Patents by Inventor Tsutomu OOTANI

Tsutomu OOTANI 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).

  • Wire harness routing device for sliding seat
    Patent number: 9573536
    Abstract: A branch wire branching from a trunk wire of a floor harness routed to an automobile is used as a wire harness supplying power to the sliding seat. The wire harness is inserted within an extra length accommodation case, and in addition, the extra length accommodation case is fixated, facing downward, to a seat rail to which the sliding seat is slidably mounted, and is accommodated in a space below the seat rail. The wire harness U-turned within the extra length accommodation case is passed through the slider and extracted to a sliding seat side and connected to the seat harness within the sliding seat. A bottom portion of the slider is slidably mounted to a straight line direction slider sliding groove provided on a top end of the extra length accommodation case and a top portion of the slider is fixated to the sliding seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Katou, Tsutomu Ootani, Yoshikazu Sakakibara, Satoshi Ujita
  • WIRE HARNESS ROUTING DEVICE FOR SLIDING SEAT
    Publication number: 20160288740
    Abstract: A branch wire branching from a trunk wire of a floor harness routed to an automobile is used as a wire harness supplying power to the sliding seat. The wire harness is inserted within an extra length accommodation case, and in addition, the extra length accommodation case is fixated, facing downward, to a seat rail to which the sliding seat is slidably mounted, and is accommodated in a space below the seat rail. The wire harness U-turned within the extra length accommodation case is passed through the slider and extracted to a sliding seat side and connected to the seat harness within the sliding seat. A bottom portion of the slider is slidably mounted to a straight line direction slider sliding groove provided on a top end of the extra length accommodation case and a top portion of the slider is fixated to the sliding seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji KATOU, Tsutomu OOTANI, Yoshikazu SAKAKIBARA, Satoshi UJITA