Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Otsuta
Yasuhiro Otsuta 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: 12142878Abstract: A shielded connector includes a housing having a front opening portion and an electric wire insertion portion, a terminal to be accommodated in a terminal accommodating portion of the housing and to be connected to a mating terminal, a connection terminal to be connected to an electric wire, a first shielding shell to cover a rear surface of the housing, a second shielding shell having a braid connection portion and a shell fixing portion to be connected to the first shielding shell, a first fastening member to fasten the housing to the first shielding shell, a second fastening member to fasten the connection terminal to the terminal, and a third fastening member to fasten the shell fixing portion to the first shielding shell. The first, second and third fastening members have fastening directions parallel to each other, and are fastened from a front surface side of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Otsuta, Masato Taira, Miyuki Fukunaga
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Patent number: 12136792Abstract: A terminal block includes: busbars connected to a device; a collar through which a fastening member is inserted; a housing integrally molded with the busbars and the collar; and a capacitor including a casing and a ground terminal protruding from the casing, the capacitor connected to the busbars, in which the housing houses the casing in a state where the ground terminal faces the collar so that the ground terminal and the collar can be fastened together to a metal case by the fastening member.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Hayato Iizuka, Yasuhiro Otsuta
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Patent number: 12100914Abstract: A shielding member attached to a shielding shell. The shielding member includes a first and a second plate portion. The second plate portion includes a first and second ends, a fastening hole at both ends and a protruding portion on the first end. The protruding portion is longer than a length of the second plate portion. When a plurality of shielding members are attached to the shielding shell, the first end with the protruding portion is overlapped with the other first end of the adjacent shielding member so that it is located on the outside. When the first end is overlapped with the other end of the adjacent shielding member so that it is located on the inside, the protruding portion interferes with the first plate portion of the adjacent shielding member. In this way, the shielding member having the configuration can prevent erroneous assembly to the shielding shell.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Otsuta, Masato Taira
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Publication number: 20240178608Abstract: A waterproof terminal block includes a housing, a plurality of terminals configured to be inserted into and attached to the plurality of terminal insertion holes of the housing, a packing, and a holder fitted into a holder configured to be assembled to the housing and hold the packing. The housing has a cutting blade part at a partition wall partitioning an upper section of the housing into a plurality of packing fitting recess. The packing is integrally formed by connecting sealing parts of the plurality of sealing parts with a connecting parts. The cutting blade part is configured to cut the connecting parts when the plurality of terminals, the packing, and the holder are assembled to the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2023Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro TANAKA, Yasuhiro OTSUTA, Masatoshi YAMADA, Shogo FURUI, Yusuke TSUTAGAWA, Jun SUGIOKA
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Publication number: 20240128683Abstract: The CPA-attached connector 1a includes a connector body 11 and a CPA member 12. The connector body 11 includes a temporary latch portion 112 for the CPA member 12, a full latch portion 113 which, before the mating with a mating connector, restricts full latch of the CPA member, and which, during the mating, cancels restriction of the full latch by the mating connector, and a hood portion 114 configured to cover, in a manner of a canopy, a portion of the CPA member 12 in the full latch state. The CPA member 12 includes a CPA body 121 and a finger rest portion 122 provided on the CPA body 121, a portion of the finger rest portion 122 being exposed from the hood portion 114 even in the full latch state, an inclined surface 122a being formed in the exposed portion to incline toward a central axis of the connector body 11 in accordance with a distance from the hood portion 114.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicants: Yazaki Corporation, MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Koki Tokumoto, Yusuke Tsutagawa, Yasuhiro Otsuta, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Yoshio Nakamura, Yo Yamada
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Patent number: 11837837Abstract: A terminal block includes: a busbar including a first terminal portion and a second terminal portion, the first terminal portion having a through hole; a housing that holds the busbar and has a storage chamber; a nut stored in the storage chamber; and a holder including a support unit that supports the nut, the holder configured to be attached to the housing, in which the storage chamber has wall surfaces facing individual side surfaces of the nut, the storage chamber configured to restrict rotation of the nut by using the wall surfaces of the storage chamber, and the support unit is positioned on a side opposite to a side of the first terminal portion with respect to the nut, the support unit configured to support the nut by setting a threaded hole of the nut to face the through hole.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Hayato Iizuka, Yasuhiro Otsuta, Yuki Hiruta
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Publication number: 20220416479Abstract: A shielding member is to be attached to a shielding shell by a fastening member. The shielding member includes a first plate portion provided with an electric wire insertion port protruding in a first direction and a second plate portion formed by bending an end portion of the first plate portion toward a second direction opposite to the first direction. The second plate portion includes a first and second ends along an intersecting direction intersecting the first and second directions, a fastening hole provided at the first and second ends and a protruding portion provided on the first end and protruding toward the first direction. The first and second ends deviate from each other in a plate thickness direction of the second plate portion. A length of the protruding portion is longer than a length of the second plate portion along the first and second directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro OTSUTA, Masato TAIRA
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Publication number: 20220416478Abstract: A shielded connector includes a housing having a front opening portion and an electric wire insertion portion, a terminal to be accommodated in a terminal accommodating portion of the housing and to be connected to a mating terminal, a connection terminal to be connected to an electric wire, a first shielding shell to cover a rear surface of the housing, a second shielding shell having a braid connection portion and a shell fixing portion to be connected to the first shielding shell, a first fastening member to fasten the housing to the first shielding shell, a second fastening member to fasten the connection terminal to the terminal, and a third fastening member to fasten the shell fixing portion to the first shielding shell. The first, second and third fastening members have fastening directions parallel to each other, and are fastened from a front surface side of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro OTSUTA, Masato TAIRA, Miyuki FUKUNAGA
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Publication number: 20220407246Abstract: A terminal block includes: busbars connected to a device; a collar through which a fastening member is inserted; a housing integrally molded with the busbars and the collar; and a capacitor including a casing and a ground terminal protruding from the casing, the capacitor connected to the busbars, in which the housing houses the casing in a state where the ground terminal faces the collar so that the ground terminal and the collar can be fastened together to a metal case by the fastening member.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Hayato IIZUKA, Yasuhiro OTSUTA
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Publication number: 20220407245Abstract: A terminal block includes: a busbar including a first terminal portion and a second terminal portion, the first terminal portion having a through hole; a housing that holds the busbar and has a storage chamber; a nut stored in the storage chamber; and a holder including a support unit that supports the nut, the holder configured to be attached to the housing, in which the storage chamber has wall surfaces facing individual side surfaces of the nut, the storage chamber configured to restrict rotation of the nut by using the wall surfaces of the storage chamber, and the support unit is positioned on a side opposite to a side of the first terminal portion with respect to the nut, the support unit configured to support the nut by setting a threaded hole of the nut to face the through hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Hayato IIZUKA, Yasuhiro OTSUTA, YUki HIRUTA
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Publication number: 20190319373Abstract: Provided is an electric wire part including a conductive core wire and a terminal part in which an object to be terminalized of the core wire is solidified into a terminal shape after being melted. The terminal part includes a connection part having a first through hole for inserting a male screw part therethrough, and a projecting part projecting from the connection part in at least one axial direction of the first through hole. The projecting part is formed in an annular shape having a second through hole communicated to the first through hole with the axial direction identical to an axial direction of the first through hole, and an end surface at a projecting direction side of the annular shape that is able to come into surface contact with a contact surface of a counterpart connection part serving as an object to be fastened.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Shigeo Mori, Yasuhiro Otsuta, Takashi Ishihara
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Patent number: 9812805Abstract: A butting surface (21) of a first butting terminal fitting (20) held by a first terminal accommodating member (40) is formed in a curved-surface configuration protruding toward a second butting terminal fitting (30) side held by a second terminal accommodating member (50). A plurality of contact spring pieces (33a and 33b) of the second butting terminal fitting (30) which are butted against the butting surface (21) and resiliently deformed are flat plate type leaf springs arranged on the same plane.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Tomine, Yasuhiro Otsuta
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Patent number: 9783136Abstract: A wire harness includes a wire portion having three wires arranged in the same direction, connectors connected to both end portions of the wire portion, a middle portion installed in an intermediate position of the wire portion between the connectors, a wire-side surge reducing section provided in the wire portion, a connector-side surge reducing section provided in each of the connectors, and a middle portion-side surge reducing section provided in the middle portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2016Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Yamaguchi, Yoshitaka Ohkubo, Hajime Kato, Yasuhiro Otsuta, Takeshi Innan, Hiroshi Aihara
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Publication number: 20160362074Abstract: A wire harness includes a wire portion having three wires arranged in the same direction, connectors connected to both end portions of the wire portion, a middle portion installed in an intermediate position of the wire portion between the connectors, a wire-side surge reducing section provided in the wire portion, a connector-side surge reducing section provided in each of the connectors, and a middle portion-side surge reducing section provided in the middle portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2016Publication date: December 15, 2016Applicants: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro YAMAGUCHI, Yoshitaka OHKUBO, Hajime KATO, Yasuhiro OTSUTA, Takeshi INNAN, Hiroshi AIHARA
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Patent number: 9509075Abstract: Provided is a structure in which: after a harness-side connector including a harness-side female terminal and a unit-side connector including a unit-side female terminal are caused to face each other at a position of a through hole in a floor panel, the harness-side connector and the unit-side connector are connected by a male terminal of a male connection member. In more detail, provided is a structure in which the male terminal of the male connection member is inserted through a connection-use penetrating part of the unit-side female terminal to electrically connect two female terminals, that is, the harness-side female terminal and the unit-side female terminal, to each other. Thus, a connector connection structure that does not cause the terminals to deform can be provided, and a connector connection structure that can also enhance ease of assembly and enhance ease of maintenance as a consequence can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Tomine, Yasuhiro Otsuta
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Patent number: 9509074Abstract: Each terminal has a connection portion to be connected to a portion of a corresponding one of the electric wires from which an insulation coating is stripped off such that a core wire is exposed, and an extension portion extending from the connection portion and to be connected to a terminal member of a counterpart connection device. The extension portions are each formed to have a cross section of an arc shape and are arranged such that the cross sections are arranged in a substantially circular manner and such that the extension portions are spaced from each other in a circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2015Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Yasuhiro Otsuta
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Publication number: 20160149328Abstract: A butting surface (21) of a first butting terminal fitting (20) held by a first terminal accommodating member (40) is formed in a curved-surface configuration protruding toward a second butting terminal fitting (30) side held by a second terminal accommodating member (50). A plurality of contact spring pieces (33a and 33b) of the second butting terminal fitting (30) which are butted against the butting surface (21) and resiliently deformed are flat plate type leaf springs arranged on the same plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2014Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Kazuhiro Tomine, Yasuhiro Otsuta
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Publication number: 20160118739Abstract: Provided is a structure in which: after a harness-side connector including a harness-side female terminal and a unit-side connector including a unit-side female terminal are caused to face each other at a position of a through hole in a floor panel, the harness-side connector and the unit-side connector are connected by a male terminal of a male connection member. In more detail, provided is a structure in which the male terminal of the male connection member is inserted through a connection-use penetrating part of the unit-side female terminal to electrically connect two female terminals, that is, the harness-side female terminal and the unit-side female terminal, to each other. Thus, a connector connection structure that does not cause the terminals to deform can be provided, and a connector connection structure that can also enhance ease of assembly and enhance ease of maintenance as a consequence can be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2015Publication date: April 28, 2016Applicant: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro TOMINE, Yasuhiro OTSUTA
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Publication number: 20160043491Abstract: Each terminal has a connection portion to be connected to a portion of a corresponding one of the electric wires from which an insulation coating is stripped off such that a core wire is exposed, and an extension portion extending from the connection portion and to be connected to a terminal member of a counterpart connection device. The extension portions are each formed to have a cross section of an arc shape and are arranged such that the cross sections are arranged in a substantially circular manner and such that the extension portions are spaced from each other in a circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhiro Otsuta