Patents by Inventor Kenji Kawase

Kenji Kawase 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: 11549301
    Abstract: A pinch detection sensor, for detecting the occurrence of pinch during closing of a sliding door, includes a door front edge rubber including a hollow portion inside, to be attached to a front edge portion of the sliding door in a closing movement direction of the sliding door, and a plurality of linear shape pressure sensing members accommodated in the hollow portion, each linear shape pressure sensing member comprising a tubular elastic body and respective conductor wires spaced apart from each other in an inner side of the tubular elastic body. The door front edge rubber includes, in the hollow portion, a plurality of housing spaces, which accommodate the plurality of linear shape pressure sensing members, respectively. Movements of the linear shape pressure sensing members between the plurality of housing spaces are restricted by a partitioning portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kawase, Shuichi Suzuki
  • 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: 11456093
    Abstract: A wire harness-producing device configured to produce a wire harness by displaying a wire laying-out image in a full size in a length direction on a plurality of display devices, and laying out electric wires along the wire laying-out image. The wire harness-producing device includes an electric wire-feeding device to allow the electric wires to be manually pulled out, a storage section to store operation recipe information therein, and a displaying control section to perform a displaying control on the display devices. The operation recipe information includes lengths of the electric wires. When each of the electric wires to be laid out is pulled out, the displaying control section displays, on the display devices, a starting end location indicator indicating a location for a front end portion of each of the electric wires having been pulled out, based on the lengths of the electric wires in the operation recipe information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Kawase
  • Patent number: 11443875
    Abstract: A wire harness manufacturing system includes a display unit, a wire cutting machine that draws an electric wire from a wire feed reel and cuts the electric wire to a predetermined length, a control unit that directs the display unit to display a wire laying image and wire work identification information for identifying a work regarding each electric wire, the wire laying image including a plurality of wire images showing the plurality of electric wire in the laid state and the wire work identification information being displayed in the vicinity of the corresponding wire image, and a memory unit that stores the wire laying image and work instruction information so as to correspond to the wire work identification information, the work instruction information including cut length of the electric wire. The control unit sends the cut length information to the wire cutting machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kawase, Masaru Ishikawa, Hideki Saito, Hajime Maejo
  • 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: 11355267
    Abstract: A wire harness producing device configured to produce a wire harness by displaying a wire laying-out drawing in a full size in a length direction on a plurality of display devices, and laying-out electric wires along the wire laying-out drawing. The device includes a displaying control section configured to look up operation recipe information configured as a database capable of identifying wire laying-out order numbers of the electric wires, and in turn display wire laying-out position indicators configured to indicate positions of the electric wires to be laid out, on the plurality of display devices, according to a wire laying-out order of the electric wires. The operation recipe information includes coordinate information for indicating displaying positions for the wire laying-out position indicators. The displaying control section is configured to display the wire laying-out position indicators, in the displaying positions indicated by the coordinate information on the plurality of display devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Kawase
  • Patent number: 11302461
    Abstract: A wire harness producing method configured to produce a wire harness by arranging a plurality of display devices end to end, each including a display portion and a bezel arranged around a periphery of the display portion, displaying a wire laying-out drawing on the display devices, and laying out an electric wire along the wire laying-out drawing. The method includes compartmentalizing a two-dimensional image of the wire harness into display regions to be displayed on the display portions of the display devices respectively and non-display regions corresponding to the bezels of the display devices respectively, with the display regions and the non-display regions conforming to sizes of the display portions and the bezels respectively, trimming the two-dimensional image to create wire laying-out image data composed of only the display regions, and displaying the wire laying-out drawing on the display devices, based on the wire laying-out image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kawase, Masaru Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11261643
    Abstract: A pinch detection device, for detecting the occurrence of pinch during closing of one pair of sliding doors, is composed of a first door front edge rubber to be attached to an edge portion in a closing movement direction of one sliding door of the one pair of sliding doors, and a second door front edge rubber to be attached to an edge portion in a closing movement direction of an other sliding door of the one pair of sliding doors. The first door front edge rubber includes a recessed portion, which is open toward the second door front edge rubber, with a linear shape pressure sensitive sensor, which is sensitive to a pressure in the event of pinch, being disposed in that recessed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kawase, Shuichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11225818
    Abstract: A door leading edge sensor has a door leading edge elastic member which is attached to a front end portion of a door in a door closing direction and includes a cavity extending in a direction intersecting with the closing direction; a linear pressure sensitive sensor is attached to the door leading edge elastic member and is disposed along the extending direction of the cavity. The pressure sensitive sensor has an insulator tube having such an elasticity as to be deformed in accordance with an elastic deformation of the door leading edge elastic member and has plural conductive members fixed to an inner surface of the insulator tube. The plural conductive members are in a non-contact state when the insulator tube is not deformed and are in contact with each other when the insulator tube is deformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuya Akimoto, Kenji Kawase, Shuichi Suzuki
  • 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: 20210005357
    Abstract: A wire harness-producing device configured to produce a wire harness by displaying a wire laying-out image in a full size in a length direction on a plurality of display devices, and laying out electric wires along the wire laying-out image. The wire harness-producing device includes an electric wire-feeding device to allow the electric wires to be manually pulled out, a storage section to store operation recipe information therein, and a displaying control section to perform a displaying control on the display devices. The operation recipe information includes lengths of the electric wires. When each of the electric wires to be laid out is pulled out, the displaying control section displays, on the display devices, a starting end location indicator indicating a location for a front end portion of each of the electric wires having been pulled out, based on the lengths of the electric wires in the operation recipe information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventor: Kenji KAWASE
  • Publication number: 20200357542
    Abstract: A wire harness producing device configured to produce a wire harness by displaying a wire laying-out drawing in a full size in a length direction on a plurality of display devices, and laying-out electric wires along the wire laying-out drawing. The device includes a displaying control section configured to look up operation recipe information configured as a database capable of identifying wire laying-out order numbers of the electric wires, and in turn display wire laying-out position indicators configured to indicate positions of the electric wires to be laid out, on the plurality of display devices, according to a wire laying-out order of the electric wires. The operation recipe information includes coordinate information for indicating displaying positions for the wire laying-out position indicators. The displaying control section is configured to display the wire laying-out position indicators, in the displaying positions indicated by the coordinate information on the plurality of display devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventor: Kenji KAWASE
  • Publication number: 20200357541
    Abstract: A wire harness producing method configured to produce a wire harness by arranging a plurality of display devices end to end, each including a display portion and a bezel arranged around a periphery of the display portion, displaying a wire laying-out drawing on the display devices, and laying out an electric wire along the wire laying-out drawing. The method includes compartmentalizing a two-dimensional image of the wire harness into display regions to be displayed on the display portions of the display devices respectively and non-display regions corresponding to the bezels of the display devices respectively, with the display regions and the non-display regions conforming to sizes of the display portions and the bezels respectively, trimming the two-dimensional image to create wire laying-out image data composed of only the display regions, and displaying the wire laying-out drawing on the display devices, based on the wire laying-out image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Kenji KAWASE, Masaru ISHIKAWA
  • 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
  • Patent number: 10679776
    Abstract: A wire harness manufacturing system includes a display unit, a wire cutting machine that draws an electric wire from a wire feed reel and cuts the electric wire to a predetermined length, a control unit that directs the display unit to display a wire laying image and wire work identification information for identifying a work regarding each electric wire, the wire laying image including a plurality of wire images showing the plurality of electric wire in the laid state and the wire work identification information being displayed in the vicinity of the corresponding wire image, and a memory unit that stores the wire laying image and work instruction information so as to correspond to the wire work identification information, the work instruction information including cut length of the electric wire. The control unit sends the cut length information to the wire cutting machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kawase, Masaru Ishikawa, Hideki Saito, Hajime Maejo
  • Publication number: 20200168368
    Abstract: A wire harness manufacturing system includes a display unit, a wire cutting machine that draws an electric wire from a wire feed reel and cuts the electric wire to a predetermined length, a control unit that directs the display unit to display a wire laying image and wire work identification information for identifying a work regarding each electric wire, the wire laying image including a plurality of wire images showing the plurality of electric wire in the laid state and the wire work identification information being displayed in the vicinity of the corresponding wire image, and a memory unit that stores the wire laying image and work instruction information so as to correspond to the wire work identification information, the work instruction information including cut length of the electric wire. The control unit sends the cut length information to the wire cutting machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Kenji KAWASE, Masaru ISHIKAWA, Hideki SAITO, Hajime MAEJO
  • Patent number: 10662693
    Abstract: A pinch detection switch includes a pressure sensing structure including at least one linear pressure sensing member with multiple conductor wires spaced apart from each other in an inner side of a tubular elastic body, and a tubular cover member to be attached to an end on a forward side in a moving direction of a movable body, and which is formed with a hollow portion which receives the pressure sensing structure. The pressure sensing structure includes a coating member which covers the at least one linear pressure sensing member, and which faces an inner surface of the hollow portion at both its ends in a width direction orthogonal to the moving direction of the movable body and an extending direction of the cover member. A position in the width direction of the at least one linear pressure sensing member in the hollow portion is defined by the coating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kawase, Shuichi Suzuki