Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki Ogura

Yoshiyuki Ogura 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: 10707619
    Abstract: A movable connector includes a movable housing and a plurality of terminals. Each terminal includes a movable portion and a contact portion. The terminal includes a second fixed portion fixed to the movable housing. The second fixed portion includes a first fixed piece portion connected to the contact portion. The first fixed piece portion has press-fit shoulders, to which a pressing force is applied by using a press-fit jig during press-fitting into the movable housing. The second fixed portion further includes a second fixed piece portion connected to the movable portion and a connecting section connecting the first fixed piece portion to the second fixed piece portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Suzuki, Takashi Doi, Yoshiyuki Ogura, Hiroaki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10686273
    Abstract: To provide a connector that is less deformable even under a high contact pressure. A connector includes a housing having a fitting chamber, and a terminal that comes into conductive contact with a pin terminal in the fitting chamber. The terminal includes a fixing base fixed to the housing, a contact member extending from the fixing base and pressed against the pin terminal, and right and left press-supporting members extending from the fixing base. The press-supporting members include respective contact-receiving parts that face the contact member in the fitting chamber and are positioned side by side in a direction intersecting a direction of insertion of the pin terminal into the fitting chamber. Since the pressed pin terminal is received by the plurality of contact-receiving parts, the pressing force can be dispersed therebetween. Hence, the deformation of the contact member and the contact-receiving parts can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Ogura
  • Patent number: 10630026
    Abstract: There is provided a movable connector that facilitates easy engagement and improves stability in electrical connection. The movable connector includes a manipulation housing that is coupled to a movable housing by a pressing operation of the manipulation housing against the movable housing. The movable connector also includes a contact reinforcing member that moves together with the manipulation housing by the pressing operation. The contact reinforcing member comes into contact with a pair of contact portions of a circuit-board connection terminal and thereby presses the contact portions against a pin terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: IRISON ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Suzuki, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Ogura, Tomomitsu Saito, Daichi Shimba
  • Patent number: 10553980
    Abstract: To provide a small movable connector. A movable connector includes a fixed housing mounted on a substrate, a movable housing movable with respect to the fixed housing, and terminals. The terminals each include a movable spring part supporting the movable housing movably, and a contact portion coming into conductive contact with a pin terminal. The fixed housing includes a top wall, and a bumper projection provided on the top wall. The movable housing includes an upper wall, and a bumper recess provided in the upper wall. The bumper projection and the bumper recess stop a displacement of the movable housing when the bumper recess bumps against the bumper projection. The movable connector can have a smaller size than in a case where elements that stop the displacement of the movable housing project from the side walls of the fixed housing and the end walls of the movable housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Ogura
  • Patent number: 10522929
    Abstract: In a connector, a terminal has a pair of contact portions that are fixed to a housing and disposed so as to provide a stable and reliable electrical connection. In the connector, a movable housing has a first contact portion fixation groove that supports a first contact portion of the terminal and a second contact portion fixation groove that supports a second contact portion. The terminal has a link portion that can join the first contact portion and the second contact portion to each other so as to be able to adjust the clearance therebetween. The link portion can absorb a variation in the clearance between the first contact portion fixation groove and the second contact portion fixation groove and a variation in the clearance between the first contact portion and the second contact portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi Shimba, Yoshiyuki Ogura, Hitoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10498082
    Abstract: There is provided a movable connector that more reliably suppresses pivotal motion of a connection target object at a contact section serving as the center of the pivotal motion. Further, reliable suppression of the pivotal motion of the connection target object at the contact section is achieved with no increase in the size of terminals. A contact section includes a first contact piece section having a first contact section that achieves pressing contact with a pin terminal T in a first direction, a second contact piece section having a second contact section that achieves pressing contact with the pin terminal T in the first direction in a position shifted from the first contact section toward the far side, and a contact receiving section that faces the first and second contact sections and has a contact surface section that comes into contact with the pin terminal T over the length thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Suzuki, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Ogura, Tomomitsu Saito, Daichi Shimba, Koji Kuniyoshi
  • Publication number: 20190363491
    Abstract: There is provided a movable connector that facilitates easy engagement and improves stability in electrical connection. The movable connector includes a manipulation housing that is coupled to a movable housing by a pressing operation of the manipulation housing against the movable housing. The movable connector also includes a contact reinforcing member that moves together with the manipulation housing by the pressing operation. The contact reinforcing member comes into contact with a pair of contact portions of a circuit-board connection terminal and thereby presses the contact portions against a pin terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Suzuki, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Ogura, Tomomitsu Saito, Daichi Shimba
  • Publication number: 20190288429
    Abstract: To provide a connector that is less deformable even under a high contact pressure. A connector includes a housing having a fitting chamber, and a terminal that comes into conductive contact with a pin terminal in the fitting chamber. The terminal includes a fixing base fixed to the housing, a contact member extending from the fixing base and pressed against the pin terminal, and right and left press-supporting members extending from the fixing base. The press-supporting members include respective contact-receiving parts that face the contact member in the fitting chamber and are positioned side by side in a direction intersecting a direction of insertion of the pin terminal into the fitting chamber. Since the pressed pin terminal is received by the plurality of contact-receiving parts, the pressing force can be dispersed therebetween. Hence, the deformation of the contact member and the contact-receiving parts can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki OGURA
  • Publication number: 20190288440
    Abstract: To provide a small movable connector. A movable connector includes a fixed housing mounted on a substrate, a movable housing movable with respect to the fixed housing, and terminals. The terminals each include a movable spring part supporting the movable housing movably, and a contact portion coming into conductive contact with a pin terminal. The fixed housing includes a top wall, and a bumper projection provided on the top wall. The movable housing includes an upper wall, and a bumper recess provided in the upper wall. The bumper projection and the bumper recess stop a displacement of the movable housing when the bumper recess bumps against the bumper projection. The movable connector can have a smaller size than in a case where elements that stop the displacement of the movable housing project from the side walls of the fixed housing and the end walls of the movable housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki OGURA
  • Patent number: 10404022
    Abstract: In a small connector including a plurality of contact portions in an insertion direction of an object to be connected, increasing the effective fitting length with the object and eliminating the risk of bucking of a terminal caused by the object being caught by the terminal. A first contact portion and a second contact portion can be extended in directions opposing each other with a first bent-back portion of a first terminal piece and a third bent-back portion of a second terminal piece, and can be close to each other compared with a known connector in which a first contact portion and a second contact portion extend in opposite directions. An effective fitting length of the first contact portion or the second contact portion with respect to the plug terminal can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Doi, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Ogura, Daichi Shimba
  • Patent number: 10374346
    Abstract: To prevent damage from being caused in a movable piece caused by inclination of the movable housing of a floating connector. Providing an inclined piece portion in a movable piece of a plug terminal of a plug connector from a middle side to an outer edge side of a bottom wall portion of a movable housing, the inclined piece portion obliquely extending so as to gradually be distanced away form a substrate. Since the inclined piece portion is distanced away from the substrate by the amount of inclination of the inclined piece portion when the movable housing is inclined, a risk of the movable piece impinging against the substrate can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Doi, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Ogura, Daichi Shimba
  • Patent number: 10340620
    Abstract: An object is to reduce the size of a multi-contact connector having a wiping function. A multi-contact connector includes a front terminal and a rear terminal. The front terminal and the rear terminal are independently housed in one terminal accommodating groove in a housing in such a manner as to separate from each other. Unlike terminals of a multi-contact connector according to the related art, each terminal has no junction where it divides into a front contact and a rear contact. The housing requires no space for accommodating such a junction, and this reduces the size of the multi-contact connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Ogura
  • Publication number: 20190157806
    Abstract: A movable connector includes a movable housing and a plurality of terminals. Each terminal includes a movable portion and a contact portion. The terminal includes a second fixed portion fixed to the movable housing. The second fixed portion includes a first fixed piece portion connected to the contact portion. The first fixed piece portion has press-fit shoulders, to which a pressing force is applied by using a press-fit jig during press-fitting into the movable housing. The second fixed portion further includes a second fixed piece portion connected to the movable portion and a connecting section connecting the first fixed piece portion to the second fixed piece portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi SUZUKI, Takashi DOI, Yoshiyuki OGURA, Hiroaki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190109396
    Abstract: In a connector, a terminal has a pair of contact portions that are fixed to a housing and disposed so as to provide a stable and reliable electrical connection. In the connector, a movable housing has a first contact portion fixation groove that supports a first contact portion of the terminal and a second contact portion fixation groove that supports a second contact portion. The terminal has a link portion that can join the first contact portion and the second contact portion to each other so as to be able to adjust the clearance therebetween. The link portion can absorb a variation in the clearance between the first contact portion fixation groove and the second contact portion fixation groove and a variation in the clearance between the first contact portion and the second contact portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi SHIMBA, Yoshiyuki OGURA, Hitoshi TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10193260
    Abstract: A multi-contact connector includes terminals, which each include a first contact piece section, which has a first contact section, which achieves pressing contact with a pin terminal in a first direction, and a first elastic arm, which extends in a direction that intersects the first direction and displaceably supports the first contact section, and a second contact piece section, which has a second contact section, which achieves pressing contact with the pin terminal in the first direction, and a second elastic arm, which displaceably supports the second contact section. The second elastic arm extends in the first direction, which intersects the direction in which the first elastic arm extends, and an end portion of the second elastic arm or the end portion in the extending direction, that is, the front end facing the first elastic arm is formed as a spring piece linked to the second contact section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Suzuki, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Ogura, Tomomitsu Saito, Daichi Shimba, Koji Kuniyoshi
  • Publication number: 20190013610
    Abstract: A multi-contact connector includes terminals, which each include a first contact piece section, which has a first contact section, which achieves pressing contact with a pin terminal in a first direction, and a first elastic arm, which extends in a direction that intersects the first direction and displaceably supports the first contact section, and a second contact piece section, which has a second contact section, which achieves pressing contact with the pin terminal in the first direction, and a second elastic arm, which displaceably supports the second contact section. The second elastic arm extends in the first direction, which intersects the direction in which the first elastic arm extends, and an end portion of the second elastic arm or the end portion in the extending direction, that is, the front end facing the first elastic arm is formed as a spring piece linked to the second contact section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi SUZUKI, Hiroaki KOBAYASHI, Yoshiyuki OGURA, Tomomitsu SAITO, Daichi SHIMBA, Koji KUNIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20180351297
    Abstract: There is provided a movable connector that more reliably suppresses pivotal motion of a connection target object at a contact section serving as the center of the pivotal motion. Further, reliable suppression of the pivotal motion of the connection target object at the contact section is achieved with no increase in the size of terminals. A contact section includes a first contact piece section having a first contact section that achieves pressing contact with a pin terminal T in a first direction, a second contact piece section having a second contact section that achieves pressing contact with the pin terminal T in the first direction in a position shifted from the first contact section toward the far side, and a contact receiving section that faces the first and second contact sections and has a contact surface section that comes into contact with the pin terminal T over the length thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi SUZUKI, Hiroaki KOBAYASHI, Yoshiyuki OGURA, Tomomitsu SAITO, Daichi SHIMBA, Koji KUNIYOSHI
  • Patent number: 10128614
    Abstract: A movable connector with which an insertion force of a connection object that places a load on a solder portion can be reduced, that has a floating function, and that can be reduced in size is provided. As a result of a pushing operation in which an operation housing is pushed into a fixed housing, a relay terminal is conductively connected to a substrate connection terminal, which is in conductive contact with a substrate, and a pin terminal, which is disposed in a movable housing and serves as the connection object, in the movable housing. Accordingly, the overall size of the movable connector can be reduced. In addition, the insertion force applied to the pin terminal is not applied to the solder portion by which the movable connector is fixed to the substrate, so that conduction failure does not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LT.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Suzuki, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Ogura, Tomomitsu Saito, Daichi Shimba
  • Publication number: 20180309220
    Abstract: An object is to reduce the size of a multi-contact connector having a wiping function. A multi-contact connector includes a front terminal and a rear terminal. The front terminal and the rear terminal are independently housed in one terminal accommodating groove in a housing in such a manner as to separate from each other. Unlike terminals of a multi-contact connector according to the related art, each terminal has no junction where it divides into a front contact and a rear contact. The housing requires no space for accommodating such a junction, and this reduces the size of the multi-contact connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Ogura
  • Patent number: 10074937
    Abstract: In a substrate-side housing of a plug connector and a housing of a socket connector, an abutment receiving portion and a columnar projection are provided to disable the socket connector from being inserted into the substrate-side housing when the socket connector is misaligned beyond a movable range of a fitting-side housing of the plug connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Iriso Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kayoko Ninomiya, Nobutoshi Hagiwara, Yuki Ide, Hitoshi Suzuki, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki Ogura