Patents by Inventor Kengo Mitose

Kengo Mitose 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: 9306356
    Abstract: In an electrical wire connecting structure and a method of manufacturing the electrical wire connecting structure, a terminal having a tube-shaped portion of 2.0 mm in inner diameter is prepared for an electrical wire having a conductor cross-sectional area of 0.72 to 1.37 mm2, the electrical wire 13 is inserted into an electrical wire insertion port of the tube-shaped portion of the electrical wire, and the tube-shaped portion and the core wire portion of the electrical wire are compressed to be crimp-connected to each other. Furthermore, a terminal having a tube-shaped portion of 3.0 mm in inner diameter is prepared for an electrical wire having a conductor cross-sectional area of 1.22 to 2.65 mm2, the electrical wire is inserted into the electrical wire insertion port of the tube-shaped portion 25 of the electrical wire, and the tube-shaped portion and the core wire portion of the electrical wire are compressed to be crimp-connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Akira Tachibana, Kengo Mitose, Kyota Susai, Takao Tateyama, Yukihiro Kawamura, Takashi Tonoike, Masakazu Kozawa, Takuro Yamada
  • Patent number: 9263168
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy wire rod has a composition consisting of 0.10-1.00 mass % Mg; 0.10-1.00 mass % Si; 0.01-1.40 mass % Fe; 0.000-0.100 mass % Ti; 0.000-0.030 mass % B; 0.00-1.00 mass % Cu; 0.00-0.50 mass % Ag; 0.00-0.50 mass % Au; 0.00-1.00 mass % Mn; 0.00-1.00 mass % Cr; 0.00-0.50 mass % Zr; 0.00-0.50 mass % Hf; 0.00-0.50 mass % V; 0.00-0.50 mass % Sc; 0.00-0.50 mass % Co; 0.00-0.50 mass % Ni; and the balance being Al and incidental impurities, wherein at least one of Ti, B, Cu, Ag, Au, Mn, Cr, Zr, Hf, V, Sc, Co and Ni is contained in the composition or none of Ti, B, Cu, Ag, Au, Mn, Cr, Zr, Hf, V, Sc, Co and Ni is contained in the composition. A precipitate free zone exists inside a crystal grain, and the precipitate free zone has a width of less than or equal to 100 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Shigeki Sekiya, Sho Yoshida, Kyota Susai, Kengo Mitose
  • Patent number: 9263167
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy wire rod has a composition consisting of Mg: 0.10 to 1.00 mass %, Si: 0.10 to 1.00 mass %, Fe: 0.01 to 2.50 mass %, Ti: 0.000 to 0.100 mass %, B: 0.000 to 0.030 mass %, Cu: 0.00 to 1.00 mass %, Ag: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, Au: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, Mn: 0.00 to 1.00 mass %, Cr: 0.00 to 1.00 mass %, Zr: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, Hf: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, V: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, Sc: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, Co: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, Ni: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, and the balance: Al and incidental impurities. The aluminum alloy wire rod has an average grain size of 1 ?m to 35 ?m at an outer peripheral portion thereof, and an average grain size at an inner portion thereof is greater than or equal to 1.1 times the average grain size at the outer peripheral portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Sho Yoshida, Shigeki Sekiya, Kyota Susai, Kengo Mitose
  • Patent number: 9263814
    Abstract: A metallic material for an electrical electronic includes a CU—Sun alloy layer (2) provided on a conductive base (1). A Cu concentration of the Cu—Sn alloy layer gradually decreases from the base side to the surface (3) side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Yoshida, Kyota Susai, Takeo Uno, Shuichi Kitagawa, Kengo Mitose
  • Patent number: 9246292
    Abstract: A terminal includes a tubular crimp portion that crimp connects with an electric wire. The tubular crimp portion is composed of a metal member. The tubular crimp portion includes a non-weld portion and a weld portion, the weld portion being formed by welding. A metal base material constituting the metal member of the non-weld portion includes a normal portion and an annealed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Akira Tachibana, Kengo Mitose, Saburo Yagi
  • Publication number: 20150357725
    Abstract: A terminal includes a connector portion electrically connectable to an external terminal, a tubular crimp portion formed integrally or separate from the connector portion and crimps with a wire, and a transition portion coupling the two. The tubular crimp portion of a copper or copper alloy metal base material or a metal member having the same is a tubular member closed on transition portion side and reduces in diameter towards the transition portion side such that a conductor-end portion of the electric wire is un-exposed. The tubular crimp portion has a belt-shaped weld portion along a longitudinal direction of the tubular crimp portion. A circumferential direction of the tubular crimp portion matches the RD-direction of the base material. A sum of area ratios R1, R2 and R3 in a rolling plane of the base material, of Cube-, RDW-, and Goss-oriented crystal grains, respectively, is greater than or equal to 15%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Ryosuke MATSUO, Akira TACHIBANA, Kengo MITOSE
  • Publication number: 20150357723
    Abstract: A metal member includes a base material composed of one of copper and a copper alloy, a white metal layer provided on the base material at a part or an entirety thereof, and an oil film provided on the white metal layer. The white metal layer has a thickness of 0.01 ?m to 0.80 ?m. A surface of the white metal layer has an arithmetic mean roughness of 0.6 ?m to 1.2 ?m. The oil film has an electric double-layer capacitance of 1.5 ?F/cm2 to 7.0 ?F/cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Akira TACHIBANA, Kengo MITOSE, Chikanobu IKUTA
  • Publication number: 20150357724
    Abstract: A terminal includes a connector portion, a tubular crimp portion that crimps/joins with a wire, and a transition portion joining the two portions. The tubular crimp portion is composed of a metal member including a base material of copper or copper alloy with 0.20-1.40 mm thickness and a coating layer of tin, tin alloy, nickel, nickel alloy, silver or silver alloy with 0.2-3.0 ?m thickness formed on the base material. The tubular crimp portion has a weld portion formed by butt-welding and having, in its cross-section perpendicular to a terminal longitudinal direction, a phase existing therein of tin, tin alloy, nickel, nickel alloy, silver or silver alloy greater than 0.01 ?m2. The tubular crimp portion is a closed tubular body with one end opposite to a wire-insertion-opening being closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshikazu OKUNO, Akira TACHIBANA, Kengo MITOSE
  • Publication number: 20150279499
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy wire rod has a composition consisting of 0.1-1.0 mass % Mg; 0.1-1.0 mass % Si; 0.01-1.40 mass % Fe; 0.000-0.100 mass % Ti; 0.000-0.030 mass % B; 0.00-1.00 mass % Cu; 0.00-0.50 mass % Ag; 0.00-0.50 mass % Au; 0.00-1.00 mass % Mn; 0.00-1.00 mass % Cr; 0.00-0.50 mass % Zr; 0.00-0.50 mass % Hf; 0.00-0.50 mass % V; 0.00-0.50 mass % Sc; 0.00-0.50 mass % Co; 0.00-0.50 mass % Ni; and the balance being Al and incidental impurities, wherein at least one or none of Ti, B, Cu, Ag, Au, Mn, Cr, Zr, Hf, V, Sc, Co and Ni is contained in the composition. A dispersion density of an Mg2Si compound having a particle size of 0.5 ?m to 5.0 ?m is less than or equal to 3.0×10?3 particles/?m2. Each of Si and Mg at a grain boundary between crystal grains of a parent phase has a concentration of less than or equal to 2.00 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicants: FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC., FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki SEKIYA, Sho YOSHIDA, Kyota SUSAI, Kengo MITOSE
  • Publication number: 20150235729
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy wire rod has a composition consisting of Mg: 0.10 to 1.00 mass %, Si: 0.10 to 1.00 mass %, Fe: 0.01 to 1.40 mass %, Ti: 0.000 to 0.100 mass %, B: 0.000 to 0.030 mass %, Cu: 0.00 to 1.00 mass %, Ag: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, Au: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, Mn: 0.00 to 1.00 mass %, Cr: 0.00 to 1.00 mass %, Zr: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, Hf: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, V: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, Sc: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, Co: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, Ni: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, and the balance: Al and incidental impurities. A dispersion density of compound particles having a size of 20-1000 nm is 1 particle/?m2 or higher. In a distribution of the compound particles in the aluminum alloy wire rod, a maximum dispersion density of the compound particles is less than or equal to five times a minimum dispersion density of the compound particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicants: FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC., FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sho YOSHIDA, Shigeki SEKIYA, Kyota SUSAI, Kengo MITOSE
  • Publication number: 20150213914
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy wire rod has a composition consisting of 0.10-1.00 mass % Mg; 0.10-1.00 mass % Si; 0.01-1.40 mass % Fe; 0.000-0.100 mass % Ti; 0.000-0.030 mass % B; 0.00-1.00 mass % Cu; 0.00-0.50 mass % Ag; 0.00-0.50 mass % Au; 0.00-1.00 mass % Mn; 0.00-1.00 mass % Cr; 0.00-0.50 mass % Zr; 0.00-0.50 mass % Hf; 0.00-0.50 mass % V; 0.00-0.50 mass % Sc; 0.00-0.50 mass % Co; 0.00-0.50 mass % Ni; and the balance being Al and incidental impurities, wherein at least one of Ti, B, Cu, Ag, Au, Mn, Cr, Zr, Hf, V, Sc, Co and Ni is contained in the composition or none of Ti, B, Cu, Ag, Au, Mn, Cr, Zr, Hf, V, Sc, Co and Ni is contained in the composition. A precipitate free zone exists inside a crystal grain, and the precipitate free zone has a width of less than or equal to 100 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicants: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Shigeki SEKIYA, Sho YOSHIDA, Kyota SUSAI, Kengo MITOSE
  • Publication number: 20150213913
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy wire rod has a composition consisting of Mg: 0.10 to 1.00 mass %, Si: 0.10 to 1.00 mass %, Fe: 0.01 to 2.50 mass %, Ti: 0.000 to 0.100 mass %, B: 0.000 to 0.030 mass %, Cu: 0.00 to 1.00 mass %, Ag: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, Au: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, Mn: 0.00 to 1.00 mass %, Cr: 0.00 to 1.00 mass %, Zr: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, Hf: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, V: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, Sc: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, Co: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, Ni: 0.00 to 0.50 mass %, and the balance: Al and incidental impurities. The aluminum alloy wire rod has an average grain size of 1 ?m to 35 ?m at an outer peripheral portion thereof, and an average grain size at an inner portion thereof is greater than or equal to 1.1 times the average grain size at the outer peripheral portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicants: FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC., FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sho YOSHIDA, Shigeki SEKIYA, Kyota SUSAI, Kengo MITOSE
  • Publication number: 20150126078
    Abstract: In a female crimp terminal including a pressure-bonding section for permitting pressure-bonding and connection to an aluminum core wire of an insulated wire, the pressure-bonding section is configured in a hollow sectional shape by a plate material, and a long length direction weld portion in a long length direction is welded, a forward part in the hollow sectional shape is caused to take an almost flat plate-shaped sealing shape and a width direction weld portion in a width direction is welded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicants: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Furukawa Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukihiro KAWAMURA, Satoshi TAKAMURA, Takashi TONOIKE, Yasushi KIHARA, Saburo YAGI, Takashi SHIGEMATSU, Kengo MITOSE, Takashi KAYAHARA
  • Patent number: 8974258
    Abstract: A crimp terminal includes barrel pieces respectively on both of two sides in a width direction thereof. The barrel pieces are included in a pressure-bonding section for pressure-bonding an exposed part of an electric wire conductor of an insulated wire. The insulated wire includes the electric wire conductor and an insulating cover for covering an outer circumference of the electric wire conductor, and the exposed part is a part of the electric wire conductor which is exposed from a tip of the cover by a predetermined length. The barrel pieces have a length in a longitudinal direction which is longer than the length of the exposed part of the electric wire conductor. The pressure-bonding section pressure-bonds, by the barrel pieces, a continuous part from a tip of the electric wire conductor to a position rear to the tip of the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignees: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Kengo Mitose, Yasushi Kihara, Yukihiro Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20140374155
    Abstract: In an electrical wire connecting structure and a method of manufacturing the electrical wire connecting structure, a terminal having a tube-shaped portion of 2.0 mm in inner diameter is prepared for an electrical wire having a conductor cross-sectional area of 0.72 to 1.37 mm2, the electrical wire 13 is inserted into an electrical wire insertion port of the tube-shaped portion of the electrical wire, and the tube-shaped portion and the core wire portion of the electrical wire are compressed to be crimp-connected to each other. Furthermore, a terminal having a tube-shaped portion of 3.0 mm in inner diameter is prepared for an electrical wire having a conductor cross-sectional area of 1.22 to 2.65 mm2, the electrical wire is inserted into the electrical wire insertion port of the tube-shaped portion 25 of the electrical wire, and the tube-shaped portion and the core wire portion of the electrical wire are compressed to be crimp-connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Akira TACHIBANA, Kengo MITOSE, Kyota SUSAI, Takao TATEYAMA, Yukihiro KAWAMURA, Takashi TONOIKE, Masakazu KOZAWA, Takuro YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20140273667
    Abstract: A terminal includes a tubular crimp portion that crimp connects with an electric wire. The tubular crimp portion is composed of a metal member. The tubular crimp portion includes a non-weld portion and a weld portion, the weld portion being formed by welding. A metal base material constituting the metal member of the non-weld portion includes a normal portion and an annealed portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Akira TACHIBANA, Kengo MITOSE, Saburo YAGI
  • Patent number: 8728629
    Abstract: A connector terminal, fabricated from a metallic material for connector which material has a tin or tin alloy layer, formed on a copper or copper alloy base material, wherein the thickness of the tin or tin alloy layer at a contact site on the surface of the terminal is smaller than the thickness of the tin or tin alloy layer in the areas other than the contact site, and a copper-tin alloy layer is formed as an under layer of the tin or tin alloy layer at the contact site; and a connector terminal, fabricated from a metallic material for connector which material has a copper or copper alloy base material, wherein a copper-tin alloy layer is formed in a spot shape at a contact site on the surface of the terminal, and a tin or tin alloy layer is formed in the remaining areas on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi Kitagawa, Kengo Mitose, Yoshiaki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8641461
    Abstract: Has an object of providing a crimp terminal, a connection structural body, and a method for producing the crimp terminal, which has a conducting function with certainty, with no galvanic corrosion occurring due to an electric wire and the terminal formed of different metal materials. A crimp terminal 1 includes a box section, and a pressure-bonding section including a wire barrel section and an insulation barrel section, which are provided in this order. The crimp terminal is formed of a metal plate which is formed of a copper alloy having a higher potential than aluminum used to form core wires of an insulated wire which is to be pressure-bonded by the pressure-bonding section. The crimp terminal 1 includes, in at least a part thereof, a resin cover section for covering a surface of the metal plate with a resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignees: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Kengo Mitose, Yukihiro Kawamura
  • Patent number: 8622775
    Abstract: In a connection structural body, an aluminum electric wire tip part and a crimp terminal are connected to each other. The aluminum electric wire tip part is an exposed tip part of an insulated wire including an aluminum core wire and an insulating cover for covering the aluminum core wire. The crimp terminal includes a wire barrel section for pressure-bonding and thus connecting the aluminum electric wire tip part and is formed of a metal material having a higher potential than that of the aluminum core wire. The aluminum electric wire tip part is covered with a cover solder and/or a cover resin, pressure-bonded, and connected to the wire barrel section such that the aluminum electric wire tip part is covered with the cover and/or the cover resins, with no gap, from an insulating cover tip part to a rear end portion of the wire barrel section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignees: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Naoya Takashima, Kengo Mitose, Yukihiro Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20130273787
    Abstract: An insulating body-forming part is formed on a border between a surface of a crimp terminal formed of an aluminum material and a conductive contact body provided on the surface and containing a nobler metal material than the aluminum material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Kengo Mitose, Naoya Takashima, Yukihiro Kawamura