut off from the electric wire when the wire harness is installed on an installation target object, so as to use the identification mark to identify which electric wire an end cut off from the electric wire has been cut off from, a measuring means for measuring a length of the cut off end, and a correcting means for, for the electric wire identified by the electric wire identifying means, correcting the design value of the electric wire length of that electric wire, based on the length of the cut off end measured by the measuring means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kawase, Raifu Yamamoto, Katsuju Aoki, Takumi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11393611
    Abstract: A wire harness production supporting device configured to produce a wire harness by in turn laying out a plurality of electric wires on a wire laying out drawing. This wire harness production supporting device is composed of a time recording section configured to, each time one of the plurality of electric wires is laid out, store a time at which the one of the plurality of electric wires has been laid out, in a storing section, and a progress status administrating section configured to obtain a progress status of the production of the wire harness based on the time at which the one of the plurality of electric wires has been laid out having been stored in the storing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kawase, Katsuju Aoki, Raifu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11387635
    Abstract: A wire harness wiring operation support system includes a display section that includes a procedure display region for displaying a plurality of wiring procedure selection buttons corresponding a wire harness to be wired, and a wiring position display region for displaying a wiring position of the wire harness that corresponds to the selected wiring procedure selection button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kawase, Masaru Ishikawa, Katsuju Aoki
  • Patent number: 11084433
    Abstract: To provide a total supporting method of a wire harness. The method includes a designing supporting step of designing the wire harness including a plurality of or a single electrical wire to be wired on a moving body based on 3D design data of the moving body, and creating 2D design data of the designed wire harness; a manufacturing supporting step of displaying in full scale information indicating a manufacturing method of the wire harness based on the 2D design data created, and manufacturing the wire harness based on the display; and a wiring supporting step of displaying wiring step information or information related to a step of wiring the wire harness on the moving body on a portable information processing terminal, and wiring the wire harness manufactured by the manufacturing supporting step on the moving body while looking at the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Kawase, Katsuju Aoki, Raifu Yamamoto, Masahiko Namekawa
  • Publication number: 20200286651
    Abstract: A wire harness production supporting device configured to produce a wire harness by in turn laying out a plurality of electric wires on a wire laying out drawing. This wire harness production supporting device is composed of a time recording section configured to, each time one of the plurality of electric wires is laid out, store a time at which the one of the plurality of electric wires has been laid out, in a storing section, and a progress status administrating section configured to obtain a progress status of the production of the wire harness based on the time at which the one of the plurality of electric wires has been laid out having been stored in the storing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Kenji KAWASE, Katsuju Aoki, Raifu Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20200185130
    Abstract: Provided are a drawing creation method, a wire harness manufacturing method, and a drawing creation device. A drawing showing a wire harness is created by the drawing creation method. The wire harness is configured with wires bundled together. The wire harness includes wire branch points and branch lines. The drawing is created based on information including following (1) to (3) and at least one of following (4) or (5): (1) a path of the wire harness in a movable body, (2) a distance between path branch points where the path branches, (3) a length from each path branch point to a corresponding connection target of the wire harness, (4) identification information of the connection target of the wire harness, (5) identification information of the connection target of each wire. The drawing reflects a distance between the wire branch points and a length of each branch line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Kenji KAWASE, Katsuju AOKI, Raifu YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200020465
    Abstract: A wire harness electric wire length correcting device, which corrects a design value of an electric wire length of an electric wire included in a wire harness, includes an electric wire identifying means including an identification mark, which is attached to an end portion of the electric wire, and which is to be cut off from the electric wire when the wire harness is installed on an installation target object, so as to use the identification mark to identify which electric wire an end cut off from the electric wire has been cut off from, a measuring means for measuring a length of the cut off end, and a correcting means for, for the electric wire identified by the electric wire identifying means, correcting the design value of the electric wire length of that electric wire, based on the length of the cut off end measured by the measuring means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Kenji KAWASE, Raifu YAMAMOTO, Katsuju AOKI, Takumi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190118741
    Abstract: To provide a total supporting method of a wire harness. The method includes a designing supporting step of designing the wire harness including a plurality of or a single electrical wire to be wired on a moving body based on 3D design data of the moving body, and creating 2D design data of the designed wire harness; a manufacturing supporting step of displaying in full scale information indicating a manufacturing method of the wire harness based on the 2D design data created, and manufacturing the wire harness based on the display; and a wiring supporting step of displaying wiring step information or information related to a step of wiring the wire harness on the moving body on a portable information processing terminal, and wiring the wire harness manufactured by the manufacturing supporting step on the moving body while looking at the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Kenji KAWASE, Katsuju AOKI, Raifu YAMAMOTO, Masahiko NAMEKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190067919
    Abstract: A wire harness wiring operation support system includes a display section that includes a procedure display region for displaying a plurality of wiring procedure selection buttons corresponding a wire harness to be wired, and a wiring position display region for displaying a wiring position of the wire harness that corresponds to the selected wiring procedure selection button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Kenji KAWASE, Masaru ISHIKAWA, Katsuju AOKI