Patents by Inventor Makoto Higashikozono

Makoto Higashikozono 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: 11186211
    Abstract: An armrest includes a cable to be connected to a seat-side cable arranged on a seat, and a body member that is mountable on the seat and includes a routing section therein in which the cable is arranged. The cable includes an arranged portion that is arranged in the routing section and a connecting operation section that extends outside the routing section when being connected to the seat-side cable. The connecting operation section is arranged in the routing section when the body member is mounted on the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED, TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamamoto, Makoto Higashikozono, Kaho Hayashi, Hideki Oshima, Takahiko Endo, Keiji Makino, Jun Jin, Takemasa Okumura
  • Publication number: 20210358655
    Abstract: The wiring member includes an assembled wire made up of a plurality of bundled wire-like transmission members and a base member in which the assembled wire is fixed on the main surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi FUKUSHIMA, Makoto HIGASHIKOZONO, Housei MIZUNO, Miyu ARAMAKI, Kyousyou KOU
  • Patent number: 11173853
    Abstract: To provide a technique for enabling a single exterior member to be easily used for both a region of a wire harness that is disposed in a flat state and a region thereof that is disposed in a bent state. The wire harness includes an exterior member formed in a sheet shape, and a wire disposed overlapping the exterior member in at least a partial region extending along an extension direction of the wire. At least a part of a portion where an insulating covering of the wire and the exterior member overlap is welded. A partial region of the exterior member that extends along the extension direction of the wire is in a flat state, and at least another partial region of the exterior member that extends along the extension direction of the wire is rolled up in a direction intersecting the extension direction of the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Housei Mizuno, Hiroki Hirai, Makoto Higashikozono, Hidetoshi Ishida, Masakuni Kasugai
  • Patent number: 11158891
    Abstract: A power storage module includes: a plurality of power storage elements; a plurality of cooling members each of which has a coolant and a sealing body hermetically sealing the coolant, is stacked on the power storage element, and is configured to form a bulging portion by deformation of the sealing body caused by evaporation of the coolant at an extension portion extending in a region not overlapping the power storage element; and a heat dissipation member that receives heat of the plurality of cooling members and dissipates the heat to an outside. The heat dissipation member has a spacer portion that is disposed between the adjacent extension portions of the plurality of cooling members and is configured to abut with the bulging portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kuboki, Hiroki Hirai, Makoto Higashikozono, Akihisa Hosoe, Yoshiyuki Hirose, Akihiro Nagafuchi, Tomoharu Takeyama, Eiichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20210316530
    Abstract: A fixing structure of a wiring member includes an adhesive member, a wire-like transmission member, and an adherent. The adhesive member includes a planar base body having conductivity, a first hot-melt adhesive agent provided on one main surface of the base body, and a second hot-melt adhesive agent provided on another main surface of the base body. The base body can generate heat by induction heating using an induction heating apparatus. The wire-like transmission member is bonded to the first hot-melt adhesive agent in the adhesive member on a side of the one main surface of the base body. The adherent is bonded to the second hot-melt adhesive agent in the adhesive member on a side of the another main surface of the base body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi FUKUSHIMA, Hiroki HIRAI, Makoto HIGASHIKOZONO, Housei MIZUNO, Miyu ARAMAKI
  • Publication number: 20210313091
    Abstract: An object is to provide a technique capable of reducing a weight of a wiring member kept flat by a sheet material. A wiring member includes a sheet material in which a weight reduction space is formed and a wire-like transmission member fixed on the sheet material. For example, the weight reduction space includes a bottomed hole. For example, the sheet material includes a first base material in which a base material side through hole passing through the first base material in a thickness direction is formed and a second base material overlapped with the first base material to cover the base material side through hole, and the base material side through hole which is partially covered by the second base material forms the bottomed hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi FUKUSHIMA, Hiroki HIRAI, Makoto HIGASHIKOZONO, Housei MIZUNO, Miyu ARAMAKI
  • Patent number: 11128112
    Abstract: A wire harness routing device has a wire harness, one end of which is connected to a slider that is slidably attached to a rail and the other end of which is drawn out from the rail, a folding guide part that curves the wire harness that is drawn out from the rail and folds it in the direction along the rail, and an accommodation part that has a bottom wall and a side wall that rises up from the side edges of the bottom wall. The wire harness has a straight line-shaped linear part that is disposed along the rail, and a curved part that is further folded back to conform to the opposed side of the folding guide part of the linear part, a slidable holding member, and a separation guide part that separates the linear part from the side wall is provided on the slidable holding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamamoto, Makoto Higashikozono, Hisashi Sawada, Kazuyoshi Ohara
  • Publication number: 20210276467
    Abstract: An armrest includes a first branch cable and a second branch cable, a frame, a skin covering the frame, and a foamed resin material. The frame includes a first routing section and a second routing section in which the first branch cable and the second branch cable are arranged, respectively. The foamed resin material is disposed on an inner side of the skin. The first branch cable and the second branch cable are disposed within the foamed resin material in the first routing section and the second routing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED, TOKAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Makoto HIGASHIKOZONO, Kaho HAYASHI, Hideki OSHIMA, Takahiko ENDO, Keiji MAKINO, Jun JIN, Takemasa OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20210268972
    Abstract: A wire harness disclosed in the present specification is a wire harness that is attached to a seat surface frame and a back surface frame of a seat that is mounted in the vehicle, and the wire harness includes a wire W in which a core wire W1 is coated with an insulating coating W2, and a sheet-like base member including an attachment surface to which the plurality of wires W that are arranged side by side are fixed. A framework fixing portion that is fixed to the seat surface frame and the back surface frame in the state where the attachment surface of the base member is arranged on the seat surface frame side and the back surface frame side is provided in both side portions of a portion of the attachment surface of the base member on which the plurality of wires W are arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Makoto HIGASHIKOZONO, Hidetoshi ISHIDA
  • Patent number: 11101592
    Abstract: A connector holding structure is provided with a plurality of connectors to be connected to a plurality of mating connectors arranged in an arrangement direction, a plurality of wires drawn out from the plurality of connectors, and a connector holding member including a plurality of connector mounting portions for respectively holding the plurality of connectors, the connector holding member collectively holding the plurality of connectors. The connector holding member includes a deflectable and deformable flexible portion between adjacent ones of the plurality of connector mounting portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Inventors: Kosuke Sone, Kaho Hayashi, Tetsuji Tanaka, Makoto Higashikozono, Keishi Kitamura, Yasuto Takeda, Takahiro Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20210249802
    Abstract: A trunk cable 12 includes a signal trunk conductor 31 that is electromagnetically shielded by a shield layer 35. A branch cable 13 includes a signal branch conductor 38 that is electromagnetically shielded by a shield layer 42. The signal trunk conductor 31 and the signal branch conductor 38 are electrically connected to each other by a relay bus bar 64 that is electromagnetically shielded by a base shielding member 65 and a cover shielding member 27.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Hiroki HIRAI, Makoto HIGASHIKOZONO, Kazuyoshi OHARA, Hisashi SAWADA
  • Publication number: 20210151966
    Abstract: A wire harness routing device has a wire harness, one end of which is connected to a slider that is slidably attached to a rail and the other end of which is drawn out from the rail, a folding guide part that curves the wire harness that is drawn out from the rail and folds it in the direction along the rail, and an accommodation part that has a bottom wall and a side wall that rises up from the side edges of the bottom wall. The wire harness has a straight line-shaped linear part that is disposed along the rail, and a curved part that is further folded back to conform to the opposed side of the folding guide part of the linear part, a slidable holding member, and a separation guide part that separates the linear part from the side wall is provided on the slidable holding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamamoto, Makoto Higashikozono, Hisashi Sawada, Kazuyoshi Ohara
  • Patent number: 11005244
    Abstract: Disclosed is a covering including: a strip-shaped portion that extends along an electric wire and being bendable; a pair of side wall portion rows provided with the electric wire being interposed therebetween, and in each of which a plurality of pairs of side wall portions extending upward from the strip-shaped portion are arranged in a direction in which the strip-shaped portion extends; and a lid portion that is disposed opposing the strip-shaped portion and keeps the electric wire that is interposed between the pair of side wall portion rows from coming out of the covering. The lid portion includes spacer portions that are respectively inserted in a gap between adjacent side wall portions and in a gap between adjacent side wall portions in the side wall portion rows and maintain a spacing between the adjacent side wall portions and at least a predetermined spacing between the adjacent side wall portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamamoto, Makoto Higashikozono, Kazuyoshi Ohara
  • Patent number: 10998588
    Abstract: A power storage module includes a cooling member that has a coolant and a sealing body hermetically sealing the coolant; a power storage element that is stacked on the cooling members; and a heat transfer plate that is stacked on the power storage elements with the cooling members therebetween. The sealing body is configured to form a bulging portion deformed by evaporation of the coolant in a region not overlapping the power storage element. The heat transfer plate has a folded portion with which the bulging portion is configured to abut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kuboki, Hiroki Hirai, Makoto Higashikozono, Akihisa Hosoe, Yoshiyuki Hirose, Akihiro Nagafuchi, Tomoharu Takeyama, Eiichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20210118590
    Abstract: A wire harness includes: an electrical wire including a core wire and an insulating covering for covering the core wire; and a sheet material in which the electrical wire is disposed on a resin main surface, and a part of the main surface having contact with the electrical wire is thermally processed with the insulating covering of the electrical wire, thereby forming an electrical wire fixing part. A part of the sheet material including the electrical wire fixing part is softer than the insulating covering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Housei MIZUNO, Hiroki HIRAI, Makoto HIGASHIKOZONO, Yasuyuki OTSUKA, Satoshi MURAO, Toyoki FURUKAWA
  • Patent number: 10985415
    Abstract: A power storage module includes: a power storage element; a cooling member that is stacked on the power storage element and has a sealing body hermetically sealing a coolant and an absorption member disposed in the sealing body to absorb the coolant; and a heat transfer plate that is stacked on the power storage element with the cooling member sandwiched therebetween. The heat transfer plate is provided with protrusion portions that protrude to the cooling member side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kuboki, Hiroki Hirai, Makoto Higashikozono, Akihisa Hosoe, Yoshiyuki Hirose, Akihiro Nagafuchi, Tomoharu Takeyama, Eiichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10985414
    Abstract: A power storage module includes: a plurality of power storage elements; a plurality of cooling members each of which has a coolant and a sealing body hermetically sealing the coolant, is stacked on the power storage element, and is configured to form a bulging portion by deformation of the sealing body caused by evaporation of the coolant at an extension portion extending in a region not overlapping the power storage element; and a heat transfer member that has a spacer portion disposed between the adjacent extension portions of the plurality of cooling members and configured to abut with the bulging portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kuboki, Hiroki Hirai, Makoto Higashikozono, Akihisa Hosoe, Yoshiyuki Hirose, Akihiro Nagafuchi, Tomoharu Takeyama, Eiichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10973137
    Abstract: An ECU 1 includes a circuit board 10, a connector 20 fixed to the circuit board 10 and a resin portion 50 covering the circuit board 10 and the connector 20. The connector 20 includes a housing body 22 and a cut-off receiving portion 27 projecting from the housing body 22. The cut-off receiving portion 27 includes a flange portion 28 projecting outward from the housing body 22 and a flexible wall 29 extending from the flange portion 28 and inclined to be closer to the housing body 22 toward a tip, and a part of the flexible wall 29 is embedded in the resin portion 50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Inventors: Hirokazu Komori, Naomichi Kawashima, Hiroki Hirai, Makoto Higashikozono, Masanori Moriyasu
  • Publication number: 20210098976
    Abstract: A wiring member integrated door resin component includes a built-in component (for example, a door resin component) and a wiring member. The built-in component is a component having a wiring member housing groove in one main surface and incorporated into a box-like member to partition an inner side and outer side of the box-like member. The wiring member is held by the built-in component in a state where at least a part thereof in an extension direction is housed in the wiring member housing groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji YAMAGUCHI, Hiroki HIRAI, Makoto HIGASHIKOZONO, Housei MIZUNO
  • Patent number: 10957465
    Abstract: The wire harness includes a sheathing member that is formed in a sheet shape, at least one electric wire that is arranged on a first principal surface side of the sheathing member, and a sewing thread that sews the electric wire to the sheathing member. A partial region of the sheathing member that is arranged along an extension direction of the electric wire is in a flat state, while another at least partial region of the sheathing member that is arranged along the extension direction of the electric wire is curved in a direction intersecting with the extension direction of the electric wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Housei Mizuno, Hiroki Hirai, Makoto Higashikozono, Hidetoshi Ishida, Masakuni Kasugai