Patents by Inventor Shigemitsu Inaba

Shigemitsu Inaba 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: 5460544
    Abstract: An electro-magnetically shielded connector comprises a connector body including at least two housings; an electrically conductive layer formed on a surface of one of the two housings in such a manner that the electrically conductive layer covers a surface of the one housing, and when the two housings are combined with each other, at least a part of the electrically conductive layer on an inner surface of the one housing is exposed; and main electrically connecting device for electrically connecting the electrically conductive layer of the connector body and a shield of a shielded cable to seal an inside of the connector body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1995
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Shigemitsu Inaba, Shigemi Hashizawa, Hidehiko Kuboshima
  • Patent number: 5447454
    Abstract: A plurality of terminals to be connected to opponent cables and a plurality of connector portion receiving cavities are stepwise arranged on a connector portion on the upstream apparatus side fixedly secured to a predetermined apparatus in parallel with a stationary plane of the connector portion on the upstream apparatus side. To electrically connect the connector portions on the upstream apparatus side to the connector portions on the downstream apparatus side, the connector portions on the downstream apparatus side are successively fitted into the connector portion receiving cavities in the direction at a right angle relative to extension of the terminals starting with the connector portion receiving cavity at the lowest stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Shigemitsu Inaba, Shigemi Hashizawa, Hidehiko Kuboshima
  • Patent number: 5435739
    Abstract: A vertically insertable-detachable connector which includes male and female connectors, and can be reduced in height to provide a compact construction when the two connectors are connected together, and can easily achieve waterproof and dust-prevention effects, and can save a space required for mounting a harness. The male connector include a male terminal having a wire retaining portion and a fitting contact tongue extending in a direction perpendicular to a direction of extension of a wire, and a housing containing the male terminal therein and having a notch which is formed at a front end portion thereof, the watch opening in a direction of extension of the fitting contact tongue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Shigemitsu Inaba, Shigemi Hashizawa, Hidehiko Kuboshima
  • Patent number: 5433630
    Abstract: A spring-incorporated flat type terminal structure which can be manufactured efficiently and which requires only a small space for engagement or disengagement of the male and female parts of the terminals of the connector. A flat type female terminal of electrically conductive material has a terminal engaging section and a wire connecting section. The terminal engaging section is substantially in the form of a rectangular box and has a terminal accommodating chamber with a terminal inserting inlet opened in one side. The terminal inserting inlet has four locking grooves at the four corners of the inserting inlet to hold spacer springs. The wire connecting section has an engaging hole into which the conductor of an electrical wire W is inserted. Hence, by inserting the engaging piece of a flat type male connector into the terminal engaging section from above, the wire of the flat type female connector can be electrically connected to the wire of the flat type male connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Shigemitsu Inaba, Shigemi Hashizawa, Hidehiko Kuboshima
  • Patent number: 5429529
    Abstract: A structure for connecting a shielded-cable end in which the braid of the shielded cable is simply and reliably connected to a metal sleeve. The metal sleeve includes a through-tube the diameter of which is greater than that of an external sheath disposed around the braid of the shielded cable and a through-hole which is smaller than the outer diameter of the braid and is equivalent to or greater than the outer diameter of an internal sheath within the braid. The braid is squeezed and accommodated within the through-tube of the metal sleeve and the through-tube is crimped and connected to the braid. An enlarged connecting portion serially extending from the through-tube is pressed against a conductive shield plate of a shield connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1995
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Shigemi Hashizawa, Shigemitsu Inaba
  • Patent number: 5417587
    Abstract: A shielded connector is provided which makes connection for shielding and sealing for waterproofing at the same time that the connector is directly mounted on a vehicle instrument such as a motor. A connector housing with a terminal fitting-accommodating hole formed therein is provided with a shielding metal shell, into which accommodating hole is fitted a terminal fitting attached to a shielded cable such that the shield of the shielded cable is connected with the metal shell via a connecting member fitted on the shield. The connector housing is further provided on its outer periphery with a flange for fixing the connector housing in a connector-mounting hole formed in the casing of the instrument and with a seal ring for sealing the mounting hole. The metal shell is extended to have a portion thereof exposed on the surface of the flange facing toward the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1995
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Katsuda, Shigemitsu Inaba, Hidehiko Kuboshima
  • Patent number: 5403213
    Abstract: To provide a connector with a terminal retaining mechanism which positively prevents an incomplete fit of a terminal retaining member. The connector includes an outer housing connectable to a mating connector is mounted on an outer side of an inner housing receiving terminals, the outer housing is slidably mounted on the inner housing. A retaining member for the terminals is slidingly moved to be engaged in the inner housing through a window hole formed in the outer housing. The retaining member is projected from the window hole when the retaining member is out of engagement with the terminals, and the retaining member is received in the inner housing when the retaining member is engaged with the terminals, thereby allowing the outer housing to slide in a terminal-connecting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Shigemitsu Inaba, Hidehiko Kuboshima, Hirotaka Fukushima
  • Patent number: 5399103
    Abstract: A connector device for electrically connecting batteries of electric vehicles and the like comprising a pair of single-pole connectors in which each electrical contacting portion of a wire terminal has an insertion hole for a contact finger of a mating terminal so that the insertion hole is located substantially perpendicular to the axis of the wire terminal, and in which the wire terminal and the electrical contacting portion are mounted in an insulating housing, a connector case body for incorporating the pair of the single-pole connectors and a case cover which can be engaged with the connector case body, provided with a short-circuit terminal having a pair of contact fingers which can be electrically connected to the electrical contacting portion of the terminal. This facilitates connecting batteries and secures the safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hidehiko Kuboshima, Shigemi Hashizawa, Shigemitsu Inaba
  • Patent number: 5376016
    Abstract: A connector which includes a male connector housing (1), a female connector housing (2), and a rotary shaft (3) for camming the male connector housing (1) into engagement with the female connector housing. The male connector housing 1 includes flexible arms (6) having engagement claws (8) for alternatively engaging holes (19) and (20) provided in the female connector housing so as to retain the connector housings in a provisionally engaged position or a completely engaged position. The flexible arms also include a constrictive portion (7) for flexing the arms outwardly when the shaft is inserted into the connector housings. As a result, the engagement claws (8) are disengaged from the provisional engagement holes (19) so that the connector housings can be moved to the completely engaged position. After the connector housings have been moved to the completely engaged position as a result of rotation of the shaft, the shaft can than be removed from the connector housings so that the claws (8) engage holes (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Shigemitsu Inaba, Satoshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 5352126
    Abstract: A watertight type shielded connector includes a housing assembly and a terminal assembly. The housing assembly includes a housing and a shield element molded integrally with the housing. The terminal assembly includes a resilient plug fitted over the sheath of a shielding wire. The shielding wire has a distal end thereof connected to a terminal. The terminal assembly also includes a conductor in electrical contact with the shielding material of the shielding wire. Upon inserting the terminal assembly into the housing assembly, the conductor electrically engages the shield element of the housing assembly so that the conductor establishes electric continuity between the shield element of the housing assembly and the shielding material of the terminal assembly while at the same time the plug fits to the fitting bore of the housing assembly so that the terminal assembly engages the housing assembly in a watertight relation. The shield element of the housing assembly serves to shield the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hidehiko Kuboshima, Shigemi Hashizawa, Shigemitsu Inaba
  • Patent number: 5350312
    Abstract: The feeder connector consists of feeding-side and receiving-side connectors. The feeding-side connector includes a casing consisting of split-type cases fastened to each other, a connector body slidably installed in a front half section of the casing, and a handle movably mounted in a rear half section of the casing such that it advances through rotation of a lever to push the connector body against the receiving-side connector, the handle also serving as lead wires-passing tube. The lever includes a first locking means for locking the connector body in an engaged state with a mating connector body of the receiving-side connector, a second locking means operated through energizing an electro-magnetic coil, and a means for releasing the lever from the locking by the first locking means after the locking by the second locking means is released by deenergizing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1994
    Assignees: Yazaka Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiromichi Kuno, Toshiyuki Sekimori, Shigemitsu Inaba, Toshiaki Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 5306158
    Abstract: A connector for circuit board has a guide case provided on the base wall thereof, which has openings for exposing terminal conductors of a circuit board inserted therein and guide ribs for leading insertion of spring terminal of another connector and of which the edge portion is tapered. Thereby the terminal connecting portion of the circuit board may be assembled without a shift in position and it is possible to keep a secure electrical connection of the two connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1994
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi Endo, Shigemitsu Inaba, Satoshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 5304067
    Abstract: A shielded connector is provided which directly grounds harmful noise in the connector to the mounting body at the same time that the connector is mounted to the body. A metal shell is interposed between the insulating inner housing accommodating a terminal and the insulating outer housing accommodating the inner housing. The metal shell is provided with a metal clamp for grounding which projects outwardly from the outer housing to be directly fixed to a grounding body by a bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1994
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Shigemitsu Inaba, Toru Nagano, Satoshi Yamada, Hiroki Kondo
  • Patent number: 5271740
    Abstract: In a connector comprising: a terminal having an electrically contacting spring piece which is accommodated in a surrounding wall in such a manner that it is allowed to protrude through an opening formed in the surrounding wall; and a connector housing into which the terminal is inserted, the spring piece has an electrically contacting portion confronted with the opening, and an slide portion bent in such a manner that it is away from the opening, and the connector housing has a depressing protrusion for depressing the slide portion. As the terminal is inserted into the connector housing, the depressing protrusion depresses the slide portion so as to cause the electrically contacting portion to protrude outside through the opening. Thus, the electrically contacting spring piece of the terminal is protectively held in the terminal until the latter is inserted into the connector housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi Endo, Shigemitsu Inaba, Satoshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 5259785
    Abstract: A wire cover is for use in guiding and collecting a plurality of wires at one end thereof. The plurality of wires extend from a second connector connected to a first connector. The second connector is connected to the first connector through a clamping bolt. The second connector has a pillar-like supporting member where the clamping bolt is threadedly mounted. The wire cover has a base and a pair of side walls extending from the base. Engaging members are formed on the side walls for engaging with the second connector. A projecting wall is projected from the base. The projecting wall has a body portion and a tip portion. The body portion is larger in width than the pillar-like supporting member. The tip portion is tapered in shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1993
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Shigemitsu Inaba, Masayuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 5222909
    Abstract: A shield connector wherein maintenance thereof such as replacement of terminals can be performed readily and admission of water is prevented. The shield connector comprises a tubular outer housing made of an insulating resin material, a tubular metal shell inserted in the outer housing and having a semi-annular contacting portion formed thereon, an inner housing made of an insulating resin material and inserted in the metal shell, a plurality of terminals removably accommodated in the inner housing and connected to a shield cable, a rear shell removably fitted in the metal shell and having a semi-annular contacting portion formed thereon, an annular cap made of an insulating resin material for removably holding therein the semi-annular contacting portions of the metal shell and the rear shell with a shield portion of the shield cable inserted between the semi-annular contacting portions, and a rear cover made of a synthetic resin material and removably fitted with a rear end portion of the outer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1993
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Fumihiko Nomura, Takahiro Yoneda, Takayoshi Endo, Sakai Yagi, Shigemitsu Inaba, Satoshi Yamada, Toru Nagano
  • Patent number: 5183410
    Abstract: A connector assembly including a pair of connector housing in which the force of repulsion of a spring which is provided to prevent the incomplete engagement of the connector housings is eliminated when the connector housings are locked to each other. The connector assembly includes a male connector housing (B) including a movable striking member (C) and a female connector housing (A) with a flexible lock arm (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Shigemitsu Inaba, Mitsuhiro Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 5174776
    Abstract: A connector comprises: a plurality of male housings each having terminal receiving chambers for receiving and retaining a female terminal; a female housing in which the male housings are fittingly received; a lock lever pivotally provided to the female housing, the lock lever being closed only when each of the male housing is completely lockingly fitted in the female housing; a first locking member provided to each of the male housings and the female housing for locking each other; a second locking member provided to each of the male housings and the lock lever for locking each of the male housings and the female housing each other; and electrical detecting member whether each of the male housings and the female housing are completely fitted and locked to each other or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuto Ohtaka, Shigemitsu Inaba, Takashi Takagishi
  • Patent number: D324203
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1992
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Shigemitsu Inaba, Kazuto Ohtaka
  • Patent number: D361749
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignees: Yazaki Sogyo K.K., Toyota Jidosha K.K.
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Fukao, Toshiyuki Sekimori, Hiromichi Kuno, Nobuaki Yoshioka, Toshiaki Hasegawa, Shigemitsu Inaba