Patents by Inventor Yuta Kataoka

Yuta Kataoka 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: 20110159729
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a plurality of cables arranged in parallel, and a connector including a housing to which end portions of the plurality of cables are connected. An air-tight block includes two closing parts, an insertion part, a press receiving part, and an air escape opening part that opens from a cable insertion hole between the closing parts toward an outside of the air-tight block. Air-tightness between the air-tight block and the cables is maintained by a first step that a melting member is vibrated and pressed to the press receiving part to have a melt resin, which is poured into a gap between the closing parts, and a periphery of the cables is covered with the melt resin, a second step that the air escape opening part is closed, and a third step that the cables are pressed by the melt resin poured into the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sachio Suzuki, Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Yuta Kataoka, Shinya Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20110159717
    Abstract: A connection structure includes a first terminal housing with a plurality of first connecting terminals aligned and accommodated therein, a second terminal housing with a plurality of second connecting terminals aligned and accommodated therein, a plurality of insulation members aligned and accommodated in the first terminal housing, two connecting members disposed to sandwich a stack structure of the plurality of the first connecting terminals, the plurality of the second connecting terminals and the plurality of the insulation members at a top end and a bottom end of the stack structure, and a synchronizing member to allow the two connecting members to press synchronously the adjacent insulation member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: HITACHI CABLE, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun UMETSU, Hideaki TAKEHARA, Kunihiro FUKUDA, Sachio SUZUKI, Yuta KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20110159731
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a plurality of cables arranged in parallel and a connector comprising a housing to which end portions of the plurality of cables are connected. The housing has an air-tight block at a side thereof that the plurality of cables are connected. The air-tight block further includes two closing parts for closing a space between the air-tight block and the cables at two places along a longitudinal direction of the cables, and for defining a part of a cable insertion hole. A metallic member protruding outwardly in a radial direction of the cables is fixed by swaging to a periphery of each of the cables between both of two closing parts for restricting a movement of the cables along the longitudinal direction in a pulling force or pressing force of the cables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: HITACHI CABLE, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Kataoka, Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Sachio Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20110159728
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a plurality of cables arranged in parallel, and a connector including a housing to which end portions of the plurality of cables are connected. Air-tightness between an air-tight block and the cables is maintained by inserting a melting member into cable insertion holes through a first insertion part, vibrating the melting member and pressing the melting member against a first press receiving part formed at an inner wall surface of the cable insertion holes such that a front end portion of the melting member in contact with the first press receiving part is melted into a melt resin to allow the melt resin to be poured into a gap between the cables and the air-tight block and a periphery of the cables to be covered with the melt resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: HITACHI CABLE, LTD.
    Inventors: Sachio Suzuki, Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Yuta Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20110151707
    Abstract: A connector includes a first terminal housing with a plurality of first connecting terminals aligned and accommodated therein, a second terminal housing with a plurality of second connecting terminals aligned and accommodated therein, a plurality of insulation members aligned and accommodated in the first terminal housing, a connecting member including a head and a shaft connected to the head. The shaft and/or the head includes a first screw part to screw the connecting member into the first terminal housing and/or the second terminal housing. The shaft includes a second screw part to screw into an insulation member of the plurality of the insulation members at a forward end in an insertion direction of the connecting member. The second screw part includes a screw pitch greater than the first screw part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: HITACHI CABLE, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun UMETSU, Hideaki TAKEHARA, Kunihiro FUKUDA, Sachio SUZUKI, Yuta KATAOKA
  • Patent number: 7959470
    Abstract: A connector includes a first terminal housing with a plurality of first connecting terminals aligned and accommodated therein, a second terminal housing with a plurality of second connecting terminals aligned and accommodated therein, a plurality of insulation members aligned and accommodated in the first terminal housing, a connecting member including a head and a shaft connected to the head. The shaft and/or the head includes a first screw part to screw the connecting member into the first terminal housing and/or the second terminal housing. The shaft includes a second screw part to screw into an insulation member of the plurality of the insulation members at a forward end in an insertion direction of the connecting member. The second screw part includes a screw pitch greater than the first screw part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Umetsu, Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Sachio Suzuki, Yuta Kataoka
  • Patent number: 7955110
    Abstract: A connector has a first terminal housing with first connecting terminals and a second terminal housing with second connecting terminals. When the first terminal housing and the second terminal housing are mated, one side of the first connecting terminals and one side of the second connecting terminals form pairs and provide contacts, respectively. Each of the contacts is sandwiched by an insulator. The insulator has a first isolating member configured to be fixed to other side of an adjacent first connecting terminal and to cover one surface of the adjacent first connecting terminal, and a second isolating member configured to be fixed to the other side of an adjacent second connecting terminal and to cover one surface of the adjacent second connecting terminal. The insulator is formed by overlapping the first insolating member and the second isolating member when the first terminal housing and the second terminal housing are mated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Cable Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta Kataoka, Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Sachio Suzuki, Jun Umetsu, Shinya Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20110130022
    Abstract: A connection structure includes a first terminal housing with first connecting terminals, a second terminal housing with second connecting terminals, isolating plates in the first terminal housing, a connecting member to collectively fix the first connecting terminals and the second connecting terminals at the contacts therebetween for electrical connections between the first connecting terminals and the second connecting terminals. The connecting member further includes a metallic elastic member disposed between the head and the isolating plate adjacent to the head to sequentially press the isolating plates in a stacking direction. The isolating plate adjacent to the head includes a recessed portion formed in a surface to contact the elastic member for accommodating one end of the elastic member pressing the isolating plate adjacent to the head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sachio Suzuki, Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Yuta Kataoka, Shinya Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20110130028
    Abstract: A connection structure includes a first terminal housing with first connecting terminals, a second terminal housing with second connecting terminals, isolating plates in the first terminal housing, a connecting member to collectively fix the first connecting terminals and the second connecting terminals at the contacts therebetween for electrical connections between the first connecting terminals and the second connecting terminals. The connection structure is adapted to heat generated at the contacts through the connecting member, the first terminal housing and/or the second terminal housing to an outside of the first terminal housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Inventors: Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Sachio Suzuki, Yuta Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20110130023
    Abstract: A connector has a first terminal housing with first connecting terminals aligned and accommodated therein, a second terminal housing with second connecting terminals aligned and accommodated therein, isolating plates and a connecting member. Each of the first connecting terminals and each of the second connecting terminals are surface-roughened such that a surface facing to other connecting terminal and composing a contact with the other connecting terminal provides a first frictional coefficient. When each of the isolating plates is adjacent to each of the first connecting terminals, each of the isolating plates is integrally fixed to each of the first connecting terminals, and when each of the isolating plates is adjacent to each of the second connecting terminals, each surface of the isolating plates facing to each of the second connecting terminals is surface-roughened to provide a second frictional coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta Kataoka, Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Sachio Suzuki, Shinya Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20110130021
    Abstract: A connection structure includes a male terminal housing with first connecting terminals, a female terminal housing with second connecting terminals, isolating plates in the male terminal housing, a connecting member to thereby collectively fix the first connecting terminals and the second connecting terminals at the contacts therebetween for electrical connections between the first connecting terminals and the second connecting terminals, and manipulation permitting means for permitting manipulation of the connecting member for collectively fixing the first connecting terminals and the second connecting terminals at the contacts therebetween respectively, when the male terminal housing and the female terminal housing are mated with each other in a specified mated state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: HITACHI CABLE, LTD.
    Inventors: Sachio Suzuki, Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Yuta Kataoka, Shinya Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20110104929
    Abstract: A connector includes a female connector for accommodating a cylindrical and deformable female terminal provided at an end of a cable, a male connector for accommodating a male terminal configured to be inserted into the female terminal, a fastening member provided slidably around an outer periphery of the female terminal, and configured to tighten the female terminal to fasten the male terminal when inserted into the female terminal, and a slide mechanism for sliding the fastening member, which is provided in the female connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sachio Suzuki, Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Yuta Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20110104943
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a cable, a connector comprising an outer housing comprising a resin, a cable insertion hole into which an end portion of the cable is inserted, and a concave portion formed on an insertion side of the cable insertion hole, and a welding member comprising a resin to provide air-tightness between the outer housing and the cable by being welded to the outer housing by ultrasonic welding. The welding member is formed around the cable so as to surround the cable while allowing a gap portion to have a predetermined clearance from the cable, and fitted into the concave portion of the outer housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: HITACHI CABLE, LTD
    Inventors: Sachio Suzuki, Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Yuta Kataoka
  • Patent number: 7922518
    Abstract: A connection structure includes a first terminal housing with first connecting terminals, a second terminal housing with second connecting terminals, isolating plates in the first terminal housing, a connecting member to collectively fix the first connecting terminals and the second connecting terminals at the contacts therebetween for electrical connections between the first connecting terminals and the second connecting terminals. The connecting member includes a hollow portion for penetrating the contacts and communicating with an outside of the first terminal housing. The connection structure is adapted to dissipate heat generated at the contacts through the connecting member and the hollow portion to the outside of the first terminal housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Sachio Suzuki, Yuta Kataoka, Shinya Hayashi
  • Patent number: 7892038
    Abstract: A connector has a first connector portion having a first housing with first connecting terminals aligned and accommodated therein, and a second connector portion having a second housing with second connecting terminals aligned and accommodated therein. When the first connector portion and the second connector portion are mated with each other, one side of the first connecting terminals and one side of the second connecting terminals faces each other to form pairs, respectively, so that a stacked structure of the pairs of the first connecting terminals and the second connecting terminals are alternately interleaved. Isolating members are aligned and accommodated in the first housing of the first connector portion and fixed to other side of the first connecting terminals, respectively. A connecting member presses the adjacent isolating member to collectively fix the first connecting terminals and the second connecting terminals at the contacts therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta Kataoka, Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Sachio Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7798870
    Abstract: A male and female connection structure includes a female terminal, and a male terminal to electrically connect to the female terminal by being inserted into a connection position of the female terminal and to electrically disconnect from the female terminal by being withdrawn from the connection position. The female terminal includes a dimple to electrically connect to the male terminal, a male terminal pressing spring disposed opposite the dimple for pressing the male terminal to be inserted on the dimple against the dimple, and a press switching part for switching between a non-pressed state that the male terminal pressing spring does not press the male terminal located in the female terminal and a pressed state that the male terminal pressing spring presses the male terminal located in the female terminal by changing a shape of the male terminal pressing spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta Kataoka, Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Sachio Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20100130074
    Abstract: A male and female connection structure includes a female terminal, and a male terminal to electrically connect to the female terminal by being inserted into a connection position of the female terminal and to electrically disconnect from the female terminal by being withdrawn from the connection position. The female terminal includes a dimple to electrically connect to the male terminal, a male terminal pressing spring disposed opposite the dimple for pressing the male terminal to be inserted on the dimple against the dimple, and a press switching part for switching between a non-pressed state that the male terminal pressing spring does not press the male terminal located in the female terminal and a pressed state that the male terminal pressing spring presses the male terminal located in the female terminal by changing a shape of the male terminal pressing spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: HITACHI CABLE, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Kataoka, Hideaki Takehara, Kunihiro Fukuda, Sachio Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7686630
    Abstract: A connector includes a male connector including plural male terminals, a first body provided with the plural male terminals, and a first terminal housing formed with a first housing opening facing respective ends of the plural male terminals, and a female connector including plural female terminals paired with the plural male terminals, a female terminal box formed with plural female terminal openings facing ends of the plural female terminals respectively, and a second body provided with the plural female terminals and the female terminal box. The connector further includes foreign body preventing means for preventing a foreign body from being mixed into the specified receiving space of the first terminal housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takehara, Sachio Suzuki, Kunihiro Fukuda, Yuta Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20090311899
    Abstract: A connector includes a male connector including plural male terminals, a first body provided with the plural male terminals, and a first terminal housing formed with a first housing opening facing respective ends of the plural male terminals, and a female connector including plural female terminals paired with the plural male terminals, a female terminal box formed with plural female terminal openings facing ends of the plural female terminals respectively, and a second body provided with the plural female terminals and the female terminal box. The connector further includes foreign body preventing means for preventing a foreign body from being mixed into the specified receiving space of the first terminal housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takehara, Sachio Suzuki, Kunihiro Fukuda, Yuta Kataoka