Patents by Inventor Nobuyoshi MOCHIZUKI

Nobuyoshi MOCHIZUKI 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: 10862226
    Abstract: A terminal fitting including a cylindrical portion into which a mating terminal is to be inserted; and a contact beam provided inside the cylindrical portion, the contact beam extending toward an insertion direction of the mating terminal into the cylindrical portion, being elastically deformable along a deflection direction of the contact beam and including a protruding portion extending in a direction intersecting the deflection direction, and the cylindrical portion including a peripheral wall and an engagement portion to be engaged with the protruding portion to regulate a movement of the contact beam, the engagement portion including a first portion and a second portion protruding from the peripheral wall of the cylindrical portion toward an inside of the cylindrical portion to regulate the movement of the contact beam in the deflection direction and in the insertion direction respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi Mochizuki, Kouichirou Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20200083618
    Abstract: A terminal fitting including a cylindrical portion into which a mating terminal is to be inserted; and a contact beam provided inside the cylindrical portion, the contact beam extending toward an insertion direction of the mating terminal into the cylindrical portion, being elastically deformable along a deflection direction of the contact beam and including a protruding portion extending in a direction intersecting the deflection direction, and the cylindrical portion including a peripheral wall and an engagement portion to be engaged with the protruding portion to regulate a movement of the contact beam, the engagement portion including a first portion and a second portion protruding from the peripheral wall of the cylindrical portion toward an inside of the cylindrical portion to regulate the movement of the contact beam in the deflection direction and in the insertion direction respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi Mochizuki, Kouichirou Matsushita
  • Patent number: 10461456
    Abstract: The connector includes: a housing provided with a terminal accommodating chamber; a terminal to be accommodated in the terminal accommodating chamber; a locking lance flexibly provided in the terminal accommodating chamber, a free end side of the locking lance configured to abut on the terminal when the terminal is inserted into the terminal accommodating chamber, thereby the locking lance being restored after being bent, thereby the free end side being capable of locking the terminal in the terminal accommodating chamber; and a thin-walled portion flexibly provided on the free end side of the locking lance, a thickness in a bending direction of the locking lance being set to be smaller than a thickness on a base end side of the locking lance in the thin-walled portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi Mochizuki, Kouichirou Matsushita, Naoki Takamura
  • Publication number: 20180316116
    Abstract: The connector includes: a housing provided with a terminal accommodating chamber; a terminal to be accommodated in the terminal accommodating chamber; a locking lance flexibly provided in the terminal accommodating chamber, a free end side of the locking lance configured to abut on the terminal when the terminal is inserted into the terminal accommodating chamber, thereby the locking lance being restored after being bent, thereby the free end side being capable of locking the terminal in the terminal accommodating chamber; and a thin-walled portion flexibly provided on the free end side of the locking lance, a thickness in a bending direction of the locking lance being set to be smaller than a thickness on a base end side of the locking lance in the thin-walled portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi MOCHIZUKI, Kouichirou MATSUSHITA, Naoki TAKAMURA