Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Inotsuka
Tetsuya Inotsuka 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: 9659725Abstract: An inhibiter switch is configured to include a fixed contact point that is connected to and disconnected from a movable contact point. The movable contact point is configured to make pressure contact with the fixed contact point by the movement of a movable board by a shaft member, wherein a press-fit amount of the shaft member to a projecting portion is made smaller toward a connecting portion between the projecting portion and an inner periphery of an insert hole of the movable board.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2014Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tetsuya Inotsuka
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Patent number: 9406452Abstract: A movable contact point for an inhibiter switch includes a movable contact point that makes pressure contact with a fixed contact point is slid to cause the movable contact point and the fixed contact point to be connected and disconnected. The movable contact point comprises parallel side wall portions and a sliding portion that slides on the fixed contact point and that connects end portions of the side wall portions. Projecting portions that project in the sliding direction are provided in notch portions in the side walls, wherein the projecting portions abut against each other between the side wall portions in the sliding direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tetsuya Inotsuka
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Patent number: 9279493Abstract: A movable board with movable contact points is arranged inside a switch case formed by overlap of a substrate with fixed contact points and a lid body. A top end surface of the substrate has a concave streak portion and a ring groove for accommodating a seal ring, wherein a projecting streak portion provided on a lower surface of a flange portion in the lid body is fitted in the concave streak portion for welding. A seal bearing mounted to shaft holes provided on an opposing portion between the substrate and the lid body comprises a cylindrical body portion fitted in at least one of the shaft holes, and a lip-shaped seal portion extending to a side of a rotary surface of a shaft portion from an inner peripheral surface of the body portion to make flexible contact with the rotary surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2013Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Niles Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tetsuya Inotsuka
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Patent number: 9240298Abstract: The concave streak portion 26, in which the welding inclination surface 27 is formed, is provided on the side wall 12; the projecting portion 40, which is fitted into the concave streak portion 26 when the substrate 10 and the lid body 35 overlap to form the switch case 3, is provided on the lid body 36; when the substrate 10 and the lid body 35 are overlapped, the switch case 3 is sealed by contacting the seal ring 31 with the flange portion 38 and the welding shoulder portion 41 interferes with the welding inclination surface 27; the substrate 10 and the lid body 35 are jointed by melting the interference portion by high-frequency welding; the release region K, which keep the communicating state of the inside of the switch case 3 with the outside is designed by notching the projecting portion 40 from the root thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2013Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignees: Valeo Jap Co., Ltd., Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Inotsuka, Takeshi Okuhara, Naoto Ogasawara, Hiroshi Yamada, Munetaka Torii, Teruo Kato
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Publication number: 20150027867Abstract: A movable contact point for an inhibiter switch includes a movable contact point that makes pressure contact with a fixed contact point is slid to cause the movable contact point and the fixed contact point to be connected and disconnected. The movable contact point comprises parallel side wall portions and a sliding portion that slides on the fixed contact point and that connects end portions of the side wall portions. Projecting portions that project in the sliding direction are provided in notch portions in the side walls, wherein the projecting portions abut against each other between the side wall portions in the sliding direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2014Publication date: January 29, 2015Inventor: Tetsuya Inotsuka
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Publication number: 20150027865Abstract: An inhibiter switch is configured to include a fixed contact point that is connected to and disconnected from a movable contact point. The movable contact point is configured to make pressure contact with the fixed contact point by the movement of a movable board by a shaft member, wherein a press-fit amount of the shaft member to a projecting portion is made smaller toward a connecting portion between the projecting portion and an inner periphery of an insert hole of the movable board.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2014Publication date: January 29, 2015Inventor: Tetsuya Inotsuka
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Publication number: 20130306448Abstract: A movable board with movable contact points is arranged inside a switch case formed by overlap of a substrate with fixed contact points and a lid body. A top end surface of the substrate has a concave streak portion and a ring groove for accommodating a seal ring, wherein a projecting streak portion provided on a lower surface of a flange portion in the lid body is fitted in the concave streak portion for welding. A seal bearing mounted to shaft holes provided on an opposing portion between the substrate and the lid body comprises a cylindrical body portion fitted in at least one of the shaft holes, and a lip-shaped seal portion extending to a side of a rotary surface of a shaft portion from an inner peripheral surface of the body portion to make flexible contact with the rotary surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: NILES CO., LTD.Inventor: Tetsuya Inotsuka
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Patent number: 8237432Abstract: A rotation angle sensor providing excellent output characteristics is provided. The rotation angle sensor has a structure in which a ring-shaped permanent magnet provided so as to be rotatable integrally with a rotor connected to a member to be detected; magnetic flux gathering yokes surrounding the outer circumferential surface of the ring-shaped permanent magnet with a certain clearance being formed between the outer circumferential surface and the magnetic flux gathering yokes; and Hall ICs 30 arranged in gaps between the magnetic flux gathering yokes, are arranged inside a casing formed by a casing body and a cover. In the casing body, a guide tube surrounding the outer circumferential surface of the ring-shaped permanent magnet is formed with a certain clearance being formed between the outer circumferential surface and the guide tube.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2009Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Niles Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Inotsuka, Masanori Endo
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Publication number: 20100001721Abstract: A rotation angle sensor providing excellent output characteristics is provided. The rotation angle sensor has a structure in which a ring-shaped permanent magnet provided so as to be rotatable integrally with a rotor connected to a member to be detected; magnetic flux gathering yokes surrounding the outer circumferential surface of the ring-shaped permanent magnet with a certain clearance being formed between the outer circumferential surface and the magnetic flux gathering yokes; and Hall ICs 30 arranged in gaps between the magnetic flux gathering yokes, are arranged inside a casing formed by a casing body and a cover. In the casing body, a guide tube surrounding the outer circumferential surface of the ring-shaped permanent magnet is formed with a certain clearance being formed between the outer circumferential surface and the guide tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2009Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: NILES CO., LTDInventors: Tetsuya Inotsuka, Masanori Endo
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Patent number: 7488178Abstract: A cover slide wall has a first cutter portion and a second cutter portion integrally formed therewith. The first and the second cutter portions have an overlap area and oppositely directed cutter edges on the circumference via a first insertion gap for communicating a radial inside and a radial outside. A holder faces the outer periphery of the second cutter portion at the radial outside via a second insertion gap. The flat cable is inserted from the stationary terminal portion into the second insertion gap, and folded back at the cutter edge of the second cutter portion so as to be wired from the cutter edge of the first cutter portion 13 to the inside of the cover slide wall through the first insertion gap.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2007Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: Niles Co., LtdInventor: Tetsuya Inotsuka
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Publication number: 20080057741Abstract: A cover slide wall has a first cutter portion and a second cutter portion integrally formed therewith. The first and the second cutter portions have an overlap area and oppositely directed cutter edges on the circumference via a first insertion gap for communicating a radial inside and a radial outside. A holder faces the outer periphery of the second cutter portion at the radial outside via a second insertion gap. The flat cable is inserted from the stationary terminal portion into the second insertion gap, and folded back at the cutter edge of the second cutter portion so as to be wired from the cutter edge of the first cutter portion 13 to the inside of the cover slide wall through the first insertion gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2007Publication date: March 6, 2008Applicant: NILES CO., LTD.Inventor: Tetsuya Inotsuka
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Patent number: 7262378Abstract: A combination switch comprising a body 1 mounted in a bracket of a vehicle body side, the body 1 including lever switches on a right side and a left side of the body 1, a bottom cover 3 detachably mounted to the body 1, the bottom cover 3 supporting a flat cable for supplying power from the vehicle body side to a steering wheel side, as well as including a right and a left connector support section 11, 13 corresponding to the lever switches on the right and the left side and a connection cord 5, wherein both ends of connectors 15, 17 are supported to the connector support sections 11, 13 and the connectors 15, 17 are connected to the lever switches by the connection cord 5, is characterized in that a cord engagement section 27 is projected on an outer peripheral section of the bottom cover 1, and the connection cord 5 is engaged to the outer peripheral section of the cord engagement section 27 to be disposed along an outer peripheral side of the bottom cover 3 so as to bypass the bottom cover 3.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2005Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Niles Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiyuki Adachi, Tetsuya Inotsuka
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Patent number: 7049807Abstract: A rotation detecting apparatus including a drive gear rotatably supported by a case and capable of rotating cooperatively with an object to be detected, driven gears and rotatably supported by the case and brought in mesh with the drive gear, magnets provided at rotational center portions of the driven gears and having plane portions formed with N poles and S poles, a circuit board arranged at the case and capable of being connected to outside, magnetic reluctance elements attached to the circuit board and opposed to the plane portions of the magnets and an electronic circuit part for convertion output signals of the magnetic reluctance element into rotational angle signals, wherein the magnets of the driven gears are formed with the N poles and the S poles by magnetizing the magnets after having been subjected to insert molding by a resin.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2003Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: Niles Parts Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sakae Okuma, Shinya Inabe, Tetsuya Inotsuka
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Publication number: 20050208800Abstract: A combination switch comprising a body 1 mounted in a bracket of a vehicle body side, the body 1 including lever switches on a right side and a left side of the body 1, a bottom cover 3 detachably mounted to the body 1, the bottom cover 3 supporting a flat cable for supplying power from the vehicle body side to a steering wheel side, as well as including a right and a left connector support section 11, 13 corresponding to the lever switches on the right and the left side and a connection cord 5, wherein both ends of connectors 15, 17 are supported to the connector support sections 11, 13 and the connectors 15, 17 are connected to the lever switches by the connection cord 5, is characterized in that a cord engagement section 27 is projected on an outer peripheral section of the bottom cover 1, and the connection cord 5 is engaged to the outer peripheral section of the cord engagement section 27 to be disposed along an outer peripheral side of the bottom cover 3 so as to bypass the bottom cover 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2005Publication date: September 22, 2005Inventors: Toshiyuki Adachi, Tetsuya Inotsuka
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Patent number: 6784661Abstract: A rotation detecting apparatus including a drive gear rotatably supported by a case having a cover and capable of rotating cooperatively with an object to be detected, driven gears and brought in mesh with the drive gear and capable of rotating cooperatively therewith, magnets and provided at rotational center portions of the driven gears and having plane portions formed with N poles and S poles, a circuit board arranged at the case and capable of connecting to outside, magnetic reluctance elements attached to the circuit board and being opposed to the plane portions of the magnets and an electronic circuit part for converting an output signal of the magnetic reluctance element into a rotational angle signal, wherein the driven gears and are interposed by the case and the cover and a constant distance is maintained between the plane portion and the magnetic reluctance element.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2003Date of Patent: August 31, 2004Assignee: Niles Parts Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sakae Okuma, Shinya Inabe, Tetsuya Inotsuka
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Publication number: 20030222643Abstract: A rotation detecting apparatus 1 including a drive gear rotatably supported by a case and capable of rotating cooperatively with an object to be detected, driven gears and rotatably supported by the case and brought in mesh with the drive gear, magnets provided at rotational center portions of the driven gears and having plane portions formed with N poles and S poles, a circuit board arranged at the case and capable of being connected to outside, magnetic reluctance elements attached to the circuit board and opposed to the plane portions of the magnets and an electronic circuit part for converting output signals of the magnetic reluctance element into rotational angle signals, wherein the magnets of the driven gears are formed with the N poles and the S poles by magnetizing the magnets after having been subjected to insert molding by a resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2003Publication date: December 4, 2003Inventors: Sakae Okuma, Shinya Inabe, Tetsuya Inotsuka
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Publication number: 20030222644Abstract: A rotation detecting apparatus including a drive gear rotatably supported by a case having a cover and capable of rotating cooperatively with an object to be detected, driven gears and brought in mesh with the drive gear and capable of rotating cooperatively therewith, magnets and provided at rotational center portions of the driven gears and having plane portions formed with N poles and S poles, a circuit board arranged at the case and capable of connecting to outside, magnetic reluctance elements attached to the circuit board and being opposed to the plane portions of the magnets and an electronic circuit part for converting an output signal of the magnetic reluctance element into a rotational angle signal, wherein the driven gears and are interposed by the case and the cover and a constant distance is maintained between the plane portion and the magnetic reluctance element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2003Publication date: December 4, 2003Inventors: Sakae Okuma, Shinya Inabe, Tetsuya Inotsuka