Patents by Inventor Kouki FUKUNAGA

Kouki FUKUNAGA 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).

  • Method of manufacturing a connection structural body
    Patent number: 9667014
    Abstract: A cover stripping step of peeling off an insulating cover on a distal end side of an insulated wire to form a wire tip; a marking step of forming a marking on the insulating cover at a predetermined position; a first marking inspection step of inspecting a stripping state and the marking; a wire insertion step of inserting the wire tip into a closed-barrel-type pressure-bonding section; a pressure-bonding step of pressure-bonding the pressure-bonding section to be connected to the wire tip; and a second marking inspection step of inspecting a pressure-bonded state of the pressure-bonding section to the wire tip using the marking are performed in this order, and the first marking inspection step and the second marking inspection step are performed using the same inspection step part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignees: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Furukawa Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Kawamura, Satoshi Takamura, Takeshi Hyotani, Koichi Kitagawa, Eiji Aramaki, Kouki Fukunaga
  • METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CONNECTION STRUCTURAL BODY AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING CONNECTION STRUCTURAL BODY
    Publication number: 20150155673
    Abstract: A cover stripping step of peeling off an insulating cover on a distal end side of an insulated wire to form a wire tip; a marking step of forming a marking on the insulating cover at a predetermined position; a first marking inspection step of inspecting a stripping state and the marking; a wire insertion step of inserting the wire tip into a closed-barrel-type pressure-bonding section; a pressure-bonding step of pressure-bonding the pressure-bonding section to be connected to the wire tip; and a second marking inspection step of inspecting a pressure-bonded state of the pressure-bonding section to the wire tip using the marking are performed in this order, and the first marking inspection step and the second marking inspection step are performed using the same inspection step part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicants: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Furukawa Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukihiro KAWAMURA, Satoshi TAKAMURA, Takeshi HYOTANI, Koichi KITAGAWA, Eiji ARAMAKI, Kouki FUKUNAGA