Patents by Inventor Shigeki Ikeda

Shigeki Ikeda 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: 11034313
    Abstract: A wire harness arrangement structure includes a silencer, the wire harness, and a cover. The silencer includes a silencer body with a groove recessed in a thickness direction is formed in a main surface of the silencer body. The groove houses at least part of the wire harness. The cover includes a pair of legs covering both lateral sides of the wire harness housed in the groove and a lid covering an upper side of the wire harness housed in the groove and coupling the pair of legs together, and is open at a bottom side of the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishimura, Shigeki Ikeda, Daisuke Ebata, Ryuta Takakura, Kenta Arai, Housei Mizuno
  • Patent number: 11014511
    Abstract: The wiring member includes a flat wiring member and a shape maintaining member. The flat wiring member includes a plurality of wire-like transmission members (for example, insulated wires) and a base member (for example, a sheet member) keeping the plurality of wire-like transmission members in a flat state. The shape maintaining member is provided in at least a part of the flat wiring member to keep at least the part of the flat wiring member in an uneven shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishimura, Shigeki Ikeda, Daisuke Ebata, Ryuta Takakura, Haruka Nakano, Kenta Arai, Housei Mizuno
  • Patent number: 11015740
    Abstract: A support member-attached wire harness includes a wire harness including an electrical wire and a support member that includes a fitting portion formed in a partially cylindrical shape that is opened partially in a circumferential direction so as to be capable of being fitted to an outer peripheral portion of a bar-shaped member. On at least one of the wire harness and the support member, a support portion for supporting the wire harness disposed along an outer periphery of the fitting portion at a fixed position with respect to the fitting portion is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Haruka Nakano, Shigeki Ikeda, Daisuke Fukai, Tetsuya Nishimura, Motohiro Yokoi, Housei Mizuno, Takashi Ide, Daiki Nagayasu, Daisuke Ebata
  • Patent number: 10981622
    Abstract: The invention obtains a hydraulic pressure controller whose control of a braking force is suppressed from becoming unstable. The invention also obtains a hydraulic brake system that includes such a hydraulic pressure controller, and a bicycle. A hydraulic pressure controller 110 controls hydraulic pressure of a brake fluid that is at least supplied to a front-wheel braking section 17 of a bicycle 200, and includes: a base section that is formed with a channel, through which the brake fluid flows, therein; a valve that is attached to the base section and opens and closes the channel; and a coupling section that couples the base section to the bicycle 200. The coupling section is coupled to a turning section 10 of the bicycle 200, the turning section 10 turning about an axis of a head tube 1A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Shigeki Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10960831
    Abstract: A wire harness fixing structure includes; a silencer disposed between a floor mat and a body in a vehicle; a wire harness disposed along a main surface of the silencer; and fixing member fixing the wire harness to the silencer while being passed through a through hole formed to pass through the silencer in a thickness direction. An inner peripheral surface of the through hole in the silencer is closely attached to the fixing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishimura, Housei Mizuno, Satoshi Ujita, Motohiro Yokoi, Shigeki Ikeda, Daisuke Ebata, Haruka Nakano
  • Patent number: 10946817
    Abstract: A wire harness fixing structure includes; a silencer disposed between a floor mat and a body in a vehicle; a wire harness disposed along a main surface of the silencer; and a fixing member fixing the wire harness to the silencer. A bottomed hole having a bottom is formed in the silencer to be concaved from the main surface in a thickness direction. The fixing member is locked to the bottomed hole, thereby fixing the wire harness to the silencer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishimura, Housei Mizuno, Satoshi Ujita, Motohiro Yokoi, Shigeki Ikeda, Daisuke Ebata, Haruka Nakano
  • Publication number: 20210024020
    Abstract: The wiring member includes a flat wiring member and a shape maintaining member. The flat wiring member includes a plurality of wire-like transmission members (for example, insulated wires) and a base member (for example, a sheet member) keeping the plurality of wire-like transmission members in a flat state. The shape maintaining member is provided in at least a part of the flat wiring member to keep at least the part of the flat wiring member in an uneven shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Shigeki IKEDA, Daisuke EBATA, Ryuta TAKAKURA, Haruka NAKANO, Kenta ARAI, Housei MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20210024019
    Abstract: A wire harness arrangement structure includes a silencer, the wire harness, and a cover. The silencer includes a silencer body with a groove recessed in a thickness direction is formed in a main surface of the silencer body. The groove houses at least part of the wire harness. The cover includes a pair of legs covering both lateral sides of the wire harness housed in the groove and a lid covering an upper side of the wire harness housed in the groove and coupling the pair of legs together, and is open at a bottom side of the groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Shigeki IKEDA, Daisuke EBATA, Ryuta TAKAKURA, Kenta ARAI, Housei MIZUNO
  • Patent number: 10899329
    Abstract: The invention obtains a hydraulic brake system, installability of which in a bicycle is improved. The invention also obtains a bicycle that includes such a hydraulic brake system. The invention further obtains a method for controlling such a hydraulic brake system. A hydraulic brake system 100 includes a hydraulic pressure controller 100 and a power supply unit 150 of the hydraulic pressure controller 100, the hydraulic pressure controller 100 including: a base section that is formed with a channel, through which a brake fluid flows, therein; a valve that is attached to the base section and opens and closes the channel; and a control section that governs an opening/closing operation of the valve and controlling hydraulic pressure of the brake fluid that is supplied to a wheel braking section of the bicycle. The power supply unit 150 includes a generator 151 that generates electric power by traveling of a bicycle 200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hiroaki Atsushi, Shigeki Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20200406839
    Abstract: The wire harness protector includes: electrical wiring insertion parts in which electrical wirings constituting a wire harness are divided and housed, wherein electrical wiring insertion parts are arranged in parallel, at least one side of an arrangement direction of electrical wiring insertion parts is a branch direction of the electrical wirings, at least one branch electrical wiring window is provided in each of the electrical wiring insertion parts except for one of the electrical wiring insertion parts located farthest from the branch direction to extending in a longitudinal direction and be opened in both side surfaces, into which branch electrical wirings made up of a part of the electrical wirings can be inserted, and the branch electrical wiring insertion window is provided in at least a side surface on a side of the branch direction of one of the electrical wiring insertion parts located farthest from the branch direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuta TAKAKURA, Shigeki IKEDA, Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Takayuki SUZUKI, Housei MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20200373702
    Abstract: Provided is a connector including: at least one plate-like housing body; a plurality of groove-like terminal housing chambers each opened in an upper surface of the housing body and parallelly arranged; a plurality of connection terminals provided at ends of a plurality of electrical wirings and housed and disposed in the terminal housing chambers, respectively; an electrical wiring support part supporting the plurality of electrical wirings extending from a back end side opening part of the terminal housing chambers; a sheet-like reinforced member which is placed on an upper surface of the electrical wiring support part and the plurality of electrical wirings are fixed to in a state of parallelly arranged; and a cover part overlapping with the upper surface of the housing body to cover the terminal housing chambers and sandwiching the sheet-like reinforced member between the cover part and the electrical wiring support part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke EBATA, Motohiro YOKOI, Shigeki IKEDA, Ryuta TAKAKURA, Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Haruka NAKANO, Kenta ARAI, Yasuo OMORI
  • Publication number: 20200361404
    Abstract: A wire harness fixing structure includes a plate-like member including a first layer and a second layer softer than the first layer, an electrical wire disposed along the plate-like member, and a fixing member attached to the electrical wire to fix the electrical wire to the plate-like member. The fixing member includes: a through locking piece formed to be able to pass through the first layer and locked to the first layer while passing through the first layer, a regulation piece provided with a space between the regulation piece and the through locking piece to stop the through locking piece from passing through a surface of the plate-like member, and a column connecting the through locking piece and the regulation piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Housei MIZUNO, Shigeki IKEDA, Haruka NAKANO, Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Masaki MIZUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20200355299
    Abstract: A support member includes a fitting part formed to be fitted to a rod-like member and a harness support part. The fitting part includes: a body part including a base part and a rotational part formed to be rotatably connected to the base part via a hinge, a state of which can be changed between a close state where the base part and the rotational part are fitted to the rod-like member and an open state where the rotational part rotates in a direction to be opened from the close state; and a rotational state changing part formed so that the state of the body part is changed from the open state to the close state upon receiving a pressing force from the rod-like member disposed in the body part in a state where the base part and the rotational part are in the open state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Satoshi UJITA, Shigeki IKEDA, Daisuke EBATA, Kenta ARAI, Ryuta TAKAKURA, Housei MIZUNO
  • Publication number: 20200353800
    Abstract: On an outer circumferential edge of a closing plate, an elastic fitting portion protruding to an outer side of an inner circumferential edge of a the service hole and fitting with the inner circumferential edge projects with a thickness larger than the plate thickness of the closing plate and extends in the circumferential direction of the outer circumferential edge. The elastic fitting portion is provided with an inner circumferential edge accommodating recessed groove that opens in the center of a protruding end surface of the elastic fitting portion and extends in the circumferential direction to accommodate the inner circumferential edge of the service hole, and the inner circumferential edge of the service hole is clamped between a pair of elastic clamping pieces that face each other with the inner circumferential edge accommodating recessed groove interposed between the pair of elastic clamping pieces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Haruka NAKANO, Motohiro YOKOI, Shigeki IKEDA, Kenta ITO, Daisuke EBATA, Yuya FUKAMI, Masaki MIZUSHITA, Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Ryuta TAKAKURA, Housei MIZUNO
  • Patent number: 10759360
    Abstract: A wire harness fixing structure includes a plate-like member including a first layer and a second layer softer than the first layer, an electrical wire disposed along the plate-like member, and a fixing member attached to the electrical wire to fix the electrical wire to the plate-like member. The fixing member includes: a through locking piece formed to be able to pass through the first layer and locked to the first layer while passing through the first layer, a regulation piece provided with a space between the regulation piece and the through locking piece to stop the through locking piece from passing through a surface of the plate-like member, and a column connecting the through locking piece and the regulation piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Housei Mizuno, Shigeki Ikeda, Haruka Nakano, Tetsuya Nishimura, Masaki Mizushita
  • Publication number: 20200269949
    Abstract: The invention obtains a hydraulic pressure controller whose control of a braking force is suppressed from becoming unstable. The invention also obtains a hydraulic brake system that includes such a hydraulic pressure controller, and a bicycle. A hydraulic pressure controller 110 controls hydraulic pressure of a brake fluid that is at least supplied to a front-wheel braking section 17 of a bicycle 200, and includes: a base section that is formed with a channel, through which the brake fluid flows, therein; a valve that is attached to the base section and opens and closes the channel; and a coupling section that couples the base section to the bicycle 200. The coupling section is coupled to a turning section 10 of the bicycle 200, the turning section 10 turning about an axis of a head tube 1A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2016
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventor: Shigeki IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20200238925
    Abstract: A fixing structure of a vehicle non-electrical wiring member includes: a plate-like member including a first layer and a second layer softer than the first layer; a vehicle non-electrical wiring member mounted on a vehicle together with the plate-like member; and a fixing member attached to the vehicle non-electrical wiring member to fix the vehicle non-electrical wiring member to the plate-like member. The fixing member includes: a through locking piece formed to be able to pass through the first layer and locked to the first layer while passing through the first layer; a regulation piece provided with a space between the regulation piece and the through locking piece to stop the through locking piece from passing through a surface of the plate-like member; and a column connecting the through locking piece and the regulation piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Housei MIZUNO, Shigeki IKEDA, Haruka NAKANO, Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Masaki MIZUSHITA, Takahide TSUJIMURA, Takashi SHODA
  • Publication number: 20200198557
    Abstract: A wire harness fixing structure includes; a silencer disposed between a floor mat and a body in a vehicle; a wire harness disposed along a main surface of the silencer; and fixing member fixing the wire harness to the silencer while being passed through a through hole formed to pass through the silencer in a thickness direction. An inner peripheral surface of the through hole in the silencer is closely attached to the fixing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Housei MIZUNO, Satoshi UJITA, Motohiro YOKOI, Shigeki IKEDA, Daisuke EBATA, Haruka NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20200180527
    Abstract: A wire harness fixing structure includes; a silencer disposed between a floor mat and a body in a vehicle; a wire harness disposed along a main surface of the silencer; and a fixing member fixing the wire harness to the silencer. A bottomed hole having a bottom is formed in the silencer to be concaved from the main surface in a thickness direction. The fixing member is locked to the bottomed hole, thereby fixing the wire harness to the silencer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Housei MIZUNO, Satoshi UJITA, Motohiro YOKOI, Shigeki IKEDA, Daisuke EBATA, Haruka NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20200172031
    Abstract: A wiring module includes: a common power supply line whose one end is electrically connected to a power source; and a power supply branch part provided halfway through the common power supply line, wherein the power supply branch part includes at least one group of a power supply branch line branched halfway through the common power supply line and an overcurrent blocking part provided in the power supply branch line to enter a non-continuity state when current exceeding allowable current flows in the power supply branch line. A wiring module is a wiring module disposed along a fixing target member, and includes: a power supply flat wiring body disposed along a surface of a fixing target member; and a ground flat wiring body disposed along a surface of the power supply flat wiring body on an opposite side from the fixing target member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Haruka NAKANO, Shigeki IKEDA, Daisuke FUKAI, Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Motohiro YOKOI, Housei MIZUNO, Yuichi NAKAMURA, Kenta ITOU, Masaki MIZUSHITA, Susumu HIEI, Kohei YAMAGUCHI