Patents by Inventor Satoki Masuda
Satoki Masuda 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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Publication number: 20240396257Abstract: There is provided a waterproof connector including: a housing configured to accommodate a terminal; an annular packing attached to an outer periphery of the housing and configured to seal between the housing and an opening of a counterpart member; and a front holder attached to a tip side of the housing and positioning the packing. The packing and the front holder are mounted on a fitting portion of the housing, the fitting portion being to be inserted into the opening of the counterpart member. The front holder has a locking portion configured to engage with an outer periphery of the fitting portion of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2024Publication date: November 28, 2024Inventors: Satoki Masuda, Yoshinao Sato
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Publication number: 20240243511Abstract: A connector includes: a housing includes a fitting part that is formed protruding toward a connection direction with respect to a connection target and inserted into a fitting hole; and a seal member that comes in contact with an inner face of the fitting hole to stop water between the housing and the connection target. The housing has an abutting part that extends from a base part side of the fitting part and abuts against an end part of the seal member. The abutting part has a corner part between an opposing face opposing to the outer periphery of the fitting part and a top end face chamfered. The seal member includes a third lip that protrudes from an outer periphery, and a flat part extending flat along the connection direction is formed between the third lip and the end part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2023Publication date: July 18, 2024Inventors: Satoki Masuda, Yoshinao Sato
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Publication number: 20240243514Abstract: A connector includes a housing that holds a terminal connected to a connection target, and includes a fitting part that is inserted into a fitting hole formed in the connection target; and a seal member that is attached to an outer periphery of the fitting part, and comes in contact with an inner face of the fitting hole to stop water between the housing and the connection target. The seal member is formed with an oil-impregnated elastic member, and includes at least a first lip and a second lip provided to protrude from an outer peripheral face while being lined along a connection direction with respect to the connection target. The first lip is provided on the connection target side of the second lip, and a protrusion length of the first lip is shorter than a protrusion length of the second lip.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2023Publication date: July 18, 2024Inventors: Satoki Masuda, Yoshinao Sato
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Publication number: 20240097377Abstract: The present disclosure provides a connector capable of improving the water sealing performance by a packing. A connector of the present disclosure includes: a terminal; a housing that holds the terminal and is fixed to a casing of a device; a cylindrical holder that is engaged with the housing and fitted to an opening part of the casing; and a packing in an annular shape that is mounted to an outer peripheral face of the holder and held by the holder, and seals between the holder and the opening part.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Satoki Masuda, Yoshinao Sato
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Patent number: 11769960Abstract: Included are terminal metal parts mounted on ends of electric wires, a housing housing the terminal metal parts at a housing completion position thereinside and to be inserted and fit into a counterpart fitting portion headed by a tip, a terminal locking member mounted on the housing from outside along a direction crossing an insertion direction of the housing to the counterpart fitting portion and locking the terminal metal parts as they are at the housing completion position at a mounting completion position with respect to the housing, and a front holder causing the housing to be inserted headed by the tip and locking the terminal locking member at the mounting completion position.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Satoki Masuda
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Patent number: 11705665Abstract: A connector includes a terminal fitting, a housing, a front holder to which an engagement part of the housing is inserted along an inserting direction of the engagement part with respect to a counterpart engagement part, and a water-stopping member with an annular shape that closes an annular space between a projection part from the front holder at an outer peripheral wall surface of the engagement part and an inner peripheral wall surface of the counterpart engagement part. The front holder includes a retained part that projects toward the outer peripheral wall surface of the engagement part. The water-stopping member includes a retained part that projects inward relative to an inner peripheral surface. The engagement part includes a communication retaining part where a first retaining part and a second retaining part are provided in a communicating state.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Satoki Masuda, Takeo Ida, Yoshinao Sato
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Publication number: 20230124316Abstract: A connector includes a housing having a fitting part that is inserted and fitted into a counterpart fitting part, a shield shell having a shell flange part disposed opposite a wall surface of a counterpart wall body with an interval therebetween, a first watertight member between the fitting part and the counterpart fitting part, and a second watertight member that is crushed between the shell flange part and a wall surface of the counterpart wall body. The housing has a housing flange part with an outer peripheral surface thereof disposed inside an outer peripheral edge of the shell flange part and outside an inner edge of the shell flange part, and with a contact surface with an annular shape in contact with the wall surface of the counterpart wall body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicants: Yazaki Corporation, Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoki MASUDA, Hikaru OI, Tomohiro JINTOKU, Kanato KIMURA, Masaharu YAMAGISHI, Kazuhiro OKAMURA
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Connector including a terminal retaining member for retaining a terminal fitting housed in a housing
Patent number: 11626684Abstract: A connector includes a terminal fitting, a housing that houses the terminal fitting at a housing complete position, and a terminal retaining member that, at an assembling complete position to the housing, retains the terminal fitting remaining at the housing complete position. The terminal fitting includes a penetration hole. The terminal retaining member includes a retaining protrusion that is, at the assembling complete position, inserted into the penetration hole at the housing complete position, and retains the terminal fitting while the terminal fitting remains at that position. The penetration hole is formed to have a left-right asymmetric shape including a first hole part on the left side and a second hole part having a shape different from a shape of the first hole part and arranged on the right side of the first hole part.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Satoki Masuda, Takeo Ida -
Publication number: 20230027106Abstract: A wire harness includes a cable constituted of a plurality of electric wires bundled together so as to include a plurality of cable ends and a plurality of connectors mounted one-to-one on the plurality of cable ends, wherein each of the plurality of connectors includes a connector terminal connected to an end of the electric wire, a tubular housing body accommodating the connector terminal, and a flange formed to project from an outer circumferential surface of the housing body. On a fitting side for fitting with a mating connector, the flange has a rugged shape that differs between the plurality of connectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: YazakiCorporationInventors: Satoki MASUDA, Yoshinao SATO
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Patent number: 11509090Abstract: A connector includes: a terminal fitting; a housing containing the terminal fitting inside and provided with a fitting portion inserted and fitted into inside of a hole-shaped counterpart fitting portion of a counterpart wall member; and a shield shell including a cylindrical portion covering, from outside, a projecting portion of the housing projecting from the counterpart fitting portion, a flange portion projecting outer than an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion and a fixed portion bent from an end portion of the flange portion and fixed on an end surface of the counterpart wall member. The shield shell is provided with a bent portion between the flange portion and the fixed portion, and a bulging portion including an inner wall surface positioned inside a curve of the bent portion at an end portion in an extending direction of a bending line of the bent portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Satoki Masuda, Yasukazu Chikamatsu, Ayumu Ishikawa
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Patent number: 11456560Abstract: Included are terminal metal parts, a housing provided with a fitting part housing the terminal metal parts thereinside and to be inserted and fit into a counterpart fitting part having an inner circumferential wall face, a front holder causing the fitting part to be inserted along an insertion direction of the fitting part to the counterpart fitting part, and a ring-shaped water stop member having an inner circumferential face side mounted on a protruding portion of an outer circumferential wall face of the fitting part from the front holder to fill a ring-shaped gap between the protruding portion of the outer circumferential wall face and the inner circumferential wall face of the counterpart fitting part.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Satoki Masuda, Yusuke Ueta, Hikaru Oi
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Patent number: 11444409Abstract: A connector includes: a terminal fitting; a housing containing the terminal fitting inside and provided with a fitting portion inserted and fitted into inside of a hole-shaped counterpart fitting portion of a counterpart wall member; a shield shell including a cylindrical portion covering, from outside, a projecting portion of the housing, a flange portion projecting outer than an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion, and a fixed portion bent from an end portion of the flange portion and fixed on an end surface of the counterpart wall member; and an annular water stop member attached to the flange portion and pressed between the flange portion and the wall surface of the counterpart wall member. The shield shell is provided with a through hole provided in a bent portion between the flange portion and the fixed portion and causing inside and outside thereof to communicate with each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Satoki Masuda, Yasukazu Chikamatsu, Ayumu Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20220158384Abstract: A connector includes a terminal fitting, a housing, a front holder to which an engagement part of the housing is inserted along an inserting direction of the engagement part with respect to a counterpart engagement part, and a water-stopping member with an annular shape that closes an annular space between a projection part from the front holder at an outer peripheral wall surface of the engagement part and an inner peripheral wall surface of the counterpart engagement part. The front holder includes a retained part that projects toward the outer peripheral wall surface of the engagement part. The water-stopping member includes a retained part that projects inward relative to an inner peripheral surface. The engagement part includes a communication retaining part where a first retaining part and a second retaining part are provided in a communicating state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Satoki MASUDA, Takeo IDA, Yoshinao SATO
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Publication number: 20220158380Abstract: A connector includes a terminal fitting, a housing that houses the terminal fitting at a housing complete position, and a terminal retaining member that, at an assembling complete position to the housing, retains the terminal fitting remaining at the housing complete position. The terminal fitting includes a penetration hole. The terminal retaining member includes a retaining protrusion that is, at the assembling complete position, inserted into the penetration hole at the housing complete position, and retains the terminal fitting while the terminal fitting remains at that position. The penetration hole is formed to have a left-right asymmetric shape including a first hole part on the left side and a second hole part having a shape different from a shape of the first hole part and arranged on the right side of the first hole part.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Satoki Masuda, Takeo Ida
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Publication number: 20220069511Abstract: A connector includes: a terminal fitting; a housing accommodating the terminal fitting therein and including a fitting portion to be inserted and fitted into a mating fitting portion along a connector insertion direction; a water stop member including an annular water stop main body whose inner circumferential surface is coaxially in close contact with an outer circumferential wall surface of the fitting portion, the water stop member being elastically deformable so as to fill an annular gap between the fitting portion and the mating fitting portion by the water stop main body at a fitting completion position of the fitting portion and the mating fitting portion; and a rotation stop structure provided at a position between the housing and the water stop member to restrict relative rotation in a circumferential direction of the water stop member relative to the fitting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Satoki MASUDA, Hikaru OI
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Publication number: 20220052473Abstract: Included are terminal metal parts mounted on ends of electric wires, a housing housing the terminal metal parts at a housing completion position thereinside and to be inserted and fit into a counterpart fitting portion headed by a tip, a terminal locking member mounted on the housing from outside along a direction crossing an insertion direction of the housing to the counterpart fitting portion and locking the terminal metal parts as they are at the housing completion position at a mounting completion position with respect to the housing, and a front holder causing the housing to be inserted headed by the tip and locking the terminal locking member at the mounting completion position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Satoki MASUDA
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Publication number: 20220052478Abstract: A connector includes: a terminal fitting; a housing containing the terminal fitting inside and provided with a fitting portion inserted and fitted into inside of a hole-shaped counterpart fitting portion of a counterpart wall member; a shield shell including a cylindrical portion covering, from outside, a projecting portion of the housing, a flange portion projecting outer than an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion, and a fixed portion bent from an end portion of the flange portion and fixed on an end surface of the counterpart wall member; and an annular water stop member attached to the flange portion and pressed between the flange portion and the wall surface of the counterpart wall member. The shield shell is provided with a through hole provided in a bent portion between the flange portion and the fixed portion and causing inside and outside thereof to communicate with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Satoki MASUDA, Yasukazu Chikamatsu, Ayumu Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20220052475Abstract: Included are terminal metal parts, a housing provided with a fitting part housing the terminal metal parts thereinside and to be inserted and fit into a counterpart fitting part having an inner circumferential wall face, a front holder causing the fitting part to be inserted along an insertion direction of the fitting part to the counterpart fitting part, and a ring-shaped water stop member having an inner circumferential face side mounted on a protruding portion of an outer circumferential wall face of the fitting part from the front holder to fill a ring-shaped gap between the protruding portion of the outer circumferential wall face and the inner circumferential wall face of the counterpart fitting part.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Satoki Masuda, Yusuke Ueta, Hikaru Oi
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Publication number: 20220052479Abstract: A connector includes: a terminal fitting; a housing containing the terminal fitting inside and provided with a fitting portion inserted and fitted into inside of a hole-shaped counterpart fitting portion of a counterpart wall member; and a shield shell including a cylindrical portion covering, from outside, a projecting portion of the housing projecting from the counterpart fitting portion, a flange portion projecting outer than an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion and a fixed portion bent from an end portion of the flange portion and fixed on an end surface of the counterpart wall member. The shield shell is provided with a bent portion between the flange portion and the fixed portion, and a bulging portion including an inner wall surface positioned inside a curve of the bent portion at an end portion in an extending direction of a bending line of the bent portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Satoki MASUDA, Yasukazu CHIKAMATSU, Ayumu ISHIKAWA
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Patent number: 11181197Abstract: A seal member for waterproofing in the waterproof connector includes: a cylindrical inner tube portion that is face-to-face attached to an outer peripheral surface of a connector main body that is attached to a through-hole provided with a tapered opening; and an outer tube portion surrounding the inner tube portion in a circumferential direction at a rear side of an insertion direction into the tapered opening and opening in a larger diameter than the inner tube portion, and integrated with the inner tube portion at a front side in the insertion direction, and when the seal member is received between the outer peripheral surface of the connector main body and an inner peripheral surface of the tapered opening, face-to-face attached to the inner peripheral surface of the tapered opening while being pressed toward the inner tube portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Yasukazu Chikamatsu, Satoki Masuda