Patents by Inventor Kiichi Hori
Kiichi Hori 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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Publication number: 20230307872Abstract: A floating connector comprises a fixed housing, a fixed shell, a terminal, a movable housing, a movable shell and a regulating portion. The fixed shell is attached to the fixed housing. The fixed shell is provided with a first shell contact portion. The movable shell is attached to the movable housing. The movable shell is provided with a second shell contact portion. At least one of the first shell contact portion and the second shell contact portion has a resilient property. The first shell contact portion and the second shell contact portion are in contact with each other in an up-down direction by the resilient property of the at least one of the first shell contact portion and the second shell contact portion. The regulating portion regulates a movement of the second shell contact portion away from the first shell contact portion in the up-down direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventors: Shigeharu AOKI, Kenichi SHIMOJI, Kiichi HORI, Masamichi SASAKI
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Patent number: 11552419Abstract: A floating connector comprises a movable housing, a plurality of contacts and at least one ground member. Each of the contacts has a fixed portion, a first held portion, a coupling portion, an extending portion and a contact portion. The coupling portion is resiliently deformable. The movable housing is movable within a predetermined range in a plane perpendicular to an up-down direction by the resilient deformation. The contacts include a plurality of ground contacts and a signal contact. The ground member has a plurality of ground contact portions, a plurality of supporting portions, a ground coupling portion and a second held portion. The ground contact portions correspond to the ground contacts, respectively. Each of the ground contact portions is brought into contact with the corresponding ground contact even when the movable housing is moved within the predetermined range. The ground coupling portion couples the supporting portions with each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventors: Yusuke Obata, Takashi Tokunaga, Kiichi Hori
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Patent number: 11552420Abstract: A floating connector comprises a movable housing, a regulating member and a plurality of contacts. Each of the contacts is made of a single metal plate. Each of the contacts has a fixed portion, a regulated portion, a held portion, an extending portion, a contact portion and a coupling portion. The coupling portion is resiliently deformable. The movable housing is movable within a predetermined range in a plane perpendicular to an up-down direction by the resilient deformation of the coupling portion. The coupling portion has a first portion, a second portion and a bent portion. Each of the first portion and second portion has a principal surface. The principal surface of the first portion faces in a first direction. The principal surface of the second portion faces in a second direction. The first direction and the second direction are different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventors: Yusuke Obata, Takashi Tokunaga, Kiichi Hori, Kazuki Takikawa, Hiroaki Obikane
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Patent number: 11431119Abstract: A floating connector is provided with a plurality of contacts, at least one stub member and a movable housing. The movable housing has a first holding portion and a second holding portion. The first holding portion holds first held portions of the contacts, and the second holding portion holds a second held portion of the stub member. The at least one stub member corresponds to at least one of the contacts in one-to-one correspondence. A stub contact point is always pressed against a coupling portion of the contact corresponding to the stub member even when the movable housing is moved within a predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventors: Yusuke Obata, Takashi Tokunaga, Kazuki Takikawa, Kiichi Hori
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Publication number: 20220021143Abstract: A floating connector comprises a movable housing, a regulating member and a plurality of contacts. Each of the contacts is made of a single metal plate. Each of the contacts has a fixed portion, a regulated portion, a held portion, an extending portion, a contact portion and a coupling portion. The coupling portion is resiliently deformable. The movable housing is movable within a predetermined range in a plane perpendicular to an up-down direction by the resilient deformation of the coupling portion. The coupling portion has a first portion, a second portion and a bent portion. Each of the first portion and second portion has a principal surface. The principal surface of the first portion faces in a first direction. The principal surface of the second portion faces in a second direction. The first direction and the second direction are different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventors: Yusuke OBATA, Takashi TOKUNAGA, Kiichi HORI, Kazuki TAKIKAWA, Hiroaki OBIKANE
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Publication number: 20210376509Abstract: A floating connector is provided with a plurality of contacts, at least one stub member and a movable housing. The movable housing has a first holding portion and a second holding portion. The first holding portion holds first held portions of the contacts, and the second holding portion holds a second held portion of the stub member. The at least one stub member corresponds to at least one of the contacts in one-to-one correspondence. A stub contact point is always pressed against a coupling portion of the contact corresponding to the stub member even when the movable housing is moved within a predetermined range.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventors: Yusuke OBATA, Takashi TOKUNAGA, Kazuki TAKIKAWA, Kiichi HORI
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Publication number: 20210376510Abstract: A floating connector comprises a movable housing, a plurality of contacts and at least one ground member. Each of the contacts has a fixed portion, a first held portion, a coupling portion, an extending portion and a contact portion. The coupling portion is resiliently deformable. The movable housing is movable within a predetermined range in a plane perpendicular to an up-down direction by the resilient deformation. The contacts include a plurality of ground contacts and a signal contact. The ground member has a plurality of ground contact portions, a plurality of supporting portions, a ground coupling portion and a second held portion. The ground contact portions correspond to the ground contacts, respectively. Each of the ground contact portions is brought into contact with the corresponding ground contact even when the movable housing is moved within the predetermined range. The ground coupling portion couples the supporting portions with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventors: Yusuke OBATA, Takashi TOKUNAGA, Kiichi HORI
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Patent number: 11152742Abstract: A continuous structure capable of producing a connector cover is made from a single strip-shaped flat plate. The continuous structure has a structure in which a unit structure repeatedly and regularly appears in a longitudinal direction of the strip-shaped flat plate. The unit structure includes a flat-plate portion and two side wall portion groups. One of the two side wall portion groups includes a first side wall portion standing on one of two edges of the flat-plate portion in a width direction of the flat-plate portion, and the other of the two side wall portion groups includes a second side wall portion standing on the other of the two edges of the flat-plate portion. The second side wall portion is a spring portion which generates pressing force in the width direction. The first side wall portion faces the second side wall portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventors: Shigeharu Aoki, Akira Kimura, Kiichi Hori
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Publication number: 20190379156Abstract: A continuous structure capable of producing a connector cover is made from a single strip-shaped flat plate. The continuous structure has a structure in which a unit structure repeatedly and regularly appears in a longitudinal direction of the strip-shaped flat plate. The unit structure includes a flat-plate portion and two side wall portion groups. One of the two side wall portion groups includes a first side wall portion standing on one of two edges of the flat-plate portion in a width direction of the flat-plate portion, and the other of the two side wall portion groups includes a second side wall portion standing on the other of the two edges of the flat-plate portion. The second side wall portion is a spring portion which generates pressing force in the width direction. The first side wall portion faces the second side wall portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventors: Shigeharu AOKI, Akira KIMURA, Kiichi HORI
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Patent number: 9876295Abstract: A socket connector includes a first connection terminal and a second connection terminal that come into electrical contact with a plug connector, and a socket housing having an insertion opening for the plug connector. The first connection terminal is provided with a switch contact piece and a terminal body that comes into electrical contact with the plug connector. The switch contact piece has an opening contact point portion that comes into pressure contact with the plug connector, a short-circuit contact point portion, and an elastic arm that elastically supports the opening contact point portion and the short-circuit contact point portion and that is elastically deformed when the opening contact point portion is pressed by the plug connector, and thereby brings the short-circuit contact point portion out of contact with the second connection terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Inventor: Kiichi Hori
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Publication number: 20170179626Abstract: A socket connector includes a first connection terminal and a second connection terminal that come into electrical contact with a plug connector, and a socket housing having an insertion opening for the plug connector. The first connection terminal is provided with a switch contact piece and a terminal body that comes into electrical contact with the plug connector. The switch contact piece has an opening contact point portion that comes into pressure contact with the plug connector, a short-circuit contact point portion, and an elastic arm that elastically supports the opening contact point portion and the short-circuit contact point portion and that is elastically deformed when the opening contact point portion is pressed by the plug connector, and thereby brings the short-circuit contact point portion out of contact with the second connection terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2016Publication date: June 22, 2017Applicant: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Kiichi Hori
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Patent number: 9627822Abstract: In a plug connector including a first connection terminal and a second connection terminal which come into conductive contact with a socket connector and a relay terminal which comes into contact with the first connection terminal and the second connection terminal, the relay terminal includes a switch contact piece which comes into contact with the first connection terminal. Further, the switch contact piece includes a short circuit contact which comes into contact with the first connection terminal and an open contact which is displaced when coming into contact with the socket connector. The short circuit contact is displaced with displacement of the open contact in a direction away from the first connection terminal so as to switch the short circuit connection between the first connection terminal and the second connection terminal and the conductive connection between the first connection terminal and the socket connector in a reliable manner.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2016Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Inventor: Kiichi Hori
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Publication number: 20160308311Abstract: In a plug connector including a first connection terminal and a second connection terminal which come into conductive contact with a socket connector and a relay terminal which comes into contact with the first connection terminal and the second connection terminal, the relay terminal includes a switch contact piece which comes into contact with the first connection terminal. Further, the switch contact piece includes a short circuit contact which comes into contact with the first connection terminal and an open contact which is displaced when coming into contact with the socket connector. The short circuit contact is displaced with displacement of the open contact in a direction away from the first connection terminal so as to switch the short circuit connection between the first connection terminal and the second connection terminal and the conductive connection between the first connection terminal and the socket connector in a reliable manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2016Publication date: October 20, 2016Applicant: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Kiichi Hori
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Patent number: 9011178Abstract: A connector which permits the resistance against the deformation of a shield to be increased and a method of manufacturing the connector. The shield is made up of an inner shield member disposed on the inner surface side of the shield and anouter shield member disposed on the outer surface side and, therefore, the strength of the shield can be increased by the double structure of the shield members. As a result of this, the shield is not deformed easily even in the case where an excessive external force is applied to the shield in the vertical direction or in the horizontal direction, for example, in inserting and extracting a mating connector into and out of the shield.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2011Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Iriso Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Kiichi Hori, Yoshihito Ohkuma
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Publication number: 20130078859Abstract: A connector which permits the resistance against the deformation of a shield to be increased and a method of manufacturing the connector. The shield is made up of an inner shield member disposed on the inner surface side of the shield and anouter shield member disposed on the outer surface side and, therefore, the strength of the shield can be increased by the double structure of the shield members. As a result of this, the shield is not deformed easily even in the case where an excessive external force is applied to the shield in the vertical direction or in the horizontal direction, for example, in inserting and extracting a mating connector into and out of the shield.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2011Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: IRISO LELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kiichi Hori, Yoshihito Ohkuma
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Patent number: D605598Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2008Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: IRISO Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiichi Hori, Hidehiro Shindo
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Patent number: D647482Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2010Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Iriso Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiichi Hori, Yoshihito Ohkuma