Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Miyakawa
Tomoyuki Miyakawa 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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Publication number: 20200313369Abstract: A connector configured to be assembled to a plate-shaped panel in a state of being inserted into a through hole of the plate-shaped panel, the connector includes a body, and a first locking portion and a second locking portion. The body is configured to be inserted into the through hole in a predetermined insertion direction. The first locking portion and the second locking portion are integrally provided with the body and configured to be engaged with a circumferential edge portion of the through hole in a state where the circumferential edge portion is clamped in the insertion direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Erika Kodaira, Tomoyuki Miyakawa, Tomoyoshi Fukaya
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Patent number: 10784619Abstract: One of a pair of connectors of a spring type connector includes an inner housing, an outer housing, a gap defined between the inner housing and the outer housing, retaining mechanisms, and a spring. The retaining mechanism includes a pair of abutting members provided on the inner housing and the outer housing, and a cushioning member provided between the pair of the abutting members.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuyuki Ochiai, Daisuke Fujihira, Shintaro Matsuda, Kozo Oishi, Tomoyuki Miyakawa
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Patent number: 10749293Abstract: A connector includes a pair of housings to be fitted to each other by inserting an insertion part of one housing into a tubular part of another housing. On an outer peripheral surface of the insertion part of the one housing, a plurality of outer ribs which project from the outer peripheral surface are provided separately in a circumferential direction to extend from a front end of the insertion part to a rear side. On an inner peripheral surface of the tubular part of the other housing, a plurality of inner ribs which project from the inner peripheral surface are provided separately in a circumferential direction to extend from a front end of the tubular part to a rear side. The outer ribs and the inner ribs are provided such that positions in the circumferential direction are deviated from each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Kozo Oishi, Tomoyuki Miyakawa
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Patent number: 10581194Abstract: A connector has one housing having a tubular body which surrounds terminals; the other housing having a tubular body to be connected to the tubular body of the one housing; and a lock mechanism which allows tip surfaces of the tubular bodies that define external shapes of the pair of housings, respectively, to come into contact with each other and maintains a connected state of the one housing and the other housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Ayako Baba, Kozo Oishi, Tomoyuki Miyakawa
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Patent number: 10566732Abstract: There is provided a waterproof connector structure which includes a pair of connector housings. An opening end portion of a cylindrical body of one connector housing is inserted into an opening end portion of a cylindrical body of another connector housing at the time of fitting. One cylindrical body has a projection part which is provided to protrude outward in a radial direction from the opening end portion thereof entirely in a circumferential direction. The projection part is provided on a front side in a fitting direction from an opening part of a terminal receiving chamber surrounded by the one cylindrical body.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kozo Oishi, Tomoyuki Miyakawa, Kazuyuki Ochiai, Daisuke Fujihira
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Patent number: 10559924Abstract: The connector includes an inner housing, an outer housing, a locking mechanism for locking, a spring member that pushes back the inner housing during half fitting, and a pushback regulating position that regulates a pushback position. The pushback regulating portion includes a claw portion, a stepped portion against which the claw portion abuts, and a sliding load portion that makes a sliding friction force between the inner housing and the outer housing at a predetermined timing before abutting to be larger than the sliding friction force before the predetermined timing.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2019Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuyuki Ochiai, Daisuke Fujihira, Shintaro Matsuda, Kozo Oishi, Tomoyuki Miyakawa
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Publication number: 20190363486Abstract: One of a pair of connectors (1) of a spring type connector includes an inner housing (3), an outer housing (5), a gap defined between the inner housing and the outer housing, retaining mechanisms (3d, 5c), and a spring (12). The retaining mechanism includes a pair of abutting members (3d, 5c) provided on the inner housing and the outer housing, and a cushioning member (6b) provided between the pair of the abutting members.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2017Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Kazuyuki Ochiai, Daisuke Fujihira, Shintaro Matsuda, Kozo Oishi, Tomoyuki Miyakawa
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Patent number: 10476203Abstract: A connector includes: a first connector which includes a tubular outer housing and an inner housing in which a plurality of first terminals are provided; a second connector which includes a bottomed tubular counterpart housing in which a plurality of second terminals are provided; and an elastic member which is provided in the outer housing and urges the inner housing toward a front side of the first connector in a fitting direction. The inner housing is moved by the elastic member to the front side in the fitting direction at the time of fitting.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kozo Oishi, Tomoyuki Miyakawa, Kazuyuki Ochiai, Daisuke Fujihira, Shintaro Matsuda
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Patent number: 10424862Abstract: A locking structure for terminals includes a connector housing in which a plurality of terminal housing chambers accommodating the terminals connected to wires are formed and a first lance and a second lance extending from rear end parts of the terminal housing chambers toward front sides thereof to lock the terminals. A first sidewall of a pair of sidewalls forming a first terminal housing chamber is disposed to face a second sidewall of the pair of the sidewalls forming a second terminal housing chamber adjacent to the first terminal housing with a space between the first sidewall and the second sidewall.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kozo Oishi, Tomoyuki Miyakawa, Kazuyuki Ochiai
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Publication number: 20190280425Abstract: A connector has one housing having a tubular body which surrounds terminals; the other housing having a tubular body to be connected to the tubular body of the one housing; and a lock mechanism which allows tip surfaces of the tubular bodies that define external shapes of the pair of housings, respectively, to come into contact with each other and maintains a connected state of the one housing and the other housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Ayako Baba, Kozo Oishi, Tomoyuki Miyakawa
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Publication number: 20190260163Abstract: The connector includes an inner housing, an outer housing, a locking mechanism for locking, a spring member that pushes back the inner housing during half fitting, and a pushback regulating position that regulates a pushback position. The pushback regulating portion includes a claw portion, a stepped portion against which the claw portion abuts, and a sliding load portion that makes a sliding friction force between the inner housing and the outer housing at a predetermined timing before abutting to be larger than the sliding friction force before the predetermined timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Inventors: Kazuyuki Ochiai, Daisuke Fujihira, Shintaro Matsuda, Kozo Oishi, Tomoyuki Miyakawa
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Patent number: 10381778Abstract: A connector applied to a wire harness includes a terminal that can be connected to a counterpart terminal arranged in a counterpart connector and a connector housing that includes the terminal arranged therein along an axial direction and can be engaged with the counterpart connector along the axial direction. The connector housing includes a notched part that enables a counterpart terminal holding part that holds the counterpart terminal and is exposed to the outside in the counterpart connector to move to an axial direction engagement initial position at which the terminal and the counterpart terminal are opposed to each other in the axial direction from the outside of the connector housing along an intersecting direction intersecting with the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya Ishida, Tomoyuki Miyakawa, Shuhei Nakada
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Patent number: 10333246Abstract: In a waterproof structure of a connector (11), each of a pair of housings (17, 19) has an annular member (51, 81) projecting in a fitting direction. An outer circumferential surface (81a) of one annular member (81) is inclined so as to spread outward in the radial direction from the front end toward the back, and presses the inner circumferential surface of the other annular member (51) at the time of fitting. The curvature of the outer circumferential surface of the plurality of corner parts (109a to 109d) of the annular member (81a) is larger than the curvature of the outer circumferential surface of the other portion, and the inclination angle of the former outer circumferential surface with respect to the fitting direction is larger than the inclination angle with respect to the fitting direction of the latter outer circumferential surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2016Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kozo Oishi, Tomoyuki Miyakawa, Kazuyuki Ochiai
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Patent number: 10290971Abstract: One of a pair of first terminals includes a spring member of which one end is supported by the first housing. A contact portion that contacts one of a pair of second terminals is formed on a free end of the spring member. A lock arm abuts against the spring member to displace the contact portion, and brings the contact portion into contact with one of the second terminals at the time of locking. The other of the first terminals has a contact portion that contacts the other of the second terminals when the connectors are fitted, and is disposed apart from one of the first terminals.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kozo Oishi, Tomoyuki Miyakawa, Kazuyuki Ochiai, Daisuke Fujihira, Shintaro Matsuda
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Publication number: 20190140391Abstract: A connector includes a pair of housings to be fitted to each other by inserting an insertion part of one housing into a tubular part of another housing. On an outer peripheral surface of the insertion part of the one housing, a plurality of outer ribs which project from the outer peripheral surface are provided separately in a circumferential direction to extend from a front end of the insertion part to a rear side. On an inner peripheral surface of the tubular part of the other housing, a plurality of inner ribs which project from the inner peripheral surface are provided separately in a circumferential direction to extend from a front end of the tubular part to a rear side. The outer ribs and the inner ribs are provided such that positions in the circumferential direction are deviated from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2019Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Kozo Oishi, Tomoyuki Miyakawa
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Patent number: 10283902Abstract: In a waterproof structure for a connector, in order to prevent that water is infiltrated into openings of cavities accommodating terminals, a pair of housings include resin annular members which protrude in a fitting direction to surround the openings. One annular member has a protrusion part which is formed on a way between a tip and a root thereof over an entire circumference. The protrusion part is formed to have a top part which presses an inner circumferential surface or an outer circumferential surface of the counterpart annular member at a time of fitting the pair of housings.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2018Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Keiji Hamada, Tomoyuki Miyakawa, Kazuyuki Ochiai
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Publication number: 20190123481Abstract: A connector includes: a first connector which includes a tubular outer housing and an inner housing in which a plurality of first terminals are provided; a second connector which includes a bottomed tubular counterpart housing in which a plurality of second terminals are provided; and an elastic member which is provided in the outer housing and urges the inner housing toward a front side of the first connector in a fitting direction. The inner housing is moved by the elastic member to the front side in the fitting direction at the time of fitting.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Kozo Oishi, Tomoyuki Miyakawa, Kazuyuki Ochiai, Daisuke Fujihira, Shintaro Matsuda
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Publication number: 20190115688Abstract: There is provided a waterproof connector structure which includes a pair of connector housings. An opening end portion of a cylindrical body of one connector housing is inserted into an opening end portion of a cylindrical body of another connector housing at the time of fitting. One cylindrical body has a projection part which is provided to protrude outward in a radial direction from the opening end portion thereof entirely in a circumferential direction. The projection part is provided on a front side in a fitting direction from an opening part of a terminal receiving chamber surrounded by the one cylindrical body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2018Publication date: April 18, 2019Inventors: Kozo Oishi, Tomoyuki Miyakawa, Kazuyuki Ochiai, Daisuke Fujihira
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Publication number: 20190109413Abstract: One of a pair of first terminals includes a spring member of which one end is supported by the first housing. A contact portion that contacts one of a pair of second terminals is formed on a free end of the spring member. A lock arm abuts against the spring member to displace the contact portion, and brings the contact portion into contact with one of the second terminals at the time of locking. The other of the first terminals has a contact portion that contacts the other of the second terminals when the connectors are fitted, and is disposed apart from one of the first terminals.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventors: Kozo Oishi, Tomoyuki Miyakawa, Kazuyuki Ochiai, Daisuke Fujihira, Shintaro Matsuda
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Patent number: 10249977Abstract: A connector of a wire harness includes a connector housing provided with a terminal and capable of being fitted in an attachment hole formed in an attachment panel in an axial direction, and a connector cover attached to the connector housing, the connector cover causing a wiring material connected with the terminal to be inserted into the connector cover and causing the wiring material to offset along an intersecting direction. The connector cover includes a grip portion formed in such a shape that the grip portion is capable of being gripped at a position where the grip portion is exposed in an insertion hole formed in an opposite panel arranged to face the attachment panel in an opposed manner in the axial direction so as to cause the connector housing to pass through the insertion hole, the insertion hole being located at a position deviated from the attachment hole in the intersecting direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Miyakawa, Takuya Ishida, Shuhei Nakada