Patents by Inventor Makoto Katsumata

Makoto Katsumata 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: 10784017
    Abstract: A line-shaped assembly includes a heat source that includes a heat source main body extending straightly and a heat source cover member covering the heat source main body, and a tubular-shaped heat source protective member that accommodates and protects the heat source. The heat source protective member is made of resin, and includes a first tube body portion with an inner surface that has a small area per unit length in an axial direction of the heat source protective member in contact with the heat source, and a second tube body portion with an inner surface that has a contact area larger than that of the first tube body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Katsumata, Hideomi Adachi, Takeshi Ogue
  • Patent number: 9819164
    Abstract: An intermediate member that enables enhancement of ease of fabrication of a wire harness and a wire harness including such an intermediate member are provided. A wire harness is divided into an intermediate member placed in an intermediate portion of the wire harness and two terminal members placed at respective terminals of the wire harness and to be connected to equipment. After being separately fabricated, the intermediate member and the two terminal members are connected together, whereupon fabrication of the wire harness is completed. The intermediate member includes one or a plurality of intermediate conducting paths, intermediate routing path retaining means retaining a cable routing path geometry of the intermediate conducting paths; intermediate shield means covering and shielding the intermediate conducting paths; and intermediate protection means covering and protecting the intermediate conducting paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidehiro Ichikawa, Makoto Katsumata
  • Patent number: 9692216
    Abstract: An electric wire protective tube is configured such that a straight tube section in a shape of a straight tube and a bendable tube section that is bendable are provided along a longitudinal direction, and is configured to have a shape of a tube that allows an electric wire to be arranged therein. The electric wire protective tube has a tubular inner shield portion made of an electrically conductive material and forming an inner surface of the tube, and an exterior portion made of resin and forming an outer surface of the tube. The inner shield portion is provided such that it is firmly attached to an inner surface of the exterior portion in the straight tube section, and such that it is separable from an inner surface of the exterior portion in the bendable tube section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahisa Sugimoto, Makoto Katsumata
  • Patent number: 9633764
    Abstract: A conductive line shield structure includes a first conductive line and a shielding member. The first conductive line includes a conductive part and an insulative part. The shielding member is a sheet including an insulative base material and a metal foil, and is wrapped so as to enclose the first conductive line therein. One side end part of the shielding member overlaps an outside surface of the insulative base material so that one side end part of the insulative base material is in contact with the outside surface of the insulative base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Yukawa, Hiroyuki Umehara, Kouji Nishina, Makoto Katsumata, Takuya Sugiyama, Tsuneyuki Horiike
  • Patent number: 9520702
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a clamp-integrated wiring harness protector for assembling, in which a man-hour for assembling the protector is unnecessary, and workability upon assembling with a wiring harness is satisfactory, and the wiring harness is protected after assembling, and the protector can be produced at low cost. The clamp-integrated wiring harness protector for assembling including: a sheet-shaped portion; and a clamp portion integrally formed with the sheet-shaped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Masahisa Sugimoto, Makoto Katsumata, Kyohei Oda
  • Publication number: 20160322796
    Abstract: An electric wire protective tube is configured such that a straight tube section in a shape of a straight tube and a bendable tube section that is bendable are provided along a longitudinal direction, and is configured to have a shape of a tube that allows an electric wire to be arranged therein. The electric wire protective tube has a tubular inner shield portion made of an electrically conductive material and forming an inner surface of the tube, and an exterior portion made of resin and forming an outer surface of the tube. The inner shield portion is provided such that it is firmly attached to an inner surface of the exterior portion in the straight tube section, and such that it is separable from an inner surface of the exterior portion in the bendable tube section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Masahisa Sugimoto, Makoto Katsumata
  • Patent number: 9460833
    Abstract: A conductive line shield structure includes a first conductive line, a second conductive line and a shielding member. The first conductive line includes a conductive part and an insulative part. At least a surface of the second conductive line is made of copper. The shielding member, is a sheet including an insulative base material and an aluminum foil, and is wrapped so as to enclose the first conductive line and the second conductive line therein. A plated layer is provided on a surface of the aluminum foil and is in contact with the second conductive line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Yukawa, Hiroyuki Umehara, Makoto Katsumata
  • Publication number: 20150294765
    Abstract: A line-shaped assembly includes a heat source that includes a heat source main body extending straightly and a heat source cover member covering the heat source main body, and a tubular-shaped heat source protective member that accommodates and protects the heat source. The heat source protective member is made of resin, and includes a first tube body portion with an inner surface that has a small area per unit length in an axial direction of the heat source protective member in contact with the heat source, and a second tube body portion with an inner surface that has a contact area larger than that of the first tube body portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Katsumata, Hideomi Adachi, Takeshi Ogue
  • Publication number: 20150014490
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a clamp-integrated wiring harness protector for assembling, in which a man-hour for assembling the protector is unnecessary, and workability upon assembling with a wiring harness is satisfactory, and the wiring harness is protected after assembling, and the protector can be produced at low cost. The clamp-integrated wiring harness protector for assembling including: a sheet-shaped portion; and a clamp portion integrally formed with the sheet-shaped portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Masahisa Sugimoto, Makoto Katsumata, Kyohei Oda
  • Patent number: 8895854
    Abstract: There is provided an electric wire 1 comprising an electrically-conductive conductor portion and an insulating cover portion 11 covering the conductor portion. A colored marker 13 is provided on an end portion of the cover portion 11. The colored marker 13 indicates that the electric wire is a manually-incorporated wire. A circuit identifier 12 is provided on an intermediate portion of the cover portion 11. The circuit identifier 12 is made by printing or provided in the form of a mark and indicative of a connection destination of the electric wire 1. The colored marker in the end portion is made by an ink inferior to that of the circuit identifier on the intermediate portion in at least one property selected from among adhesiveness, weatherability, heat resistance, and chemical resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Moriatsu Taniguchi, Makoto Katsumata, Keigo Sugimura, Atsushi Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20140284100
    Abstract: A wire harness capable of improving manufacturability and handleability is provided. A wire harness 9 is means for electrically connecting a front inverter unit 4 to a battery 5, and is configured to include two high-voltage electric wires, and a shielding member 20 with which the two high-voltage electric wires are collectively covered, the shielding member 20 for shielding the high-voltage electric wires. The shielding member 20 is configured to be divided into plural pieces in a cabling direction of the wire harness 9. Also, in the shielding member 20, each of the divided pieces has an independent shielding function. The shielding member 20 is divided into the plural pieces so as to have plural braid shielding members 26 to 32 and plural conductive pipe shielding members 33 to 38.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidehiro Ichikawa, Makoto Katsumata
  • Publication number: 20140284102
    Abstract: An intermediate member that enables enhancement of ease of fabrication of a wire harness and a wire harness including such an intermediate member are provided. A wire harness is divided into an intermediate member placed in an intermediate portion of the wire harness and two terminal members placed at respective terminals of the wire harness and to be connected to equipment. After being separately fabricated, the intermediate member and the two terminal members are connected together, whereupon fabrication of the wire harness is completed. The intermediate member includes one or a plurality of intermediate conducting paths, intermediate routing path retaining means retaining a cable routing path geometry of the intermediate conducting paths; intermediate shield means covering and shielding the intermediate conducting paths; and intermediate protection means covering and protecting the intermediate conducting paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Hidehiro Ichikawa, Makoto KATSUMATA
  • Publication number: 20140110011
    Abstract: A corrugate tube with a clamp integrally includes a straight tube portion and a bellows tube portion and a locking clamp is provided on the straight tube portion. The straight tube portion provided with the clamp is thicker than the bellows tube portion. A slit in a longitudinal direction of the tube is provided in an opposite direction of the clamp. A hole is provided communicating with the slit. A groove or a hole is provided on the straight tube portion. A radius d2 of a hill portion of the bellows tube portion is sufficiently larger than a radius d of a valley portion of the bellows tube portion, and a thickness T of the hill portion is gradually smaller as the bellows tube portion extends toward a tip. The bellows tube portions are arranged in between straight tube portions, and the clamps are provided on required straight tube portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeyuki Omura, Makoto Katsumata, Hiroshi Ishiuchi, Hiroshi Ichikawa, Masahisa Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20140110012
    Abstract: A partially molded corrugate tube integrally includes: a straight tube portion, a small-diameter bellows tube portion, and a large-diameter bellows tube portion of which diameter is larger than the small-diameter bellows tube portion and integrally continued to the small-diameter bellows tube portion, and configured to be bent firstly. The small-diameter bellows tube portion is integrally continued to an end of the large-diameter bellows tube portion, and the straight tube portion is integrally continued to the other end of the large-diameter bellows tube portion. The large-diameter bellows tube portion is formed shorter than the small-diameter bellows tube portion in a longitudinal direction of the tube. A thickness T of a hill portion of the large-diameter bellows tube portion is gradually reduced as the hill portion extends toward a tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeyuki Omura, Hiroshi Ichikawa, Masahisa Sugimoto, Hiroshi Ishiuchi, Makoto Katsumata
  • Publication number: 20130269971
    Abstract: A conductive line shield structure includes a first conductive line and a shielding member. The first conductive line includes a conductive part and an insulative part. The shielding member is a sheet including an insulative base material and a metal foil, and is wrapped so as to enclose the first conductive line therein. One side end part of the shielding member overlaps an outside surface of the insulative base material so that one side end part of the insulative base material is in contact with the outside surface of the insulative base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Jun YUKAWA, Hiroyuki UMEHARA, Kouji NISHINA, Makoto KATSUMATA, Takuya SUGIYAMA, Tsuneyuki HORIIKE
  • Publication number: 20130269973
    Abstract: A conductive line shield structure includes a first conductive line, a second conductive line and a shielding member. The first conductive line includes a conductive part and an insulative part. At least a surface of the second conductive line is made of copper. The shielding member, is a sheet including an insulative base material and an aluminum foil, and is wrapped so as to enclose the first conductive line and the second conductive line therein. A plated layer is provided on a surface of the aluminum foil and is in contact with the second conductive line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Jun YUKAWA, Hiroyuki UMEHARA, Makoto KATSUMATA
  • Patent number: 8497285
    Abstract: This invention is in the fields of immunology and autoimmunity. More particularly it concerns methods of treating patients with compounds which are useful agents for inhibiting the functions of TIP60 in the treatment of an individual suffering, for example, from ulcerative colitis and other irritable bowel diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignees: The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
    Inventors: Mark I. Greene, Wayne W. Hancock, Makoto Katsumata, Yan Xiao
  • Publication number: 20130181570
    Abstract: A rotor (4) of an induction motor (1) rotatably disposed inside a hollow portion (3) of a stator (2) of the induction motor (1) and rotating under a magnetic force from a magnetic field formed inside the hollow portion (3) by the stator (2). The rotor (4) includes a pair of annular conductors (10, 10), and a plurality of bar-like conductors (11) connected between the pair of annular conductors (10, 10) and configured to form a basket shape along with the pair of annular conductors (10, 10). The annular conductors (10, 10) and the bar-like conductors (11) are respectively formed by a compound material with a conductive core conductor (12) and a carbon nanotube structure (15) attached to an outer periphery of the core conductor (12) in an electric contact state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iizuka, Makoto Katsumata, Tsutomu Saigou, Satoru Yoshinaga
  • Publication number: 20120312596
    Abstract: There is provided an electric wire 1 comprising an electrically-conductive conductor portion and an insulating cover portion 11 covering the conductor portion. A colored marker 13 is provided on an end portion of the cover portion 11. The colored marker 13 indicates that the electric wire is a manually-incorporated wire. A circuit identifier 12 is provided on an intermediate portion of the cover portion 11. The circuit identifier 12 is made by printing or provided in the form of a mark and indicative of a connection destination of the electric wire 1. The colored marker in the end portion is made by an ink inferior to that of the circuit identifier on the intermediate portion in at least one property selected from among adhesiveness, weatherability, heat resistance, and chemical resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Moriatsu Taniguchi, Makoto Katsumata, Keigo Sugimura, Atsushi Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20110274688
    Abstract: Methods of preventing the transformation of a normal cell into a tumor cell that has p185 on its surface are disclosed. The methods comprise administering an antibody which specifically binds to p185. Methods of preventing the transformation of a normal cell into a tumor cell that has p185 on its surface in an individual at high risk of developing tumors are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: Mark I. Greene, Makoto Katsumata, Jeffrey Drebin