Patents by Inventor Takashi Muro

Takashi Muro 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: 9614326
    Abstract: In a connecting structure of a terminal configured to connect a female terminal inserted into a terminal accommodating chamber to the male terminal, the female terminal comprises a tubular part made of a metal plate and formed into which the male terminal is inserted, a plate shaped engaging piece continued from a side wall of the tubular part and folded back so that the engaging piece is located in a path into which the male terminal is inserted, a notch formed on an outer side surface of a folded back part of the engaging piece. The male terminal is provided with a cut-out part which can accommodate the engaging piece, and the engaging piece is accommodated in the cut-out part when the female terminal is inserted to a set position to lock a movement of the female terminal in a pulling out direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Saito, Takashi Muro, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Masao Nagano
  • Patent number: 9391384
    Abstract: A terminal, comprises an electric wire connecting part having a core wire barrel part that crimps a core wire exposed in one end of an electric wire, the core wire being made of a first metal; wherein the electric wire connecting part is made of a second metal whose ionization tendency is lower than that of the first metal, wherein the electric wire connecting part is plated with a third metal whose ionization tendency is between the first metal and the second metal so that a plating layer made of the third metal is formed on the electric wire connecting part, and wherein the core wire barrel part is crimped so as to break down the plating layer formed on a connecting surface of the core wire barrel part on which the core wire is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Kodama, Takashi Muro
  • Publication number: 20150340790
    Abstract: A joint connector includes a connector housing having terminal accommodation chambers configured to accommodate terminal fittings and having elastically-deformable locking lances configured to engage with the corresponding terminal fittings, bus bars configured to connect the terminal fittings to each other, and a front holder to be installed in the connector housing from an opposite side to a side where the terminal fittings are inserted. The front holder has a holder main body integrated with the bus bars and lance deformation prevention portions configured to prevent elastic deformation of the locking lances. In an engagement state of the terminal fittings and the locking lances, the lance deformation prevention portions are configured to be inserted into spaces in which the locking lances are deflected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi HAMAI, Takashi MURO, Tomihiko NAGAYOSHI
  • Patent number: 9197003
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing formed with a plurality of terminal insertion holes into which a plurality of terminal metal fittings is inserted, respectively, and a spacer arranged inside the housing and coating the plurality of terminal metal fittings. The spacer includes main bodies fixed inside the housing, and a plurality of slit doors provided in the main bodies and divided into a plurality of small pieces by a plurality of slits. Each of the slit doors elastically deforms by abutting a terminal metal fitting inserted into a terminal insertion hole when the terminal metal fitting passes therethrough, and is brought into contact with the terminal metal fitting when the terminal metal fitting is attached to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Ito, Shinji Kodama, Takashi Muro
  • Patent number: 9171651
    Abstract: An object is to provide a fixture for a component to be mounted on a circuit board which is easily manufactured and can exhibit good solderability and high whisker resistance. In a fixture which includes a solder joint plate part 11 that can be fixed on a surface of a circuit board by soldering using solder cream, and a component fixing part 12 that can be fixed to a component configured to be mounted on the circuit board, and in which Sn plating is performed at least on a solder joint surface of the solder joint plate part, the solder joint plate part 11 is divided into a plurality of long-plate-like solder joint pieces 13, and on both sides of each of the long-plate-like solder joint pieces 13, wing-like joint feet are provided to protrude through bent flexible parts 16, and the lower surface of each of the joint feet 15 becomes a solder joint surface 18 to be joined with the surface of the circuit board by solder cream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Muro
  • Patent number: 9136635
    Abstract: For obtaining a terminal capable of being soldered to a substrate without causing trouble such as a short circuit or poor connection, a lead part 13 is plated with tin in a state joined to a joining part 42 of a carrier, and a notch part 44, whose thickness is thinned, cut by a cutter 51 from a soldering surface side for making connection to a conductor pattern is formed between the lead part 13 and the joining part 42. The notch part 44 is provided with a guide part for guiding the cutter 51 to a side of the joining part 42 and forming a fillet forming piece 17 made of a part of the notch part 44 on a side of the lead part 13 after cutting by the cutter 51.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Muro
  • Publication number: 20150214662
    Abstract: A connector affixation structure including an auxiliary affixation mechanism (40) which abuts against a casing (20) at a position away from a standard affixation mechanism (30) so as to restrain vibration of a connector housing (10). In the auxiliary affixation mechanism (40), a housing affixation portion (41) is provided at one end while a casing abutting portion (42) is provided at the other end. The auxiliary affixation mechanism (40) is formed separately from the connector housing (10). Three auxiliary mechanism mounting portions (51, 52 and 53) are provided in the connector housing (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi Muro, Masayuki Saitoh
  • Patent number: 9088105
    Abstract: In the connector housing 10, a side wall opening 10W is formed which is continuous to an upper half of an opposite side wall 10S2 from the rear surface opening 10R. A tapered protrusion 10M is provided to stand upward from a lower side opening end face 10W1 of the side wall opening 10W. In the terminal 20, a tapered engaging recessed part 20M is formed in a part opposed to the tapered protrusion 10M. In one side wall 10S1 of the connector housing 10, a tapered hole 10K is formed. In the terminal 20, a tapered protrusion 20K is formed which enters the tapered hole 10K. Thus, the terminal 20 slides in a transverse direction by a sliding operation of the tapers so that the terminal 20 is held in the connector housing 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Muro
  • Patent number: 9083114
    Abstract: A connector includes a connector housing that receives a terminal fitting, a spacer that is inserted into a spacer installation opening of the connector housing to prevent the terminal fitting received in the connector housing from being fallen out, a temporary locking mechanism that temporarily fixes the spacer to a temporary locking position where the spacer is not engaged with the terminal fitting, a main locking mechanism that locks the spacer pushed toward a more inner side of the housing than the temporary locking position to a main locking position where the spacer is engaged with the terminal fitting. The temporary locking mechanism allows the spacer to move from the temporary locking position to the main locking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Muro
  • Patent number: 9071007
    Abstract: A connector is configured so that a fitting part of a connector housing and a panel is sealed by bringing a lip part of a flange attachment part of a waterproof grommet for surrounding an outer periphery of a flange into pressing contact with the peripheral edge of an attachment hole when the peripheral edge of the attachment hole is held between a locking protrusion of a housing body and the flange provided at a rear end of the housing body. In the connector, the flange includes a plurality of flexible pieces which elastically displaces the lip part to the side of the locking protrusion so as to expand a proper plate thickness range of the panel capable of making close contact with the lip part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Muro
  • Publication number: 20150155649
    Abstract: In a mounting structure for cylindrical packing for mounting a cylindrical packing on a fitting cylindrical portion of a housing, an outer circumferential surface of the fitting cylindrical portion includes: an intermediate outer surface, end outer surfaces formed into a narrower external shape than the intermediate outer surface, and a protruding strip extending axially on the end outer surface and formed such that a most protruding position from the end outer surface falls within a range of the external shape of the intermediate outer surface, and an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical packing includes: an intermediate inner surface which is tightly attached and fitted to the intermediate outer surface, and end inner surfaces fitted to the end outer surfaces. An engagement groove extends on the end inner surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi MURO, Masayuki SAITOH
  • Patent number: 9025338
    Abstract: A fixing fitting includes a solder connecting plate part soldered and fixed to a surface of the circuit board by using a cream solder and a parts fixing part which is fixed to a connector to be mounted on the circuit board. On a solder connected surface of a lower surface of the solder connecting plate part, V grooves are formed which suck up the cream solder applied on the surface of the circuit board in accordance with a capillary phenomenon. Further, a plurality of communicating holes which communicate with tapered parts of the V grooves and can suck up the cream solder by the capillary phenomenon are bored from an upper surface to the lower surface of the solder connecting plate part with prescribed spaces provided between them in the direction where the V grooves extend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Muro
  • Publication number: 20140357110
    Abstract: In a connecting structure of a terminal configured to connect a female terminal inserted into a terminal accommodating chamber to the male terminal, the female terminal comprises a tubular part made of a metal plate and formed into which the male terminal is inserted, a plate shaped engaging piece continued from a side wall of the tubular part and folded back so that the engaging piece is located in a path into which the male terminal is inserted, a notch formed on an outer side surface of a folded back part of the engaging piece. The male terminal is provided with a cut-out part which can accommodate the engaging piece, and the engaging piece is accommodated in the cut-out part when the female terminal is inserted to a set position to lock a movement of the female terminal in a pulling out direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Masayuki Saito, Takashi Muro, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Masao Nagano
  • Publication number: 20140302729
    Abstract: A terminal, comprises an electric wire connecting part having a core wire barrel part that crimps a core wire exposed in one end of an electric wire, the core wire being made of a first metal; wherein the electric wire connecting part is made of a second metal whose ionization tendency is lower than that of the first metal, wherein the electric wire connecting part is plated with a third metal whose ionization tendency is between the first metal and the second metal so that a plating layer made of the third metal is formed on the electric wire connecting part, and wherein the core wire barrel part is crimped so as to break down the plating layer formed on a connecting surface of the core wire barrel part on which the core wire is mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Kodama, Takashi Muro
  • Patent number: 8821197
    Abstract: In a fuse terminal in which a frame is formed by a bottom wall part, a pair of sidewall parts and a top wall part, a pair of contact terminals are respectively arranged at right and left positions within the frame, and the tab terminal of a fuse advanced into the frame is inserted between the pair of contact terminals and closely made in contact therebetween by contact loads due to elastic restoring forces of the pair of contact terminals, one of the contact terminals is a wound spring type contact terminal which is formed by being extended from the frame and folded for a plurality of times along the one sidewall part, and the other contact terminal is a leaf-spring type contact terminal which is extended from the frame through a flexible rod part and arranged almost in parallel to the other sidewall part via a gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Muro
  • Patent number: 8801451
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal, a connector housing to which the terminal is inserted, and a lance provided inside the connector housing. When the terminal is inserted, the lance comes into sliding contact with the terminal, thereby being bent, and a locking portion of the lance returned by elasticity is engaged with an engaging portion of the terminal, whereby the terminal is prevented from falling out toward the rear side. At a lateral side portion of the lance, a protruding piece is provided, and at a side edge in the width direction of a peripheral wall of a box portion of the terminal, a rib is provided. When the terminal is inserted, before the peripheral wall of the box portion comes into sliding contact with the engaging portion of the lance, the rib comes into sliding contact with the protruding piece, thereby bending the lance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Muro
  • Publication number: 20140170901
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing formed with a plurality of terminal insertion holes into which a plurality of terminal metal fittings is inserted, respectively, and a spacer arranged inside the housing and coating the plurality of terminal metal fittings. The spacer includes main bodies fixed inside the housing, and a plurality of slit doors provided in the main bodies and divided into a plurality of small pieces by a plurality of slits. Each of the slit doors elastically deforms by abutting a terminal metal fitting inserted into a terminal insertion hole when the terminal metal fitting passes therethrough, and is brought into contact with the terminal metal fitting when the terminal metal fitting is attached to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Yazaki Coroiration
    Inventors: Yuichi ITO, Shinji KODAMA, Takashi MURO
  • Publication number: 20140079473
    Abstract: A connector is configured so that a fitting part of a connector housing and a panel is sealed by bringing a lip part of a flange attachment part of a waterproof grommet for surrounding an outer periphery of a flange into pressing contact with the peripheral edge of an attachment hole when the peripheral edge of the attachment hole is held between a locking protrusion of a housing body and the flange provided at a rear end of the housing body. In the connector, the flange includes a plurality of flexible pieces which elastically displaces the lip part to the side of the locking protrusion so as to expand a proper plate thickness range of the panel capable of making close contact with the lip part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi MURO
  • Patent number: 8659911
    Abstract: A fixing metal bracket for a component mounted on a circuit board, includes a solder bonding plate section to be solder-fixed on a surface of a circuit board with a cream solder, and a component fixing section to be fixed to a component mounted on the circuit board. An annular through-groove is formed on the solder bonding plate section at a position surrounding a central area thereof. An island-shaped portion at the inside of the through-groove is separated from a peripheral portion at the outside of the through-groove while the connection part is remained. A step is formed on a solder bonding face of the connection part. Pure Sn plating is applied to the solder bonding face of the island-shaped portion and whisker resistance plating is applied to a surface of a portion other than the island-shaped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Muro
  • Publication number: 20140011388
    Abstract: A connector includes a connector housing that receives a terminal fitting, a spacer that is inserted into a spacer installation opening of the connector housing to prevent the terminal fitting received in the connector housing from being fallen out, a temporary locking mechanism that temporarily fixes the spacer to a temporary locking position where the spacer is not engaged with the terminal fitting, a main locking mechanism that locks the spacer pushed toward a more inner side of the housing than the temporary locking position to a main locking position where the spacer is engaged with the terminal fitting. The temporary locking mechanism allows the spacer to move from the temporary locking position to the main locking position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Muro