Patents by Inventor Ryo Sawada

Ryo Sawada 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).

  • Publication number: 20220053658
    Abstract: A locking assembly for a fuse box of a vehicle includes a base and a cover configured to be removably connected to the base. The base includes a projection extending outwardly from the base. An opening is disposed in the projection. The cover includes a locking member configured to be received by the opening in the projection when the cover is connected to the base. The cover is configured to rotate about a pivot axis of the locking member to disengage the locking member from the opening in the projection to remove the cover from the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventor: Ryo SAWADA
  • Patent number: 10256567
    Abstract: A wire cover (30) can be mounted to a connector body (C) in any one of a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction with respect to a wire drawing port (31). A first mark (M1) and a second mark (M2) having different appearance from each other are provided in the wire cover (30). A first identification mark (S1) is provided on one of both side surfaces of the connector body (C) and a second identification mark (S2) is provided on the other side surface. When the wire cover (30) is mounted in the first direction, the first mark (M1) and the first identification mark (S1) are disposed close to each other. When the wire cover (30) is mounted in the second direction, the second mark (M2) and the second identification mark (S2) are close to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignees: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahito Matsuura, Ryo Sawada
  • Patent number: 10141691
    Abstract: Provided is a connector in which terminal fittings and detection terminals can be formed at the same time. A housing (10) is provided with terminal fittings (20A) and a pair of detection terminals (20B). The terminal fittings (20A) are connected to ends of signal lines (70A), and electrically come into contact with counterpart terminal fittings (90A) provided in a counterpart housing (80) when both of the housings (10, 80) are fitted together. The pair of detection terminals (20B) are mutually energized thereby to close a detection circuit when both of the housings (10, 80) are properly fitted together. The pair of detection terminals (20B) are mutually connected via a detection line (70B) and formed in the same shape as the terminal fittings (20A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignees: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Noro, Kazuaki Takeda, Masahito Matsuura, Ryo Sawada
  • Publication number: 20180226744
    Abstract: A wire cover (30) can be mounted to a connector body (C) in any one of a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction with respect to a wire drawing port (31). A first mark (M1) and a second mark (M2) having different appearance from each other are provided in the wire cover (30). A first identification mark (S1) is provided on one of both side surfaces of the connector body (C) and a second identification mark (S2) is provided on the other side surface. When the wire cover (30) is mounted in the first direction, the first mark (M1) and the first identification mark (S1) are disposed close to each other. When the wire cover (30) is mounted in the second direction, the second mark (M2) and the second identification mark (S2) are close to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Masahito Matsuura, Ryo Sawada
  • Publication number: 20180145456
    Abstract: Provided is a connector in which terminal fittings and detection terminals can be formed at the same time. A housing (10) is provided with terminal fittings (20A) and a pair of detection terminals (20B). The terminal fittings (20A) are connected to ends of signal lines (70A), and electrically come into contact with counterpart terminal fittings (90A) provided in a counterpart housing (80) when both of the housings (10, 80) are fitted together. The pair of detection terminals (20B) are mutually energized thereby to close a detection circuit when both of the housings (10, 80) are properly fitted together. The pair of detection terminals (20B) are mutually connected via a detection line (70B) and formed in the same shape as the terminal fittings (20A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Yutaka Noro, Kazuaki Takeda, Masahito Matsuura, Ryo Sawada
  • Patent number: 8118609
    Abstract: An electrical connector that can provide stable contact between a signal transmission terminal and a short-circuit terminal even if the connector is downsized. The connector includes a main body having a plurality of terminal receiving cavities provided with lances by which signal transmission terminals are secured and a plurality of short-circuit terminal receiving cavities adjacent to the terminal receiving cavities for receiving short-circuit terminals. Each short-circuit terminal includes a bent part at a forward position and a contact at a rearward position. The main body further includes a window that is formed at a position to the rear of the lances corresponding to the contacts of the short-circuit terminals and through which the terminal receiving cavities and the short-circuit terminal receiving cavities communicate with each other. The contacts of the short-circuit terminals are in contact with the female terminals through the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Eiichi Sasaki, Takahiro Yoneda, Ryo Sawada
  • Publication number: 20110217864
    Abstract: An electrical connector that can provide stable contact between a signal transmission terminal and a short-circuit terminal even if the connector is downsized. The connector includes a main body having a plurality of terminal receiving cavities provided with lances by which signal transmission terminals are secured and a plurality of short-circuit terminal receiving cavities adjacent to the terminal receiving cavities for receiving short-circuit terminals. Each short-circuit terminal includes a bent part at a forward position and a contact at a rearward position. The main body further includes a window that is formed at a position to the rear of the lances corresponding to the contacts of the short-circuit terminals and through which the terminal receiving cavities and the short-circuit terminal receiving cavities communicate with each other. The contacts of the short-circuit terminals are in contact with the female terminals through the window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Inventors: Eiichi Sasaki, Takahiro Yoneda, Ryo Sawada
  • Patent number: 7749016
    Abstract: A lever insertion hole (6) for inserting a lever (5) is provided in a female housing (2). A rib (10) and a flexible lever-holding lock (11) are arranged on the inner wall (6A) of the lever insertion hole (6). The rib (10) enables the lever (5) to be inserted, through a key groove (54) axially provided in the outer peripheral surface of the lever (5), into the female housing (2) only when the lever (5) is at a predetermined rotational position. The rib (10) and the lever-holding lock (11) are together in contact with a wall section (57) of a coming-out prevention groove (56), provided in the lever (5), to hold the lever (5) from coming out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Ikeya, Tsuneyuki Takahashi, Takahiro Yoneda, Ryo Sawada, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Ken Yoshimura, Nozomi Ito
  • Patent number: 7682191
    Abstract: A connector includes: a housing main body including a rib extending frontward; a front holder fitted into the housing main body from the front, and capable of moving from a temporary locking position to a permanent locking position, and the front holder including a through-hole into which the rib is inserted; means for temporarily locking the front holder; and means for permanently locking the front holder. The rib is long enough for a front end of the rib to agree with, or jut out from, a rear end surface of the front holder which is located rearward in an insertion direction of the front holder while the front holder is held in the temporary locking position. The housing main body includes bendable lances for locking their corresponding terminals inserted into the housing main body. The front holder includes lance pressing parts restricting the bends of the corresponding bendable lances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Iwahori, Ryo Sawada, Takahiro Yoneda
  • Patent number: 7637764
    Abstract: In a waterproof connector, a mat seal and a rear grid are attached to a rear side of a connector housing. These mat seal and rear grid include terminal insertion openings and electric wire insertion openings, respectively, which communicate with terminal receiving chambers. Wire tubes are fitted to electric wires to which large female terminals are crimped, and are brought into elastically intimate contact with inner walls of large terminal insertion openings of the mat seal. Moreover, each of the wire tubes includes a protruding portion that protrudes rearward from the large terminal insertion opening of the mat seal and is located in the large electric wire insertion opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoneda, Ryo Sawada, Masayuki Fukui, Miki Koizumi
  • Patent number: 7607940
    Abstract: A waterproof connector, comprising a pair of male and female housings (30, 40) engaged with each other. The waterproof connector also comprises a grommet (10) covering at least one of the housings (30, 40) and a fastening member (50) inserted from the grommet (10) side into the pair of male and female housings (30, 40) to connect them to each other. In addition, the grommet comprises a sealing part (12) having a predetermined length along the inserting direction of the fastening member (50) and formed integrally with a grommet body (11) at the outlet side end part (14) thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Ikeya, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Tsuneyuki Takahashi, Takahiro Yoneda, Ryo Sawada, Ken Yoshimura, Nozomi Ito
  • Patent number: 7591678
    Abstract: A through-panel connector, comprising a female connector (10) and a male connector disposed on one side and the other side of panel (50) and fitted to each other through a mounting hole (51) formed in the panel (50). The female connector (10) comprises a plurality of flexible holding ribs (11). The holding ribs (11) are formed on the outer peripheral surface (32) of the female connector (10) opposed to the mounting hole inner peripheral surface (53) of the panel (50) so as to be extended along the inserting direction of the mounting hole (51) and separated from the outer peripheral surface (32) while being extended from the base end part (12) to the tip part (13) of the female connector (10) along the mounting hole inner peripheral surface (53). The holding ribs (11) are biased and held on the mounting hole inner peripheral surface (53) with the female connector (10) fitted to the panel (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Ikeya, Shigeru Tanaka, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Tsuneyuki Takahashi, Takahiro Yoneda, Ryo Sawada, Ken Yoshimura, Nozomi Ito
  • Publication number: 20090042438
    Abstract: A connector includes: a housing man body including a rib extending frontward; a front holder fitted into the housing main body from the front, and capable of moving from a temporary locking position to a permanent locking position, and the front holder including a through-hole into which the rib is inserted; means for temporarily locking the front holder; and means for permanently locking the front holder. The rib is long enough for a front end of the rib to agree with, or jut out from, a rear end surface of the front holder which is located rearward in an insertion direction of the front holder while the front holder is held in the temporary locking position. The housing main body includes bendable lances for locking their corresponding terminals inserted into the housing main body. The front holder includes lance pressing part restricting the bends of the corresponding bendable lances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Yoshihiro IWAHORI, Ryo Sawada, Takahiro Yoneda
  • Publication number: 20090017659
    Abstract: In a waterproof connector, a mat seal and a rear grid are attached to a rear side of a connector housing. These mat seal and rear grid include terminal insertion openings and electric wire insertion openings, respectively, which communicate with terminal receiving chambers. Wire tubes are fitted to electric wires to which large female terminals are crimped, and are brought into elastically intimate contact with inner walls of large terminal insertion openings of the mat seal. Moreover, each of the wire tubes includes a protruding portion that protrudes rearward from the large terminal insertion opening of the mat seal and is located in the large electric wire insertion opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoneda, Ryo Sawada, Masayuki Fukui, Miki Koizumi
  • Patent number: 7448887
    Abstract: A lever-fit connector, wherein a rotation prevention lock (12) preventing a lever (5) from being rotated when male and female connector housing are fitted (joined) to each other is installed in the inner wall (6A) of a lever insert hole (6) in a female housing (2). A rotation lock recessed part (58) in which the rotation lock part (12D) of the rotation prevention lock (12) is engageably stored is formed in the peripheral surface of the lever (5). The angle of the rotation lock part (12D) is set so that the rotation lock part (12D) is drawn to the lever (5) side in excessive rotation by bringing the rotation lock part (12D) into contact with the side wall surface (58B) of the rotation lock recessed part (58).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Ikeya, Tsuneyuki Takahashi, Takahiro Yoneda, Ryo Sawada, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Ken Yoshimura, Nozomi Ito, Shigeru Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20080260457
    Abstract: A lever insertion hole (6) for inserting a lever (5) is provided in a female housing (2). A rib (10) and a flexible lever-holding lock (11) are arranged on the inner wall (6A) of the lever insertion hole (6). The rib (10) enables the lever (5) to be inserted, through a key groove (54) axially provided in the outer peripheral surface of the lever (5), into the female housing (2) only when the lever (5) is at a predetermined rotational position. The rib (10) and the lever-holding lock (11) are together in contact with a wall section (57) of a coming-out prevention groove (56), provided in the lever (5), to hold the lever (5) from coming out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Kenichi Ikeya, Tsuneyuki Takahashi, Takahiro Yoneda, Ryo Sawada, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Ken Yoshimura, Nozomi Ito
  • Publication number: 20080261443
    Abstract: A through-panel connector, comprising a female connector (10) and a male connector disposed on one side and the other side of panel (50) and fitted to each other through a mounting hole (51) formed in the panel (50). The female connector (10) comprises a plurality of flexible holding ribs (11). The holding ribs (11) are formed on the outer peripheral surface (32) of the female connector (10) opposed to the mounting hole inner peripheral surface (53) of the panel (50) so as to be extended along the inserting direction of the mounting hole (51) and separated from the outer peripheral surface (32) while being extended from the base end part (12) to the tip part (13) of the female connector (10) along the mounting hole inner peripheral surface (53). The holding ribs (11) are biased and held on the mounting hole inner peripheral surface (53) with the female connector (10) fitted to the panel (50).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2005
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Kenichi Ikeya, Shigeru Tanaka, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Tsuneyuki Takahashi, Takahiro Yoneda, Ryo Sawada, Ken Yoshimura, Nozomi Ito
  • Patent number: 7427205
    Abstract: A lever type connector is provided with a lever assisting in fitting or detaching first and second connector housings thereof. A lever is fitted to the first connector housing. A plurality of projecting parts is provided in a circumference of the lever. A plurality of receiving parts is provided in the first connector housing to slidably engage with the projecting part. Engagement between the projecting and receiving parts prevents the lever from deformation and warpage in a rotating operation of the lever for the connecting operation. The projecting parts and the receiving parts are configured so that the projecting parts and the receiving parts are engaged only when the lever is positioned so that the fitting force is large in the rotating operation, and the projecting parts and the receiving parts are not engaged when the lever is positioned in another state in which the fitting force is small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sasaki, Shoji Yamamoto, Takahiro Yoneda, Ryo Sawada, Ken Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20080194129
    Abstract: A lever-fit connector, wherein a rotation prevention lock (12) preventing a lever (5) from being rotated when male and female connector housing are fitted (joined) to each other is installed in the inner wall (6A) of a lever insert hole (6) in a female housing (2). A rotation lock recessed part (58) in which the rotation lock part (12D) of the rotation prevention lock (12) is engageably stored is formed in the peripheral surface of the lever (5). The angle of the rotation lock part (12D) is set so that the rotation lock part (12D) is drawn to the lever (5) side in excessive rotation by bringing the rotation lock part (12D) into contact with the side wall surface (58B) of the rotation lock recessed part (58).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: Kenichi Ikeya, Tsuneyuki Takahashi, Takahiro Yoneda, Ryo Sawada, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Ken Yoshimura, Nozomi Ito, Shigeru Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20080194131
    Abstract: A waterproof connector, comprising a pair of male and female housings (30, 40) engaged with each other. The waterproof connector also comprises a grommet (10) covering at least one of the housings (30, 40) and a fastening member (50) inserted from the grommet (10) side into the pair of male and female housings (30, 40) to connect them to each other. In addition, the grommet comprises a sealing part (12) having a predetermined length along the inserting direction of the fastening member (50) and formed integrally with a grommet body (11) at the outlet side end part (14) thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2005
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: Kenichi Ikeya, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Tsuneyuki Takahashi, Takahiro Yoneda, Ryo Sawada, Ken Yoshimura, Nozomi Ito