Patents by Inventor Yoshimi Uchida
Yoshimi Uchida 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: 9742124Abstract: A terminal block including an electric wire, a shield material, a terminal, a housing and a shield bracket. The shield material is configured to cover at least a part of the electric wire. The electric wire is connected to the terminal. The housing is configured to accommodate the terminal. The shield bracket is fixed to the housing. The shield bracket is configured to hold the shield material, and includes a folding portion. The folding portion is configured to hold an end of the shield material by sandwiching the end of the shield material. The folding portion has a notch hole.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Haruki Kusamaki, Hiroyuki Matsuoka, Takuya Tate, Yoshimi Uchida, Junpei Nakamoto, Tetsuya Iida, Daisuke Hashimoto, Kouji Fukumoto
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Publication number: 20160380390Abstract: A terminal block including an electric wire, a shield material, a terminal, a housing and a shield bracket. The shield material is configured to cover at least a part of the electric wire. The electric wire is connected to the terminal. The housing is configured to accommodate the terminal. The shield bracket is fixed to the housing. The shield bracket is configured to hold the shield material, and includes a folding portion. The folding portion is configured to hold an end of the shield material by sandwiching the end of the shield material. The folding portion has a notch hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2015Publication date: December 29, 2016Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Autonetworks Technologies, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Haruki KUSAMAKI, Hiroyuki MATSUOKA, Takuya TATE, Yoshimi UCHIDA, Junpei NAKAMOTO, Tetsuya IIDA, Daisuke HASHIMOTO, Kouji FUKUMOTO
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Patent number: 9318237Abstract: A cable harness includes a plurality of cables and an electrically-conductive outer conductor surrounding the plurality of cables. The outer conductor is partially constituted by a conductor tube having a smooth outer peripheral surface. An outside water cutoff member configured to prevent water from coming inside a hole of a body panel is placed between the smooth outer peripheral surface of the conductor tube and an edge of the hole of the body panel. Further, an inside water cutoff member having through holes through which the plurality of cables of the conductor tube passes, and configured to close an end of the conductor tube is provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2014Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Shoichi Minami, Yoshimi Uchida, Masanori Hirotsuji
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Publication number: 20150060134Abstract: A cable harness includes a plurality of cables and an electrically-conductive outer conductor surrounding the plurality of cables. The outer conductor is partially constituted by a conductor tube having a smooth outer peripheral surface. An outside water cutoff member configured to prevent water from coming inside a hole of a body panel is placed between the smooth outer peripheral surface of the conductor tube and an edge of the hole of the body panel. Further, an inside water cutoff member having through holes through which the plurality of cables of the conductor tube passes, and configured to close an end of the conductor tube is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Shoichi Minami, Yoshimi Uchida, Masanori Hirotsuji
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Patent number: 7683265Abstract: A grommet is formed having a funnel shaped portion and a tubular portion linked to a small diameter end portion of the funnel shaped portion. The grommet is inserted to an aperture of a car body panel after a wire harness is passed through and attached to the funnel shaped portion and the tubular portion, and a body latch groove provided on the external circumferential surface of the funnel shaped portion is latched to the car body panel. An extended tubular portion is provided that projects from the tubular portion, and extends inside the funnel shaped portion. A plurality of ribs is provided on an external circumferential surface of the extended tubular portion. The ribs include type one ribs having grooves on both surfaces of an element linking the rib to the extended tubular portion, and a type two rib having no groove.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2007Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshimi Uchida, Koji Yonezu, Manabu Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20080017401Abstract: A grommet is formed having a funnel shaped portion and a tubular portion linked to a small diameter end portion of the funnel shaped portion. The grommet is inserted to an aperture of a car body panel after a wire harness is passed through and attached to the funnel shaped portion and the tubular portion, and a body latch groove provided on the external circumferential surface of the funnel shaped portion is latched to the car body panel. An extended tubular portion is provided that projects from the tubular portion, and extends inside the funnel shaped portion. A plurality of ribs is provided on an external circumferential surface of the extended tubular portion. The ribs include type one ribs having grooves on both surfaces of an element linking the rib to the extended tubular portion, and a type two rib having no groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2007Publication date: January 24, 2008Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTDInventors: Yoshimi Uchida, Koji Yonezu, Manabu Matsumoto
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Patent number: 6901627Abstract: A locking claw (23a) to be locked to a through-hole (H) projects outwardly from a peripheral wall (21) of a resinous inner member (20). At least one pair of locking holes (24) is formed on a locking flange part (22) projecting from the peripheral wall (21). An annular concavity (12a) (13a), on which the locking flange part (22) fits, is formed on an inner peripheral surface of a large-diameter cylindrical part (12, 13). Locking projections (12a-1, 13a-1) project from a leading end of a side wall of the annular concavity (12a, 13a). The locking projections (12a-1, 13a-1) are inserted into and locked with the locking holes (24). Locking claws (123a-126a) project from the resinous inner member (120) and are locked to a through-hole (H1) of the body panel (P1).Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2002Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventor: Yoshimi Uchida
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Patent number: 6897380Abstract: The grommet having a longitudinal axis includes a funnel shaped portion having a flared end, a narrowed end and a conical wall with external and internal conical faces. The external conical face includes an external circular groove having a groove base. The grommet further includes a tubular portion extending outwardly from a circular joint section formed at the narrowed end of the funnel shaped portion. The grommet is configured to mount a wire harness for vehicles containing a water-trapping zone, and to be installed into a through-hole formed in a body panel of a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2003Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Sakata, Yoshimi Uchida
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Patent number: 6747209Abstract: A clamp has an annular strap section enclosing an interior space and defining an opening between opposite ends of the strap section. A pair of insertion engagement sections are at opposite ends of the strap section. The insertion engagement sections stand outwardly and oppose each other at opposite ends of the opening. Each insertion engagement section includes an axle plate portion projecting from an end of the opening. A wing portion is bent down from a distal end of the axle plate portion. A stepped latching portion is formed on a distal end of the wing portion. A dimension of the opening is set to be narrower than a diameter of a wire harness to be contained in the interior space. The clamp contains the wire harness in the interior space while the annular strap section is elastically bent outwardly to widen the opening.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2003Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshimi Uchida, Takeharu Ito
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Publication number: 20040046088Abstract: A one-piece band clamp that simplifies the installation of a wire harness. The band clamp includes a band portion whose separated ends form a space, and a pair of insertion members, each formed at an end of a band portion adjacent to the space. The insertion members include insertion plates, lock fingers which include lip portions extending outward and downward from the upper edge of the insertion plates, a lock claw formed on at least one insertion plate, and at least one lock notch formed on the facing insertion plate. The wire harness is inserted into a band portion through the space, the lock claws are hooked over the lock notches to join insertion members, which are then inserted into an aperture in a vehicle body panel. Lip portions of the lock fingers press against the edges of the aperture to secure the band clamp to the vehicle body panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2003Publication date: March 11, 2004Applicant: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshimi Uchida, Takeharu Ito
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Patent number: 6685195Abstract: A grommet has a plurality of projecting strip portions provided on an outer peripheral surface of a tapered portion, extending in an axial direction of the tapered portion and being spaced from each other in a circumferential direction. The grommet also has a plurality of grooves on the outer projecting strip portions. The grooves extend in the circumferential direction, and are configured to generate tactile sensation when the grommet is mounted into the through hole of the automobile body panel.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2002Date of Patent: February 3, 2004Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshimi Uchida, Tsutomu Sakata, Takashi Okuhara
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Publication number: 20030234116Abstract: A clamp has an annular strap section enclosing an interior space and defining an opening between opposite ends of the strap section. A pair of insertion engagement sections are at opposite ends of said strap section. The insertion engagement sections stand outwardly and oppose each other at opposite ends of the opening. Each insertion engagement section includes an axle plate portion projecting from an end of the opening. A wing portion is bent down from a distal end of the axle plate portion. A stepped latching portion is formed on a distal end of the wing portion. A dimension of the opening is set to be narrower than a diameter of a wire harness to be contained in the interior space. The clamp contains the wire harness in the interior space while the annular strap section is elastically bent outwardly to widen the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2003Publication date: December 25, 2003Inventors: Yoshimi Uchida, Takeharu Ito
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Patent number: 6603078Abstract: A grommet has a plurality of projecting strip portions provided on an outer peripheral surface of a tapered portion, extending in an axial direction of the tapered portion and being spaced from each other in a circumferential direction. The grommet also includes at least one sunken portion, which defines the outer peripheral surface of the tapered portion between adjacent projecting strip portions. The sunken portion includes a groove extending in an axial direction of the grommet.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2001Date of Patent: August 5, 2003Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Okuhara, Yoshimi Uchida, Tsutomu Sakata
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Publication number: 20030061680Abstract: A locking claw (23a) to be locked to a through-hole (H) projects outwardly from a peripheral wall (21) of a resinous inner member (20). At least one pair of locking holes (24) is formed on a locking flange part (22) projecting from the peripheral wall (21). An annular concavity (12a) (13a), on which the locking flange part (22) fits, is formed on an inner peripheral surface of a large-diameter cylindrical part (12, 13). Locking projections (12a-1, 13a-1) project from a leading end of a side wall of the annular concavity (12a, 13a). The locking projections (12a-1, 13a-1) are inserted into and locked with the locking holes (24). Locking claws (123a-126a) project from the resinous inner member (120) and are locked to a through-hole (H1) of the body panel (P1).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2002Publication date: April 3, 2003Inventor: Yoshimi Uchida
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Publication number: 20030062694Abstract: A grommet has a plurality of projecting strip portions provided on an outer peripheral surface of a tapered portion, extending in an axial direction of the tapered portion and being spaced from each other in a circumferential direction. The grommet also has a plurality of grooves on the outer projecting strip portions. The grooves extend in the circumferential direction, and are configured to generate tactile sensation when the grommet is mounted into the through hole of the automobile body panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2002Publication date: April 3, 2003Applicant: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshimi Uchida, Tsutomu Sakata, Takashi Okuhara
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Patent number: 6495767Abstract: A grommet has a plurality of inner projecting strip portions and a plurality of outer projecting strip portions on inner and outer peripheral surfaces of the tapered portion, respectively. The plurality of inner and outer projecting strip portions respectively extend in an axial direction of the tapered portion and are spaced from each other in a circumferential direction. The outer projecting strip portions are located opposing to the inner projecting strip portions. A projection amount of the outer projecting strip portions is changed at a contact point. At the contact point, when the grommet is inserted into a through hole, the grommet first contacts an inner peripheral surface of the through hole. The projection amount between the contact point and a large diameter side end of the projecting strip portions is smaller than a second projection amount between the contact point and a small diameter side end.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2001Date of Patent: December 17, 2002Assignees: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Okuhara, Yoshimi Uchida, Tsutomu Sakata, Kenichiro Akizuki
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Patent number: 6442794Abstract: A grommet for a wire harness is provided that includes a small-diameter portion into which a wire harness is insertable and which is tightly contactable with the wire harness, a large-diameter portion having an engaging groove engageable with an inner peripheral edge of an automobile body panel, an extending portion extending past an end of the small-diameter portion along an axial direction thereof, and a lip portion radially projecting from an outer peripheral surface of the extending portion. The lip portion tightly contacts an inner peripheral surface of the insertion hole from inside when the grommet is mounted. The lip portion has a step portion including a first face and a second face respectively engageable with the inner peripheral surface and an outer surface adjacent to a peripheral edge of the insertion hole. Thus, the tightness of the seal between the grommet and a sound insulator secured on the automobile body panel is improved.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2001Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshimi Uchida, Shigeru Akoshima, Yasuhiro Kasahara
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Publication number: 20020036098Abstract: A grommet has a plurality of projecting strip portions provided on an outer peripheral surface of a tapered portion, extending in an axial direction of the tapered portion and being spaced from each other in a circumferential direction. The grommet also includes at least one sunken portion, which defines the outer peripheral surface of the tapered portion between adjacent projecting strip portions. The sunken portion includes a groove extending in an axial direction of the grommet.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2001Publication date: March 28, 2002Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Okuhara, Yoshimi Uchida, Tsutomu Sakata
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Publication number: 20020036097Abstract: A grommet has a plurality of inner projecting strip portions and a plurality of outer projecting strip portions on inner and outer peripheral surfaces of the tapered portion, respectively. The plurality of inner and outer projecting strip portions respectively extend in an axial direction of the tapered portion and are spaced from each other in a circumferential direction. The outer projecting strip portions are located opposing to the inner projecting strip portions. A projection amount of the outer projecting strip portions is changed at a contact point. At the contact point, when the grommet is inserted into a through hole, the grommet first contacts an inner peripheral surface of the through hole. The projection amount between the contact point and a large diameter side end of the projecting strip portions is smaller than a second projection amount between the contact point and a small diameter side end.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2001Publication date: March 28, 2002Applicant: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Okuhara, Yoshimi Uchida, Tsutomu Sakata, Kenichiro Akizuki
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Patent number: 6341405Abstract: A clamp that is locked to a body panel by inserting a flexible locking blade portion thereof into an installing hole and utilizing a return of the locking blade portion to an original state thereof when the locking blade portion exceeds the installing hole. The clamp comprises a resinous material having Rockwell hardness at 100 or more and 150 or less and molded by one-piece molding. When the clamp fits on the body panel, a fit-on sound and consciousness of a return of the locking blade portion to the original state are generated. In the clamp, an increase of an insertion force that is generated by increasing a hardness of the clamp is offset by increasing a height of a projection portion with respect to a substrate portion and decreasing an angle of the locking blade portion formed by turning down a front end of the projection portion to decrease a projection amount of the locking blade portion in a lateral direction thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 1999Date of Patent: January 29, 2002Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventor: Yoshimi Uchida