Patents by Inventor Takashi Sone

Takashi Sone 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).

  • Publication number: 20240088613
    Abstract: A connector includes: a terminal fitting; a housing that houses the terminal fitting and allows a protruded part to protrude from a wall face of a metallic mating wall body; a shield shell that includes a shield main body that is placed over the protruded part, and a fixing part that has a bolt insertion hole formed coaxially with a female screw part of the mating wall body; a metallic bolt that is inserted into the bolt insertion hole to screw-fix the fixing part; and a bolt cap. The bolt cap includes: a cap main body that is placed over a head part to hide the head part; a holding body that is inserted into a holding hole of the fixing part to be closely fitted and held to the holding hole; and a connector body that connects the cap main body and the holding body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Daisuke Yamanashi, Takashi Sone
  • Publication number: 20230378683
    Abstract: A connector includes a casing, a shield shell that accommodates the casing, a wire arranged in the casing, a connector terminal connected to the wire, a blocking member that blocks current by overcurrent flowing in the wire, stud bolts and nuts for connecting the blocking member and the wire, and heat conductive members. The casing includes casing concave parts, which are recessed toward a casing space part and have filling space parts to be filled with the heat conductive members. The stud bolts are fixed to the casing and include exposed surfaces that are partially exposed to the filling space parts. The heat conductive members are in direct contact with the exposed surfaces and a shell inner surface in a filled state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Katsuya Nakano, Takashi Sone
  • Patent number: 11646508
    Abstract: A connector includes: a plate-shaped conductor having a through hole through which a fastening member is inserted; a housing holding the conductor and having an abutment surface; a nut having a screw hole into which the fastening member is screwed, and fixed to the housing along a first direction that is a direction in which the conductor extends; a support member fixed to the housing and restricting the nut from escaping from the housing; and a holding structure holding the nut, wherein the abutment surface is a surface against which a side surface of the nut abuts, such that the screw hole is positioned to be concentric with the through hole, and the holding structure holds the nut in a state where the side surface of the nut abuts against the abutment surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Yamanashi, Takashi Sone
  • Publication number: 20230118800
    Abstract: A connector includes a retaining member that is held by the terminal housing portion at an assembly completed position to the terminal housing portion to lock movement of the terminal fitting with respect to the terminal housing portion in a terminal extraction direction opposite the terminal insertion direction at the assembly completed position are provided. The retaining member includes a terminal locking portion disposed facing a locked portion of the terminal fitting at the assembly completed position in the terminal extraction direction to lock movement of the locked portion in the terminal extraction direction. The terminal fitting includes a retainer housing portion that accommodates the terminal locking portion of the retaining member at the assembly completed position and allows relative movement of the terminal fitting in the alignment direction with respect to the terminal locking portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Katsuya Nakano, Takashi Sone
  • Publication number: 20230119971
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal fitting that is connected to a mating terminal fitting of a mating fitting space, a housing that includes a fitting wall fitted into the mating fitting space and a terminal accommodating section that accommodates the terminal fitting and is inserted into the mating fitting space together with the fitting wall, and an annular or tubular elastically deformable sealing member that fills an annular or tubular gap between an outer peripheral surface of the fitting wall and an inner peripheral surface of the mating fitting space in a circumferential direction at a fitting completion position of the fitting wall and the mating fitting space where positions of axial centers of the fitting wall and the mating fitting space are aligned with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Katsuya Nakano, Takashi Sone
  • Publication number: 20230117463
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal fitting that includes a terminal connection section, and a housing that includes a terminal accommodating section in which the terminal fitting is inserted into a terminal accommodating chamber in the terminal accommodating section in a terminal insertion direction and accommodated at an accommodation completion position, wherein the terminal connection section is a tubular section bent in a tubular shape with end surfaces of two end portions facing each other, and includes a recess that is recessed from a distal end of the terminal connection section on a terminal insertion direction side, in a terminal removal direction opposite to the terminal insertion direction, the terminal insertion direction being a tube axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Daisuke Yamanashi, Takashi Sone
  • Publication number: 20230122368
    Abstract: A shield connector includes: a housing that includes a first engaging portion and a first facing wall; an annular sealing member; a holder that includes a second engaging portion and a second facing wall, and supports the sealing member; a tubular shell that includes a first insertion opening that the housing is inserted into, a first end face that surrounds the first insertion opening, a second insertion opening that the holder is inserted into, and a second end face that surrounds the second insertion opening, and a braid. The housing and the holder cause the first engaging portion and the second engaging portion to be engaged with each other inside the shell, cause the first facing wall to face the first end face, and cause the second facing wall to face the second end face, and the housing and the holder are coupled to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Daisuke Yamanashi, Takashi Sone
  • Publication number: 20230110487
    Abstract: A shield connector includes: a housing that holds a terminal; a seal member; a holder coupled to the housing along an axial direction of the housing to support the seal member; and a shell, in which the shell has a protruding portion protruding inward from an inner wall surface of the shell, the holder has an engagement piece extending along the axial direction, and is locked by the shell by engaging the engagement piece with the protruding portion, the protruding portion has a locking surface that locks the engagement piece, and the locking surface is a surface facing an insertion direction in which the holder is inserted into the shell, and is an inclined surface toward the insertion direction as the locking surface extends toward a tip of the protruding portion in a protruding direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Daisuke Yamanashi, Takashi Sone
  • Publication number: 20230115291
    Abstract: A shield connector includes: a cylindrical housing that accommodates a terminal and holds the terminal; an annular seal member that seals between an outer peripheral surface of an electric wire connected to the terminal and an inner wall surface of the housing; a holder coupled to the housingalong an axial direction of the housing to support the seal member; and a conductive shell that accommodates and holds the housing and the holder coupled to each other therein, in which an outer wall portion of the housing has a protruding portion protruding outward, the holder has an engagement piece extending along the axial direction and is coupled to the housing by engaging the engagement piece with the protruding portion from an outside, and the shell has a facing surface facing the engagement piece from an outside, and regulates outward deformation of the engagement piece by the facing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Daisuke Yamanashi, Takashi Sone
  • Patent number: 11600942
    Abstract: A connector according to the present invention includes a terminal fitting, a housing component which houses the terminal fitting, and an annular water cut-off member which is assembled to an outer peripheral surface of the fitting portion of the housing component and brings an outer peripheral side of the water cut-off member into close contact with an inner peripheral surface of a mating fitting portion at a fitting completion position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya Nakano, Takashi Sone
  • Patent number: 11456552
    Abstract: A cover has both ends in an extension direction being connected to an insulating member body. A dividing portion formed in a part of the extension direction divides the cover into a first section and a second section. The first section and the second section come into contact with a spring contact when a male terminal contact portion is inserted between a pair of female terminal contact portions. On contact with the spring contact, the first section and the second section elastically deform at least in an opposing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya Minamino, Takashi Sone
  • Patent number: 11381086
    Abstract: A power management system, which has a holding function capable of holding power in the form of storable energy, and a supply function for supplying power procured from a contractor to the holding function, sets a utilizable range of storable energy held by the holding function. In the setting, if an amount of storable energy held by the holding function exceeds a predetermined amount, an excess of the storable energy exceeding the predetermined amount is set as utilizable storable energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya Yasuda, Shinichi Yokoyama, Tomohide Haraguchi, Takashi Sone
  • Publication number: 20220109308
    Abstract: A selecting device configured to select a combination of a plurality of secondary batteries that is used in a facility of a user is configured to acquire (A) period information about a period of time desired by the user, (B) facility consumption information about power consumption of the facility, and (C) output information including information of current peak power and information about a temporal change of future peak power of each secondary battery in a secondary battery group that becomes a candidate for the combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Hidefumi NIKAWA, Hirotaka ENDO, Takashi SONE
  • Patent number: 11296451
    Abstract: A connection terminal includes: a terminal fitting; an insulating covering member attachable and detachable from one end in a virtual axis direction of the terminal fitting along the virtual axis direction; and a locking structure undetachably locking the covering member to the terminal fitting. The covering member includes two covering portions sandwiching and covering, in a direction orthogonal to the virtual axis direction, covering target portions at opposite ends of the terminal fitting, the covering target portions are areas capable of being finger-touch prevention targets, the locking structure includes, for each of combinations of the covering target portions and the covering portions, a locking protrusion provided in one of the covering target portion and the covering portion, and a locking groove provided in the other of the covering target portion and the covering portion and configured to lock the locking protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Mori, Takashi Sone, Daisuke Yamanashi
  • Publication number: 20220013950
    Abstract: A connector according to the present invention includes a terminal fitting, a housing component which houses the terminal fitting, and an annular water cut-off member which is assembled to an outer peripheral surface of the fitting portion of the housing component and brings an outer peripheral side of the water cut-off member into close contact with an inner peripheral surface of a mating fitting portion at a fitting completion position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya NAKANO, Takashi SONE
  • Patent number: 11208001
    Abstract: A vehicle management system is provided. The system carries out at least one of controlling a supply of power from an onboard power unit in a parked vehicle to the exterior and controlling charging of the onboard power unit from the exterior. The system comprises a control unit for controlling the supply of power or charging between the onboard power unit and the exterior; a transaction managing unit for managing the supply of power or charging between the onboard power unit and the exterior; and a payment point setting unit for setting a payment point for a user associated with the parked vehicle, wherein the payment point setting unit sets the payment point on the basis of transaction information recorded by the transaction managing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Yokoyama, Tomohide Haraguchi, Takashi Sone
  • Publication number: 20210399442
    Abstract: A connector includes: a plate-shaped conductor having a through hole through which a fastening member is inserted; a housing holding the conductor and having an abutment surface; a nut having a screw hole into which the fastening member is screwed, and fixed to the housing along a first direction that is a direction in which the conductor extends; a support member fixed to the housing and restricting the nut from escaping from the housing; and a holding structure holding the nut, wherein the abutment surface is a surface against which a side surface of the nut abuts, such that the screw hole is positioned to be concentric with the through hole, and the holding structure holds the nut in a state where the side surface of the nut abuts against the abutment surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke YAMANASHI, Takashi SONE
  • Publication number: 20210384665
    Abstract: A cover has both ends in an extension direction being connected to an insulating member body. A dividing portion formed in a part of the extension direction divides the cover into a first section and a second section. The first section and the second section come into contact with a spring contact when a male terminal contact portion is inserted between a pair of female terminal contact portions. On contact with the spring contact, the first section and the second section elastically deform at least in an opposing direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya MINAMINO, Takashi SONE
  • Publication number: 20210320453
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing and a seal member. The housing includes a groove portion and a protruding portion. The seal member is attached to the groove portion. The groove portion opens outward in a radial direction of the housing and has a bottom surface, a first side wall and a second side wall. The protruding portion extends from the second side wall toward the first side wall and has an end surface. The end surface has an inclined surface inclined such that an outer end of the inclined surface in the radial direction is closer to the first side wall than an inner end of the inclined surface. A first distance between the outer end and the bottom surface is greater than a second distance between the bottom surface and an outer end of a side surface of the seal member in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya NAKANO, Takashi SONE, Yoshinori HAGITA
  • Publication number: 20210320452
    Abstract: A connector unit includes a first and second housings and a seal member. The second housing includes a groove portion and a protruding portion having an outer circumferential surface. The groove portion includes a bottom surface, a first side wall and a second side wall. The protruding portion extends from the second side wall toward the first side wall. The outer circumferential surface has an inclined surface inclined such that an end thereof is closer to the bottom surface than another end. When the first housing and the second housing are attached to each other, an end portion of the first housing face the outer circumferential surface. The seal member includes an engaging portion to engage with the protruding portion to prevent the seal member from moving in a circumferential direction with respect to the second housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya NAKANO, Takashi SONE, Yoshinori HAGITA