Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Nishimura

Tetsuya Nishimura 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: 12603193
    Abstract: A wiring member includes a sheet material including a first layer formed into a sheet-like shape and a second layer provided on a main surface of the first layer, and a wire-like transmission member fixed on the sheet material. The second layer is a layer mediating a bonding of the first layer and the wire-like transmission member, and includes a plurality of partial second layers provided to be separated from each other along an extension direction of the wire-like transmission member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi Fukushima, Hiroki Hirai, Housei Mizuno, Miyu Aramaki, Tetsuya Nishimura, Junichi Shirakawa
  • Patent number: 12553377
    Abstract: In a water outlet, the deterioration of sealing performance is prevented by a sealing member sealing between a pipe and the connecting port of the water outlet. A water outlet is provided at a coolant outlet of an internal combustion engine to which a pipe leading coolant out of the engine is connected, having a dish-shaped body fixed to the engine, a cylindrical connecting port provided to rise outward from the body portion and to be inserted into the inside of the pipe, and a sealing member on the outer circumference of the connecting port. A convex portion is provided on the outer circumferential side of the connecting port to rise outward from the body, and an annular sealing member is provided between the connecting port and the pipe, and at least a circumferential portion of the pipe is disposed between the convex portion and the connecting port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2026
    Assignee: NIPPON THERMOSTAT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Nishimura
  • Patent number: 12476414
    Abstract: A wiring member includes: a sheet including a fusion layer; a wire-like transmission member fused to the fusion layer; a connector housing in which a cavity housing an end portion of the wire-like transmission member is formed; and a water stop member stopping water between a wall part of the cavity and the end portion of the wire-like transmission member. The water stop member includes an inner portion located in the cavity and an outer portion continuing into the inner portion to be located on an outer side of the cavity. Provided to the inner portion is a filling portion made up of a resin material thermally deformed to fill the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2025
    Assignees: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Ebata, Takuya Kaba, Tetsuya Nishimura, Yusuke Mitani, Masaki Mizushita, Itsuo Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 12463375
    Abstract: A wiring member includes: a connector housing including at least one housing body, with an opening in one main surface and a housing groove concaved toward another main surface, and a cover attached to the housing body; a wire-like transmission member including an end portion housed in the housing groove; and a filling member filling the housing groove. The housing body includes a bottom wall part and a sidewall part as wall parts of the housing groove. The cover includes a cover body part overlapped with the one main surface of the housing body to cover the housing groove. The filling member is also provided between a portion of the one main surface serving as a tip end surface of the sidewall part and the cover body part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2025
    Assignees: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Ebata, Takuya Kaba, Masaki Mizushita, Tetsuya Nishimura, Yusuke Mitani, Itsuo Wakabayashi
  • Publication number: 20250320830
    Abstract: Provided is a water outlet that guides a coolant so as to be distributed to various devices, wherein a reduction in the sealing properties of a sealing member, which seals the space between a pipe and a connecting port of the water outlet to which the pipe is connected, is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 16, 2025
    Inventor: Tetsuya NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 12404944
    Abstract: To prevent a gasket fitted into a groove of a housing of a thermostat device from coming off and the leakage of coolant. A cover member detachably attached to a thermostat device includes a housing that has a body having an opening at one end and a groove surrounding the opening and a pair of legs standing inside the groove from one end of the body, and a gasket to be fitted into the groove. The cover member has a dish-shaped portion that has an insertion hole through which the pair of legs is inserted and covers the gasket, and a cylindrical portion erecting from the opening edge of the insertion hole and into which the pair of legs are press-fitted inside, and a corrugated section is formed in the portion of the cylindrical portion opposite to the legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON THERMOSTAT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishimura, Syota Morizumi, Masayuki Numata
  • Patent number: 12315657
    Abstract: A wiring member includes a sheet including a fusion layer, an adhesive tape including an adhesive layer and a base material layer, and a first wire-like transmission member to which the adhesive tape is fixed via the adhesive layer. The base material layer and the fusion layer are fused to each other, and the first wire-like transmission member is fixed to the sheet via the adhesive tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Arai, Daisuke Ebata, Ryusuke Kudo, Masaki Mizushita, Tetsuya Nishimura, Haruka Nakano
  • Patent number: 12300406
    Abstract: A wiring member includes: a flat wiring member including a plurality of terminal parts; and a plurality of identification parts provided to correspond to some of the plurality of terminal parts, wherein the plurality of identification parts are made to each provide a piece of identification information different from each other, the flat wiring member can change a form between a folding form of being folded and a developed form of extending larger than the folding form, and the plurality of identification parts are provided in the flat wiring member so that a distribution region of the plurality of identification parts in the folding form is smaller than a distribution region of the plurality of identification parts in the developed form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro Sumida, Motohiro Yokoi, Kenta Ito, Suguru Yasuda, Tetsuya Nishimura, Hitomi Harada, Haruka Nakano, Ryusuke Kudo, Hiroki Hirai, Housei Mizuno, Hidetoshi Ishida
  • Patent number: 12292132
    Abstract: Provided are a thermostat device and a method for manufacturing the same, capable of minimizing an increase in size of the thermostat device, and where a seal member is easily assembled and cost can be minimized. This thermostat device includes a housing, attached to a mounting hole of a counterpart member, that has a flow path for a coolant formed therein, a seal member that creates a liquid-tight seal between the counterpart member and the housing, a thermo-element that expands and contracts in accordance with the coolant temperature, a valve body that opens and closes the flow path due to the expansion and contraction of the thermo-element, and a coil spring that biases the valve body in a closing direction, the housing having formed therein a deformed annular groove into which the seal member fits, and the seal member having a perfectly circular shape in a natural length state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON THERMOSTAT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishimura, Masayuki Numata
  • Patent number: 12276990
    Abstract: A temperature adjustment device is capable of suppressing sleeve enlargement and preventing the rattling thereof with a synthetic resin housing. Flanges are formed on the temperature adjustment member. The sleeve has a groove along the circumferential direction on its outer periphery and a lateral hole opening at one end to the groove and penetrating through the wall thickness of the sleeve. A clip member has an outer fitting portion, elastically deformable and fittable to the groove and has an inward convex portion holding the flange from the distal-end side of the sleeve, by being inserted in the lateral hole. The groove wall has a groove-depth wall at the deepest portion opposite to the groove opening and a distal-proximal-end-side curved portion of the groove-depth wall connected to the distal-proximal-end side of the sleeve. The radius of curvature of the distal-end-side curved portion is larger than that of the proximal-end-side curved portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON THERMOSTAT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishimura, Masayuki Numata
  • Patent number: 12278027
    Abstract: A wiring member includes: a base member having a holding surface; and at least one wire-like transmission member held on the holding surface, wherein at least one missing wire-like transmission member identification mark indicating at least one missing wire-like transmission member position is provided on the holding surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Tanaka, Masaki Mizushita, Tetsuya Nishimura
  • Patent number: 12266910
    Abstract: A wiring member includes: a main wire including a plurality of wire-like transmission members; a branch wire in which some of the wire-like transmission members are branched from the main wire; a fixing sheet having one main surface to which the main wire is fixed; and a cover sheet, at least a part of which is provided in a position overlapped with the branch wire in another main surface of the fixing sheet, wherein a fusion position where the fixing sheet and the cover sheet are fused is provided on at least a lateral side of the main wire in a longitudinal direction, and is provided in a position away from the branch wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryusuke Kudo, Tetsuya Nishimura, Masaki Mizushita, Haruka Nakano, Kenta Arai
  • Patent number: 12247511
    Abstract: In a fuel cell cooling device, sliding damage to a piston and the deterioration of sealing performance are prevented despite using a simple structure in which a portion sliding with the piston is made of a brass bushing and a simple and inexpensive method of setting the assembly of the brass bushing to a press-fitted state by light press-fitting and ball burnishing. Provided is a stainless steel cylindrical guide slidably retaining a stainless steel piston, advancing and retracting according to the expansion and contraction of the thermal expansion body, provided at the open end of a bottomed cylindrical case containing a thermal expansion body. A brass bushing is fitted into the inner circumferential portion of the cylindrical guide by light press-fitting and subjected to precision finishing on the inner circumferential surface, for example, by ball burnishing, to be expanded radially by the pressure from the inside and press-fitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON THERMOSTAT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishimura, Hitoshi Komatsu
  • Patent number: 12249815
    Abstract: A wiring body with assembly assisting component includes a wiring body and an assembly assisting component. The wiring body includes a wiring component (for example, an electrical wiring). The wiring body is a wire harness, for example. The assembly assisting component detachably holds at least a part of the wiring body along a certain route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishimura, Housei Mizuno
  • Patent number: 12247675
    Abstract: The thermostat device includes a housing having a valve seat formed thereinside, a thermo-element having one end inserted inside the housing, a valve body seated on or separated from the valve seat by the extension/contraction of the thermo-element, a coil spring biasing the valve body toward the valve seat, and a frame supporting one end of the coil spring. The housing has a hollow body part opening at one end, paired legs erecting from the opening edge of the body part, on whose leading ends the frame is hooked, and ribs provided at the opening edge and contiguous to each root side of the legs. The outer surface of each leg is arc-shaped, and the outer surface of each rib is curved or inclined to extend from the outer surface of the corresponding leg toward the inner side of a circle connecting the outer surfaces of the pair of legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON THERMOSTAT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishimura, Masayuki Numata
  • Patent number: 12230949
    Abstract: A wiring member includes: a main wire including a plurality of wire-like transmission members; a branch wire in which some of the wire-like transmission members are branched from the main wire; a fixing sheet having one main surface to which the main wire is fixed; and a cover sheet, at least a part of which is provided in a position overlapped with the branch wire in another main surface of the fixing sheet, wherein a fusion position where the fixing sheet and the cover sheet are fused is provided on at least a lateral side of the main wire in a longitudinal direction, and is provided in a position away from the branch wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryusuke Kudo, Tetsuya Nishimura, Masaki Mizushita, Haruka Nakano, Kenta Arai
  • Patent number: 12211631
    Abstract: A wiring member includes a base member, a wire-like transmission member fixed to the base member, and a plurality of attaching members provided to the base member to be attached to an attaching target member. One attaching member is provided to only one lateral side of the wire-like transmission member in a first position along an extension direction of the wire-like transmission member in the base member. Another attaching member is provided to only another lateral side of the wire-like transmission member in a second position along the extension direction of the wire-like transmission member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishimura, Takuya Kaba
  • Patent number: 12199420
    Abstract: A wiring member includes a sheet-shaped member and multiple linear transmission members that are fixed on the sheet-shaped member. The multiple linear transmission members are fixed on the sheet-shaped member such that a portion of the multiple linear transmission members intersects with respect to another said linear transmission member. An intersection location of the multiple linear transmission members is located away from a folding position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishimura, Motohiro Yokoi, Kenta Ito, Haruka Nakano, Hidetoshi Ishida, Ryusuke Kudo, Masaki Mizushita, Kenta Arai, Daisuke Ebata, Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Suguru Yasuda
  • Patent number: 12172588
    Abstract: A wiring member includes: a plurality of wire-like transmission members wired in a form including a main wire part and a branch wire part; and a sheet material including a main wire fixing part to which the main wire part is fixed and a branch wire fixing part to which the branch wire part is fixed, wherein the branch wire fixing part is branched from the main wire fixing part, a branch wire support part is provided in the branch wire fixing part, and the branch wire support part extends along a longitudinal direction of the branch wire part, and is formed to have higher rigidity than each of the wire-like transmission members constituting the branch wire part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro Sumida, Motohiro Yokoi, Kenta Ito, Suguru Yasuda, Tetsuya Nishimura, Hitomi Harada, Haruka Nakano, Ryusuke Kudo, Hiroki Hirai, Hidetoshi Ishida, Housei Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20240404726
    Abstract: A wiring member includes a first wiring member including a first sheet, and a plurality of first wire-like transmission members fixed onto the first sheet. The plurality of first wire-like transmission members include a second wire-like transmission member, and a third wire-like transmission member extending over the second wire-like transmission member and crossing the second wire-like transmission member. The wiring member further includes a holding member configured to hold a positional relationship between the second and third wire-like transmission members at a crossing part of the second and third wire-like transmission members. The holding member includes a second sheet fixed to the first sheet so as to cover the crossing part. The second sheet includes a fixed region fixed to the first sheet located around the crossing part, and the second sheet includes a non-fixed region that is not fixed to the first sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya NISHIMURA, Daisuke EBATA, Masaki MIZUSHITA, Ryusuke KUDO, Shintaro SUMIDA, Hidetoshi ISHIDA