Patents by Inventor Kimihiro Abe
Kimihiro Abe 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: 6412169Abstract: In a connector equipped with a rear holder, the rear holder in an open state is coupled with a housing of the connector by a fixing belt. A rear holder mounting device is provided with a cutter and slide bar. The cutter is moved to cut the fixing belt. The slide bar is moved to close the rear holder so that the rear holder is engaged in the housing. Thus, working before mounting the rear holder in the connector can be smoothly carried out. The rear holder, without being damaged or deformed, can be easily mounted in the connector.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2000Date of Patent: July 2, 2002Assignee: Yazaki Corp.Inventors: Takayoshi Endo, Yuji Hatagishi, Kimihiro Abe
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Patent number: 6402543Abstract: A terminal has a base, a pair of caulking pieces integrally extending from the base, and a pair of bent pieces for regulating the movement of the electric wire. The caulking pieces are bent and retain the electric wire from over an insulating cladding thereof. The bent pieces integrally extend from the base and has an inclined surface contacting with the insulating cladding. The electric wire on the base is retained by the inclined surfaces and the caulking pieces at least from three directions. Accordingly, the lateral movement of the electric wire relative to the base when the terminal or the electric wire has been subjected to vibrations is regulated by bent pieces, whereby the impairment of the electric wire is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2000Date of Patent: June 11, 2002Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Kimihiro Abe, Nobuyuki Akeda
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Patent number: 6394834Abstract: An insulation displacement contact terminal has a bottom plate, a pair of side plates, a pair of contact plates, and projecting portions. The side plates respectively extend from both side edges of the bottom plate and oppose each other. The contact plates are respectively partly bent from the side plates and oppose each other. Between the contact plates and the bottom plate are formed gaps. The gaps permit the contact plates to be moved in the direction of their being moved toward each other. Mutually opposing edges of the contact plates define a slot for receiving a clad electric wire therein. The clad electric wire has a core wire and a clothing portion that clothes the core wire. The width of the slot decreases with the movement of the contact plates. With the press insertion of the clad electric wire into the slot, the edges cut into the clothing portions and contact with the core wire. The projecting portions respectively project from the contact plates.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 1999Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Kei Fujimoto, Tatsuya Ishikawa, Kimihiro Abe
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Publication number: 20020057360Abstract: An auxiliary device module Z includes an auxiliary device 1 such as a camera 1, a base board 2 provided with the auxiliary device 1, a pressure contact type connector 5a and pressure contact type terminals 5e and a case 3 in which the base board can be mounted. The pressure contact type terminals 5e and a connecting portion 5e′ including electric wires 4a, 4a′ in the case 3 are electrically connected as a connector 5 by mounting the base board 2 on the case 3. Guide portions 6a for guiding the pressure contact type terminals 5e to the connecting portion 5e′ are provided in the connector 5. In this configuration, when fitting the base board 2 into the case 3, electrically connecting can be done simultaneously and securely.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2001Publication date: May 16, 2002Inventors: Kimihiro Abe, Isao Kameyama, Takakazu Takahashi, Takayoshi Endo
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Publication number: 20020045376Abstract: An auxiliary machine module includes auxiliary machine a base plate equipped with the auxiliary machine; a case in which the base plate is mounted, and a connector tool for electrically connecting the base plate and the case. In this configuration, the number of components provided on the periphery of the auxiliary machine module, and the module can be reduced in size and weight in a simple structure. An inconvenience occurring in a conventional assembling operation can be also overcome.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2001Publication date: April 18, 2002Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Kimihiro Abe, Isao Kameyama, Takakazu Takahashi
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Publication number: 20020013091Abstract: An insulation displacement contact terminal has a bottom plate, a pair of side plates, a pair of contact plates, and projecting portions. The side plates respectively extend from both side edges of the bottom plate and oppose each other. The contact plates are respectively partly bent from the side plates and oppose each other. Between the contact plates and the bottom plate are formed gaps. The gaps permit the contact plates to be moved in the direction of their being moved toward each other. Mutually opposing edges of the contact plates define a slot for receiving a clad electric wire therein. The clad electric wire has a core wire and a clothing portion that clothes the core wire. The width of the slot decreases with the movement of the contact plates. With the press insertion of the clad electric wire into the slot, the edges cut into the clothing portions and contact with the core wire. The projecting portions respectively project from the contact plates.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 1999Publication date: January 31, 2002Inventors: KEI FUJIMOTO, TATSUYA ISHIKAWA, KIMIHIRO ABE
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Patent number: 6336831Abstract: A combined connector in which a plurality of connector housings each including a plurality of terminal storage chambers therein are piled up on top of another and secured to one another in multiple stages in the vertical direction. In the combined connector, first securing projecting portions are provided in one of the mutually opposing upper and lower stage side connector housings arranged in the vertical direction, first securing recessed portions, into which the first securing projecting portions can be fitted, are provided in the other, second securing projecting portions and second securing recessed portions, into which the second securing projecting portions can be fitted, are respectively provided in a direction crossing at right angles to the first securing projecting and recessed portions, and introducing portions are provided in at least one of the first and second securing projecting portions.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1998Date of Patent: January 8, 2002Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Kimihiro Abe
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Patent number: 6325679Abstract: A base plate strip is formed with an extension which is forwardly extending from an electrical contact barrel. A groove is provided in the extension such that the groove is extending across a fore open end of the electrical contact barrel. A fore end extended piece of a resilient contact tongue strip overlies the extension of the base plate strip. The resilient contact tongue strip is cut together with the base plate strip along the fore open end of said electrical contact barrel. This defines a stepped surface in the base plate at the open periphery of the electrical contact barrel and defines an engagement end piece at the fore end of the resilient contact tongue. The engagement end piece engages with the stepped surface to prevent the resilient contact tongue from moving in the insertion direction of an associated pin terminal.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2001Date of Patent: December 4, 2001Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Naotoshi Sato, Kimihiro Abe
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Publication number: 20010024912Abstract: A base plate strip is formed with an extension which is forwardly extending from an electrical contact barrel. A groove is provided in the extension such that the groove is extending across a fore open end of the electrical contact barrel. A fore end extended piece of a resilient contact tongue strip overlies the extension of the base plate strip. The resilient contact tongue strip is cut together with the base plate strip along the fore open end of said electrical contact barrel. This defines a stepped surface in the base plate at the open periphery of the electrical contact barrel and defines an engagement end piece at the fore end of the resilient contact tongue. The engagement end piece engages with the stepped surface to prevent the resilient contact tongue from moving in the insertion direction of an associated pin terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2001Publication date: September 27, 2001Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Naotoshi Sato, Kimihiro Abe
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Patent number: 6283802Abstract: A base plate strip is formed with an extension which is forwardly extending from an electrical contact barrel. A groove is provided in the extension such that the groove is extending across a fore open end of the electrical contact barrel. A fore end extended piece of a resilient contact tongue strip overlies the extension of the base plate strip. The resilient contact tongue strip is cut together with the base plate strip along the fore open end of said electrical contact barrel. This defines a stepped surface in the base plate at the open periphery of the electrical contact barrel and defines an engagement end piece at the fore end of the resilient contact tongue. The engagement end piece engages with the stepped surface to prevent the resilient contact tongue from moving in the insertion direction of an associated pin terminal.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2000Date of Patent: September 4, 2001Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Naotoshi Sato, Kimihiro Abe
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Publication number: 20010009826Abstract: The receptacle terminal has an electrical wire connection portion electrically connected to an electrical wire and an electrical connection portion receiving an opposing terminal pin. The electrical connection portion has a pair of walls accommodating a resilient piece. The resilient piece urges the pin against one of the pair of walls to pinch the pin therebetween. The receptacle terminal is constituted by a blank having parts corresponding to the base wall, the crimping piece, the pair of walls, and the resilient piece. The resilient piece has a joining piece and an extended strip joined to the joining piece. The extended strip of the blank extends along an insertion direction of the pin. The joining piece projects from a longitudinal edge of the one of the pair of walls.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2001Publication date: July 26, 2001Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Naotoshi Sato, Kimihiro Abe
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Patent number: 6186837Abstract: In a terminal, an resilient locking piece (24) is protruded from an upper surface of a terminal (17). The resilient locking piece (24) includes an engaging portion (25) formed at a central portion thereof, and a pair of abutting portions (26) formed on opposite sides of the engaging portion (25). The engaging portion (25) is engaged with a locking hole formed in a connector housing, while the abutting portions (26) are abutted against a surface of the connector housing which is located at a periphery of the locking-hole. Therefore, even if the terminal is pulled outwardly from the connector housing, the resilient locking piece (24) is prevented from being bent backwardly because of the presence of the abutting portions (26). That is, the terminal (17) is securely held in the connector housing without play.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1998Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Kimihiro Abe
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Patent number: 6176740Abstract: A terminal locking device equipped connector is provided. This connector includes: a hood for protecting a terminal portion of a connector terminal; a terminal chamber connected to the hood for accommodating a wire connecting portion of the connector terminal; an engaging means formed integrally with the hood for maintaining an engaged state with a mating connector; a terminal locking device provided, by connected to said hood through a hinge, for locking the wire connecting portion; and a detachable provisionally-fixing member, disposed between a side surface of said engaging means and said terminal locking device, for provisionally fixing said terminal locking device in an open state. Thus, better workability particularly in accommodating a connector terminal in a terminal chamber can be realized.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1998Date of Patent: January 23, 2001Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Kimihiro Abe, Tetsuya Yamashita
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Patent number: 6165012Abstract: An opening 5 for press-connecting purposes is formed in one side of each of terminal receiving chambers 3, formed in a connector housing 1, at a rear portion thereof, and a retaining hole 9 is formed through one wall 7 of each of the terminal receiving chambers disposed forwardly of the opening 5, and the retaining hole communicates the interior and exterior of the associated terminal receiving chamber 3 with each other, and a resilient lance 13 of a terminal 43, received in the terminal receiving chamber 3, is engageable in the retaining hole 9. A cover 17 is releasably engaged with the connector housing 1 to cover the openings 5, and a closure portion 35 for covering the retaining holes 9 is formed on and extends from a front end of the cover 17.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1998Date of Patent: December 26, 2000Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Kimihiro Abe, Kentaro Nagai, Tetsuya Yamashita
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Patent number: 6155865Abstract: An insulation displacement contact terminal has a pair of side walls, an a pair of pressure contact blades that are mutually opposing and formed by partial bending away from the side walls. When an insulated wire is inserted between the pressure contact blades along a first direction, edges of the pressure contact blades bite into the insulation of the insulated wire so as to make contact with the inner core wire of the insulated wire. The pressure contact blades each have a curved part that is continuous from the side walls, and each curved part has a radius of curvature such that when the pressure contact blades are bent from the side walls and when a pulling force is applied to the insulated wire in a second direction that intersects with the first direction, concentration of bending stress acting on the pressure contact blades is relieved.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 1999Date of Patent: December 5, 2000Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Kimihiro Abe
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Patent number: 6113437Abstract: A combination connector is disclosed. The combination connector comprising a plurality of connector housings which are stacked together in a multi-stage manner, an elastic lock arm provided on one of a upper connector housing and a lower housing of any two adjacent connector housings in the plurality of connector housings, an elastic rib formed respectively in continuous relation to the lock arm, and an engaging portion provided on the other connector housing of the two adjacent connector for engaging with the lock arm, wherein the lock arm is flexed together with the associated rib when the lock arm is to be engaged with the engaging portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1998Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Kimihiro Abe
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Patent number: 6076258Abstract: A method for insert molding comprises the steps of assembling an insert to a holder, the holder having a support for the insert; setting the assembled insert and holder inside a metal mold; and casting resin into the metal mold. This invention dissolves the difficulty in holding the insert in position during molding and provides an insert-embedded product at a smaller number of insert moldings than conventionally required.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 1997Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Kimihiro Abe
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Patent number: 6068522Abstract: A connector in which the deformation of lock portions is prevented, and the connector can have a compact design, and housings are prevented from being displaced with respect to each other in both longitudinal and transverse directions. Transverse grooves of a dovetail shape are formed respectively in widthwise opposite ends of an upper surface of a lower housing at a front end portion thereof, and longitudinal grooves of a dovetail shape are formed in a widthwise central portion of this upper surface. Transverse ribs of a dovetail shape are formed respectively at widthwise opposite ends of a lower surface of an upper housing at a front end portion thereof, and longitudinal grooves of a dovetail shape are formed on a widthwise central portion of this lower surface. The transverse ribs are greater in projecting height than the longitudinal ribs. When the ribs are press-fitted respectively into the associated grooves, the two housings are locked together.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1998Date of Patent: May 30, 2000Assignees: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Yazaki CorporationInventors: Masahiko Aoyama, Mitsugu Furutani, Hitoshi Okumura, Yuji Hatagishi, Kimihiro Abe, Kouichi Shirouzu
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Patent number: 6050859Abstract: A combined-type connector comprises a first connector housing including a base portion having a terminal receiving chamber for receiving a first terminal a leading end portion of which is projected from a front face thereof, a hood portion provided in a front portion of the base portion to define a space for accommodating the leading end portion of the first terminal, a second connector housing including a base portion having a terminal receiving chamber for receiving a second terminal a leading end portion of which is projected from a front face thereof, a hood portion provided in a front portion of the base portion to define a space for accommodating the leading end portion of the second terminal, and a connector receiving chamber provided in the base portion and communicating with the space defined by the hood portion of the first connector housing, wherein when the first connector housing is received by the connector receiving chamber, the hood portion of the first connector housing is arranged in the spaType: GrantFiled: October 22, 1998Date of Patent: April 18, 2000Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Kimihiro Abe, Kentaro Nagai
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Patent number: 6045409Abstract: A press-connecting connector in which the press-connection of a plurality of rows of wires, arranged in a vertical direction, can be easily effected, and sufficient rigidity of a fitting hood portion at its open side is obtained. A plurality of connector housings are stacked together, and the connector housings have a fitting hood portion, and also have wire press-connecting openings, respectively, and press-connecting terminals are mounted in each of the connector housings in such a manner that the terminals are exposed through the opening, and extend into the fitting hood portion, and wires are adapted to be press-connected respectively to the press-connecting terminals. One of the plurality of connector housings has a common hood portion which is also used as a part of the other connector housing. The common hood portion of the one connector housing cooperates with a hood portion of the other connector housing to form the fitting hood portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1998Date of Patent: April 4, 2000Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Kimihiro Abe