Patents by Inventor Mitsubonu Katoh

Mitsubonu Katoh 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: 6368142
    Abstract: A branch box, having an interlayer connection structure of the invention, includes insulative bus bar boards, each having a plurality of juxtaposed bus bars mounted thereon, and also having a plurality of rows of terminal holding openings each row of which are formed in the bus bar board, and are spaced at predetermined intervals along a longitudinal side edge of a respective one of the bus bars, press-connecting terminal members mounted respectively in the corresponding terminal holding openings to be electrically connected respectively to the corresponding bus bars, a plurality of wires press-connected to press-connecting end blades of the corresponding press-connecting terminal members extending through the terminal holding openings, wire-holding insulative boards on which the wires are mounted in a fixed manner, and upper and lower casings covering these component parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsubonu Katoh, Masataka Nishijima, Toshifumi Okahira, Masashi Tsukamoto
  • Publication number: 20010036766
    Abstract: A branch box, having an interlayer connection structure of the invention, includes insulative bus bar boards, each having a plurality of juxtaposed bus bars mounted thereon, and also having a plurality of rows of terminal holding openings each row of which are formed in the bus bar board, and are spaced at predetermined intervals along a longitudinal side edge of a respective one of the bus bars, press-connecting terminal members mounted respectively in the corresponding terminal holding openings to be electrically connected respectively to the corresponding bus bars, a plurality of wires press-connected to press-connecting end blades of the corresponding press-connecting terminal members extending through the terminal holding openings, wire-holding insulative boards on which the wires are mounted in a fixed manner, and upper and lower casings covering these component parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Inventors: Mitsubonu Katoh, Masataka Nishijima, Toshifumi Okahira, Masashi Tsukamoto