Patents by Inventor Shinichi INAO
Shinichi INAO 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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Patent number: 10395802Abstract: A wire harness manufacturing method includes a conduction path inserting step of inserting one or a plurality of conduction paths from one end of a resin-made tubular exterior member to the other end thereof, and an exterior member working step of performing post-working on one or a plurality of parts of the exterior member, after the conduction path inserting step. The exterior member working step includes forming a convex-shaped part when viewed from an inner surface side of the exterior member by performing the post-working using heat on an outer surface side of the exterior member. The convex-shaped part is a vibration suppressing part to reduce a play rate of the conduction path in the exterior member and suppress a vibration of the conduction path.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Inao, Hideomi Adachi, Kenta Yanazawa
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Patent number: 10315591Abstract: A wire harness includes an exterior member having a tube shape. The exterior member includes a flexible tube part formed in a flexible bellows tube shape and a straight tube part. The straight tube part is formed continuously with the flexible tube part so as to arrange the conductive path straight and has a non-bellows tube shape. A continuous portion between the flexible tube part and the straight tube part includes a tapered portion formed in a whole peripheral direction of the exterior member so as to reduce stress concentration in the continuous portion. An inner peripheral surface and an outer peripheral surface of the tapered portion include slopes connecting a top of a bellows projection of the flexible tube part and the straight tube part, or connecting a groove bottom of a bellows recess of the flexible tube part and the straight tube part.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshihiro Nagashima, Shinichi Inao, Hideomi Adachi, Kenta Yanazawa, Masahisa Sugimoto, Yoshiyuki Ishihara
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Patent number: 10286857Abstract: An outer cover is made of resin, and includes a flexible tube portion having flexibility and a straight tube portion to be arranged in a straight manner. At least one of the flexible tube portion and the straight tube portion has differently shaped sections contiguously formed along a tube axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Shinichi Inao, Hideomi Adachi, Masahisa Sugimoto
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Patent number: 10242768Abstract: A wire harness exterior member includes a flexible tube portion, an inflexible tube portion, and a post-attached part attached to a boundary between the flexible tube portion and the inflexible tube portion. The post-attached part is attached such that at least a portion of an attaching surface of a rigid attaching portion overlaps the flexible tube portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2015Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Inao, Hideomi Adachi, Takeshi Ogue, Tatsuya Oga, Masaaki Suguro, Yoshiaki Ozaki, Hiroyuki Yoshida
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Patent number: 10166937Abstract: An exterior member includes a tubular body which allows one or more conductive paths to be stored and protected therein. The tubular body has no slit. The tubular body includes a plurality of protruding portions formed in an inner surface of the tubular body. Each of the plurality of protruding portions includes an R part having a substantially circular arc shape extending along a circumferential direction of an inner surface of the tubular body. Each of the plurality of protruding portions has a substantially U-shaped or V-shaped smooth surface in a cross-section cut along a tube axis of the tubular body. The plurality of protruding portions are disposed at positions on a helix around the tube axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Inao, Hideomi Adachi
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Patent number: 10103529Abstract: A wire harness, comprising a tube-shaped exterior member and one or multiple conductive paths to be inserted into and protected by the exterior member. The exterior member includes a flexible tube part having a flexible bellows tube shape and a straight tube part not having the flexible bellows tube shape. The one or multiple conductive paths are straightly wired into the straight tube part and the straight tube part is continuous with the flexible tube part. A continuous portion of the flexible tube part and the straight tube part includes multiple reinforcement shape portions which are capable of withstanding stress concentration in the continuous portion and are arranged in a tube outer peripheral direction of the exterior member.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2017Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihiro Nagashima, Shinichi Inao, Hideomi Adachi
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Patent number: 10081316Abstract: A wire harness includes a conductive path and an exterior member with a tubular shape which covers the conductive path. The exterior member includes a straight tubular portion in which a pair of one wall and the other wall are formed, and the straight tubular portion includes a concave portion in at least the one wall, with the concave portion being positioned close to the conductive path.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Shinichi Inao, Hideomi Adachi
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Patent number: 10030794Abstract: A corrugated tube includes: a tubular body including outer-face bellows recess sections outer-face bellows protruding sections in a circumferential direction as viewed from an outside, wherein the outer-face bellows recess section and the outer-face bellows protruding section are alternately arranged continuously in an axial direction of the tubular body. Deep groove sections are formed in some of the outer-face bellows recess sections. The deep groove section has: a shape being recessed partially in a predetermined range in the circumferential direction; a shape protruding toward an inner side of the tubular body; and a shape having a pair of tapered sections as viewed from the axial direction of the tubular body.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Inao, Hidehiko Kuboshima, Hideomi Adachi, Kenta Yanazawa, Hiroyuki Yoshida
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Patent number: 9994170Abstract: An exterior member end cap, to be attached to an end portion of a tubular shaped exterior member from which at least one conductive path is withdrawn, is provided. The exterior member end cap includes a cap main body and a first sealing member. The cap main body is inserted into the exterior member from the end portion so as to be disposed on an outside of the conductive path. The first sealing member has a elasticity, is disposed on an outside of the cap main body in close contact with an outer peripheral surface of the cap main body, is close contact with an inner peripheral surface of the exterior member, and has a continuous bubble structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Kenta Yanazawa, Takatatsu Yamamoto, Toshihiro Nagashima, Hideomi Adachi, Shinichi Inao, Hiroyuki Yoshida
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Patent number: 9972418Abstract: An exterior member has an exterior member body having a base color, and an identification mark having an identification color different from the base color. The identification mark includes at least one of a plurality of line marks provided parallel to each other, and a line mark provided continuously and spirally.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2015Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Inao, Hideomi Adachi, Takeshi Ogue, Tatsuya Oga, Masaaki Suguro, Yoshiaki Ozaki, Hiroyuki Yoshida
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Patent number: 9947439Abstract: A wire harness includes at least one conductive path, and an exterior member that accommodates and protects the conductive path. The exterior member is a molded resin component made of a resin material which has a black color or a dark color close to the black color.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2015Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Inao, Hideomi Adachi, Takeshi Ogue, Tatsuya Oga, Masaaki Suguro, Yoshiaki Ozaki, Hiroyuki Yoshida
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Patent number: 9868407Abstract: A wire harness has at least one electrically conducting path and an exterior member accommodating the electrically conducting path to protect the electrically conducting path. The exterior member has a heat reflecting portion provided at at least a portion of an outer surface of the exterior member to reflect external heat.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Inao, Hideomi Adachi, Takeshi Ogue, Tatsuya Oga, Masaaki Suguro, Yoshiaki Ozaki, Hiroyuki Yoshida
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Patent number: 9862337Abstract: A tubular outer member which houses and protects a conductive path, the tubular outer member includes a fixing member mounting portion in which a conductive path fixing member is to be mounted so as to fix the conductive path. The fixing member mounting portion includes a guide groove configured to guide a conductive path winding portion of the conductive path fixing member extending like a line or a belt, and a pair of lead-in/out portions. The conductive path winding portion is to be inserted to and pulled out from the pair of lead-in/out portions.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Inao, Hideomi Adachi
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Publication number: 20170355328Abstract: A wire harness includes an exterior member having a tube shape. The exterior member includes a flexible tube part formed in a flexible bellows tube shape and a straight tube part. The straight tube part is formed continuously with the flexible tube part so as to arrange the conductive path straight and has a non-bellows tube shape. A continuous portion between the flexible tube part and the straight tube part includes a tapered portion formed in a whole peripheral direction of the exterior member so as to reduce stress concentration in the continuous portion. An inner peripheral surface and an outer peripheral surface of the tapered portion include slopes connecting a top of a bellows projection of the flexible tube part and the straight tube part, or connecting a groove bottom of a bellows recess of the flexible tube part and the straight tube part.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2017Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicants: Yazaki Corporation, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshihiro NAGASHIMA, Shinichi INAO, Hideomi ADACHI, Kenta YANAZAWA, Masahisa SUGIMOTO, Yoshiyuki ISHIHARA
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Publication number: 20170358911Abstract: A wire harness, comprising a tube-shaped exterior member and one or multiple conductive paths to be inserted into and protected by the exterior member. The exterior member includes a flexible tube part having a flexible bellows tube shape and a straight tube part not having the flexible bellows tube shape. The one or multiple conductive paths are straightly wired into the straight tube part and the straight tube part is continuous with the flexible tube part. A continuous portion of the flexible tube part and the straight tube part includes multiple reinforcement shape portions which are capable of withstanding stress concentration in the continuous portion and are arranged in a tube outer peripheral direction of the exterior member.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2017Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Toshihiro NAGASHIMA, Shinichi INAO, Hideomi ADACHI
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Patent number: 9840211Abstract: A wire harness includes an electrical pathway and a pipe like exterior member that covers the electrical pathway. The exterior member includes a low rigidity portion which is flexible and a high rigidity portion which is unflexible and has a rigidity higher than the low rigidity portion, and the low rigidity portion and the high rigidity portion are successively arranged in an extending direction of the electrical pathway.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2015Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Ogue, Hideomi Adachi, Shinichi Inao, Tatsuya Oga, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Masaaki Suguro
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Publication number: 20170349122Abstract: An exterior member end cap, to be attached to an end portion of a tubular shaped exterior member from which at least one conductive path is withdrawn, is provided. The exterior member end cap includes a cap main body and a first sealing member. The cap main body is inserted into the exterior member from the end portion so as to be disposed on an outside of the conductive path. The first sealing member has a elasticity, is disposed on an outside of the cap main body in close contact with an outer peripheral surface of the cap main body, is close contact with an inner peripheral surface of the exterior member, and has a continuous bubble structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2017Publication date: December 7, 2017Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Kenta YANAZAWA, Takatatsu YAMAMOTO, Toshihiro NAGASHIMA, Hideomi ADACHI, Shinichi INAO, Hiroyuki YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 9793695Abstract: An exterior member having a tubular form which accommodates and protects a conductive path, the exterior member includes at least one conductive path holding part which holds the conductive path. The at least one conductive path holding part is configured in a protruding part in an inner surface of the tube, and in a recessed part in an outer surface of the tube. In the recessed part, one or a plurality of protrusions are formed which protrude outward. The protrusions are configured in forms having elasticity.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2016Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinichi Inao, Hideomi Adachi, Yoshiyuki Ishihara
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Patent number: 9787069Abstract: A structure for mounting a retrofit part to a cladding member may be used to prevent the retrofit part from causing a turn or positional displacement. For example, a clamp structure may include a clamp base and a clamp cover continuous to the clamp base by a hinge. The clamp may further include projections such as spike-shaped portions. The spike-shaped portions are formed and placed on both a mount surface of the clamp base and a mount surface of the clamp cover. The spike-shaped portions may prevent the clamp from causing a turn or positional displacement, and may be each protrusively formed substantially into a pyramid shape with a pointed end. The spike-shaped portions are formed to bite into an exterior surface of a cladding member and that resists external force, such as vibrations, when the clamp is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Yoshida, Eiichi Tohyama, Tatsuya Oga, Shinichi Inao, Masaaki Suguro
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Patent number: 9776580Abstract: A wire harness is provided with an electrically conductive path, a tubular sheath member which accommodates the electrically conductive path in an inner part, and a sheet member positioned between at least a part of a circumferential direction of the electrically conductive path and an inner peripheral surface of the sheath member. The sheet member may be wound on the electrically conductive path so as to cover an entire area in the circumferential direction. The sheet member may be intermittently arranged in an axial direction of a tube of the sheath member.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Shinichi Inao, Tatsuya Oga, Hideomi Adachi