Patents by Inventor Kentaro Toda
Kentaro Toda 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).
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Patent number: 11916344Abstract: A cable assembly comprises a cable, a holding member and a contact. The holding member holds the cable. The contact is located above the holding member in an upper-lower direction. The cable comprises a conductive wire. The conductive wire has a fixed portion. The holding member has a predetermined surface. The contact has a facing surface. The facing surface is in contact with the predetermined surface in the upper-lower direction or faces the predetermined surface with a distance formed therebetween in the upper-lower direction. The fixed portion is fixed and connected to the predetermined surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventor: Kentaro Toda
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Patent number: 11742619Abstract: In this circuit board 30, first signal wiring portions 351 and second ground wiring portions 353 of a first wiring layer 34 are adjacent to each other in a pitch direction. Further, second signal wiring portions 381 and first ground wiring portions 383 of a second wiring layer 37 are adjacent to each other in the pitch direction. In the pitch direction, outer edges 405 of line portions 345 of two first signal wiring portions 351 are located more inward than both edges 435 of a line portion 375 of the first ground wiring portions 383. Outer edges 415 of line portions 375 of two second wiring portions 381 are located more inward than both edges 425 of the line portion 345 of the second ground wiring portion 353. This achieves good signal transmission characteristics without providing a ground layer separate from a signal layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, LimitedInventor: Kentaro Toda
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Publication number: 20230187865Abstract: An assembly comprises a circuit board structure and a plurality of connection portions. The circuit board structure has a main circuit board and a supplemental circuit board. The main circuit board is formed with an accommodating portion. The accommodating portion is recessed downward in an up-down direction from an upper surface of the main circuit board. The main circuit board has a plurality of upper main conductive portions which are formed on the upper surface of the main circuit board. The supplemental circuit board has a plurality of upper supplemental conductive portions which are formed on an upper surface of the supplemental circuit board. The supplemental circuit board is, at least in part, accommodated in the accommodating portion. Each of ones of the connection portions connects a respective one of the upper main conductive portions and a respective one of the upper supplemental conductive portions with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventor: Kentaro TODA
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Publication number: 20230187855Abstract: A connection body comprises a body having upper and lower surfaces, a first path and a second path. The first path has a first wired portion configured to be connected to a first core wire of a cable structure and a first terminal portion coupled to the first wired portion by a first coupling portion. The first wired portion, the first terminal portion and the first coupling portion are formed on the upper surface of the body. The second path has a second wired portion configured to be connected to a second core wire of the cable structure and a second terminal portion coupled to the second wired portion by a second coupling portion. The second wired portion is formed on the upper surface of the body. The second terminal portion is formed on the lower surface of the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventor: Kentaro TODA
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Publication number: 20220263253Abstract: A cable assembly comprises a cable, a holding member and a contact. The holding member holds the cable. The contact is located above the holding member in an upper-lower direction. The cable comprises a conductive wire. The conductive wire has a fixed portion. The holding member has a predetermined surface. The contact has a facing surface. The facing surface is in contact with the predetermined surface in the upper-lower direction or faces the predetermined surface with a distance formed therebetween in the upper-lower direction. The fixed portion is fixed and connected to the predetermined surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventor: Kentaro TODA
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Patent number: 11264147Abstract: A cable assembly extends in a longitudinal direction. The cable assembly comprises a first cable, two second cables, two coupling portions, an interposing portion and an outer cover. The first cable has a first conductor and a first cover. Each of the second cables has a second conductor and a second cover. The coupling portions couple the second covers, respectively, with the first cover. The first cable, the two second cables and the two coupling portions are arranged in a V-shape in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The interposing portion extends along the first cable and the two second cables and has a full length which is equal to that of each of the first cable and the two second cables. The interposing portion is brought into contact with all the first cable and the two second cables.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, LimitedInventor: Kentaro Toda
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Patent number: 11196205Abstract: A connection structure comprises a cable and a connection object. The cable includes two wires and an insulation body which covers and binds the two wires. The insulation body includes two coverings which cover the wires, respectively. The connection object comprises a base portion and a pressing member. The base portion has a catch portion and a cable-holding portion. The cable has a held section and a pressed section. The held section is held by the cable-holding portion. The pressed section is sandwiched and pressed between the pressing member and the catch portion in an upper-lower direction (Z-direction). The insulation body of the pressed section includes a coupling strip. The coupling strip couples the two coverings to each other in a lateral direction (Y-direction).Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventors: Kentaro Toda, Yoshihiro Sugii
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Publication number: 20210344143Abstract: In this circuit board 30, first signal wiring portions 351 and second ground wiring portions 353 of a first wiring layer 34 are adjacent to each other in a pitch direction. Further, second signal wiring portions 381 and first ground wiring portions 383 of a second wiring layer 37 are adjacent to each other in the pitch direction. In the pitch direction, outer edges 405 of line portions 345 of two first signal wiring portions 351 are located more inward than both edges 435 of a line portion 375 of the first ground wiring portions 383. Outer edges 415 of line portions 375 of two second wiring portions 381 are located more inward than both edges 425 of the line portion 345 of the second ground wiring portion 353. This achieves good signal transmission characteristics without providing a ground layer separate from a signal layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, LimitedInventor: Kentaro TODA
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Patent number: 11063377Abstract: A connector is provided with a plurality of terminals and a housing. The terminals include a first terminal corresponding to a first cable and a second terminal corresponding to a second cable. Each of the terminals has a contact portion, a held portion and a connection portion. The contact portion is brought into contact with a mating contact portion when the connector is connected to a mating connector. The held portion is held by the housing. When the connector is attached to a composite cable, the connection portion pierces a covering portion of a cable corresponding thereto and is connected to a conductor of the cable. The connection portion of the first terminal protrudes from the held portion in a front-rear direction. The connection portion of the second terminal protrudes from the held portion in a perpendicular direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, LimitedInventor: Kentaro Toda
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Patent number: 11056844Abstract: A connector has a main portion formed as a part of a multilayer wiring board and having a tongue shape. The multilayer wiring board is provided with a surface conductive layer and an inner conductive layer. The inner conductive layer is located apart from and inward of the surface conductive layer in an up-down direction. The main portion is provided with a grounding plate formed in the surface conductive layer and a plurality of contacts formed in the inner conductive layer. Each of the contacts is, at least in part, exposed and contactable in the up-down direction. Since the grounding plate and the contacts are formed in the conductive layers of the multilayer wiring board, the connector can possess desired electric characteristics in high accuracy.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventor: Kentaro Toda
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Patent number: 11050186Abstract: A connection structure comprises a cable and a connection object. The cable includes two wires, two coverings and two coupling strips. The coverings cover the wires, respectively. Each of the coupling strips couples the two coverings to each other. The connection object comprises a base portion and a pressing member. The base portion has a catch portion and two side portions. The cable has a pressed section and a rear section located rearward of the pressing member in a front-rear direction (X-direction). The pressed section is sandwiched and pressed between the pressing member and the catch portion in an upper-lower direction (Z-direction) and is located between the two side portions in a lateral direction (Y-direction). In the lateral direction, a distance between the two wires of the pressed section is longer than another distance between the two wires of the rear section.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventor: Kentaro Toda
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Patent number: 11038287Abstract: A connector is attachable with a composite cable and is connectable with a mating connector having a mating contact portion. The composite cable has at least one cable set which comprises a first cable and two second cables. The connector has a first member, a plurality of terminals and a second member. The first member is attachable with the composite cable. The plurality of terminals include at least one terminal set which comprises a first terminal and two second terminals. Each of the terminals has a contact portion, a held portion and a connecting portion. The connecting portion is connected with the composite cable when the connector is attached with the composite cable. In the at least one terminal set, the connecting portion of the first terminal is positioned between the connecting portions of the second terminals in a horizontal direction. The second member is combined with the first member.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventor: Kentaro Toda
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Publication number: 20210021073Abstract: A connection structure comprises a cable and a connection object. The cable includes two wires and an insulation body which covers and binds the two wires. The insulation body includes two coverings which cover the wires, respectively. The connection object comprises a base portion and a pressing member. The base portion has a catch portion and a cable-holding portion. The cable has a held section and a pressed section. The held section is held by the cable-holding portion. The pressed section is sandwiched and pressed between the pressing member and the catch portion in an upper-lower direction (Z-direction). The insulation body of the pressed section includes a coupling strip. The coupling strip couples the two coverings to each other in a lateral direction (Y-direction).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventors: Kentaro Toda, Yoshihiro SUGII
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Publication number: 20210020330Abstract: A cable assembly extends in a longitudinal direction. The cable assembly comprises a first cable, two second cables, two coupling portions, an interposing portion and an outer cover. The first cable has a first conductor and a first cover. Each of the second cables has a second conductor and a second cover. The coupling portions couple the second covers, respectively, with the first cover. The first cable, the two second cables and the two coupling portions are arranged in a V-shape in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The interposing portion extends along the first cable and the two second cables and has a full length which is equal to that of each of the first cable and the two second cables. The interposing portion is brought into contact with all the first cable and the two second cables.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, LimitedInventor: Kentaro TODA
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Publication number: 20210021057Abstract: A connector is attachable with a composite cable and is connectable with a mating connector having a mating contact portion. The composite cable has at least one cable set which comprises a first cable and two second cables. The connector has a first member, a plurality of terminals and a second member. The first member is attachable with the composite cable. The plurality of terminals include at least one terminal set which comprises a first terminal and two second terminals. Each of the terminals has a contact portion, a held portion and a connecting portion. The connecting portion is connected with the composite cable when the connector is attached with the composite cable. In the at least one terminal set, the connecting portion of the first terminal is positioned between the connecting portions of the second terminals in a horizontal direction. The second member is combined with the first member.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventor: Kentaro TODA
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Publication number: 20210021081Abstract: A connection structure comprises a cable and a connection object. The cable includes two wires, two coverings and two coupling strips. The coverings cover the wires, respectively. Each of the coupling strips couples the two coverings to each other. The connection object comprises a base portion and a pressing member. The base portion has a catch portion and two side portions. The cable has a pressed section and a rear section located rearward of the pressing member in a front-rear direction (X-direction). The pressed section is sandwiched and pressed between the pressing member and the catch portion in an upper-lower direction (Z-direction) and is located between the two side portions in a lateral direction (Y-direction). In the lateral direction, a distance between the two wires of the pressed section is longer than another distance between the two wires of the rear section.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventor: Kentaro TODA
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Publication number: 20200395694Abstract: A connector is provided with a plurality of terminals and a housing. The terminals include a first terminal corresponding to a first cable and a second terminal corresponding to a second cable. Each of the terminals has a contact portion, a held portion and a connection portion. The contact portion is brought into contact with a mating contact portion when the connector is connected to a mating connector. The held portion is held by the housing. When the connector is attached to a composite cable, the connection portion pierces a covering portion of a cable corresponding thereto and is connected to a conductor of the cable. The connection portion of the first terminal protrudes from the held portion in a front-rear direction. The connection portion of the second terminal protrudes from the held portion in a perpendicular direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicant: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, LimitedInventor: Kentaro TODA
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Publication number: 20200099175Abstract: A connector has a main portion formed as a part of a multilayer wiring board and having a tongue shape. The multilayer wiring board is provided with a surface conductive layer and an inner conductive layer. The inner conductive layer is located apart from and inward of the surface conductive layer in an up-down direction. The main portion is provided with a grounding plate formed in the surface conductive layer and a plurality of contacts formed in the inner conductive layer. Each of the contacts is, at least in part, exposed and contactable in the up-down direction. Since the grounding plate and the contacts are formed in the conductive layers of the multilayer wiring board, the connector can possess desired electric characteristics in high accuracy.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventor: Kentaro TODA
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Patent number: 10431934Abstract: A connector includes signal contacts and predetermined contacts maintained at predetermined voltage levels. Each contact has a horizontal portion, an intersecting portion extending along a direction intersecting with the horizontal portion and a coupling portion coupling the horizontal portion and the intersecting portion to each other. The contacts include a first contact group made up of the two predetermined contacts and one differential pair of the two signal contacts. In the first contact group, a size of the coupling portion of each of the predetermined contacts in the pitch direction is larger than another size of the coupling portion of each of the signal contacts in the pitch direction, and a size of the intersecting portion of each of the predetermined contacts in the pitch direction is larger than another size of the intersecting portion of each of the signal contacts in the pitch direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2018Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, LimitedInventors: Kentaro Toda, Masamichi Sasaki
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Patent number: 10433420Abstract: A circuit board device includes: a printed wiring board; an IC chip provided on an obverse surface of the board and having at least one ground terminal; and a wiring pattern, disposed on the board, for providing a ground potential to the ground terminal of the IC chip. The wiring pattern is disposed on a reverse surface of the printed wiring board. The circuit board device has at least one via that is connected to the wiring pattern and passes through the printed wiring board at a position within a region where the IC chip is mounted on the obverse surface of the printed wiring board.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: LAPIS Semiconductor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kentaro Toda, Kenji Arai, Manabu Miyazawa, Kenichiro Nagatomo, Toru Ueno, Tsuguto Maruko, Hirofumi Ogawa, Tetsuo Oomori