Patents by Inventor Yoshikazu Sakakibara

Yoshikazu Sakakibara 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: 9713991
    Abstract: A wire harness is routed from a luggage compartment of an automobile along a hinge arm and toward a luggage door. An extra wire length accommodation case is positioned between the hinge arm and a vehicle body panel of the luggage compartment in a vertical direction which is an operation direction of the hinge arm. The extra wire length accommodation case has a shape that includes an arced wire entrance having a wire harness outlet linked with an arced portion of the hinge arm, and an extra wire length bypass continuous with the arced wire entrance. The wire harness is passed into the extra wire length bypass of the extra wire length accommodation case, then is drawn out through the outlet of the arced wire entrance and routed along the arced portion of the hinge arm toward the luggage door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Katou, Yoshikazu Sakakibara
  • 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
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20160280157
    Abstract: A caterpillar-shaped outer cover material for a wire harness is improved. An outer cover material for a wire harness that is made of an injection molded article and is caterpillar-shaped includes coupling plates that are provided along two edges of a band-shaped central plate in a width direction so as to protrude in parallel to each other. One of the coupling plate has locking claws that are provided at intervals in a length direction protruding from an end of that coupling plate, the other of the coupling plates has locked frames to which the locking claws are respectively locked and coupled, and that protrude from an end of that coupling plate, and the central plate has folding lines constituted by two grooves that extend in the length direction at a distance in the width direction, and has slits extending in the width direction that are provided at intervals in the length direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Shinji KATOU, Yoshikazu SAKAKIBARA
  • Publication number: 20160264073
    Abstract: A wire harness is routed from a luggage compartment of an automobile along a hinge arm and toward a luggage door. An extra wire length accommodation case is positioned between the hinge arm and a vehicle body panel of the luggage compartment in a vertical direction which is an operation direction of the hinge arm. The extra wire length accommodation case has a shape that includes an arced wire entrance having a wire harness outlet linked with an arced portion of the hinge arm, and an extra wire length bypass continuous with the arced wire entrance. The wire harness is passed into the extra wire length bypass of the extra wire length accommodation case, then is drawn out through the outlet of the arced wire entrance and routed along the arced portion of the hinge arm toward the luggage door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji KATOU, Yoshikazu SAKAKIBARA
  • Publication number: 20140339376
    Abstract: The present invention includes one harness rail having a straight line shape, the harness rail extending in a front-back direction adjacent to a lateral surface of a seat rail of a sliding seat mounted in a vehicle; and an extra length accommodation case linked to a front end of the harness rail. The harness rail includes a first slider sliding portion extending in the front-back direction, while the extra length accommodation case includes a second slider sliding portion linked to a front end of the first slider sliding portion and extending in a straight line front-back direction until reaching a front end arced portion. A slider connected to the sliding seat and displacing in the straight line front-back direction is slidably nested with the first and second slider sliding portions. The wire harness is inserted through the slider and into the harness rail and the extra length accommodation case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji KATOU, Yoshikazu SAKAKIBARA
  • Patent number: 5018305
    Abstract: A window regulator apparatus includes a guide rail fixed within a vehicle door, a bracket including a window mounted on the guide rail, a driving mechanism fixed within the door for moving the window up and down the guide rail, and a resilient member mounted on the guide rail for preventing the guide rail and window glass from contacting and thereby preventing the window glass from being damaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1991
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kuki, Yukio Isomura, Hirokazu Suzumura, Yoshikazu Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 5009035
    Abstract: A window regulator apparatus includes a guide rail fixed within a vehicle door, a bracket including a window supported on the guide rail, a driving mechanism fixed within the door for moving the window up and down the guide rail, resilient members interposed between the guide rail and bracket, and shoes interposed between the resilient means and guide rail to compress the resilient means and circumvent rattling of the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1991
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kuki, Yukio Isomura, Hirokazu Suzumura, Yoshikazu Sakakibara, Hiroshi Ishihara