Patents by Inventor Kazutaka Uki

Kazutaka Uki 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: 11894165
    Abstract: A braided part connection structure includes a conductive braid and a conductive member electrically connected and fixed to the braid and made of a conductive plate material. The conductive member includes a braid joining portion. The braid joining portion includes, at a part of the conductive member in a longitudinal direction of the conductive member, a plurality of openings formed at intervals with each other along a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction and a welded portion defined by two adjacent openings of the plurality of openings. The braid joining portion is provided on the braid in an overlapping manner and the welded portion is laser-welded onto the braid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazutaka Uki
  • Publication number: 20230031879
    Abstract: A connection terminal includes a terminal connecting portion configured to be electrically connected to a counterpart terminal, an electric wire connecting portion configured to be electrically connected to an electric wire, a holding portion provided between the terminal connecting portion and the electric wire connecting portion and configured to be held by a housing, a sealed space formed in the holding portion, a latent heat storage material and a gas sealed in the sealed space, a sealing hole communicating the sealed space with a space outside the connection terminal, and a plug member configured to block the sealing hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Kazutaka UKI, Takahiro SYOUDA, Kenji YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230032999
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal-equipped electric wire having a terminal connected to an end portion of an electric wire, housing to accommodate the terminal and to hold the terminal-equipped electric wire and a heat transfer member having elasticity. The housing includes a first housing having a terminal accommodating portion, and a second housing to hold the terminal-equipped electric wire. The second housing includes a resin holder to be mounted on an electric wire connection portion of the terminal and the end portion of the electric wire, and a metal holder to be externally mounted on the resin holder. The heat transfer member is disposed in a compressed and deformed state between an outer circumferential surface of at least: one of the electric wire connection portion of the terminal and the end portion of the electric wire and an inner circumferential surface of the second housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Kazutaka Uki, Shoya Ueda
  • Publication number: 20220416469
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal and a housing. The terminal is configured to be connected to an electric wire. The housing is configured to contain the terminal. The housing includes a heat sink configured to absorb heat generated in the terminal. The heat sink is a part of a skeleton component forming the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Kazutaka UKI
  • Patent number: 11465573
    Abstract: An electric wire fixing structure includes a metal protector that houses a protection target part of an electric wire in an electric wire housing chamber on an inner side and allows the electric wire in the electric wire housing chamber to be led out from an electric wire outlet of the electric wire housing chamber; and a fastening structure that fixes the protector to a metal fastening target. The fastening structure includes a male screw member, a through-hole formed in the protector and through which the male screw member is inserted, and a female screw part provided in the fastening target and in which the male screw member is screwed. At least a part of the protector is abutted against the fastening target when the protector is fixed to the fastening target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Kazutaka Uki, Jumpei Kato, Yukihiro Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20220285047
    Abstract: A braided part connection structure includes a conductive braid and a conductive member electrically connected and fixed to the braid and made of a conductive plate material. The conductive member includes a braid joining portion. The braid joining portion includes, at a part of the conductive member in a longitudinal direction of the conductive member, a plurality of openings formed at intervals with each other along a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction and a welded portion defined by two adjacent openings of the plurality of openings. The braid joining portion is provided on the braid in an overlapping manner and the welded portion is laser-welded onto the braid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventor: Kazutaka Uki
  • Publication number: 20220166174
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal fitting, an insulating housing having a terminal accommodation chamber in which the terminal fitting is accommodated, and attached to a casing of an installation target device, and an insulating heat dissipation member that takes heat from the terminal fitting and dissipates the heat are included, and the heat dissipation member includes a heat absorbing portion that comes into contact with the terminal fitting in the terminal accommodation chamber and takes heat from the terminal fitting, and a heat transfer portion that transfers the heat taken by the heat absorbing portion to a heat transfer target portion outside the terminal accommodation chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Kazutaka Uki
  • Publication number: 20220134976
    Abstract: An electric wire fixing structure includes a metal protector that houses a protection target part of an electric wire in an electric wire housing chamber on an inner side and allows the electric wire in the electric wire housing chamber to be led out from an electric wire outlet of the electric wire housing chamber; and a fastening structure that fixes the protector to a metal fastening target. The fastening structure includes a male screw member, a through-hole formed in the protector and through which the male screw member is inserted, and a female screw part provided in the fastening target and in which the male screw member is screwed. At least a part of the protector is abutted against the fastening target when the protector is fixed to the fastening target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Kazutaka Uki, Jumpei Kato, Yukihiro Kawamura