Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Inoue
Toshihiro Inoue 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: 6212766Abstract: A method of automatically inserting terminals with wires into desired terminal accommodating cavities in a connector housing after putting neighboring wires aside, and a wire sweeping arm and a driving device for the sweeping arm. The method includes the steps of: grasping the terminal with wire by terminal supporting hands and wire supporting hands; moving the wire sweeping arm in the direction that the wire sweeping arm sweep wires which are already accommodated in neighboring terminal accommodating cavities, the wire sweeping arm being disposed between the terminal accommodating cavities and the terminal supporting hands so as to move back and forth; moving the wire supporting hands and the terminal supporting hands toward the connector housing to insert the terminal with wire into the terminal accommodating cavity.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 1997Date of Patent: April 10, 2001Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Yoshihisa Ohsumi, Hiroo Suzuki, Takao Nakagame, Takamichi Maejima, Toshihiro Inoue, Osamu Yamashima, Fumio Kato, Toshinori Igura
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Patent number: 6130288Abstract: A copolymer latex with a total solids content of at least 67% by weight, which is characterized by having a viscosity of 2,000 centipoises or less as measured with a BM viscometer under the conditions of total solids content of 67% by weight and at room temperature, is provided. Such a low viscosity and high solids-content copolymer latex is produced through an emulsion polymerization in which the method of use of the emulsifier and the amount thereof are controlled following specific conditions.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1997Date of Patent: October 10, 2000Assignee: Nippon Zeon Co LtdInventors: Toshihiro Inoue, Yasuhiro Nakano
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Patent number: 5921125Abstract: A method of controlling a terminal press attaching device by providing a elevating crimper for crimping terminals onto exposed conductors of the cables, setting an anvil opposite to the crimper, and elevating the drive means including a servo motor. More specifically, the crimp height for press attached terminals is monitored, a detected height and the predetermined set value are compared to control said drive means such that the detected height is made equal to the set value. Thus, the crimp height of the terminal to be attached (or the crimper height) is automatically and easily adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1997Date of Patent: July 13, 1999Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Toshihiro Inoue, Tatsuya Maeda, Mitsuru Yoshikawa, Chiaki Hatano, Yukinori Takano
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Patent number: 5913934Abstract: The crimping machine includes a crimper opposed to an anvil for crimping a stripped wire end to a terminal; a vertical rotation shaft axially secured on a base frame; a lower rotating base disc axially engaged with a lower end of the rotation shaft; an upper rotating base disc and a shank each axially slidably engaged with an upper end of the rotation shaft by way of a spline; and a flange formed at an upper end of the shank and engaged with a hook-shaped portion formed at a lower end of the pressing ram. The lower and upper discs have respectively a plurality of fitting channels radially extending from the rotation shaft. Each channel of the upper disc is detachably mounted with the crimper, and each channel of the lower disc is detachably mounted with the anvil. An adjusting dial for adjusting crimp height of the crimper is respectively provided in an outer surface of the shank.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 1997Date of Patent: June 22, 1999Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Japan Chain Terminal Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshihiro Inoue, Akira Sugiyama, Hirokazu Akita, Ichio Igarashi, Masashi Suzuki
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Patent number: 5813111Abstract: A pair of terminal grasping picks and a pair of wire clamping plates, which are provided in an insertion unit so that they can freely rise/fall and open/close, fall to grasp a first wire-equipped terminal clipped on a clip of a wire clamping rod; rise to separate the first wire-equipped terminal from the wire clip; advance toward the housing to insert the first wire-equipped terminal into the corresponding terminal container; and thereafter retreated and returned to an initial position, thereby successively inserting wire-equipped terminals. At any timing during the process in which the wire-equipped terminal is separated from the clip and thereafter the insertion unit is retreated and returned, either one of the wire clamping rod and the connector housing is moved in parallel to the other so that a second wire-equipped terminal or the clip is previously positioned oppositely to the a next terminal container of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1996Date of Patent: September 29, 1998Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Takamichi Maejima, Toshihiro Inoue, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Atsushi Nakano
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Patent number: 5771294Abstract: An acoustic image localization apparatus localizes an acoustic image of a plurality of tone color species having various timbres to a source point with respect to a listening point within a sound field. Desired ones of separate source points are specified, which are provisionally set throughout the sound field. Each of the tone color species is assigned to one or more of the specified source points such that each specified source point is assigned with a group of desired tone color species. Acoustic images of the respective groups are localized to corresponding ones of the specified source points. Further, one of separate listening points is designated, which is provisionally set relatively to the source points so that the acoustic images are localized with respect to the designated listening point.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1996Date of Patent: June 23, 1998Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Toshihiro Inoue, Hiroyuki Torimura
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Patent number: 5727409Abstract: A terminal crimping apparatus is equipped with a vertically reciprocating crimper for crimping a terminal to an exposed conductive portion of an electric wire and an anvil opposing to the crimper. The crimper is vertically reciprocated by an activation device, such as a servo-motor. The apparatus has a sensor to monitor a load applied to the activation device or to monitor the height of the crimper when the terminal is crimped. A driver control for the apparatus includes a decision section comparing the monitored load or the monitored crimper height with predetermined reference data to determine whether the terminal is correctly crimped.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1995Date of Patent: March 17, 1998Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Toshihiro Inoue, Masao Igarashi, Kazuhiko Takada
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Patent number: 5706570Abstract: A terminal crimping unit includes a unit case and a crimping machine assembly removable from the unit case. The crimping machine assembly includes a mounting block provided with a base plate, an anvil provided on anvil mounting stand on the base plate; a ram assembly arranged vertically movably above said anvil and provided with a crimper on its front surface; a terminal feed portion for intermittently feeding the side feed terminal chain, located beside the ram assembly; an anvil rotating means for reciprocatively rotating the anvil mounting stand between a terminal crimping position below said ram assembly and a terminal delivery position at the tip of said terminal feed portion; and a cut/separation means, located above the terminal delivery position, for separating an individual terminal from said side feed terminal chain intermittently fed.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 1996Date of Patent: January 13, 1998Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Toshihiro Inoue, Akira Sugiyama
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Patent number: 5697146Abstract: An apparatus for crimping a terminal includes a crimper vertically reciprocating to crimp electric terminals to conductors of a striped wire, and anvil opposing the crimper, and an operating mechanism for vertically reciprocating the crimper. The operating mechanism has a piston-crank apparatus to vertically reciprocate a ram attached to the crimper and a servo-motor connected to a circular plate in the piston-crank mechanism by way of a reduction gear. The operating mechanism also has a control device that stops the servo-motor for a given time period when the crimper is positioned at its lowest position to prevent spring-back of the crimper material.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1995Date of Patent: December 16, 1997Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Toshihiro Inoue, Masao Igarashi, Kazuhiko Takada
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Patent number: 5697147Abstract: A method of automatically inserting terminals with wires into desired terminals accommodating cavities in a connector housing after putting neighboring wires aside, and a wire sweeping arm and a driving device for the sweeping arm. The method includes the steps of: grasping the terminal with wire by terminal supporting hands and wire supporting hands; moving the wire sweeping arm in the direction that the wire sweeping arm sweep wires which are already accommodated in neighboring terminal accommodating cavities, the wire sweeping arm being disposed between the terminal accommodating cavities and the terminal supporting hands so as to move back and forth; moving the wire supporting hands and the terminal supporting hands toward the connector housing to insert the terminal with wire into the terminal accommodating cavity.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1995Date of Patent: December 16, 1997Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Yoshihisa Ohsumi, Hiroo Suzuki, Takao Nakagame, Takamichi Maejima, Toshihiro Inoue, Osamu Yamashima, Fumio Kato, Toshinori Igura
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Patent number: 5685598Abstract: A mount structure for an automobile body has a recess portion defined in a defroster duct and a projection defined in a cowl box. Both the recess portion and the projection have sloping surfaces, wherein the sloping angles of the surfaces are predetermined for enabling the direction of removal of an instrument panel from the automobile body to be freely selected from within a given angular range. Accordingly, the panel unit, which can include various components formed integrally therewith, can be easily and precisely positioned in the automobile body. Further, removal of the panel unit for routine maintenance can be easily performed without obstruction from other automotive components which remain in place in the automobile body.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1995Date of Patent: November 11, 1997Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshihiro Inoue, Jun Katakabe
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Patent number: 5669257Abstract: A terminal barrel is crimped to a wire laid on an anvil. In the crimping operation, a servo-motor drives a driving axis, the forward and reverse rotation of which vertically reciprocates a crimper. The operation includes the steps of: preliminary recording reference speeds or accelerations of the crimper at vertical positions in the reciprocating movement, and the reference value of a current which is supplied to the servo-motor when the terminal is crimped; descending the crimper at the reference speeds corresponding to the crimper position while the crimper descends from its top position to its crimping start position; crimping the terminal by supplying the reference current to the servo-motor during a predetermined period while the crimper is crimping the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1995Date of Patent: September 23, 1997Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Toshihiro Inoue, Kazuhiko Takada
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Patent number: 5588206Abstract: A pair of terminal grasping picks and a pair of wire clamping plates, which are provided in an insertion unit so that they can freely rise/fall and open/close, fall to grasp a first wire-equipped terminal clipped on a clip of a wire clamping rod; rise to separate the first wire-equipped terminal from the wire clip; advance toward the housing to insert the first wire-equipped terminal into the corresponding terminal container; and thereafter retreated and returned to an initial position, thereby successively inserting wire-equipped terminals. At any timing during the process in which the wire-equipped terminal is separated from the clip and thereafter the insertion unit is retreated and returned, either one of the wire clamping rod and the connector housing is moved in parallel to the other so that a second wire-equipped terminal or the clip is previously positioned oppositely to the a next terminal container of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1994Date of Patent: December 31, 1996Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Takamichi Maejima, Toshihiro Inoue, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Atsushi Nakano
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Patent number: 5585587Abstract: An acoustic image localization apparatus localizes an acoustic image of a plurality of tone color species having various timbres to a source point with respect to a listening point within a sound field. Desired ones of separate source points are specified, which are provisionally set throughout the sound field. Each of the tone color species is assigned to one or more of the specified source points such that each specified source point is assigned with a group of desired tone color species. Acoustic images of the respective groups are localized to corresponding ones of the specified source points. Further, one of separate listening points is designated, which is provisionally set relatively to the source points so that the acoustic images are localized with respect to the designated listening point.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 1994Date of Patent: December 17, 1996Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Toshihiro Inoue, Hiroyuki Torimura
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Patent number: 5558012Abstract: An automatic bundling machine comprises a pair of feed rollers respectively positioned at opposite sides of a band passage; a band-feeding actuator for rotating at least one of the feed rollers; a one-way clutch and a friction clutch mounted between the band-feeding rotary actuator and the feed rollers; a pair of hooks with a band receiving groove formed in an inner surface of the pair of hooks and communicating with the band passage; a flange portion formed on a nose of a rotor for twisting a band, band channels formed on the flange-shaped portion; and a pair of clamps, one end of which are axially supported by the flange-shaped portion and the other end of which are engaged with each of the hooks.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1995Date of Patent: September 24, 1996Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Osamu Yamashima, Toshihiro Inoue, Hiroshi Hasegawa
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Patent number: 5459924Abstract: A method of automatically inserting terminals with wires into desired terminal accommodating cavities in a connector housing after putting neighboring wires aside, and a wire sweeping arm and a driving device for the sweeping arm. The method includes the steps of: grasping the terminal with wire by terminal supporting hands and wire supporting hands; moving the wire sweeping arm in the direction that the wire sweeping arm sweep wires which are already accommodated in neighboring terminal accommodating cavities, the wire sweeping arm being disposed between the terminal accommodating cavities and the terminal supporting hands so as to move back and forth; moving the wire supporting hands and the terminal supporting hands toward the connector housing to insert the terminal with wire into the terminal accommodating cavity.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 1994Date of Patent: October 24, 1995Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Yoshihisa Ohsumi, Hiroo Suzuki, Takao Nakagame, Takamichi Maejima, Toshihiro Inoue, Osamu Yamashima, Fumio Kato, Toshinori Igura
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Patent number: 5353625Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a terminal crimping machine which assures that undesirable bending of a cable caused due to the fact that a terminal firmly fitted into a crimper is raised up together with the crimper after the time of terminal crimping is reduced as far as possible. A terminal crimping machine includes a crimper 3, an anvil 4 located opposite to the crimper 1, and a stopper 13 composed of a terminal disconnecting piece 14 and an arm piece 15, and the arm piece 15 is turnably disposed on a guide frame 11 of the ram 2 to turn about a pin 12. A tension spring 20 is bridged between the arm piece 15 and a spring fixing piece 19. As the ram 2 is lowered, it comes in slidable contact with the arm piece 15 so as to allow the arm piece 15 assume an upright attitude. At this time, the terminal disconnecting piece 14 is located at the terminal disconnecting position higher than the anvil 4 by a predetermined distance.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1993Date of Patent: October 11, 1994Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Atsushi Hoshino, Toshihiro Inoue
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Patent number: D418477Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 1999Date of Patent: January 4, 2000Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitaka Sunagawa, Yoshie Suzuki, Masayuki Ide, Toshihiro Inoue
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Patent number: D418807Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 1999Date of Patent: January 11, 2000Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshie Suzuki, Yoshitaka Sunagawa, Masayuki Ide, Toshihiro Inoue
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Patent number: D419132Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 1999Date of Patent: January 18, 2000Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshie Suzuki, Yoshitaka Sunagawa, Masayuki Ide, Toshihiro Inoue