Patents by Inventor Kengo Machida

Kengo Machida 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: 11437756
    Abstract: A connector includes: a first connector including a first main terminal; a second connector including a second main terminal and a boss having a protruding shape; and a fitting detection circuit configured to detect fitting of the first connector and the second connector. The first connector further includes a rotatable lever used for a fitting operation to the second connector and a fitting disengagement operation from the second connector. The lever includes a lock configured to lock, when the lock contacts the boss in the fitting disengagement operation, a rotation of the lever in a state where the fitting is not detected by the fitting detection circuit and also in a state where the first main terminal and the second main terminal are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Shinmi, Kengo Machida, Masaya Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11355887
    Abstract: A connector applied to a wire harness includes a housing housing a terminal, a front holder assembled to an end portion in an axial direction of the housing, and a restriction member assembled to the housing. One of the housing and the front holder has a latch claw portion that latches the housing and the front holder. The other of the housing and the front holder has a latch arm portion extending along the axial direction and latched to the latch claw portion. The restriction member has a restriction piece that is located adjacent to the latch arm portion that is in a state of being latched to the latch claw portion, the restriction piece restricting displacement of the latch arm portion toward a latch release side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida, Maho Shinohara, Masatoshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 11322880
    Abstract: A packing mounting structure includes a casing having a passage part on a wall part facing a power detection terminal; packing including a seal part and an portion to be held; and a cover installed on the casing in a state in which the portion to be held is held by a hole part, and closing the passage part by the packing. The portion to be held includes a shaft part and a first flange part. The hole part includes a narrow part; an insertion hole part through which the first flange part is capable of passing; and a holding hole part configured to hold the shaft part in a state in which a gap is formed between the holding hole part and the shaft part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida, Maho Shinohara, Masatoshi Yamada, Junya Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20210336376
    Abstract: A packing mounting structure includes a casing having a passage part on a wall part facing a power detection terminal; packing including a seal part and an portion to be held; and a cover installed on the casing in a state in which the portion to be held is held by a hole part, and closing the passage part by the packing. The portion to be held includes a shaft part and a first flange part. The hole part includes a narrow part; an insertion hole part through which the first flange part is capable of passing; and a holding hole part configured to hold the shaft part in a state in which a gap is formed between the holding hole part and the shaft part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro TANAKA, Hiroki KITAGAWA, Masanobu HIGASHITANI, Kengo MACHIDA, Maho SHINOHARA, Masatoshi YAMADA, Junya YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11121501
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing member having a fitting part that houses a terminal and is fitted to a counterpart connector provided in a connection target and a fixed part that is fixed to a fixed wall surface of the connection target together with the fitting part in the state in which the fitting part has been fitted to the counterpart connector. The fixed part has through holes, which communicate with fastening holes formed in the fixed wall surface along a fitting direction between the fitting part and the counterpart connector and into which fastening bolts fastened to the fastening holes are inserted along the fitting direction, in the state in which the fitting part has been fitted to the counterpart connector, and a screw hole into which a separation member is screwed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida, Maho Shinohara, Masatoshi Yamada, Toshiaki Nozawa, Noboru Hayasaka
  • Publication number: 20210273376
    Abstract: A connector includes: a first connector including a first main terminal; a second connector including a second main terminal and a boss having a protruding shape; and a fitting detection circuit configured to detect fitting of the first connector and the second connector. The first connector further includes a rotatable lever used for a fitting operation to the second connector and a fitting disengagement operation from the second connector. The lever includes a lock configured to lock, when the lock contacts the boss in the fitting disengagement operation, a rotation of the lever in a state where the fitting is not detected by the fitting detection circuit and also in a state where the first main terminal and the second main terminal are connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Shinmi, Kengo Machida, Masaya Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11101604
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing that allows a terminal lead-out and an electric wire lead-out to be drawn outward in a direction orthogonal to a connector insertion/removal direction, a shield shell, and a male screw member that secures the shield shell to a fixture base in a state where the connector mating is completed when the connector insertion/removal direction is defined as a screw axis, in which the shield shell includes a first shell and a second shell each of which having a through hole respectively that allows insertion of the male screw member and configured to sandwich the housing in the connector insertion/removal direction, and includes a first pressing plate and a second pressing plate that grip the terminal lead-out in the connector insertion/removal direction in the state where the connector mating is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kengo Machida
  • Patent number: 11005208
    Abstract: A connector applied to a wire harness includes: a housing main body including a housing space part for housing a terminal along an axial direction, and an insertion port provided at one side of the housing space part in the axial direction and into which a counterpart terminal connected to the terminal is inserted; a lance that faces the housing space part, that is elastically deformably supported by the housing main body in a cantilever manner, that extends toward the insertion port side along the axial direction, and that engages the terminal housed in the housing space part; and a regulating contact part that comes into contact with the lance and that regulates excessive displacement of the lance toward the housing space part side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida, Maho Shinohara, Masatoshi Yamada, Toshiaki Nozawa, Noboru Hayasaka, Takeaki Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10971844
    Abstract: A connector includes: a casing that has a housing space, a through hole communicating the housing space with an external space, and an electric wire insertion hole, and that holds a connection terminal connected to a counterpart device; a wiring material that has a distal end part inserted into the housing space via the electric wire insertion hole and a conductor part exposed from a covering at the distal end part, the exposed conductor part being curved at a curved part and connected to the connection terminal; and a conductive voltage detection terminal that has a connection part connected to the exposed conductor part at a position closer to the covering than a curved part and a voltage detection part facing the through hole, and that is provided by branching from a conduction path between the connection terminal and the conductor part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayoshi Hirakawa, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida
  • Publication number: 20200412063
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing that allows a terminal lead-out and an electric wire lead-out to be drawn outward in a direction orthogonal to a connector insertion/removal direction, a shield shell, and a male screw member that secures the shield shell to a fixture base in a state where the connector mating is completed when the connector insertion/removal direction is defined as a screw axis, in which the shield shell includes a first shell and a second shell each of which having a through hole respectively that allows insertion of the male screw member and configured to sandwich the housing in the connector insertion/removal direction, and includes a first pressing plate and a second pressing plate that grip the terminal lead-out in the connector insertion/removal direction in the state where the connector mating is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventor: Kengo Machida
  • Publication number: 20200381861
    Abstract: A connector applied to a wire harness includes a housing housing a terminal, a front holder assembled to an end portion in an axial direction of the housing, and a restriction member assembled to the housing. One of the housing and the front holder has a latch claw portion that latches the housing and the front holder. The other of the housing and the front holder has a latch arm portion extending along the axial direction and latched to the latch claw portion. The restriction member has a restriction piece that is located adjacent to the latch arm portion that is in a state of being latched to the latch claw portion, the restriction piece restricting displacement of the latch arm portion toward a latch release side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida, Maho Shinohara, Masatoshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 10756473
    Abstract: A connection terminal includes a female connection body having a housing space, a male connection body inserted into the housing space to a fitting completion position, and an elastic member supported by an inner wall surface of the female connection body surrounding the housing space, having contact point portions contacting an outer wall surface of the male connection body, and pressing the male connection body by the contact point portions. The female connection body has far-side protruding portions and inlet-side protruding portions. The outer wall surface of the male connection body has at least one of first recessed portions formed at portions facing the inlet-side protruding portions when the male connection body is inserted into the housing space and a second recessed portion formed at a portion facing the contact point portion when the male connection body is inserted into the housing space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Kengo Machida
  • Publication number: 20200212613
    Abstract: A connector includes: a casing that has a housing space, a through hole communicating the housing space with an external space, and an electric wire insertion hole, and that holds a connection terminal connected to a counterpart device; a wiring material that has a distal end part inserted into the housing space via the electric wire insertion hole and a conductor part exposed from a covering at the distal end part, the exposed conductor part being curved at a curved part and connected to the connection terminal; and a conductive voltage detection terminal that has a connection part connected to the exposed conductor part at a position closer to the covering than a curved part and a voltage detection part facing the through hole, and that is provided by branching from a conduction path between the connection terminal and the conductor part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Takayoshi Hirakawa, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida
  • Publication number: 20200203882
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing member having a fitting part that houses a terminal and is fitted to a counterpart connector provided in a connection target and a fixed part that is fixed to a fixed wall surface of the connection target together with the fitting part in the state in which the fitting part has been fitted to the counterpart connector. The fixed part has through holes, which communicate with fastening holes formed in the fixed wall surface along a fitting direction between the fitting part and the counterpart connector and into which fastening bolts fastened to the fastening holes are inserted along the fitting direction, in the state in which the fitting part has been fitted to the counterpart connector, and a screw hole into which a separation member is screwed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida, Maho Shinohara, Masatoshi Yamada, Toshiaki Nozawa, Noboru Hayasaka
  • Publication number: 20200136296
    Abstract: A connector applied to a wire harness includes: a housing main body including a housing space part for housing a terminal along an axial direction, and an insertion port provided at one side of the housing space part in the axial direction and into which a counterpart terminal connected to the terminal is inserted; a lance that faces the housing space part, that is elastically deformably supported by the housing main body in a cantilever manner, that extends toward the insertion port side along the axial direction, and that engages the terminal housed in the housing space part; and a regulating contact part that comes into contact with the lance and that regulates excessive displacement of the lance toward the housing space part side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida, Maho Shinohara, Masatoshi Yamada, Toshiaki Nozawa, Noboru Hayasaka, Takeaki Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20200091645
    Abstract: A connection terminal includes a female connection body having a housing space, a male connection body inserted into the housing space to a fitting completion position, and an elastic member supported by an inner wall surface of the female connection body surrounding the housing space, having contact point portions contacting an outer wall surface of the male connection body, and pressing the male connection body by the contact point portions. The female connection body has far-side protruding portions and inlet-side protruding portions. The outer wall surface of the male connection body has at least one of first recessed portions formed at portions facing the inlet-side protruding portions when the male connection body is inserted into the housing space and a second recessed portion formed at a portion facing the contact point portion when the male connection body is inserted into the housing space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Kengo Machida
  • Patent number: 10468802
    Abstract: A terminal connecting structure includes a male terminal having a rod-shaped portion, a female terminal having a cylindrical portion, and an elastic member provided in the cylindrical portion. The female terminal has indented portions. A projecting portion is provided on one of the rod-shaped portion and a central portion of the cylindrical portion. A cut-out portion is provided on the other of the rod-shaped portion and the central portion of the cylindrical portion. The projecting portion fits the cut-out portion when the male terminal fits in the female terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kobayashi, Ryutaro Yamazaki, Takayoshi Hirakawa, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Kengo Machida
  • Patent number: 10411384
    Abstract: A connection terminal includes a terminal main body having a female connector with an internal space into which a male connector is inserted and a contact member accommodated into the internal space of the female connector. The contact member has a first contact electrically connected to the female connector, a second contact coupled to the first contact and pushed outward in a radial direction by the male connector in the internal space to be electrically connected to the male connector, and a floating inhibiting part that applies a pressing force to the female connector, generates a force in a pressing direction toward an inner circumferential face of the female connector by a reaction force from the female connector against the pressing force, and inhibits the floating of the first contact relative to the inner circumferential face of the female connector by the force in the pressing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Machida, Yasuhiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20190273335
    Abstract: A connection terminal includes a terminal main body having a female connector with an internal space into which a male connector is inserted and a contact member accommodated into the internal space of the female connector. The contact member has a first contact electrically connected to the female connector, a second contact coupled to the first contact and pushed outward in a radial direction by the male connector in the internal space to be electrically connected to the male connector, and a floating inhibiting part that applies a pressing force to the female connector, generates a force in a pressing direction toward an inner circumferential face of the female connector by a reaction force from the female connector against the pressing force, and inhibits the floating of the first contact relative to the inner circumferential face of the female connector by the force in the pressing direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Kengo Machida, Yasuhiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10305213
    Abstract: A terminal connecting structure includes a male terminal having a plated columnar rod portion, a female terminal having a cylindrical portion configured to receive the rod portion of the male terminal therein, and an elastic member attached to the cylindrical portion of the female terminal. The elastic member energizes the rod portion toward an inner surface of the cylindrical portion when the rod portion is inserted into the cylindrical portion. The female terminal has a plurality of projection portions protruding inward from respective regions located at both sides of a central portion of the inner surface of the cylindrical portion as seen from a front view. A tip end of each of the plurality of projection portions has a curved surface which is concave toward an outer side of the cylindrical portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayoshi Hirakawa, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Kengo Machida