Patents by Inventor Tsukasa Sekino

Tsukasa Sekino 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: 20150360628
    Abstract: The present invention is to prevent sand or water from adhering to a spring member biasing a rotary member of a power supply device and thus cause the power supply device to smoothly and reliably perform a biasing operation of the rotary member over a long period. Provided is a protection structure for a spring member of power supply devices including: base members; cover members provided integrally with or separately from the base members; rotary members supported swingably by the base members and the cover members and leads out and holds a wire harness; and annular spring members biasing the rotary members in any one of swing directions, wherein the spring members are housed inside the cover members so that foreign matters are prevented from adhering to the spring member from the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Hiroshi Yamashita, Hiroaki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20150330130
    Abstract: An arm power supply device includes a first arm configured to be rotatably and axially supported to a base member, and a second arm configured to be rotatably and axially supported on a rotation tip side of the first arm. The second arm includes a harness insertion groove and a harness fixing portion on a rotation tip side. There is employed a configuration in which an outer wall of the harness insertion groove is extended longer than an inner wall on a rotational base end side, the outer wall includes an inclined or bent guide wall portion on the rotational base end side, and a wire harness is guided upward along the guide wall portion when the second arm rotates to the lower side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Terada, Tsukasa Sekino, Hiroshi Yamashita, Daisuke Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20150325989
    Abstract: The present invention is to smoothly bend a wire harness equipped with a protection tube between a sliding structure body and a fixed structure body without causing buckling or the like and to prevent interference with the fixed structure body. A wire harness equipped with a bendable protection tube is swingably arranged between a fixed structure body and a sliding structure body, a rigidity imparting portion is formed on a side surface of an end portion of the protection tube in the fixed structure body side, and the end portion of the protection tube constantly extends in a linear manner by the rigidity imparting portion when the sliding structure body is opened or closed. The rigidity imparting portion is configured by a uniformly shaped portion on a tip side of the end portion of the protection tube and a gradually-changing shaped portion on a base end side of the end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Hiroshi Yamashita, Hiroaki Watanabe, Tomoyasu Terada
  • Publication number: 20150321626
    Abstract: A power supply device includes: a rotary member that holds a wire harness inserted therethrough; and a support member that swingably supports the rotary member and is fixed to a fixed structure body or a sliding structure body, wherein the rotary member has an annular outer peripheral wall and a harness lead-out portion, the support member has one sidewall disposed along the outer peripheral wall, and the harness lead-out portion moves in a direction away from the sidewall when the sliding structure body is fully opened, the outer peripheral wall is widely exposed between the harness lead-out portion and the sidewall, and the outer peripheral wall and the sidewall are overlapped with each other in a plate thickness direction in a state where the outer peripheral wall is widely exposed and come in contact with each other so as to avoid an entry of foreign matters therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Hiroshi Yamashita, Hiroaki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20150203057
    Abstract: An arm power supply device includes a first arm configured to be axially supported to a base member to be freely rotated, and a second arm configured to be axially supported on the rotation tip side of the first arm to be freely rotated. The second arm includes a harness insertion groove and a harness fixing portion on the rotation tip side. The first arm includes a flange portion on the rotation tip side to prevent a harness covering a portion of the harness insertion groove on a rotational base end side from escaping. The flange portion is formed in a longitudinal direction of the first arm to protrude. The flange portion is formed in a width integrally with a longitudinal direction and a width direction of the first arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Terada, Tsukasa Sekino, Hiroshi Yamashita, Daisuke Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9024190
    Abstract: This object aims to provide a wire cabling device which a case can be shared among a plurality of devices for cabling electric wires to a plurality of sliders provided on the right and left sides of an automobile. A wire cabling device (1) comprises electric wires (50) for connecting an electronic apparatus mounted onto the floor (2) of an automobile with an electronic apparatus mounted to a seat (3), a case (5) for housing the intermediate portions of the wires (50), a slider capable of moving in linkage with the seat (3) on a rail installed in the case (5) while holding the wires (50), and a regulation member (90) which is provided in the case (5) and regulates the cabling route of the wires (50) in the case (5) by defining the case (5). The case (5) is so formed as to have a predetermined tubular cross-section along the sliding direction of the seat (3) by roll-molding, and the regulation member (90) is formed independently from the case (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Terada, Tsukasa Sekino, Shinji Kato, Shougo Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20150115648
    Abstract: A sliding-door power feeding structure is provided which achieves minimized manufacturing costs, small size, and light weight. The sliding-door power feeding structure includes a second end retainer provided between a door panel and a door trim and configured to retain a second end of an electric wire, the second end retainer including a base fixed to one of the door panel and the door trim, a turnable arm turnably supported on the base and having an end configured to retain the electric wire, and biasing part for biasing the turnable arm in a direction to absorb a surplus length of the electric wire, wherein the door trim has a lower edge including an electric wire guiding portion, the electric wire guiding portion including a first bend bent to the outboard side and a second bend bent at an end of the first bend downward and to the inboard side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Terada, Tsukasa Sekino, Hiroshi Yamashita, Daisuke Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20150108289
    Abstract: There is employed an arm power supply device in which a first arm is rotatably and axially supported to a base member having one harness fixing portion, a second arm having the other harness fixing portion is rotatably and axially supported on a rotation tip side of the first arm, the first arm includes an enclosure portion forming a slit through which a wire harness is inserted, and the wire harness passes from the base member to the slit and is wired over the second arm. The enclosure portion includes an inclined wall to guide the wire harness derived in a bent shape from the second arm to be in contact with the inner surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Terada, Tsukasa Sekino, Hiroshi Yamashita, Daisuke Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20150107876
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electric wire routing device with which the device can be reduced in size and a mounting space for the device can be reduced. The electric wire routing device includes an outer member provided in either one of a support body and a slide body, and an inner member turnably supported in the outer member. An electric wire is inserted through the inner member. The inner member is configured by combining, with each other, a pair of inner divided bodies having the same shapes. The inner divided bodies sandwich butt surfaces which intersect with a first axis and which include a second axis. Each of the inner divided bodies includes a male lock portion provided on one side of a radial direction of the device, and a female lock portion provided on the other side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Terada, Tsukasa Sekino, Hiroshi Yamashita, Daisuke Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20150102182
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a power-supplying system that can restrain an increase in size thereof with a spring equipped therewith. A first end of a rolling spring projects inwardly, and a first locking section is formed on a primary shaft of a turning member, the primary shaft being disposed inside the rolling spring so that the turning member can engage with the rolling spring at the inside of the rolling spring, thereby restraining an increase in size thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Hiroshi Yamashita, Daisuke Okamoto
  • Patent number: 8937250
    Abstract: A wiring harness guiding apparatus guides a wiring harness 4 between a floor of a car and a seat arranged slidably at the floor, and includes a support body 7A supporting the seat; a protector 8A guiding the airing harness 4 toward the seat; a rail arranging the support body 7A and the protector 8A slidably therein; and an excess portion receiving section receiving a excess portion of the wiring harness 4. The protector 8A includes a wiring harness fixing member 80 fixing the wiring harness 4 led into the rail; a lead-out member 83 extending with a pipe shape from the wiring harness fixing member 80 and leading the wiring harness 4 therethrough toward the slide body; and a support body mount member 87 arranged at a mounted member of the support body so as to be movable along a widthwise direction of the rail by having a clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Terada, Tsukasa Sekino, Shinji Kato
  • Patent number: 8841551
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a compact sliding device having a simple structure configured to reduce the number of cut lines formed on a mat mounted on a cabin of a vehicle. A sliding device 1 for routing an electric wire 5 between a vehicle floor and a seat includes: a rail 9 having a supporting rail 7 to which a supporting body 11 of the seat is attached, and a receiving part 8 extended along the supporting rail 7; a corrugate tube 4 receiving the electric wire 5; a slider 10 configured to slide in conjunction with the supporting body 11 while holding the corrugate tube 4 extracted into an inside of the supporting rail 7; and a guiding member 12 for bending the corrugate tube 4 extracted out of the supporting rail 7 in a U-shape, and guiding the corrugate tube 4 into an inside of the receiving part 8, and for guiding the corrugate tube 4 onto an inner side wall 81 of the receiving part 8 away from the supporting rail 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Tomoyasu Terada, Shinji Katou
  • Publication number: 20140231131
    Abstract: Provided is a sliding power supply device which can reduce entire length of a case extendably housing a wiring harness, for a large slide stroke of a sliding seat and such. The sliding power supply device includes a long case extendably housing a wiring harness, a slider arranged slidable in a longitudinal direction of the case and arranged to lead out the wiring harness to outside of the case, and an extra length absorption portion arranged to support a wiring harness portion lead outside of the case such that the wiring harness portion is lead out at location further away from a movement end of the slider in the longitudinal direction of the case. The extra length absorption portion is a subcase having at least a bottom plate portion. Both ends of the wiring harness portion in a movement direction of the slider are positioned at the same height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Shinji Kato
  • Patent number: 8686286
    Abstract: An electrical wire routing device for routing an electric wire between a floor in an automobile and a seat includes a case following parallel to a support rail to which a support body supporting the seat is slidably attached. The case includes a tubular movement section attaching the electric wire thereto, guiding the electric wire to the seat, to which a slider sliding in association with the movement of the seat is slidably attached, and a housing section accommodating the extra length of the electric wire. The movement section and the housing section are provided as separated parts and placed parallel to each other. The extra length of the electric wire extracted from one end portion of the movement section and drawn into the housing section is accommodated in the housing section with the electric wire bent in a U-shape. The electric wire is accommodated in the corrugated tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Tomoyasu Terada, Shinji Kato
  • Publication number: 20130181512
    Abstract: The wiring-harness routing device 1 includes two wiring harness 10, a support body 3 mounted slidably at a rail 2 and supporting a seat, and a protector 4 sliding interlockingly with the support body 3 and leading the two wiring harnesses 10 to the seat. The protector 4 includes a pair of wiring-harness hold portion 43 holding the two wiring harnesses 10 led through an opening 20 into the rail 2 to be arranged in parallel; portion arranged between the pair of wiring-harness hold portions 43, and passing the two wiring harnesses 10 therethrough, and extending with a cylindrical shape so as to go through the slit and be led to an outside of the rail 2; and a mount portion 68 attached at the support body 3 so as to have a gap allowing motion in the widthwise direction of the rail 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicants: TOYOTA AUTO BODY CO., LTD., YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Terada, Tsukasa Sekino, Seiji Iwahara, Masaki Yokoyama, Shinji Kato, Fumiaki Sato, Yasuhiro Sakakibara, Yasunori Takenaka, Toshio Araki, Ryuya Ishimaru, Tetsuya Kaisaku
  • Patent number: 8324501
    Abstract: An arm structure includes a first arm pivotally supported on a body, and a second arm pivotally supported on the first arm at an axis portion formed on a distal end side of the first arm. A wire harness fixing portion for fixing a wire harness is provided at a distal end side of the second arm. A guide portion having a curved face for guiding the wire harness is provided at an end portion at an end side of the second arm, the end side being opposite to the distal end side. A width of the guide portion is larger than a width of a portion of the second arm corresponding to the axis portion, in a width direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the second arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Terada, Tsukasa Sekino, Mitsunobu Katou, Hiroshi Yamashita, Daisuke Okamoto, Tomoaki Nishimura, Motonari Inagaki
  • Patent number: 8247694
    Abstract: A curved wall portion along which a wiring harness is bendably extended has a foreign-matter-escape side opening, at one wall continuing to a top opening of an upward guiding cylinder of a protector. A foreign-matter-escape side opening on the other wall of the cylinder proximate to the opening is opposed to the curved wall portion. A projection on the other wall in the guiding cylinder and below the side opening of the wall has an upwardly sloping surface continuing thereto. A projection in the guiding cylinder is above the side opening of the other wall, traversing the cylinder. The protector includes one separate protector member and the other separate protector member, the former having a projection extending toward the latter to cover a joining area thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Seiji Iwahara, Makoto Nagasaki, Akihito Kouketsu, Hiroyuki Wakamatsu, Ryuuya Ishimaru, Yoshihiko Nakahama
  • Publication number: 20120162959
    Abstract: A wiring harness guiding apparatus guides a wiring harness 4 between a floor of a car and a seat arranged slidably at the floor, and includes a support body 7A supporting the seat; a protector 8A guiding the airing harness 4 toward the seat; a rail arranging the support body 7A and the protector 8A slidably therein; and an excess portion receiving section receiving a excess portion of the wiring harness 4. The protector 8A includes a wiring harness fixing member 80 fixing the wiring harness 4 led into the rail; a lead-out member 83 extending with a pipe shape from the wiring harness fixing member 80 and leading the wiring harness 4 therethrough toward the slide body; and a support body mount member 87 arranged at a mounted member of the support body so as to be movable along a widthwise direction of the rail by having a clearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Terada, Tsukasa Sekino, Shinji Kato
  • Publication number: 20120024561
    Abstract: An electrical wire routing device for routing an electric wire between a floor in an automobile and a seat includes a case following parallel to a support rail to which a support body supporting the seat is slidably attached. The case includes a tubelar movement section attaching the electric wire thereto, guiding the electric wire to the seat, to which a slider sliding in association with the movement of the seat is slidably attached, and a housing section accommodating the extra length of the electric wire. The movement section and the housing section are provided as separated parts and placed parallel to each other. The extra length of the electric wire extracted from one end portion of the movement section and drawn into the housing section is accommodated in the housing section with the electric wire bent in a U-shape. The electric wire is accommodated in the corrugated tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2009
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Tomoyasu Terada, Shinji Kato
  • Publication number: 20120024564
    Abstract: A harness wiring apparatus wires a harness between a floor of a car and a seat, which is supported by a supporting member mounted at a long-tube-shaped support rail fixed at the floor. The harness wiring apparatus 1A includes a slider 10 holding the harness 4, which is led through an opening arranged at one end 7a in a direction of lengthwise of the support rail 7 into the support rail 7, and sliding interlockingly with the seat and the supporting member 11, and leading the harness 4 out of the support rail 7 through a slit 75 arranged at the support rail to the seat; and a receiving section 8 arranged in parallel to the support rail 7, and receiving an extra-length of the harness 4, which is led to an outside of the support rail 7 and folded to U-shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsukasa Sekino, Tomoyasu Terada, Shinji Katou