Patents by Inventor Yohei Yokoyama

Yohei Yokoyama 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).

  • Patent number: 9935398
    Abstract: A connector has a housing and an internal structural body. The housing has a receiving portion while the internal structural body has contacts. The housing has a second upper inner wall surface and a second lower inner wall surface which define a rear portion of the receiving portion. Each of the second upper inner wall surface and the second lower inner wall surface is formed with contact accommodation portions which individually accommodate the contacts. The contact accommodation portions are grooves extending in a mating direction and opening to a front portion of the receiving portion at least in part. Each of the contacts has a spring portion which is resiliently deformable and a contact point supported by the spring portion. The contact point is situated inside the rear portion when the connector is separated from the mating connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Yohei Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9831615
    Abstract: A connector includes contacts arranged in a contact-arrangement plane and including a source contact and a signal contact, each of the contacts having a contact portion that comes into contact with a contact of a counter-connector, a ground plate made of metal disposed in parallel with the contact-arrangement plan, an insulator that holds the contacts and the ground plate, and a shell that covers an outer periphery of the insulator and is made of metal, the ground plate being disposed so as to face the contacts through a portion of the insulator with the contact portion of each contact being exposed, and having a cutout formed at an end of the ground plate adjacent to the contact portion of the source contact, and the insulator having a projection that fills the cutout of the ground plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignees: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited, Jae Europe Limited
    Inventors: Yuichi Saito, Yuzo Sato, Akihiro Matsunaga, Masaaki Takaku, Kouhei Ueda, Yohei Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20170331235
    Abstract: Provided is a connector including: a body forming component into which an upper contact group and a lower contact group are press-fitted forward in a fitting direction; and an upper contact insert component formed integrally with the upper contact group through insert molding. The upper contact insert component is arranged behind the lower contact group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicants: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED, JAE Hong Kong, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohei YOKOYAMA, Yuichi SAITO, Rintaro KATO
  • Patent number: 9780468
    Abstract: A connector is mateable with an object along a front-rear direction. The connector comprises a housing, a shell and an additional member. The housing has a base portion and a body portion. The body portion extends forward from the base portion along the front-rear direction. The shell has a cylindrical portion which covers the body portion of the housing in a plane perpendicular to the front-rear direction. The cylindrical portion has a connected portion. The additional member is press-fit in the base portion of the housing and has a main portion and a connection portion. The connection portion of the additional member extends from the main portion along the front-rear direction and is welded to the connected portion of the shell. The body portion of the housing and the connection portion sandwich the connected portion in a perpendicular direction perpendicular to the front-rear direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Yohei Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9748687
    Abstract: A connector has a front shell and a back shell. The front shell is provided with a first contact portion and a fixed portion. The first contact portion surrounds a periphery of the fixed portion in a plane orthogonal to a predetermined direction. The back shell is provided with an opening portion and a second contact portion. The second contact portion surrounds a periphery of the opening portion in a plane orthogonal to the predetermined direction. The second contact portion is in contact with the first contact portion in the predetermined direction so that the fixed portion is visible within the opening portion in the predetermined direction and that the back shell is positioned with respect to the front shell. The fixed portion and the second contact portion are fixable to each other using a conductive fixing agent through the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Yohei Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9742123
    Abstract: A connector includes a holding member, a contact, a shell and a ground member. The holding member is made of insulator defining a connection space. The contact has a contact point. The contact is held by the holding member. The contact point is located inside the connection space. The ground member is electrically connected to the shell. The ground member has a base portion, a ground spring portion and a ground contact point portion. The base portion is located between the holding member and the shell. The base portion is provided with a regulated portion sandwiched between the shell and the holding member. The ground spring portion extends from the base portion. The ground contact point portion is supported by the ground spring portion and protrudes into the connection space. In the front-rear direction, a position of the ground spring portion does not overlap with a position of the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Yohei Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9728885
    Abstract: A connector is mateable with a mating connector along a front-rear direction. The connector includes a contact member and a ground member. The contact member includes a plurality of contacts and an arrangement member. The arrangement member holds and arranges the contacts in a pitch direction perpendicular to the front-rear direction. The arrangement member is provided with two press-fit protrusions and an island-like protrusion. Each of the press-fit protrusions protrudes in a protruding direction perpendicular to both the front-rear direction and the pitch direction. The island-like protrusion protrudes in the protruding direction while extending long in a predetermined direction perpendicular to the protruding direction. The ground member has a plate-like main portion. The main portion of the ground member is formed with two holes and a protrusion accommodation portion. The press-fit protrusions are press-fit into the holes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Yohei Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20170222374
    Abstract: A connector includes contacts arranged in a contact-arrangement plane and including a source contact and a signal contact, each of the contacts having a contact portion that comes into contact with a contact of a counter-connector, a ground plate made of metal disposed in parallel with the contact-arrangement plan, an insulator that holds the contacts and the ground plate, and a shell that covers an outer periphery of the insulator and is made of metal, the ground plate being disposed so as to face the contacts through a portion of the insulator with the contact portion of each contact being exposed, and having a cutout formed at an end of the ground plate adjacent to the contact portion of the source contact, and the insulator having a projection that fills the cutout of the ground plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Yuichi SAITO, Yuzo SATO, Akihiro MATSUNAGA, Masaaki TAKAKU, Kouhei UEDA, Yohei YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 9705220
    Abstract: A connector mateable with a mating connector along a predetermined direction. The mating connector comprises a ground member and a mating signal terminal. The ground member has a ground contacted portion and a locked portion. The connector comprises a first portion, a second portion and a signal terminal. The first portion has a lock portion and a lock spring portion. The lock portion is brought into contact with the ground contacted portion in a process where the connector and the mating connector are mated with each other. The lock portion locks the locked portion under a state where the connector is mated with the mating connector. The signal terminal has a signal contact portion. The signal contact portion is to be brought into contact with the mating signal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Yohei Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9698537
    Abstract: A mating connector, that includes a mating ground portion, includes a holding member, a contact, a shell and a ground member. The holding member is formed of an insulating body defining a connection space, the contact has a contact point which is held by the holding member to be positioned in the connection space, the shell covers, at least in part, the holding member in a plane perpendicular to a front-rear direction, and the ground member is electrically connected with the shell and has a base portion positioned between the holding member and the shell. A ground spring extends from the base portion and a ground contact point to be connected to the mating ground portion, and has first, second and third springs. The third spring is inward of the second spring, and supports the ground contact point to project into the connection space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yohei Yokoyama, Masaaki Takaku, Kouhei Ueda, Tatsuya Shioda, Yoshio Minegishi
  • Publication number: 20170149164
    Abstract: A connector is mateable with a mating connector along a front-rear direction. The connector includes a contact member and a ground member. The contact member includes a plurality of contacts and an arrangement member. The arrangement member holds and arranges the contacts in a pitch direction perpendicular to the front-rear direction. The arrangement member is provided with two press-fit protrusions and an island-like protrusion. Each of the press-fit protrusions protrudes in a protruding direction perpendicular to both the front-rear direction and the pitch direction. The island-like protrusion protrudes in the protruding direction while extending long in a predetermined direction perpendicular to the protruding direction. The ground member has a plate-like main portion. The main portion of the ground member is formed with two holes and a protrusion accommodation portion. The press-fit protrusions are press-fit into the holes, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Yohei YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170125944
    Abstract: A connector has a housing and an internal structural body. The housing has a receiving portion while the internal structural body has contacts. The housing has a second upper inner wall surface and a second lower inner wall surface which define a rear portion of the receiving portion. Each of the second upper inner wall surface and the second lower inner wall surface is formed with contact accommodation portions which individually accommodate the contacts. The contact accommodation portions are grooves extending in a mating direction and opening to a front portion of the receiving portion at least in part. Each of the contacts has a spring portion which is resiliently deformable and a contact point supported by the spring portion. The contact point is situated inside the rear portion when the connector is separated from the mating connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Yohei YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170093076
    Abstract: A connector has a front shell and a back shell. The front shell is provided with a first contact portion and a fixed portion. The first contact portion surrounds a periphery of the fixed portion in a plane orthogonal to a predetermined direction. The back shell is provided with an opening portion and a second contact portion. The second contact portion surrounds a periphery of the opening portion in a plane orthogonal to the predetermined direction. The second contact portion is in contact with the first contact portion in the predetermined direction so that the fixed portion is visible within the opening portion in the predetermined direction and that the back shell is positioned with respect to the front shell. The fixed portion and the second contact portion are fixable to each other using a conductive fixing agent through the opening portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Yohei YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170093062
    Abstract: A connector is mateable with an object along a front-rear direction. The connector comprises a housing, a shell and an additional member. The housing has a base portion and a body portion. The body portion extends forward from the base portion along the front-rear direction. The shell has a cylindrical portion which covers the body potion of the housing in a plane perpendicular to the front-rear direction. The cylindrical portion has a connected portion. The additional member is press-fit in the base portion of the housing and has a main portion and a connection portion. The connection portion of the additional member extends from the main portion along the front-rear direction and is welded to the connected portion of the shell. The body portion of the housing and the connection portion sandwich the connected portion in a perpendicular direction perpendicular to the front-rear direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Yohei YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170085039
    Abstract: A connector includes a holding member, a contact, a shell and a ground member. The holding member is made of insulator defining a connection space. The contact has a contact point. The contact is held by the holding member. The contact point is located inside the connection space. The ground member is electrically connected to the shell. The ground member has a base portion, a ground spring portion and a ground contact point portion. The base portion is located between the holding member and the shell. The base portion is provided with a regulated portion sandwiched between the shell and the holding member. The ground spring portion extends from the base portion. The ground contact point portion is supported by the ground spring portion and protrudes into the connection space. In the front-rear direction, a position of the ground spring portion does not overlap with a position of the contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Yohei YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170054256
    Abstract: A mating connector, that includes a mating ground portion, includes a holding member, a contact, a shell and a ground member. The holding member is formed of an insulating body defining a connection space, the contact has a contact point which is held by the holding member to be positioned in the connection space, the shell covers, at least in part, the holding member in a plane perpendicular to a front-rear direction, and the ground member is electrically connected with the shell and has a base portion positioned between the holding member and the shell. A ground spring extends from the base portion and a ground contact point to be connected to the mating ground portion, and has first, second and third springs. The third spring is inward of the second spring, and supports the ground contact point to project into the connection space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yohei YOKOYAMA, Masaaki TAKAKU, Kouhei UEDA, Tatsuya SHIODA, Yoshio MINEGISHI
  • Patent number: D783539
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Yohei Yokoyama
  • Patent number: D786798
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Yohei Yokoyama
  • Patent number: D804424
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yohei Yokoyama, Masaaki Takaku, Tatsuya Shioda, Kouhei Ueda, Yoshio Minegishi
  • Patent number: D816042
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Yohei Yokoyama