Patents by Inventor Yoshinao SATO

Yoshinao SATO 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).

  • Publication number: 20240396257
    Abstract: There is provided a waterproof connector including: a housing configured to accommodate a terminal; an annular packing attached to an outer periphery of the housing and configured to seal between the housing and an opening of a counterpart member; and a front holder attached to a tip side of the housing and positioning the packing. The packing and the front holder are mounted on a fitting portion of the housing, the fitting portion being to be inserted into the opening of the counterpart member. The front holder has a locking portion configured to engage with an outer periphery of the fitting portion of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Satoki Masuda, Yoshinao Sato
  • Publication number: 20240303845
    Abstract: A depth acquisition device includes a memory and a processor. The processor performs: acquiring timing information indicating a timing at which a light source irradiates a subject with infrared light; acquiring, from the memory, an infrared light image generated by imaging a scene including the subject with the infrared light according to the timing indicated by the timing information; acquiring, from the memory, a visible light image generated by imaging a substantially same scene as the scene of the infrared light image, with visible light from a substantially same viewpoint as a viewpoint of imaging the infrared light image at a substantially same time as a time of imaging the infrared light image; detecting a flare region from the infrared light image; and estimating a depth of the flare region based on the infrared light image, the visible light image, and the flare region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Satoshi SATO, Takeo AZUMA, Nobuhiko WAKAI, Kohsuke YOSHIOKA, Noritaka SHIMIZU, Yoshinao KAWAI, Takaaki AMADA, Yoko KAWAI, Takeshi MURAI, Hiroki TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240297486
    Abstract: A wire harness including: a shielded wire; a metal housing having a tubular body serving as a wire insertion path and being inserted into an outer wall body in a metal shield case, and a fixed part causing the tubular body to be fixed to the outer wall body; a tubular shield terminal being connected to a shield material; and an annular seal member disposed in the wire insertion path to fill an annular gap between the tubular body and the shielded wire, in which the shield terminal includes: a press-fitting part being press-fitted and fixed to the tubular body at a position farther on an interior side of the shield case than the seal member in the wire insertion path; and a locking part being locked to a locked part of the tubular body farther on the interior side of the shield case than the seal member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Yusuke Ueta, Yoshinao Sato
  • Publication number: 20240243511
    Abstract: A connector includes: a housing includes a fitting part that is formed protruding toward a connection direction with respect to a connection target and inserted into a fitting hole; and a seal member that comes in contact with an inner face of the fitting hole to stop water between the housing and the connection target. The housing has an abutting part that extends from a base part side of the fitting part and abuts against an end part of the seal member. The abutting part has a corner part between an opposing face opposing to the outer periphery of the fitting part and a top end face chamfered. The seal member includes a third lip that protrudes from an outer periphery, and a flat part extending flat along the connection direction is formed between the third lip and the end part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Satoki Masuda, Yoshinao Sato
  • Publication number: 20240243514
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing that holds a terminal connected to a connection target, and includes a fitting part that is inserted into a fitting hole formed in the connection target; and a seal member that is attached to an outer periphery of the fitting part, and comes in contact with an inner face of the fitting hole to stop water between the housing and the connection target. The seal member is formed with an oil-impregnated elastic member, and includes at least a first lip and a second lip provided to protrude from an outer peripheral face while being lined along a connection direction with respect to the connection target. The first lip is provided on the connection target side of the second lip, and a protrusion length of the first lip is shorter than a protrusion length of the second lip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Satoki Masuda, Yoshinao Sato
  • Publication number: 20240097377
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a connector capable of improving the water sealing performance by a packing. A connector of the present disclosure includes: a terminal; a housing that holds the terminal and is fixed to a casing of a device; a cylindrical holder that is engaged with the housing and fitted to an opening part of the casing; and a packing in an annular shape that is mounted to an outer peripheral face of the holder and held by the holder, and seals between the holder and the opening part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Satoki Masuda, Yoshinao Sato
  • Patent number: 11705665
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal fitting, a housing, a front holder to which an engagement part of the housing is inserted along an inserting direction of the engagement part with respect to a counterpart engagement part, and a water-stopping member with an annular shape that closes an annular space between a projection part from the front holder at an outer peripheral wall surface of the engagement part and an inner peripheral wall surface of the counterpart engagement part. The front holder includes a retained part that projects toward the outer peripheral wall surface of the engagement part. The water-stopping member includes a retained part that projects inward relative to an inner peripheral surface. The engagement part includes a communication retaining part where a first retaining part and a second retaining part are provided in a communicating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Satoki Masuda, Takeo Ida, Yoshinao Sato
  • Publication number: 20230027106
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a cable constituted of a plurality of electric wires bundled together so as to include a plurality of cable ends and a plurality of connectors mounted one-to-one on the plurality of cable ends, wherein each of the plurality of connectors includes a connector terminal connected to an end of the electric wire, a tubular housing body accommodating the connector terminal, and a flange formed to project from an outer circumferential surface of the housing body. On a fitting side for fitting with a mating connector, the flange has a rugged shape that differs between the plurality of connectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: YazakiCorporation
    Inventors: Satoki MASUDA, Yoshinao SATO
  • Publication number: 20220158384
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal fitting, a housing, a front holder to which an engagement part of the housing is inserted along an inserting direction of the engagement part with respect to a counterpart engagement part, and a water-stopping member with an annular shape that closes an annular space between a projection part from the front holder at an outer peripheral wall surface of the engagement part and an inner peripheral wall surface of the counterpart engagement part. The front holder includes a retained part that projects toward the outer peripheral wall surface of the engagement part. The water-stopping member includes a retained part that projects inward relative to an inner peripheral surface. The engagement part includes a communication retaining part where a first retaining part and a second retaining part are provided in a communicating state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Satoki MASUDA, Takeo IDA, Yoshinao SATO
  • Patent number: 11158959
    Abstract: A terminal crimping method includes covering an end portion of an electric wire with a fixing cylinder portion of a terminal including a flange portion which protrudes toward an outer periphery and which has at least one notch along a radial direction, caulking and crimping the fixing cylinder portion by a pair of dies including pressing projections, and caulking the fixing cylinder portion by the pressing projections to form crimp recess portions, in the caulking and crimping the fixing cylinder portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoki Masuda, Yoshinao Sato, Takeo Ida, Junpei Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10804665
    Abstract: A terminal crimping method includes covering an end portion of an electric wire with a fixing cylinder portion of a terminal, caulking and crimping the fixing cylinder portion by a pair of dies including pressing projections each having a flat shape in which a length in one axial direction is longer than a length in the other axial direction orthogonal to the one axial direction in a plan view, and caulking the fixing cylinder portion by the pressing projections to form crimp recess portions, in the caulking and crimping the fixing cylinder portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoki Masuda, Yoshinao Sato, Takeo Ida, Junpei Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10559919
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal-equipped electrical wire, an inner housing, an outer housing, and a front holder. The terminal-equipped electrical wire includes an electrical wire and a terminal, the terminal having a box-shaped portion configured to fit with a mating terminal in a fitting direction intersecting with an extending direction of the electrical wire. The inner housing includes a terminal accommodating chamber. The outer housing includes an electrical wire leading-out opening and a housing fitting opening. One or more pressing protrusions are provided on at least one of the terminal and the front holder. When the outer housing is fitted to the mating connector, the one or more pressing protrusions are elastically deformed by a fitting pressing force acting on the front holder to press and urge the box-shaped portion toward inside of the terminal accommodating chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoki Masuda, Yoshinao Sato
  • Patent number: 10490390
    Abstract: A substrate processing device includes a housing connected to ground, a cathode stage that supports a substrate, an anode unit, and a gas feeding unit that feeds gas toward the first plate. The cathode stage is applied with voltage for generating plasma. The anode unit includes a first plate including first through holes and a second plate including second through holes that are larger than the first through holes. The second plate is located between the first plate and the cathode stage. The first plate produces a flow of the gas through the first through holes. The gas that has passed through the first through holes flows through the second through holes into an area between the second plate and the cathode stage. A distance between the first plate and the second plate is 10 mm or greater and 50 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: ULVAC, INC.
    Inventors: Tetsushi Fujinaga, Atsuhito Ihori, Masahiro Matsumoto, Noriaki Tani, Harunori Iwai, Kenji Iwata, Yoshinao Sato
  • Publication number: 20190356061
    Abstract: A terminal crimping method includes covering an end portion of an electric wire with a fixing cylinder portion of a terminal including a flange portion which protrudes toward an outer periphery and which has at least one notch along a radial direction, caulking and crimping the fixing cylinder portion by a pair of dies including pressing projections, and caulking the fixing cylinder portion by the pressing projections to form crimp recess portions, in the caulking and crimping the fixing cylinder portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Satoki Masuda, Yoshinao Sato, Takeo Ida, Junpei Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190356101
    Abstract: A terminal crimping method includes covering an end portion of an electric wire with a fixing cylinder portion of a terminal, caulking and crimping the fixing cylinder portion by a pair of dies including pressing projections each having a flat shape in which a length in one axial direction is longer than a length in the other axial direction orthogonal to the one axial direction in a plan view, and caulking the fixing cylinder portion by the pressing projections to form crimp recess portions, in the caulking and crimping the fixing cylinder portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Satoki Masuda, Yoshinao Sato, Takeo Ida, Junpei Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190296485
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal-equipped electrical wire, an inner housing, an outer housing, and a front holder. The terminal-equipped electrical wire includes an electrical wire and a terminal, the terminal having a box-shaped portion configured to fit with a mating terminal in a fitting direction intersecting with an extending direction of the electrical wire. The inner housing includes a terminal accommodating chamber. The outer housing includes an electrical wire leading-out opening and a housing fitting opening. One or more pressing protrusions are provided on at least one of the terminal and the front holder. When the outer housing is fitted to the mating connector, the one or more pressing protrusions are elastically deformed by a fitting pressing force acting on the front holder to press and urge the box-shaped portion toward inside of the terminal accommodating chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Satoki Masuda, Yoshinao Sato
  • Publication number: 20180012734
    Abstract: A substrate processing device includes a housing connected to ground, a cathode stage that supports a substrate, an anode unit, and a gas feeding unit that feeds gas toward the first plate. The cathode stage is applied with voltage for generating plasma. The anode unit includes a first plate including first through holes and a second plate including second through holes that are larger than the first through holes. The second plate is located between the first plate and the cathode stage. The first plate produces a flow of the gas through the first through holes. The gas that has passed through the first through holes flows through the second through holes into an area between the second plate and the cathode stage. A distance between the first plate and the second plate is 10 mm or greater and 50 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Tetsushi FUJINAGA, Atsuhito IHORI, Masahiro MATSUMOTO, Noriaki TANI, Harunori IWAI, Kenji IWATA, Yoshinao SATO
  • Patent number: 9778140
    Abstract: An engine testing apparatus is provided with a memory portion for storing a control command value obtained when the rotation speed of a dynamometer is changed by the control command value in accordance with the change of the engine rotation speed in a real vehicle in a period in which the engine behavior in a real vehicle is reproduced without connecting the dynamometer to an engine under test. The engine testing apparatus is provided with an output portion that supplies the control command value stored in the memory portion to the dynamometer with reference to an engine output signal showing the start of the reproducing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEIDENSHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuaki Suzuki, Takuya Kusakabe, Masato Hayasaka, Yoshinao Sato, Nobuhiko Asakura, Sou Shimizu, Yoshimasa Sawada, Takao Akiyama, Shinya Nagao, Yoshiharu Kido
  • Patent number: 9106010
    Abstract: A connector includes a busbar, a housing and a cover. The busbar includes a first connection part extending in a first direction, a second connection part extending in a second direction opposite to the first direction at a position displaced from the first connection part in a direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a coupling part extending in a direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction and coupling the first connection part and the second connection part. The housing includes at least one accommodation groove accommodating the coupling part, and a slit through which one of the first connection part and the second connection part is inserted. The cover covers the accommodation groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki Jimbo, Yoshinao Sato, Taro Inoue, Genfu Zeng
  • Publication number: 20140019081
    Abstract: An engine testing apparatus is provided with a memory portion for storing a control command value obtained when the rotation speed of a dynamometer is changed by the control command value in accordance with the change of the engine rotation speed in a real vehicle in a period in which the engine behavior in a real vehicle is reproduced without connecting the dynamometer to an engine under test. The engine testing apparatus is provided with an output portion that supplies the control command value stored in the memory portion to the dynamometer with reference to an engine output signal showing the start of the reproducing period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicants: MEIDENSHA CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuaki Suzuki, Takuya Kusakabe, Masato Hayasaka, Yoshinao Sato, Nobuhiko Asakura, Sou Shimizu, Yoshimasa Sawada, Takao Akiyama, Shinya Nagao, Yoshiharu Kido