Patents by Inventor Mitsuhiko Totsuka
Mitsuhiko Totsuka 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: 9460878Abstract: A fuse unit comprising a resin housing formed by insulator, a circuit body formed by conductor, molded integrally with the resin housing and branching and transferring electricity from a power source side to a load side, and a fusible body provided on the circuit body and fusing at overcurrent to the load side; the circuit body is formed by a block side circuit body connected to the power source side, and a block side terminal body connected to the load side, a block side first connection end to which one side of the fusible body is detachably connected is formed on the block side circuit body, and a block side second connection end to which the other side of the fusible body is detachably connected is formed on the block side terminal body.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2015Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuhiko Totsuka, Toshiko Masuda
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Publication number: 20150130584Abstract: A fuse unit comprising a resin housing formed by insulator, a circuit body formed by conductor, molded integrally with the resin housing and branching and transferring electricity from a power source side to a load side, and a fusible body provided on the circuit body and fusing at overcurrent to the load side; the circuit body is formed by a block side circuit body connected to the power source side, and a block side terminal body connected to the load side, a block side first connection end to which one side of the fusible body is detachably connected is formed on the block side circuit body, and a block side second connection end to which the other side of the fusible body is detachably connected is formed on the block side terminal body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2015Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventors: Mitsuhiko TOTSUKA, Toshiko MASUDA
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Patent number: 8303351Abstract: A distribution terminal for a wire-type fusible link is provided. The distribution terminal includes: an electrically-conductive metal plate having a fixing hole formed therethrough so as to be fastened to a battery terminal bolt; and a plurality of press-clamping barrels formed on the metal plate and provided corresponding respectively to a plurality of wire-type fusible links, each of the press-clamping barrels having a press-fastening leg for being press-clamped to a fusible conductor of the corresponding wire-type fusible link.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2010Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Naoto Taguchi, Mitsuhiko Totsuka
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Publication number: 20100273365Abstract: A distribution terminal for a wire-type fusible link is provided. The distribution terminal includes: an electrically-conductive metal plate having a fixing hole formed therethrough so as to be fastened to a battery terminal bolt; and a plurality of press-clamping barrels formed on the metal plate and provided corresponding respectively to a plurality of wire-type fusible links, each of the press-clamping barrels having a press-fastening leg for being press-clamped to a fusible conductor of the corresponding wire-type fusible link.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Naoto TAGUCHI, Mitsuhiko TOTSUKA
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Patent number: 6828896Abstract: A housing body contains the fuse body therein. The fuse body is formed with an opening and a retaining projection arranged in the vicinity of the opening. A cover body is formed with a locking piece adapted to engage with the retaining projection so that the cover body closes the opening. A rigidity-reduced portion is formed in the cover body, so that the cover body can be flexed substantially without flexing the locking piece, at least when the locking piece engages with the retaining projection.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2003Date of Patent: December 7, 2004Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Norihiro Ohashi, Mitsuhiko Totsuka, Takuro Yamashita
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Publication number: 20040192113Abstract: A short plug-in fuse, having a fuse body received within an insulating housing, is fitted into a short fuse cavity of an electric connection box, so that the fuse body is connected to tab terminals projecting from an inner bottom surface of the fuse cavity. The short fuse cavity is set to a small fitting depth in corresponding relation to the short plug-in fuse, and a pair of guide grooves are formed in each of opposed inner side surfaces of the short fuse cavity, and extend in a fitting direction. A pair of guide ribs for respectively fitting into the corresponding pair of guide grooves are formed on each of parallel opposite outer side surfaces of the short plug-in fuse.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2004Publication date: September 30, 2004Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Takuro Yamashita, Norihiro Ohashi, Mitsuhiko Totsuka
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Publication number: 20030222752Abstract: A housing body contains the fuse body therein. The fuse body is formed with an opening and a retaining projection arranged in the vicinity of the opening. A cover body is formed with a locking piece adapted to engage with the retaining projection so that the cover body closes the opening. A rigidity-reduced portion is formed in the cover body, so that the cover body can be flexed substantially without flexing the locking piece, at least when the locking piece engages with the retaining projection.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2003Publication date: December 4, 2003Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Norihiro Ohashi, Mitsuhiko Totsuka, Takuro Yamashita
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Patent number: 6448882Abstract: A large current fuse 21 which comprises a metallic fusing member 22 and a resin housing 23, the metallic fusing member 22 including a first conductive plate 25, a second conductive plate 26, and a fusing part 27, the resin housing 23 having an open space 49 through which the fusing part is exposed, the first conductive plate 25 being provided at its side face with a first projecting piece 31 projecting by way of an edge of the open space 49, the second conductive plate 26 being provided at its side face with the second projecting piece 37 projecting by way of the edge of the open space 49, a width D1 of the first projecting piece 31 in a direction perpendicular to its projecting direction and a width D2 of the second projecting piece 37 in a direction perpendicular to its projecting direction being of a fixed size, irrespective of the rated current. The large current fuse which does not require the respective molding dies exclusively according to the rated currents is provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2000Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Shigemitsu Inaba, Norio Matsumura, Mitsuhiko Totsuka, Yasuko Hibayashi
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Patent number: 6252477Abstract: A power shut-off connector has contact terminals 55, 56 coming into sliding contact with a moving pin 43, a mating portion 54 and a retaining member 45 of the moving pin, an urging member 62 and a driving member (solenoid) 42 with respect to the moving pin. One side of a locking member 45 as a retaining member is coupled to the plunger 44 of a solenoid 42 and the other side is pivotally supported with a bracket 46 and besides the locking member is mated with the mating portion. The solenoid 42 is provided with a second plunger 150 symmetrically and by coupling a second locking member 151 to the plunger 150, the plunger may be mated with the second mating portion 65 of the moving pin 43. In place of the locking member 151, the plunger 44 may be pulled by means of a weight and a folded wire.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 1998Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Takayoshi Endo, Mitsuhiko Totsuka, Shigemitsu Inaba, Goro Nakamura, Akira Maeda
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Patent number: 6243245Abstract: A forced-fusion fuse has a casing, a heat generating material within the casing, a resistance wire for inducing a heat generation reaction to occur in the heat generating material, and a fusion member that is fused by the generation of heat from the heat generating material. When some damage or other has been caused to a wire harness or there is the fear that an impairment will occur therein as when the wire harness has been slight short-circuited, some abnormality or other has occurred in a load connected to the wire harness, or an automobile has collided with another automobile, the sensor unit senses this to thereby output an abnormality detection signal. A controller, upon receipt of the abnormality detection signal, causes the generation of heat in the resistance wire of the forced-fusion fuse.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1999Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Mitsuhiko Totsuka, Goro Nakamura
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Patent number: 5929739Abstract: A fuse includes a fuse element having a pair of terminal portions interconnected by a fusible portion, pivot pawls provided between the fusible portion and each of the terminal portions, seat surfaces respectively supporting the pivot pawls thereon, thereby holding the fuse element within an insulating housing, and pivotal movement-allowing spaces for allowing two portions of the fuse element, separated from each other when the fusible portion is melted, to be pivotally moved about the pivot pawls inside and outside the insulating housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 1997Date of Patent: July 27, 1999Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Mitsuhiko Totsuka
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Patent number: 5900798Abstract: In the metal piece 32 which diffuses into the fuse element so that an alloy layer is generated, there is formed an expanding slot 30, which is inserted and pressured in the fusing portion 25b of the fusible body 25 which forms the fuse element. Due to the foregoing, the metallic mass 32 of low fusing point is fixed to the fusible body 25 while it surrounds the circumferential surface of the fusing portion 25b.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1998Date of Patent: May 4, 1999Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Hisashi Hanazaki, Kenji Muramatsu, Mitsuhiko Totsuka, Toshiharu Kudo
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Patent number: 5825274Abstract: A fusible link includes a housing which is made of insulating resin, the housing has an opening through which a fuse element is inserted into the housing, a fuse element having a pair of connecting terminal sections and a fusible body connected between the connecting terminal sections, and a lid of insulating resin which covers the opening of the housing while engaging with the housing. In the fusible link, the lid has resilient protruded pieces which are extended downwardly from the inner surface of the lid, and pressed against the fuse element so that the fused ends of the fuse element are away from each other when the fusible body is fused, thereby to positively prevent the occurrence of secondary short-circuiting of the fused ends.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 1996Date of Patent: October 20, 1998Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Mitsuhiko Totsuka
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Patent number: 5821847Abstract: To effectively prevent the efflux at the time of depositing a fusible metal, a fuse includes a clamping piece in the longitudinal middle portion of a fusible element, a fusible metal having a low melting point is clamped by and deposited on the clamping piece, in which the fusible metal is deposited on the fusible element while parts of the fusible metal exposed when fusible metal is clamped with the clamping piece, are covered with enclosing walls that are formed by bending the fusible element on both sides of the clamped part to the sides of the fusible metal.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 1997Date of Patent: October 13, 1998Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Mitsuhiko Totsuka
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Patent number: 5802703Abstract: A method of forming a chain of fuse-links made from an electrically conductive metal plate. Each fuse-link P4 has an arc-shaped fusing portion 1 and a couple of terminal portions 4, 4 constituting a pair of wing-shaped members connected to each end of the arc-shaped fusing portion 1. A carrier strap 9 has a plurality of vertical connecting pieces 8 each positioned at fixed intervals for retaining the plurality of fuse-links P4. Each of a plurality of interconnection pieces 7' is connected to the vertical connecting piece 8 at one end and connected to a side edge of specific side one of the couple of terminal portions at the other end. The other end of the interconnection piece 7' is bent so that the end edges of the couple of terminal portions 4, 4 rise above the carrier strap 9.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 1997Date of Patent: September 8, 1998Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Mitsuhiko Totsuka, Hisashi Hanazaki
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Patent number: 5752310Abstract: A slowly-breaking fuse includes a housing made of a synthetic resin, a fuse element including a pair of terminal members for an electrical connection, and a melting member mounted between the terminal members, the melting member being smaller in thickness than the terminal member, the melting member having a narrow elongated central portion and a pair of base portions between which the narrow elongated central portion is mounted, and a cross-sectional area increased member provided at an opposite end of the melting member.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1997Date of Patent: May 19, 1998Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Hiroki Kondo, Mitsuhiko Totsuka, Toshiharu Kudo, Hisashi Hanazaki
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Patent number: 5745023Abstract: A fuse element which includes a substantially beltlike fusible body for electrically connecting a pair of connecting terminal portions to each other, the connecting terminal portions connected to an electric circuit, a low-melting-point metal piece clamped and fixed onto a melting metal adding portion arranged on the fusible body in order to adjust a fusion characteristic of the fusible body, and a pair of clamping pieces formed to extend outward from both side edges of the melting metal adding portion of the fusible body for clamping and fixing the low-melting-point metal piece set on the melting metal adding portion from both sides of the low-melting-point metal piece, in which the pair of clamping pieces have projections for holding the low-melting-point metal piece in press contact with each other by projecting into a space defined by a width of the melting metal adding portion when the clamping pieces are upwardly bent from both sides of the melting metal adding portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 1996Date of Patent: April 28, 1998Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Mitsuhiko Totsuka
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Patent number: 5739741Abstract: A metal chip of low-melting metal having a cavity is fixedly held by an embracing portion of a fusible portion of a fuse of a fusible metal conductor. The metal chip has a predetermined outer diameter, and by changing a diameter of a through hole defining the cavity, the volume of the cavity can be adjusted. By doing so, fusion characteristics of the fusible portion can be adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1996Date of Patent: April 14, 1998Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Hisashi Hanazaki, Mitsuhiko Totsuka
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Patent number: D453741Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2001Date of Patent: February 19, 2002Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Shinya Onoda, Mitsuhiko Totsuka, Masahi Iwata, Norio Matsumura, Toshiharu Kudo
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Patent number: D461169Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2001Date of Patent: August 6, 2002Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Shinya Onoda, Mitsuhiko Totsuka, Masahi Iwata, Norio Matsumura, Toshiharu Kudo