AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160134190 | VOLTAGE CONVERTER - A voltage converter in which switching between step-down conversion and step-up conversion is performed constantly, without being affected by a voltage drop of a circuit element, and temperature change and variation of the circuit element. The voltage converter includes a step-down PWM signal generation circuit and a step-up PWM signal generation circuit and component for increasing the step-down target voltage. | 05-12-2016 |
20160130440 | RESIN COMPOSITION FOR WIRE COVERING MATERIAL, INSULATED WIRE, AND WIRING HARNESS - A resin composition for a wire covering material that is excellent in high-temperature oil resistance, wear resistance, and elongation, and an insulated wire and a wiring harness in which the resin composition for a wire covering material is used as the covering material contains a (A) polysulfone-based resin, a (B) aromatic polyester resin, a (C) polyester elastomer, and a (D) compound having a reactive functional group that reacts with one of a carboxyl group and a hydroxyl group, wherein the (D) component reacts with the (B) component or the (C) component to form a bond. | 05-12-2016 |
20160043641 | CONVERTER - A converter having an inductor, a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, and a fourth switch connected between the other ends of the inductor and the second switch. The converter is adapted to turn ON/OFF individually the first switch, the second switch, the third switch and the fourth switch so as to convert a voltage applied between the other ends of the first switch and the second switch. Also included is a diode, a maintaining device and a release device. The generating device generates small/large output electric current in correspondence with high/low of a voltage of a connection node between the semiconductor transistor and the resistor, and increases the output electric current by switching a voltage applied on the third end from a first voltage to a second voltage lower than the first voltage. | 02-11-2016 |
20160017071 | HIGHLY SENSITIVE (METH)ACRYLATE AND RADICAL CURABLE MATERIAL - Provided is a (meth)acrylate and a radical curable material with which the sensitivity can be enhanced to improve the curability, the increase in viscosity can be suppressed due to good compatibility with various acrylate compounds, and there is no risk that the physical properties of the curable material are deteriorated. The (meth)acrylate has one or more structures represented by Formula 1 in the molecule, and when the (meth)acrylate is used for radical curing, the sensitivity is enhanced. In Formula 1, R | 01-21-2016 |
20160006233 | TERMINATED COVERED ELECTRIC WIRE - A terminated covered electric wire having an excellent anticorrosive performance even after thermal shock is provided. An electrical connection portion in which a terminal fitting having a surface to which processing oil adheres and an electric wire conductor of a covered electric wire are electrically connected to each other is covered with an anticorrosive agent containing a resin and an oil-adsorbing filler to configure a covered electric wire with a terminal. | 01-07-2016 |
20160006186 | COLLECTIVE GROUND CONNECTION STRUCTURE FOR CONNECTORS - Connectors with internal noise filter ( | 01-07-2016 |
20150372465 | WIRING MODULE - A wiring module includes a connecting member configured to connect neighboring electrode terminals of electrical storage elements that each have a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal and an insulating protector that accommodates the connecting member. The insulating protector includes a main body configured to hold the connecting member, an insulating cover that is supported by the main body so as to be capable of moving to a closed position in which the insulating cover covers at least part of the connecting member, and an electric wire guide that can be laid over at least a portion of the insulating cover located in the closed position and that has an electric wire passing portion through which an electric wire can be passed. | 12-24-2015 |
20150372415 | WIRE HARNESS - It is an object of the present invention to ensure a high water-stopping property of a wire harness including a waterproofing connector section that is molded from a resin, by suppressing a variation in the outer size of a seal section of the connector section. The connector section is made from a first synthetic resin that is insert-molded with a part of a terminal fitting of the terminated electric cable used as an insert section. A water-stopping section is made from a second synthetic resin that is insert-molded with a section extending from a part of the terminal fitting to an insulation coating of the terminated electric cable used as an insert section. The seal section is made from the second synthetic resin that is insert-molded with a part of the connector section used as an insert section. The second synthetic resin is softer than the first synthetic resin. | 12-24-2015 |
20150365015 | Reactor, Converter and Power Conversion Device - A reactor in which an assembly is easily assembled into a case and which is excellent in productivity is provided. In this reactor, two positions out of a total of four positions near opposite widthwise end parts of frame-shaped bobbins when an assembly accommodated in a case is viewed from above serve as positioning positions and the remaining two positions serve as escaping positions. At the positioning positions, projecting pieces provided on the frame-shaped bobbin are engaged with engaging grooves provided on the case. On the other hand, at the escaping positions, projecting pieces provided on the frame-shaped bobbin are allowed to escape in escaping portions (escaping grooves) provided on the case. | 12-17-2015 |
20150364872 | Wiring Module - A wiring module to be attached to an electricity storage element group obtained by lining up a plurality of electricity storage elements includes a connector including a detection terminal to be connected to the electricity storage element and to detect a state of the electricity storage element, a resin protector for holding the connector in a connecting position in which the detection terminal and the electricity storage element are connected to each other, and a cover that is attached to the resin protector to cover the connector and that includes a connection detection portion that does not interfere with the connector in a state in which the connector is accommodated in the connecting position and interferes with the connector in a state in which the connector is not accommodated in the connecting position. | 12-17-2015 |
20150358329 | ACCESS RESTRICTION DEVICE, ON-BOARD COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION RESTRICTION - An access restriction device as well as an on-board communication system and a method for communication restriction, which prevent outside leakage of information caused by unauthorized access of malicious programs to an in-car network. The communication between the in-car network of the vehicle and an external device is performed by a security controller. The security controller can perform addition or update of a program involving processing for transmission and reception of the information. The security controller performs processing for restricting access to information of the in-car network performed by program execution according to an access authorization level of each program and an access permission level of each type of information. The security controller restricts the transmission depending on the access authorization level of each program and the access permission level of each type of information in case of transmitting the information to the in-car network by the program execution. | 12-10-2015 |
20150352969 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED CHARGING DEVICE AND VEHICLE CHARGING SYSTEM - A vehicle-mounted charging device ( | 12-10-2015 |
20150352965 | REACTOR, CONVERTER AND POWER CONVERSION - A reactor includes a coil formed by connecting a pair of coil elements configured by a wound wire, and magnetic core. The reactor for an on-vehicle converter converts an input voltage. Electricity applying conditions include a maximum DC current of 100 A or higher and 1000 A or lower, an average voltage of 100 V or higher and 1000 V or smaller, and a usable frequency of 5 kHz or higher and 100 kHz or smaller. The magnetic core is obtained by combining a plurality of divided core pieces without a gap provided. All the divided core pieces are made of hardened compact obtained by hardening resin of composite material containing magnetic powder and the resin. A distance between an inner peripheral surface of the coil element and an outer peripheral surface of the magnetic core opposite to the inner peripheral surface is 0.1 mm or more and 2 mm or less. | 12-10-2015 |
20150340848 | CURING MATERIAL, WIRE HARNESS, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A curing material, having a solubility parameter of 9.4 or more, contains at least a chain transfer agent that contains a compound containing a polyether structure and two or more urethane bonds or two or more urea bonds in a molecule, and a metal-containing compound. A wire harness is manufactured by supplying the curing material to a conductor exposed portion of a wire bundle including a plurality of bundled insulated wires each having a conductor covered with a covering material made of an insulating body, the conductor exposed portion being formed by removing a part of the covering material of the wire bundle to expose the conductor inside; and curing the curing material by irradiating light in a state in which a surface of the curing material is covered with a protective member formed from a resin containing a plasticizer and having light transmissivity, thereby forming a waterproof portion. | 11-26-2015 |
20150332530 | VEHICLE LOCK CONTROLLER - There is provided a vehicle lock controller capable of enhancing the security performance of a vehicle by automatically locking at least one door of the vehicle in an appropriate time. A human detection sensor is disposed on a vehicle, and a vehicle door lock controller is configured to detect the presence of a person around the vehicle based on an output signal of the human detection sensor. The vehicle door lock controller is provided with a short-range wireless communicator for wirelessly communicating with a wireless communication device within a short range and a long-range wireless communicator for wirelessly communicating with the wireless communication device within a long range. The vehicle door lock controller sets a timeout period before the at least one door of the vehicle is automatically locked after being unlocked, depending on whether or not communication exists between these wireless communicators and the wireless communication device. | 11-19-2015 |
20150310968 | WIRING HARNESS MANUFACTURING METHOD - A wire harness manufacturing method includes a first step of covering a periphery of the wire with a molded body ( | 10-29-2015 |
20150310961 | INSULATING COATED WIRE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An insulating coated wire includes a center conductor and an insulating coating. The insulating coating has a bending auxiliary section in which the thickness of the insulating coating is smaller than that of the other portion, and that has a shape in which at least a part thereof protrudes outward in the radial direction. The bending auxiliary section has a shape that facilitates bending of the insulating coated wire by elongation deformation thereof. This insulating coated wire can be manufactured by arranging, on the circumference of an insulating coated wire material, a metal mold that has the inner surface including the section having a shape protruding outward in the radial direction, and forming the bending auxiliary section in the shape along the inner surface of the metal mold by heating the insulating coating within the metal mold and generating a pressure difference between inside and outside of the insulating coating. | 10-29-2015 |
20150236387 | ELECTRICAL STORAGE MODULE - An electricity storage module includes a stack, holder members, and heat-transfer plate members. The stack is formed by stacking power storage elements having lead terminals protruding outward from end portions. The holder members are made of insulating resin and are attached to the end portions of the power storage elements, the holder members holding the power storage elements. The heat-transfer plate member are disposed between power storage elements adjacent in a stacking direction, the heat-transfer plate members made of heat conductive material. An engaging portion is provided on one of the holder members and the heat-transfer plate members, and an engaged portion arranged to be engaged by the engaging portion is provided on the other of the bolder members and the heat-transfer plate members. The holder members and the heat-transfer plate members are integrated by mutual engagement of the engaging portions and the engaged portions. | 08-20-2015 |
20150232591 | (METH)ACRYLATE COMPOSITION - Presented is a (meth)acrylate composition that can be cured even in an unirradiated portion that is not reached by light. The (meth)acrylate composition contains a compound having one or more vinyl groups in a molecular structure thereof. The compound has a ratio of a molecular weight thereof to a number of the vinyl groups of 300 or lower. The composition generates a heat of reaction during photopolymerization thereof, and the heat of reaction causes thermal polymerization of the composition. | 08-20-2015 |
20150228942 | ELECTRICITY STORAGE MODULE - An electricity storage module is provided with a stack formed by stacking a plurality of electricity storage elements having positive and negative lead terminals that protrude outward from end portions. Differently polarized lead terminals of adjacent electricity storage elements are bent in opposite directions and connected by superimposing and welding the end portions thereof. | 08-13-2015 |
20150162731 | ELECTRIC-WIRE PROTECTION PIPE AND WIRE HARNESS - An electric-wire protection pipe includes a tubular main portion that that constitutes an outer wall of the electric-wire protection pipe and that has a longitudinal axis, wherein a reference plane passes through the longitudinal axis in a first direction. A curved partition wall partitions a hollow portion of the tubular main portion into two wiring paths—one on the first direction side and the other on a second direction side opposite to the first direction side. The curved partition wall connects to the tubular main portion at border lines that are parallel to the longitudinal axis and are located on the first direction side of the longitudinal axis, the curved partition wall having a convex side that projects in a second direction opposite to the first direction. | 06-11-2015 |
20150126076 | SOCKET TERMINAL - A socket terminal ( | 05-07-2015 |
20150113803 | WIRE HARNESS INCLUDING SHORT CIRCUIT AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR - A wire harness capable of forming a short circuit by use of a plurality of electric wires and a joint connector while being slenderized and reduced in weight. The wire harness includes a plurality of circuit modules each forming a short circuit. Each of the circuit modules, includes a plurality of electric wires, and a plurality of external-connection connectors, connected to respective first ends of the electric wires, and a joint connector, connected to respective second ends of the electric wires to short-circuit the electric wires. The electric wires constituting the circuit modules are bundled together so that the joint connector of each of the circuit modules is discretely disposed so as to be located in a vicinity of at least one of the external-connection connectors included in the circuit module, around which electric wires a binding tape is wound. | 04-30-2015 |
20150084580 | POWER-SUPPLY DEVICE - Disclosed is a power-supply device configured to supply an operating voltage from an external battery to a control circuit via a voltage terminal. The power-supply device is also configured to supply an operating voltage from an output terminal to a driving circuit of the power-supply device via a switch. The control circuit that has received the operating voltage compares the voltage of the output terminal with a predetermined voltage, and makes a determination. If the voltage of the output terminal is not higher than the predetermined voltage, a predetermined notification is sent outside the power-supply device. | 03-26-2015 |
20150079422 | PLATED MEMBER, PLATED TERMINAL FOR CONNECTOR, METHOD FOR PRODUCING PLATED MEMBER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PLATED TERMINAL FOR CONNECTOR - It is aimed to provide a plated member and a plated terminal for connector, to which a large current can be applied and which have both a low friction coefficient and high heat resistance, at low cost and provide a method for producing such a plated member and a method for producing such a plated terminal for connector. A silver-tin alloy layer for coating a surface of a base material made of copper or copper alloy and a silver coating layer for coating the silver-tin alloy layer and to be exposed on an outermost surface are simultaneously formed by heating to obtain a plated member after tin and silver plating layers are alternately laminated on the surface of the base material with the outermost surface formed by the silver plating layer. | 03-19-2015 |
20150065039 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNCATION SYSTEM - When a vehicle including a battery is charged from a power supply device, communication such as power line communication is performed in which a communication signal is superposed on wires contained in a charging cable. A communication device performs communication via a pair of communication lines connected to wires such as a pair of power supply lines used for power supply. A pair of induction elements whose one ends are connected to the pair of communication lines are provided, and the other ends of the pair of induction elements are connected to a ground potential via a capacitance element. | 03-05-2015 |
20150061584 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CHARGING CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE AND POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - A communication system, a charging control device, a vehicle, and a power supply device are provided, which prevent noise from flowing into a communication device which transmits and receives a communication signal, in communication such as inband communication in which the vehicle and the power supply device are connected via a charging cable containing a power supply line, a grounding line, and a control line, and the communication signal is transmitted and received by using the grounding line and the control line as media. There are provided: a charging control device connected to a grounding line and a control line, and configured to transmit and receive a control signal; a communication device connected to two branch lines branched from the grounding line and the control line, respectively; and a common mode choke coil interposed in the grounding line and the control line, and located between the charging control device and two branch lines. | 03-05-2015 |
20150053479 | WIRING HARNESS PROTECTION MEMBER AND WIRING HARNESS - It is aimed to provide a wiring harness protection member and a wiring harness having good protection performance even when being used under high temperature and high humidity. A wiring harness | 02-26-2015 |
20150027772 | ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING TOOL AND WIRE HARNESS - An electromagnetic shielding tool that includes a metallic cloth and two bracket body portions. The two bracket body portions each include two elongated portions and a coupling portion, and respectively hold a first outer edge portion and a second outer edge portion on the side opposite to the first outer edge portion among four outer edge portions of the metallic cloth so as to form a ring that surrounds the periphery of electrical wires. The two elongated portions are made of a conductive material, are joined to the metallic cloth in the state of being arranged in series along an outer edge portion of the metallic cloth, and form a ring shape due to being combined with each other on two sides of the electrical wires. The coupling portion couples end portions of the two elongated portions to each other and holds the two elongated portions in the ring shape. | 01-29-2015 |
20150023438 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, POWER SUPPLY DEVICE, AND VEHICLE - A communication system, a communication device, a power supply device, and a vehicle are provided, which can suppress occurrence of communication abnormality while suppressing noise applied to a power supply line to be lower than a predetermined upper limit value of a standard, in communication such as inband communication in which a vehicle and a power supply device are connected to each other via a charging cable containing the power supply line and a control line, and a communication signal is transmitted and received using the control line as a medium. A power supply device | 01-22-2015 |
20150022152 | VEHICLE CHARGING APPARATUS - A vehicle charging apparatus mounted on a vehicle for charging an on-vehicle battery from an external power supply, with a charging plug connected to the vehicle, includes a communication device that is configured to perform communication with a charging facility providing the external power supply with the charging plug connected and locked to the vehicle. The communication device prohibits disconnection of the communication when an unlocking operation to unlock the charging plug is executed during charging from the external power supply to the on-vehicle battery. | 01-22-2015 |
20140379954 | RELAY DEVICE, COMMUNICATION HARNESS, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided are a relay device where a routing table can be replaced in order to accommodate diverse relay variations and the storage capacity of the routing table can be saved, a communication harness including the relay device and a communication system including the relay device. In the relay device, a routing program for a CPU to execute relay processing and a routing table for identifying the relay destination by the relay processing are stored in an information rewritable flash memory. The routing table includes a first table that manages whether the CAN message is to be relayed or not, a second table storing the received CAN message, a third table storing the CAN message to be transmitted (relayed), a fourth table that manages the signal storage position, and a fifth table that manages the number of effective records in the second to fourth tables. | 12-25-2014 |
20140378011 | TERMINAL FITTING - A terminal fitting ( | 12-25-2014 |
20140353029 | HARNESS - A harness including a twisted wire pair that can reduce noise and has an excellent assembly performance is provided. A harness includes a connector and two twisted wire pairs in which terminals for connection to the connector are crimped to the end portions. The twisted wire pairs are untwisted from the end portions so as to be easily connected to the connector. By connecting electric wires and electric wires to upper and lower terminal housing chambers on the respective outer sides of the connector, the spacing between neighboring terminals among the two twisted wire pairs is larger than the spacing between the terminals of the individual two twisted wire pairs. | 12-04-2014 |
20140349520 | FERRITE CORE BUILT-IN CONNECTOR - A connector includes ferrite cores ( | 11-27-2014 |
20140349501 | TERMINAL-ATTACHED WIRE AND TERMINAL - A terminal ( | 11-27-2014 |
20140348474 | SUBSTRATE MOUNTING TYPE PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION CONNECTOR - A substrate mounting type photoelectric conversion connector capable of reducing stress produced in a portion in which a lead terminal and a substrate are connected to each other is provided. The substrate mounting type photoelectric conversion connector includes an optical unit including a fitting portion to which a mating optical member can be fit, in which at least a portion that includes the fitting portion and serves as a path of optical signals is formed of a light-transmissive material; a photoelectric conversion unit including a photoelectric conversion element that is disposed such that an optical axis coincides with an optical axis of the mating optical member; and a lead terminal that is connected to the photoelectric conversion unit and that electrically connects the photoelectric conversion element to a substrate, the optical unit provided with a substrate connecting portion that is configured connect to the substrate. | 11-27-2014 |
20140345936 | WIRING HARNESS AND RELAY HARNESS - A relay harness ( | 11-27-2014 |
20140334784 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR - An optical connector, in which light propagating between both connectors is parallel light, capable of reducing splicing loss due to angular or axial displacement is provided. An optical connector includes a first connector that includes a collimating lens that collimates light emitted from a light emitting member into parallel light and a first fitting, and a second connector that includes a convergent lens that converges the parallel light emitted from the first connector toward a light incident member and a second fitting configured to be fitted to the first fitting, in which an inner circumferential surface of one of the fitting has a tapered surface that widens toward its front end, and an outer circumferential surface of the other of the fittings that comes into contact with the inner circumferential surface of one fitting has a tapered surface that narrows toward its front end. | 11-13-2014 |
20140334300 | TRANSMISSION MESSAGE GENERATING DEVICE AND VEHICLE-MOUNTED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Each ECU transmits a frame to a frame generator. Then, the frame generator decomposes data contained in the received frame and then stores the data into a buffer memory, for each message type. The frame generator generates a message containing data to be transmitted to each ECU, and then transmits the message. In accordance with the state of a signal indicating the electric power supply status, the frame generator controls the permission or non-permission of transmission processing such that frame transmission is not performed to the ECU to which electric power supply from an electric power supply control device. When any communication part has received an abnormal frame, the frame generator does not include data contained in frames received afterward by the communication part, into a frame generated for other communication parts. | 11-13-2014 |
20140322982 | BATTERY WIRING MODULE - A battery wiring module including first connecting members that connect adjacent electrode terminals of a plurality of electric cells to serially connect the plurality of electric cells; second connecting members, one end of each of which is connected to the electrode terminal at one end of the serial connection and the other end of each of which is connected to an external conductive member; and a resin protector that holds the first connecting members and the second connecting members. The resin protector includes first holding portions that hold the first connecting members and second holding portions that hold the second connecting members. Concave engaged portions are provided in the second connecting members and convex engaging portions are provided in the second holding portions for engaging the concave engaged portions to limit the movement of the second connecting members. | 10-30-2014 |
20140312840 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM AND CONNECTOR - A power supply system and a connector, which can suppress occurrence of crosstalk between a power supply wire, and a control wire and an earth wire in a charging cable that includes the power supply wire, the control wire and the earth wire at the time of connecting a power supplying device with a vehicle having a power storage device to be supplied with power from the power supplying device via the power supply wire and the earth wire to be used for supplying power and the control wire for transmitting a control signal to be used for power supply control of the power storage device, are provided. | 10-23-2014 |
20140305691 | ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT UNIT CAPABLE OF EXTERNAL CONNECTION - Provided is an electronic circuit unit which includes a circuit board, a case for the circuit board and a connector for external connection and can be miniaturized and simplified in structure. This electronic circuit unit includes a circuit board ( | 10-16-2014 |
20140297110 | IN-VEHICLE RELAY APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An in-vehicle relay apparatus can restrict transmission of identification information with which a vehicle can be specified to the outside of the vehicle. A vehicle internal communication unit may communicate with at least one in-vehicle device installed in a vehicle, and a vehicle external communication unit may communicate with a vehicle external communication device disposed outside of the vehicle. A communication processing unit may add identification information to relay information that is transmitted to the vehicle external communication device. The identification information may regard a transmission source of relay information by which the vehicle external communication device determines the transmission source of the relay information. Additionally, the communication processing unit may transmit, using the vehicle external communication device, the relay information to the vehicle external communication device. A determination unit may determine which information is used as the identification information based on stored access authority levels. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297109 | IN-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND IN-VEHICLE RELAY APPARATUS - An in-vehicle communication system and an in-vehicle relay apparatus that can perform relaying between multiple in-vehicle networks if a new in-vehicle device is connected to a said in-vehicle network, and that can prevent, if an improper in-vehicle device is connected to the in-vehicle network, the entire system from being adversely affected by the improper in-vehicle device. The in-vehicle relay apparatus that relays information between the multiple in-vehicle networks has stored therein relay destination determination information necessary to determine a relay destination of information. If a new in-vehicle device is connected to any one of the in-vehicle networks, an acquiring unit communicates with a communication device to obtain updated relay destination determination information, a determination unit determines if the updated relay destination determination information is legitimate, and an updating unit updates the relay destination determination information of the in-vehicle relay apparatus. | 10-02-2014 |
20140295708 | CONNECTOR - A connector includes female terminals ( | 10-02-2014 |
20140294349 | CONNECTOR, CONNECTOR MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING WIRE HARNESS AND WIRING MATERIALS TO MEMBER TO BE CONNECTED - A connector includes a terminal member including a contact portion that can be brought into contact with a connecting target member, the terminal member being attached to an end of a wiring material, a housing including an insertion recess into which the connecting target member can be inserted, the housing retaining the terminal member such that the contact portion can be brought into contact with the connecting target member inserted into the insertion recess, and a dust protection member that protects the insertion recess against dust by blocking an insertion opening of the insertion recess. The dust protection member is formed such that the dust protection member can be penetrated by the connecting target member when the connecting target member is inserted into the insertion recess. | 10-02-2014 |
20140293655 | REACTOR, CONVERTER, AND POWER CONVERTER APPARATUS | 10-02-2014 |
20140292069 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An output circuit sends a control pilot signal generated in a voltage generator to an input circuit. A communication unit is connected between an earthed wire and a control pilot wire on the output side of the output circuit via a bandpass filter. A communication unit is connected between the earthed wire and the control pilot wire on the input side of the input circuit via a bandpass filter. A low-pass filter is interposed between the output circuit and the communication unit. A low-pass filter is interposed between the input circuit and the communication unit. | 10-02-2014 |
20140256178 | BATTERY WIRING MODULE - A battery wiring module attached to a battery group formed by juxtaposing a plurality of batteries each having electrode terminals, includes: a plurality of bus bars; and a plurality of holder units made of an insulating resin and having holding portions and holding the bus bars. The holder units include: a first holder unit disposed at an end; and a second holder unit which is a holder unit other than the first holder unit. The holding portion of the second holder unit is provided with a bus bar insertion portion through which the bus bars are inserted in the direction in which the batteries are juxtaposed, and the second holding portion of the first holder unit is provided with an encompassing wall and adapted to insert the bus bars in a direction in which the first holder unit is attached to the battery group. | 09-11-2014 |
20140254695 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A charging station performs communications by use of a superimposing/separating unit configured by connecting a capacitor, a coupling transformer and a capacitor to branch lines branching out respectively from a control cable and a grounded cable. An electric vehicle performs communications by use of a superimposing/separating unit configured by providing a coupling transformer to the control cable. A capacitor is also connected between the control cable and the grounded cable. Communications are allowed by the configuration of a closed loop circuit comprising the control cable, the branch line, the capacitor, a primary coil of the coupling transformer, the capacitor, the branch line, the grounded cable, the capacitor, and a primary coil of the coupling transformer. | 09-11-2014 |
20140254694 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - This output circuit sends a control pilot signal which has been generated at a voltage generation source to an input circuit. Between the control pilot line and the ground line of the output side of the output circuit, a communication unit is connected via a transformer. Between the control pilot line and the ground line of the input side of the input circuit, a communication unit is connected via a transformer. Between the output circuit and the transformer, a lowpass filter is interposed. Between the input circuit and the transformer, a lowpass filter is interposed. | 09-11-2014 |
20140254068 | ELECTRICAL JUNCTION BOX - An electrical junction box includes a casing and a relay housed in the casing. The relay is located at an outer end in the casing. The relay includes an electrical component case and a terminal. The terminal is attached through the electrical component case and includes a fixed contact and a movable contact located in the electrical component case. | 09-11-2014 |
20140247893 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Provided are a communication system and a communication device capable of suppressing attenuation of a communication signal superimposed upon a control pilot line. This output circuit ( | 09-04-2014 |
20140247623 | REACTOR, REACTOR-USE COIL COMPONENT, CONVERTER, AND POWER CONVERTER APPARATUS | 09-04-2014 |
20140241011 | REACTOR, CONVERTER, AND POWER CONVERTER APPARATUS - A reactor of the present invention includes a coil | 08-28-2014 |
20140235116 | ALUMINUM-BASED TERMINAL FITTING - Provided are an aluminum-based terminal fitting in which a Sn layer has high peel resistance, and a terminal connecting structure of an electric wire provided with the terminal fitting. The aluminum-based terminal fitting includes a wire barrel portion ( | 08-21-2014 |
20140220792 | CONDUCTIVE PLATE AND JOINT CONNECTOR - A conductive plate ( | 08-07-2014 |
20140218862 | ELECTRICAL JUNCTION BOX - An electrical junction box includes a casing configured to be mounted in a vehicle, a start relay (a start electrical component) A housed in the casing and to which a current is supplied at least at a start of the vehicle, an operational electrical component (an operational relay, a connector, and a fuse connector) housed in the casing and to which a current is supplied at least during an operation of the vehicle, and a surrounding heat shield wall (a heat shield wall) disposed between the start relay and at least one of the operational relay, the connector, and the fuse connector that are the operational electrical components. The start relay includes a relay case (an electrical component case) and a terminal portion. The terminal portion is housed in the relay case and has a fixed contact and a movable contact. | 08-07-2014 |
20140214233 | IN-VEHICLE ECU - An in-vehicle ECU is provided that minimizes electric power consumption while an internal microcomputer does not need to operate. Furthermore, a power supply IC stops supplying an operation power from a power supply output unit in a pre-OFF mode, and restarts the supply of the operation power to the microcomputer when an OR gate output signal is “H”. A CPU of the microcomputer, if, at the time of the restart of the operation power after the pre-OFF mode was set, a predetermined time has elapsed since the pre-OFF mode was set, without any change in an activation factor, which is to serve as a factor for activating the microcomputer, based on whether or not there is a temporal change in external input information, outputs a power supply control signal of “H” in order to execute a power supply stop operation for stopping supplying electric power to ECUs subjected to power supply control. | 07-31-2014 |
20140199868 | CONNECTOR - A connector ( | 07-17-2014 |
20140192910 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An output circuit sends out, to an input circuit, a control pilot signal generated by a voltage source. A voltage transformer is provided to a control pilot line on the output side of the output circuit, and a communication unit transmits and receives communication signals via the voltage transformer. A voltage transformer is provided to the control pilot line on the input side of the input circuit, and a communication unit transmits and receives the communication signals via the voltage transformer. A low-pass filter is provided to the control pilot line between the input circuit and the voltage transformer. | 07-10-2014 |
20140191571 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROL APPARATUS - A power supply control apparatus has a voltage detection unit that detects output voltage of a battery or alternator; a condition acquisition unit that acquires an engine condition; a voltage transformation unit that raises or lowers output voltage; a switching unit that switches power supply to in-vehicle devices to either of the output voltage and a voltage transformed by the voltage transformation unit; and a control unit that outputs instruction to the switching unit based on the output voltage value and the engine condition. The switching unit switches the power supply destination between a first in-vehicle device group to which a voltage higher than V1 is to be supplied and a second different in-vehicle device group and the control unit outputs instruction to lower or raise the voltage to the voltage transformation unit, and outputs instruction to switch between the first and second in-vehicle device groups to the switching unit. | 07-10-2014 |
20140176291 | CHOKE COIL - A choke coil of the present invention employs a dust core as a material for each core, and includes an outer core having a quadrangular frame shape, a bobbin on which a coil is wound and which is mounted in the frame of the outer core, and an inner core which serves as a magnetic core of the bobbin and which has a core-rod-like shape having a central axis parallel to the winding axial direction of the coil. The inner core is interposed between two flat surfaces facing each other in the inner face of the outer core such that the central axis extends in a direction orthogonal to the two flat surfaces. | 06-26-2014 |
20140158396 | BUS BAR COVER, AND BUS BAR WITH COVER - An insulating bus bar cover is attachable to a bus bar between cell groups, both ends of the bus bar being respectively fixable to electrode terminals having opposite polarities in order to electrically connect the electrode terminals. The bus bar cover includes a main body portion for covering the bus bar while exposing both ends of the bus bar, hinge portions that are provided at ends of the main body portion, and lid portions that are attached via the hinge portions to the main body portion, and are pivotable by the hinge portions so as to cover or expose the ends. | 06-12-2014 |
20140154971 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RELAY DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication system, a relay device, and a communication method are provided in a configuration where multiple communication devices are divided into multiple groups, a relay device is provided for each group, and the relay device relays data exchanges between groups. The data that is exchanged between a second relay device and an external wireless communication device is stored such that it is distributed among multiple databases of first relay units. Data received from the external communication device is stored in an individual region in the database of the first relay device and a data storage destination table in the second relay device is encrypted. If the first relay device stores data received from an ECU in the database, the second relay device is notified, and the second relay device updates the data storage destination table according to the notification. | 06-05-2014 |
20140154551 | COVER FOR BATTERY WIRING MODULE, AND BATTERY WIRING MODULE - A cover is provided, and a battery wiring module is provided with the cover. The cover can cover a resin protector of the battery wiring module, and the battery wiring module includes: a bus bar that electrically connects positive and negative electrode terminals of a cell group formed by arranging in a row a plurality of cells having the electrode terminals; and the resin protector that holds the bus bar. The resin protector can be deformed or moved in accordance with a variation of a pitch between the electrode terminals. The cover for the battery wiring module includes a dislocation compensating portion that compensates a dislocation of the resin protector resulting from deformation or movement thereof. | 06-05-2014 |
20140140763 | CONNECTOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - In a connector ( | 05-22-2014 |
20140140103 | SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY - A switching power supply is provided including a transformer that transforms an AC voltage converted by a bridge circuit, and outputs the transformed voltage from a center tap between secondary coils, and two second switches that respectively cause both ends of the secondary coils to be brought in contact with and be separated from a fixed electrical potential. By the second switches being switched on/off, the switching power supply outputs the rectified DC voltage from the center tap. The switching power supply further includes two diodes connected to the both ends of the secondary coils, and cause the currents to flow from the both ends, a capacitor that stores the currents caused to flow, and a third switch that is connected between the capacitor and the center tap, in which, by the third switch being turned on, the capacitor is discharged to the smoothing circuit. | 05-22-2014 |
20140134894 | CELL WIRING MODULE - A cell wiring module includes: a plurality of coupling units that hold a plurality of connection members for electrically connecting electrode terminals of adjacent single cells; an opening end section positioned on one side of each coupling unit, and has a first engagement hole formed therein; a latching end section positioned on the other side of each coupling unit, and has a latching unit inserted into the first engagement hole of a coupling unit adjacent in the coupling direction, and latches onto the hole edge section of the first engagement hole; and a fluctuating movement restricting piece arranged at one of the opening end section and the latching end section, wherein the fluctuating movement restricting piece is inserted into a second engagement hole provided at the other of the opening end section and the latching end section of an adjacent coupling unit, and restricts fluctuating movements. | 05-15-2014 |
20140134884 | BATTERY WIRING MODULE - A battery wiring module, which is to be attached to a plurality of electric cells each including a positive terminal and a negative terminal, includes a bus bar that is made of metal and has a pair of terminal through holes to be connected respectively to the positive terminal of one electric cell and the negative terminal of another electric cell, a bus bar case that is made of fire-resistant synthetic resin and in which the bus bar is accommodated, and a case holder that is made of general synthetic resin and by which the bus bar case is held. | 05-15-2014 |
20140121901 | ELECTRICAL POWER SUPPLY CONTROL SYSTEM, ELECTRICAL POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE, AND ELECTRICAL POWER SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD - A power source control system, a power source controller, and a power source control method capable of switching between supply and shut-off of power for electronic devices, individually for a plurality of electronic devices connected to a network, are provided. If a power source controller shuts off a power source for the Electronic Control Unit (ECU) by outputting a control signal to a power source switch device, the power source controller cyclically transmits data in place of the ECU. The other ECU for which a power source is not shut off can receive data equivalent to the data to be cyclically transmitted by the ECU for which the power source is shut off, from the power source controller. The power source controller stores a transmission cycle, a transmission ID, and latest reception information of each control target ECU, and performs substitute transmission of data. | 05-01-2014 |
20140120362 | Partial Plating Method, a Laser Plating Device, and a Plated Material - A partial plating method capable of applying fine hard gold plating, a laser plating device capable of applying partial plating to a minute region with high positional precision, and a plated member. The partial plating method comprising plating a region to be plated by projecting a laser beam having a wavelength of 330 nm or more and 450 nm or less. A laser plating device | 05-01-2014 |
20140113494 | BATTERY WIRING MODULE - A battery wiring module is configured to be attached to a battery group including a plurality of batteries each having electrode terminals including a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal and configured to connect the electrode terminals. The battery wiring module includes a plurality of connection units connected to each other in a battery arrangement direction in which the batteries are arranged. Each of the connection units includes a bus bar and a bus bar housing. The bus bar is configured to connect one of the electrode terminals of one of the batteries and one of the electrode terminals of another one of the batteries. The bus bar housing houses the bus bar. The bus bar has a pair of terminal through holes configured to receive the electrode terminals and each of the terminal through holes is formed in a shape elongated in the battery arrangement direction. | 04-24-2014 |
20140108545 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication network in which a plurality of terminals are connected to a common bus is a vehicle-mounted communication system which connects a plurality of ECUs though the bus, transmits messages at predetermined communication intervals between the ECUs, and receives the transmitted messages. The messages transmitted/received between the ECUs through a CAN communication line are divided into a plurality of groups such as a first group, a second group to an Nth group according to the type of message information. Each of the ECUs is provided with a transmission timing operation part for computing the transmission timing for each message group to be transmitted. The transmission timing operation part adjusts so as to bring the transmission timing of message belonging to the first group transmitted from its own ECU closer to the transmission timing of message belonging to the first group received from another electronic control unit. | 04-17-2014 |
20140102785 | ELECTRIC WIRE WITH TERMINAL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An electric wire with a terminal includes an electric wire that has a conductor made of aluminum or aluminum alloy and an insulating coating covering the conductor, and a terminal that has a connecting portion to which an exposed conductor that is exposed at a terminal end of the electric wire is connected. The connecting portion is formed by compressing while heating a tubular part in a state in which the exposed conductor is inserted into the tubular part, the tubular part being provided on the terminal and being capable of allowing the exposed conductor to be inserted thereinto. | 04-17-2014 |
20140091788 | CURRENT DETECTOR - A current detector includes a magnetic core that is molded by sintering powder made from a magnetic material, and a current detection busbar. The current detection busbar is a conductor including a penetrating portion that penetrates a hole portion of the magnetic core in a first direction in which a current flows, and terminal portions that are in connection with the penetrating portion on both sides in the first direction. The width of the terminal portions is larger than the maximum width of the hole portion, and the minimum width of the cross-sectional contour of the penetrating portion is larger than the thickness of the terminal portions. An insulating casing holds the magnetic core, the current detection busbar, and the Hall element, while keeping them from coming into contact with each other. | 04-03-2014 |
20140091619 | POWER SOURCE DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A vehicle power source device reliably turns on a high voltage battery even if the output voltage of a low-voltage ancillary battery drops at the start of driving the vehicle. A request to run on a high-voltage battery (to turn on a relay contact point) is made by means of the operation to start driving a vehicle. A low-voltage ancillary battery and an auxiliary battery supply power to a power source circuit. A relay control unit supplied with power from the power source circuit turns on the relay contact point and turns on the high-voltage battery. When the high-voltage battery is on, the auxiliary battery is charged by means of a step-down circuit. The auxiliary battery holds the charged power by means of a diode without the power being consumed by a group of low-voltage loads. | 04-03-2014 |
20140084914 | CURRENT DETECTION DEVICE - In a current detection device for detecting current in a busbar, a reduction in device size may be realized by employing a small magnetic core. The prevention or reduction of excessive heat generation by the busbar, the facilitation of the attachment task, and a reduction in the amount of space required for the attachment task may also be realized. The folded-back busbar is U-shaped with a bar-shaped penetration portion that passes through a hole portion of a magnetic core, two bar-shaped extension portions, and two flat plate-shaped penetration portions. The width of each terminal portion is larger than the widths of the penetration portion and the extension portions. An insulating casing supports the magnetic core, a Hall element, and the folded-back busbar in a fixed positional relationship, with the two terminal portions being exposed to the outside. | 03-27-2014 |
20140080364 | BATTERY WIRING MODULE - A battery wiring module in which connection members are held by a resin protector, the connection members connecting adjacent electrode terminals of a plurality of single batteries, the single batteries having the positive and negative electrode terminals, as well as a battery-side detection terminal for detecting a status of the single battery. The battery wiring module includes a voltage detection terminal, which includes a flat plate-shaped flat plate and a wire connection connected to a terminal end of a wire. The resin protector includes an opening, which enables the battery-side detection terminal to contact the flat plate of the voltage detection terminal. The voltage detection terminal includes an engaged portion extending on a different plane than that of the flat plate. The engaged portion is engaged with a first engagement portion provided to the resin protector. | 03-20-2014 |
20140072861 | CELL WIRING MODULE - A cell wiring module includes a first unit holding one side of a connection member in a connection direction on a first base plate that extends along the connection member; and a second unit holding the other side of the connection member in the connection direction on a second base plate that extends along the connection member. Sliding occurs in the connection direction of the connection member between the connection member and at least one of the first unit and the second unit. The first base plate that extends to a second base plate side and the second base plate that extends to a first base plate side extend to such positions that the connection member is not exposed on an single cell side in an area between the first base plate and the second base plate. | 03-13-2014 |
20140065885 | BATTERY WIRING MODULE - A battery wiring module is configured for attachment to an electric cell group constituted by an array of a plurality of electric cells, each having positive and negative electrode terminals. The battery wiring module includes a bus bar connectable to the electrode terminals, a detection wire for detecting a state of the electric cell group, a resin protector for holding the bus bar, a lid portion that covers the bus bar and is made of an insulating material, and at least one wall portion disposed on a face of the lid portion opposite to the bus bar in a direction intersecting the lid portion. The at least wall portion forms a routing space in which the detection wire is routed. | 03-06-2014 |
20140065468 | CELL WIRING MODULE - A cell wiring module is configured to include a plurality of connection members connecting adjacent electrode terminals of a plurality of single cells having positive and negative electrode terminals. The cell wiring module includes a first unit housing a housed connection member, and a second unit connected to the first unit by a linking connection member different from the housed connection member. Sliding occurs in the connection direction of the connection members between the linking connection member for connection and at least one of the first unit and the second unit. | 03-06-2014 |
20140045388 | CELL WIRING MODULE - A cell wiring module has a plurality of connection members connecting adjacent electrode terminals a plurality of single cells having positive and negative electrode terminals, a plurality of holding portions holding the connection members, voltage detection terminals placed on the connection members and connected to terminal portions of wires, and wire insertion portions through which the wires connected to the voltage detection terminals are inserted. The wires extend from the voltage detection terminals in the direction inclined relative to a direction orthogonal to a connecting direction of the connection members. The wires extending in this direction are inserted through the wire insertion portions. | 02-13-2014 |
20140045029 | COVER OF BATTERY WIRING MODULE, BATTERY WIRING MODULE, AND BATTERY MODULE - A cover of battery wiring modules, which include connection members electrically connecting electrode terminals of banks of single batteries, the banks of single batteries being configured by aligning a plurality of single batteries. The cover includes a plate-shaped cover main body covering the battery wiring modules; a first engagement portion provided on a first surface side of the cover main body and engaging with an engaged projection of the battery wiring module; and a second engagement portion provided on a second surface side of the cover main body and engaging with an engaged portion of a battery wiring module different from the battery wiring module. | 02-13-2014 |
20140034383 | WIRE HARNESS - Some embodiments relate to a wire harness capable of constituting a two-phase or three-phase power line having superior heat radiating properties using very versatile round electric wires without requiring extra wires. A wire harness includes round electric wires, crimp terminals, a shield member, and a corrugated tube. The shield member and the corrugated tube cover the periphery of an electric wire bundle constituted by the round electric wires, the number of which is a multiple of six. The wire harness has a structure in which each of the crimp terminals is attached to one of a plurality of sub-groups of electric wires obtained by dividing the electric wire bundle into equal parts, each of which includes a plurality of the round electric wires. | 02-06-2014 |
20140033524 | WIRE HARNESS MANUFACTURING METHOD - A sheet-like member ( | 02-06-2014 |
20140024262 | CONNECTOR - A connector includes a plurality of cavities ( | 01-23-2014 |
20140017947 | CONNECTOR - A device-side connector ( | 01-16-2014 |
20140016900 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR AND FERRULE - A ferrule includes a flange that projects outward in the diameter direction of the ferrule, and a shaft portion that extends from the flange, away from the tip of the ferrule along the axial direction of the ferrule. A male-side connector includes a coil spring that is fitted around the shaft portion and biases a ferrule forward in the mating direction of the male connector, and a spring receiving portion that holds the coil spring from behind in the mating direction of the male connector. The cross-sectional shape of the shaft portion is a regular polygonal shape according to which vertices of the cross section of the shaft portion come into contact with the inner periphery of the coil spring. A female-side connector includes a flange receiving portion comes into contact with the flange from behind in the mating direction of the female-side connector. | 01-16-2014 |
20140016294 | WIRING MODULE - A wiring module ( | 01-16-2014 |
20130343445 | NOISE DETECTION METHOD, NOISE DETECTION APPARATUS, SIMULATION METHOD, SIMULATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - For voltage values (observed noise sequence) in an electronic power line (communication medium) which are obtained at a predetermined interval, initial values of noise characteristics based on a statistic of the observed noise sequence itself are decided by a moment method (S | 12-26-2013 |
20130338327 | CHAIN TRANSFER AGENT, PHOTOSENSITIVE COMPOSITION, CURED PRODUCT OF PHOTOSENSITIVE COMPOSITION, AND METHOD FOR CURING PHOTOSENSITIVE COMPOSITION - There are provided a photosensitive composition, and a cured product of the photosensitive composition, the photosensitive composition being an ultraviolet curable composition that is curable in a short time while a portion of the photosensitive composition such as a dark portion where radicals are not generated at all is curable. A cured product is obtained by curing a photosensitive composition by ultraviolet irradiation, the photosensitive composition containing an ultraviolet curable material, and a chain transfer agent that contains an ingredient (a) that is a compound containing at least one kind selected from the group consisting of a urethane bond, a urea bond and an isocyanate group, and an ingredient (b) that is a metal-containing compound, wherein a portion of the composition where irradiation light does not reach is curable. | 12-19-2013 |
20130336620 | OPTICAL MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL MODULE - A method of manufacturing an optical module includes the steps of applying the invisible light onto the resin member and the optical device, observing, with use of a camera, a part of the resin member located at the optical fiber coupling plane and an image formed at the optical fiber coupling plane by the optical device active layer while applying the invisible light onto the resin member and the optical device, aligning positions of the resin member and the circuit board with respect to each other while observing the part of the resin member located at the optical fiber coupling plane and the image formed at the optical fiber coupling plane, and fixing the resin member to the circuit board while maintaining the aligned positions of the resin member and the circuit board. | 12-19-2013 |
20130323955 | CONNECTOR TERMINAL AND CARD EDGE TYPE CONNECTOR INCLUDING THIS CONNECTOR TERMINAL - A connector terminal includes: a main body section having a board-contacting-surface which is flat and capable of contacting a connecting conductor of a circuit board; and an elastic deforming section that is positioned on a side opposite to the board-contacting-surface in a thickness direction of the circuit board, and that can deform elastically in the thickness direction with respect to the main body section. | 12-05-2013 |
20130319720 | PROTECTOR, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE PROTECTOR, AND SHIELD CONDUCTOR - A protector protects a portion of an electric wire extending from an end portion of a metal pipe to an end portion of a casing. The protector includes tubular outer layer, tubular flexible shield, first fixing, and second fixing members. The outer layer member is made of flexible insulation and extends from the end portion of the metal pipe to the end portion of the casing. The shield member is arranged along an inner surface of the outer layer member and integrally with the outer layer member. The shield member is made of a conductive material. The first fixing member is connected to a first connecting portion of an inner surface of the shield member to which the metal pipe is connected. The second fixing member is connected to a second connecting portion of the inner surface of the shield member to which the casing is connected. | 12-05-2013 |
20130316573 | CONNECTOR - A connector ( | 11-28-2013 |
20130309553 | BATTERY CONNECTING ASSEMBLY - Each of connection units integrally includes a cover via a hinge, and the cover covers an accommodation portion in which a connecting member is arranged. The connection unit includes a unit stopper and a unit stopper receiver that is fitted to the unit stopper that is formed on an adjacent connection unit. The cover includes a cover stopper and a cover stopper receiver that is fitted to the cover stopper formed on the cover of the adjacent connection unit. The connection units are connected to each other by fitting of the unit stoppers and the unit stopper receivers and fitting of the cover stoppers and the cover stopper receivers. | 11-21-2013 |
20130306370 | WIRE HARNESS, WIRE HARNESS MANUFACTURING METHOD AND WIRE HARNESS MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - A wire harness manufacturing method prevents inadvertent deformation of thermoplastic material and separation of thermoplastic material. A predetermined part of an electric wire | 11-21-2013 |
20130306346 | SHIELD CONDUCTOR - A shield conductor includes wires, a tubular shield member, and a tightening ring. The tubular shield member includes a metal pipe and a metal tubular accordion-shaped member. An end portion of the pipe is fitted to an end portion of the tubular accordion-shaped member. The tubular shield member surrounds the wires. The tightening ring is attached to an end portion of the tubular accordion-shaped member to which the end portion of the pipe is fitted, and the end portion of the pipe and the end portion of the tubular accordion-shaped member are tightened up from their outer peripheral side by the tightening ring. At least one slit is provided in a portion of the tubular accordion-shaped member that is tightened up the by the tightening ring. The slit is cut in from an opening end of the tubular accordion-shaped member. | 11-21-2013 |
20130299234 | SHIELD CONDUCTOR - A shield conductor includes: an electrical wire; a tubular shield member that encloses the electrical wire and is configured such that an end portion of a pipe made of metal is fit to an end portion of a tubular accordion member made of metal; a swage ring that is attached at a portion where the end portion of the pipe is fit to the end portion of the tubular accordion member, and constricts the end portion of the pipe and the end portion of the tubular accordion member from outside; a conductor ring that is arranged between the pipe and the tubular accordion member, has an inner circumferential face that faces the pipe and an outer circumferential face that faces the tubular accordion member, and has electrical conductivity; and a plurality of protrusion/recession portions formed on the inner circumferential face and the outer circumferential face. | 11-14-2013 |
20130293004 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROLLER - A power supply controller includes a switch circuit to be provided between the power source and the power supply path, the switch circuit switches the power supply from the power source to the load between on and off, and a power-supply-path protection circuit. The power-supply-path protection circuit controls switching operation of the switch circuit according to a power-supply command signal that commands to start or terminate the power supply to the load, to calculate a temperature of the power-supply path, and if the calculated temperature reaches a predetermined upper limit, to inhibit the switch circuit from the power supply, thereby protecting the power-supply path. In a case where the power supply by the switch circuit is inhibited, if the temperature of the power supply path decreases to a predetermined threshold temperature, the power-supply-path protection circuit removes inhibition of the power supply by the switch circuit. | 11-07-2013 |
20130292173 | CRIMPED TERMINAL WIRE FOR AUTOMOBILE - To provide a crimped terminal wire for automobile having a stable anticorrosion property in automobile environment. The wire includes an aluminum electric wire including an aluminum conductor wire coated with insulation, a copper connecting terminal onto an end of the aluminum electric wire, the terminal including a crimped member and an electrical contact portion, a crimped portion, and a resin-coated portion on the crimped portion, wherein an entire periphery of the crimped portion is coated with the resin-coated portion, and wherein the resin-coated portion is made from a material mainly made from a thermoplastic polyamide resin and having a tensile lap-shear strength of lapped aluminums of 6 N/mm | 11-07-2013 |
20130292154 | SHIELD CONDUCTOR - A shield conductor includes an electric wire, a metal pipe, and a tubular protector. The protector covers a portion extending from an end portion of the metal pipe to an end portion of a casing. The protector includes a tubular outer layer member made of flexible insulation and a tubular flexible shield member made of a conductive material. The outer layer member is arranged to extend from a first connecting portion to a second connecting portion. The first connecting portion is connected to the metal pipe and the second connecting portion is connected to the casing. The shield member is arranged along an inner surface of the outer layer member and provided integrally with the outer layer member. The shield member is electrically connected to the metal pipe at the first connecting portion and is electrically connected to the casing at the second connecting portion. | 11-07-2013 |
20130284487 | SHIELD CONDUCTOR - A shield conductor is provided with electrical wires and a metal pipe that encloses the electrical wires and whose outer peripheral surface is covered with an orange (color other than a metallic color) resin layer. The pipe is routed so that at least a portion passes in proximity to an exhaust pipe of a vehicle. A section of the pipe passing in proximity to the exhaust pipe that faces the exhaust pipe does not have the resin layer and the metallic-colored outer peripheral surface of the section remains exposed. | 10-31-2013 |
20130280959 | WIRING MODULE - A wiring module attached to a plurality of electric cells having electrode terminals including positive electrodes and negative electrodes has a plurality of bus bars having pairs of through-holes respectively connected to the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes of the electric cells and bus bar insulating members each held by the adjacent bus bars. Of the plurality of bus bar insulating members, a first bus bar insulating member and a second bus bar insulating member are connected with each other by the bus bar. | 10-24-2013 |
20130280589 | CELL CONNECTION ASSEMBLY - A cell connection assembly includes a first unit holding one side in a connection direction of a long connection member, and a second unit holding the other side in the connection direction of the long connection member. The first unit and the second unit are configured to be slidable and movable with respect to the long connection member in the connection direction of the long connection member. Even when there is a dimensional error between a plurality of electric cells and the cell connection assembly attached thereto, positions of the first unit and the second unit relative to each other can be changed with the long connection member in response to the dimensional error. | 10-24-2013 |
20130273367 | COMPOSITION FOR WIRE COATING MATERIAL, INSULATED WIRE, AND WIRING HARNESS - To provide a composition for a wire coating material, requiring no electron irradiation crosslinking and a less filler, that can produce a crosslinked coat having a high heat resistance, gel fraction and peel property at high temperature, and provide an insulated wire, and a wiring harness. A wire coating material composition contains (A) silane-grafted polyolefin, (B) undenatured polyolefin, (C) functional-group modified polyolefin modified by functional groups of a carboxylic acid group, an acid anhydride group, an amino group and an epoxy group, (D) a bromine flame retardant having a phthalimide structure or the flame retardant and an antimony trioxide, (E) a crosslinking catalyst batch containing a resin containing a crosslinking catalyst, and (F) a zinc oxide and an imidazole compound or a zinc sulfide, (G) a triazine hindered phenolic antioxidant having a melting point of 150 degrees C. or more, and (H) a triazole derivative or a hydrazide metal deactivator. | 10-17-2013 |
20130272663 | OPTICAL ASSEMBLY - An optical assembly includes a circuit board including an electrically conductive path formed by printed wiring technology, a photoelectric conversion element connected to the circuit board via the electrically conductive path, a resin member made of light transmissive synthetic resin and attached to the circuit board, and a shielding member made of metal. The resin member includes a sleeve into which a ferrule attached to an end of an optical fiber is inserted and integrally includes a lens through which an optical path passes. The optical path extends between the sleeve and the photoelectric conversion element. The shielding member is connected to the circuit board and arranged to cover the photoelectric conversion element. The shielding member includes a window through which the optical path extends to the photoelectric conversion element. | 10-17-2013 |
20130269972 | SHIELD CONDUCTOR - A shield conductor includes a pipe made of metal and an electric wire. The electric wire is passed through the pipe. The pipe includes a first deformed portion and a second deformed portion. The first deformed portion has a first short diameter portion and a first long diameter portion having different outer diameters in a peripheral direction of the pipe. The second deformed portion is in a different position from the first deformed portion in an extension direction in which the pipe extends and includes a second short diameter portion and a second long diameter portion having different outer diameters in the peripheral direction. The first and the second short diameter portions are provided in different positions in the peripheral direction. The first and the second long diameter portions are provided in different positions in the peripheral direction. | 10-17-2013 |
20130266278 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR - An optical connector includes a housing, a photoelectric conversion circuit board on which a photoelectric conversion element is mounted, and a resin member made of a light transmissive synthetic resin and arranged on a plate surface of the photoelectric conversion circuit board so as to cover the photoelectric conversion element. The photoelectric conversion circuit board is housed in the housing. The resin member includes a sleeve to which a ferrule attached to an end of an optical fiber is fitted. The sleeve of the resin member is arranged such that an axial direction thereof is substantially perpendicular to the plate surface of the photoelectric circuit board. The resin member integrally includes a lens on an axial line of the sleeve such that the lens faces the photoelectric conversion element. | 10-10-2013 |
20130264115 | ALUMINUM ALLOY WIRE, AND ALUMINUM ALLOY TWISTED WIRE, COVERED ELECTRICAL WIRE AND WIRE HARNESS USING THE SAME - An aluminum (Al) alloy wire, which is an extra fine wire having a wire diameter of 0.5 mm or less, contains, in mass %, Mg at 0.03% to 1.5%, Si at 0.02% to 2.0%, at least one element selected from Cu, Fe, Cr, Mn and Zr at a total of 0.1% to 1.0% and the balance being Al and impurities, and has an electrical conductivity of 40% IACS or more, a tensile strength of 150 MPa or more, and an elongation of 5% or more. By producing the extra fine wire from an Al alloy of a specific composition containing Zr, Mn and other specific elements, though the extra fine wire is extra fine, it has a fine structure with a maximum grain size of 50 μm or less and is superior in elongation. | 10-10-2013 |
20130255840 | ALUMINUM ELECTRIC WIRE FOR AN AUTOMOBILE AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - An aluminum electric wire includes an annealing conductor that is made up of elemental wires made of an aluminum alloy containing 0.90-1.20 mass % Fe, 0.10-0.25 mass % Mg, 0.01-0.05 mass % Ti, 0.0005-0.0025 mass % B, and the balance being Al and has a tensile strength of 110 MPa or more, a breaking elongation of 15% or more, and an electric conductivity of 58% IACS or more, and an insulating material covering the conductor. The wire is produced by casting an aluminum alloy prepared by rapidly solidifying a molten aluminum alloy having the above composition, producing the wires by subjecting the alloy to plasticity processing, producing the conductor by bunching the wires, subjecting the wires or the conductor to annealing at 250° C. or higher, and then covering the conductor with the insulator. | 10-03-2013 |
20130248038 | SHIELD CONDUCTOR - A shield conductor includes a pipe made of metal and an electric wire passed through the pipe. The pipe includes a round portion and a deformed portion. The round portion has a constant outer diameter in a peripheral direction of the pipe and curves in an extension direction in which the pipe extends. The deformed portion is in a different position from the round portion in the extension direction and has a short diameter portion and a long diameter portion having different outer diameters in the peripheral direction of the pipe. | 09-26-2013 |
20130233588 | AUTOMOTIVE INSULATED WIRE, AND AUTOMOTIVE WIRING HARNESS - There are provided an automotive insulated wire, and automotive wiring harness that have an excellent resistance to a liquid, and an excellent resistance to an electrolyte, and that can be provided at low cost without causing an increase in cost. An automotive insulated wire ( | 09-12-2013 |
20130215982 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, RELAYING DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A communication system between a vehicle and a communication device is disclosed. The vehicle transmits electricity supply information in an A-method to a relaying device like an electricity supply device through an electricity supply line. The electricity supply device receives the electricity supply information in the A-method, then, based on the electricity supply information in the A-method, generates electricity supply information in a B-method, and transmits to the communication device the electricity supply information obtained by conversion into the B-method. The communication device transmits electricity supply information in the B-method to the electricity supply device. The electricity supply device receives the electricity supply information in the B-method, then, based on the received electricity supply information in the B-method, generates electricity supply information in the A-method, and transmits the electricity supply information obtained by conversion into the A-method, to the vehicle through the electricity supply line. | 08-22-2013 |
20130214593 | RELAY BUSBAR DEVICE WITH BUILT-IN CURRENT SENSOR FOR VEHICLE - A relay busbar device of one embodiment is a relay busbar device with a built-in current sensor, which is interposed between a motor casing and an inverter casing, and includes a relay busbar both ends of which enter into both of the casings; a resin plate, through which the relay busbar penetrates, and which is interposed between the two casings; a magnetic core, positioned within the resin plate and surrounding the relay busbar; and a magnetic sensor provided in a removed portion of the magnetic core. The relay busbar is mold-formed integrally with the resin plate during resin molding thereof, and changes in magnetic field occurring in the removed portion due to the current flowing in the relay busbar are detected by the magnetic sensor, and the value of the current flowing in the relay busbar is measured. | 08-22-2013 |
20130210255 | TERMINAL FITTING - An object of the present invention is to provide a terminal fitting with improved waterproof property. A terminal fitting ( | 08-15-2013 |
20130199842 | CRIMPED TERMINAL WIRE FOR AUTOMOBILE - To provide a crimped terminal wire for automobile that includes an aluminum electric wire, a connecting terminal made from a copper-based material, and a resin-coated portion that is provided in a range capable of inhibiting crevice corrosion that builds up in a crevice between the connecting terminal and a resin from reaching a bimetal contact portion between the aluminum electric wire and the connecting terminal. A crimped terminal wire for automobile includes an aluminum electric wire, a connecting terminal made from a copper-based material, crimped onto an end of the wire and including a crimped member, a crimped portion where the terminal is crimped onto the wire, and a resin-coated portion disposed on the crimped portion, wherein the resin-coated portion is disposed on the crimped portion while an entire periphery of the crimped portion is coated with the resin-coated portion. | 08-08-2013 |
20130196193 | TERMINAL-ATTACHED PLATE, PLATE ASSEMBLY, AND BATTERY MODULE - To provide a terminal-attached plate, which is capable of providing a connector fitting portion at only one end portion of a battery module, and is capable of preventing the battery module from being made thick, and to provide a plate assembly, and a battery module. A battery module includes a single-cell stack and a plate assembly including stacked plates turned back alternately and connected to an end of the stack, each plate including a joining portion, a plate supporting portion, a terminal including a connecting portion connected to a tab of the battery and a contact portion connected to a connector, and a hood member protecting the contact portion, wherein the hood member is disposed at a position offset to an end portion side of the plate from a center in a longitudinal direction of the plate. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195208 | POWER LINE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A power line communication system is provided in which the influence of the impulsive noise unexpectedly generated on a power line which is a communication medium can be reduced according to the characteristics of the impulsive noise by an existing method and power line communication can be realized without a hindrance. A transmitter is constituted by: a modulator for conveying a LIN data signal by a power line; a filter that allows a signal of a predetermined band to pass therethrough; and a sinusoidal wave outputter (sinusoidal wave in the figure). In contrast, the receiver is constituted by the sinusoidal wave outputter, the filter and a demodulator that performs demodulation. To the power line, a limiter that limits the amplitude of the propagating signal to a predetermined amplitude (reception signal amplitude) is connected. | 08-01-2013 |
20130192871 | INSULATED WIRE - Provided is an insulated wire that is capable of reducing loads to the environment by containing a renewable biomass resource, and has excellent water resistance even if containing the biomass resource. The insulated wire includes a conductor, and an insulator that coats the perimeter of the conductor, wherein the insulator is made from a resin composition that contains a biodegradable resin having a repeating unit structure represented by the following general formula (1), and a repeating unit structure represented by the following general formula (2); | 08-01-2013 |
20130183002 | SLEEVE FOR OPTICAL CONNECTOR, AND OPTICAL CONNECTOR - A sleeve for an optical connector into which a ferrule arranged to hold an optical fiber is to be inserted, and by which an optical connector in which the sleeve is to be housed can be reduced in size in a direction that the optical connector is fitted into a counterpart optical connector. A sleeve for an optical connector includes a portion having a tube shape, into which a ferrule is to be inserted, and a hook portion at one end of the sleeve, the hook portion protruding in a diameter direction of the tube-shaped portion. | 07-18-2013 |
20130180777 | WIRE HARNESS AND WIRE FITTING - A wire harness including a wire fitting is provided that maintains the length of the portion of the wire bundle that extends to the outside of the wire fitting reliably at a tolerance range without impeding the freedom of bending the wire bundle. A wire harness includes a wire fitting having a base and a cover covering a portion of a wire bundle together with the base. The base is provided with a protrusion that pierces the insulated wires at a portion further to an outer edge of the base than a portion of the wire bundle that is tied together by a first tie member, the wire bundle extending from the base to an outside of the base. | 07-18-2013 |
20130175069 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING WATERPROOF INTERMEDIATE SPLICED PORTION OF WIRES AND WATERPROOF INTERMEDIATE UNIT OF WIRES - It is aimed to suppress a clearance between a waterproofing agent supplied to an intermediate spliced portion connecting wires and a protective sheet covering the waterproofing agent in waterproofing the intermediate spliced portion. A waterproof intermediate spliced portion of wires includes an intermediate spliced portion of the wires, waterproofing agent supplied to the intermediate spliced portion and cured, and a protective sheet for covering around the waterproofing agent supplied to the intermediate spliced portion. The protective sheet has flexibility capable of being deformed following the deformation of the surface of the waterproofing agent supplied to the intermediate spliced portion and covers the waterproofing agent in a state held in close contact with the surface of the waterproofing agent. | 07-11-2013 |
20130171853 | CONNECTOR - A connector includes a connector housing having a cavity, a male terminal having a protruded portion, a sealing ring receiving recess included in the connector housing, a sealing ring arranged in the sealing ring receiving recess, and a retainer mounted in the connector housing and pressing the sealing ring from a front side of the protruded portion of the male terminal. The male terminal is housed in the cavity in a way that the protruded portion protrudes from the connector housing. The sealing ring receiving recess is located at a position corresponding to a base section of the male terminal that is on a side from which the protruded portion protrudes. The male terminal passes through the sealing ring such that it seals a space between the male terminal and an inner surface of the sealing ring receiving recess. The retainer includes an engagement portion engaged with the male terminal. | 07-04-2013 |
20130164595 | BUS BAR MODULE - It is an object of the present invention to prevent a temperature of a bus bar from being raised excessively in a bus bar module for a battery pack. A first vent hole and a second vent hole are formed in a portion surrounding each of hollow portions in bus bar housing portions in the bus bar, a surrounding portion and a cover member. The first vent hole and the second vent hole form an air flow path communicating from an upstream side to a downstream side in a predetermined air cooling direction. In the case in which the air cooling direction is a direction in which an electrode is extended from a battery cell, the first vent hole is formed in a portion positioned in a clearance between the adjacent battery cells in each bus bar and the second vent hole is formed on the cover member. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163138 | WIRE PROTECTION METHOD AND WIRE PROTECTION DEVICE - With a wire protection method in accordance with the present invention, the method being used for supplying electric power from a power source to a load, an applied-current to the load is detected every predetermined time, A wire rise temperature is calculated using the detected applied-current I(n) and by a relational expression concerning heat radiation and heat generation of the wire. The calculated rise in temperature is added to a reference temperature so that a wire temperature is estimated. When the estimated wire temperature is lower than a predetermined upper limit temperature, the calculation of the rise in temperature is repeated. When the estimated wire temperature has become equal to or higher than the predetermined upper limit temperature, the electric power supply from the power source to the load is stopped so that the wire is protected. | 06-27-2013 |
20130161064 | COMPOSITION FOR WIRE COATING MATERIAL, INSULATED WIRE, AND WIRING HARNESS - To provide a composition for a wire coating material, which requires no electron irradiation crosslinking, and requires a filler defining a flame retardant agent as less as possible, and from which an insulated wire having a high heat resistance and a high gel fraction can be produced, and to provide an insulated wire and a wiring harness containing the composition. The composition contains (A) silane-grafted polyolefin, which is polyolefin to which a silane coupling agent is grafted, (B) undenatured polyolefin, (C) functional-group modified polyolefin modified by one or more functional groups selected from a carboxylic acid group, an acid anhydride group, an amino group, and an epoxy group, (D) a bromine flame retardant having a phthalimide structure, or a bromine flame retardant having a phthalimide structure and an antimony trioxide, (E) a crosslinking catalyst, and (F) a zinc sulfide, or a zinc oxide and an imidazole compound. | 06-27-2013 |
20130161053 | BATTERY CONNECTING ASSEMBLY - A battery connecting assembly includes: a power line having the outer circumferential portion of a conductor covered with an insulating resin and connected to electrode terminals; and a connecting units including: a connecting member that connects the adjacent electrode terminals to each other; and a wire mounting portion that mounts the power line thereon along the direction of arranging electric cells. The connecting units are coupled to each by mounting the power line on the wire mounting portion of the connecting units. | 06-27-2013 |
20130148313 | ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT UNIT TO BE MOUNTED ON AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION FOR VEHICLE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Provided is an electronic circuit unit to be mounted within a casing of an automatic transmission for a vehicle. An electronic circuit body including circuit-side terminals protruding in an outward direction from a main-body, connectors to be connected to the electronic circuit body, a cover, and a base member having a placing face on which the cover, the electronic circuit body and the connectors are placed. The cover is provided with a main-body covering part, fitting-portion covering parts and which cover a fitting-portion of the circuit-side terminals and fitting parts of the wire-side terminals from a side opposing to the placing face, and a restricting part for regulating the detachment of the connectors from the fitting position to the detached position. | 06-13-2013 |
20130147463 | CURRENT SENSOR AND ASSEMBLED BATTERY - There are provided a deformed bus bar for electrically connecting terminals of adjacent battery cells in an assembled battery, a core having both ends opposed to each other across a clearance and continuously formed around a hollow portion through which a part of the deformed bus bar penetrates, and a Hall IC disposed in the clearance for outputting an electric signal depending on a magnetic flux. | 06-13-2013 |
20130139018 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - In a network in which a plurality of ECUs are connected to one another with a common bus, one or more slots are allocated to each ECU in advance, and the plurality of ECUs cyclically transmit messages in an order prescribed in relation to the slots. When each ECU transmits the message related to one slot, each ECU creates and transmits a message including data to be transmitted to other ECUs, and information representing respectively a success/failure of the message reception related to other slots. Each ECU checks information of ACK field included in a message received during one cycle from message transmission related to one slot to a next message transmission related to said one slot. When the message related to one slot is not accurately received by the other ECUs, retransmits the message in the next transmission related to said one slot. | 05-30-2013 |
20130126234 | ELECTRIC WIRE WITH TERMINAL AND CONNECTOR - An electric wire with terminal includes an electric wire covering an outer periphery of a core wire with an insulating coating and a female terminal. The female terminal includes: a wire barrel having a bottom plate on which the core wire is placed and crimped onto the core wire; a groove portion extending from the bottom plate in a direction in which the core wire extends and whose surface on the side where the core wire is placed is bent into a concave shape. The groove portion has a water blocking wall molded by synthetic resin. The water blocking wall is provided to fill the inside of the groove portion. A region extending from the water blocking wall to the end of the insulating coating is covered with a water blocking coating, and the inner surface of the water blocking coating is in close contact with the water blocking wall. | 05-23-2013 |
20130126231 | ALUMINUM ALLOY WIRE - An aluminum alloy, an aluminum alloy wire, an aluminum alloy stranded wire, a covered electric wire, and a wire harness that are of high toughness and high electrical conductivity, and a method of manufacturing an aluminum alloy wire are provided. The aluminum alloy wire contains not less than 0.005% and not more than 2.2% by mass of Fe, and a remainder including Al and an impurity. It may further contain not less than 0.005% and not more than 1.0% by mass in total of at least one additive element selected from Mg, Si, Cu, Zn, Ni, Mn, Ag, Cr, and Zr. The Al alloy wire has an electrical conductivity of not less than 58% IACS and an elongation of not less than 10%. The Al alloy wire is manufactured through the successive steps of casting, rolling, wiredrawing, and softening treatment. The softening treatment can be performed to provide an excellent toughness such as elongation and impact resistance and thereby reduce fracture of the electric wire in the vicinity of a terminal portion when the wire harness is installed. | 05-23-2013 |
20130103959 | PROCESSING SYSTEM, PROCESSING DEVICE AND POWER SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD - A microcomputer of an ECU which is a master determines whether to turn on or off the power supply of a slave ECU, and outputs a power supply control signal indicating power-on/off via serial communication on the basis of the result of determination. A signal superposition circuit accepts the output power supply control signal and transmits the accepted power supply control signal to a CAN bus to which a CAN transceiver is connected. In the slave ECU, a signal separation circuit individually receives a CAN communication signal and a serial communication signal transmitted to the CAN bus, while an input/output control circuit to which the serial communication signal is input as the power supply control signal outputs a signal to the power supply circuit to control power-on/off of the microcomputer. | 04-25-2013 |
20130098679 | ANTICORROSIVE POLYAMIDE RESIN COMPOSITION, AND ELECTRIC WIRE WITH TERMINAL - Provided is an anticorrosive polyamide resin composition having excellent anticorrosive capability by possessing excellent adhesive strength to a polyolefin resin and a metal and excellent elongation. The anticorrosive polyamide resin composition contains a resin component that contains 70 to 90 mass % of a polyamide resin, and 30 to 10 mass % of an acid-modified polyolefin resin. A maleic acid anhydride-modified polyolefin resin is preferably used as the acid-modified polyolefin resin. Polypropylene is preferably used as the polyolefin resin. | 04-25-2013 |
20130098660 | ELECTRIC WIRE PROTECTION STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRIC WIRE PROTECTION STRUCTURE - An electric wire protection structure has a structure in which a branch portion of an electric wire bundle is protected. In the electric wire protection structure, a protection portion covers the branch portion of the electric wire bundle, the protection portion being formed by heating and compressing a thermoplastic material in a state of covering at least the branch portion of the electric wire bundle. | 04-25-2013 |
20130094814 | FIBER-OPTIC CABLE WITH FITTING - A fiber-optic cable with a fitting capable of increasing connection strength between a fiber-optic cable and an optical connector, which includes a fiber-optic cable including a sheath and a tensile member, an inner ring mounted on a circumference of the sheath from a position where the tensile member is drawn out of the sheath through a slit to a front end of the sheath, and a fitting mounted on the circumference and including a first portion mounted from the position where the tensile member is drawn out of the sheath to a position of the sheath on a side opposite to the ring side, and a second portion mounted while covering a circumference of the ring, wherein the first portion connects with the sheath, and the end portion of the tensile member is sandwiched by the ring and the second portion. | 04-18-2013 |
20130076324 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROL CIRCUIT AND POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE - Provided are: a power supply control circuit having a configuration in which an N-channel FET and a P-channel FET can appropriately and selectively be used so as to control power feeding with high efficiency and at low cost; and a power supply control device including the power supply control circuit. An N-channel FET (NchFET in the drawings) and a P-channel FET (PchFET in the drawings) are connected in parallel with each other between the positive voltage side (+B) of a battery (direct current power supply) and a plurality of ECUs (loads) | 03-28-2013 |
20130072074 | TERMINAL STRUCTURE OF WIRING HARNESS - A terminal structure of a wiring harness for automobile use having a profound anticorrosive effect. A terminal member is fixed to a terminal portion of a coated electric wire such that a crimping portion that the member includes at its one end is crimped around a coating portion of the wire in a terminal region of the wire. A resin member completely covers at least entire outer surfaces of an exposed region at an end portion of the crimping portion and its vicinal region, and is made from a material mainly containing a thermoplastic polyamide resin, and having a tensile lap-shear strength of lapped aluminums of 6 N/mm | 03-21-2013 |
20130062118 | Terminal Connector and Electric Wire with Terminal Connector - An electric wire with a terminal connector includes an electric wire and a female terminal connector crimped onto a core wire exposed at the electric wire. A female terminal connector has a wire barrel having a surface to be applied to the core wire. The surface has a plurality of recesses formed therein. Each recess has an opening edge. The opening edge of the recess includes first opening edges that are parallel to each other. The space between the recesses adjacent to each other in the extending direction of the first opening edge is set narrower than the space between the recesses adjacent to each other in the extending direction of the electric wire. | 03-14-2013 |
20130062117 | TERMINAL CONNECTOR AND ELECTRIC WIRE WITH TERMINAL CONNECTOR - An electric wire with a terminal connector includes an electric wire and a female terminal connector crimped onto a core wire exposed at the electric wire. A female terminal connector has a wire barrel having a surface to be applied to the core wire. The surface has a plurality of recesses formed therein. Each recess has an opening edge. The opening edge of the recess includes first opening edges that are parallel to each other. The first opening edges are arranged to overlap with each other in the extending direction of the electric wire so that the first opening edges are present over the entire length of all over the plurality of the recesses on the crimping portion in the extending direction of the electric wire. | 03-14-2013 |
20130062114 | ANTICORROSIVE, COATED ELECTRIC WIRE WITH TERMINAL, AND WIRING HARNESS - An anticorrosive that is capable of demonstrating high anticorrosive capability. The anticorrosive mainly contains at least one of a photopolymerizable (meth)acrylate monomer and a photopolymerizable (meth)acrylate oligomer, and has a viscosity of 1000 mPa·s or more to less than 20000 mPa·s at 25 degrees C., which is measured in accordance with the JIS Z8803. The anticorrosive can be favorably applied to an electrically connected portion between a wire conductor of a coated electric wire with a terminal and a terminal member. The coated electric wire with the terminal includes the wire conductor and the terminal member, wherein the electrically connected portion between the wire conductor and the terminal member is coated with the anticorrosive that is cured. | 03-14-2013 |
20130056266 | ANTICORROSIVE, COATED ELECTRIC WIRE WITH TERMINAL, AND WIRING HARNESS - Provided is an anticorrosive that is capable of demonstrating high anticorrosive capability both at an early stage and at a later stage after exposure to ultraviolet light. The anticorrosive mainly contains an insulating resin, and has a total light transmittance of less than 85%, which is measured in accordance with the JIS K7361-1. The anticorrosive can be favorably applied to an electrically connected portion between a wire conductor of a coated electric wire with a terminal and a terminal member. The coated electric wire with the terminal includes the wire conductor and the terminal member, wherein the electrically connected portion between the wire conductor and the terminal member is coated with the anticorrosive. | 03-07-2013 |
20130052887 | TERMINAL STRUCTURE OF WIRING HARNESS - Disclosed is a terminal structure of a wiring harness for automobile use that has a profound anticorrosive effect. A terminal member is fixed to an end portion of a coated electric wire such that a crimping portion that the member includes at its one end is crimped around an outer surface of a coating portion of the wire. A resin member is formed to completely cover at least entire outer surfaces of an exposed region at an end portion of the crimping portion (a region including a fracture cross section and a root edge portion) and a region in the vicinity thereof. The resin member is made mainly of an epoxy resin, and a cured material obtained by curing a material having a viscosity from 1000 to 30000 mPa·s at 25 degrees C., which is measured in accordance with the JIS Z8803. | 02-28-2013 |
20130037321 | WIRE HARNESS MANUFACTURING METHOD - A method for manufacturing a wire harness includes holding a predetermined part of electric wires ( | 02-14-2013 |
20130032394 | ANTICORROSIVE, COATED ELECTRIC WIRE WITH TERMINAL, AND WIRING HARNESS - An anticorrosive that is capable of delivering high anticorrosive capability. The anticorrosive mainly contains an epoxy resin, and has a viscosity within a range of 1000 to 30000 mPa·s at 25 degrees C., which is measured in accordance with the JIS Z8803. The anticorrosive can be favorably applied to an electrically connected portion between a wire conductor of a coated electric wire with a terminal and a terminal member. The coated electric wire with the terminal has the configuration that the electrically connected portion between the wire conductor and the terminal member is coated with a cured material of the anticorrosive. The epoxy resin is preferably a one-component epoxy resin. | 02-07-2013 |
20130020125 | WIRE HARNESS, WIRE HARNESS MANUFACTURING METHOD - A predetermined part of electric wires ( | 01-24-2013 |
20130014988 | WIRE HARNESSAANM Sato; OsamuAACI Yokkaichi-shiAACO JPAAGP Sato; Osamu Yokkaichi-shi JPAANM Murata; AtsushiAACI Yokkaichi-shiAACO JPAAGP Murata; Atsushi Yokkaichi-shi JPAANM Kamiya; MakotoAACI Yokkaichi-shiAACO JPAAGP Kamiya; Makoto Yokkaichi-shi JPAANM Tanigawa; SatoshiAACI Yokkaichi-shiAACO JPAAGP Tanigawa; Satoshi Yokkaichi-shi JPAANM Igarashi; ShinichiAACI Yokkaichi-shiAACO JPAAGP Igarashi; Shinichi Yokkaichi-shi JPAANM Takihara; NobumasaAACI Yokkaichi-shiAACO JPAAGP Takihara; Nobumasa Yokkaichi-shi JPAANM Shirafuji; YukihiroAACI Yokkaichi-shiAACO JPAAGP Shirafuji; Yukihiro Yokkaichi-shi JPAANM Yamagiwa; MasamichiAACI Yokkaichi-shiAACO JPAAGP Yamagiwa; Masamichi Yokkaichi-shi JPAANM Takata; YutakaAACI Yokkaichi-shiAACO JPAAGP Takata; Yutaka Yokkaichi-shi JPAANM Ueno; HirotoAACI Yokkaichi-shiAACO JPAAGP Ueno; Hiroto Yokkaichi-shi JP - A wire harness has an exterior component ( | 01-17-2013 |
20130008714 | ELECTRIC WIRE EQUIPPED WITH TERMINAL FITTING AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An aluminum electric wire ( | 01-10-2013 |
20130008713 | CONNECTOR SUPPORTING TOOL, WIRING TOOL AND WIRING HARNESS - A wiring tool for holding wires has a plate-like member with connector support ( | 01-10-2013 |
20130008712 | WIRING TOOL AND WIRING HARNESS - A wiring tool ( | 01-10-2013 |
20130008691 | COMPOSITION FOR WIRE COATING, INSULATED, AND WIRING HARNESS - To provide a composition for a wire coating member containing a non-crosslinked material at a low cost, which has superior flame retardancy, and is excellent in heat resistance, wear resistance and flexibility, and to provide an insulated wire and a wiring harness containing the composition. The composition contains (A) polypropylene, (B) a polyolefin elastomer, (C) a bromine flame retardant, (D) an antimony trioxide, (E) magnesium hydroxide, either one of (F) (F1) a zinc sulfide and (F2) a zinc oxide and (F3) mercaptobenzimidazole, and (G) a hindered phenolic antioxidant. The insulated wire includes a conductor and an insulation coat made from the composition, wherein the insulation coat has a thickness of 0.5 mm or less, and the insulated wire has an external diameter of 4 mm or less. The wiring harness includes the insulated wire. | 01-10-2013 |
20120329341 | TERMINAL FITTING AND ELECTRIC WIRE EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - A terminal fitting | 12-27-2012 |
20120328920 | BATTERY MODULE - A battery module includes: a plurality of connecting members electrically connecting electric terminals of adjacent electric cells; and a flexible flat cable formed by flatly encapsulating an outer circumference of a flat conductor with an insulating resin and joining the plurality of connecting members. Portions of the flexible flat cable to be disposed between adjacent connecting members are provided with folded portions formed by folding the flexible flat cable at folded lines. The folded lines extend in a direction crossing a longitudinal direction of the flexible flat cable. | 12-27-2012 |
20120327978 | CONNECTORS FOR COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION HARNESS, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A connector for communication contains a connecting section, which is connected to communication line; and a network controller, which is connected internally to the connecting section, interprets a designated protocol and controls communication; and a transceiver, which makes possible transmission and receipt on the physical layer of the communication line. | 12-27-2012 |
20120325552 | TERMINAL STRUCTURE FOR WIRE HARNESS - As described above, in the terminal structure for wire harness in this embodiment, since the molding resin | 12-27-2012 |
20120322320 | BATTERY CONNECTING ASSEMBLY - A battery connecting assembly | 12-20-2012 |
20120299691 | OVERCURRENT BREAKING ELEMENT-EQUIPPED TERMINAL - An overcurrent breaking element-equipped terminal including a terminal main body having a terminal portion and a wire fixing portion and an overcurrent breaking element. The overcurrent breaking element includes a first lead wire connected to the terminal main body and a second lead wire connected to a terminal of a wire. The terminal main body includes an element connecting part that crimps and connects the first lead wire. The element connecting part is crimped on the first lead wire, and a double crimp terminal is crimped to connect the terminal of the wire to the second lead wire. Thus, the terminal main body, the overcurrent breaking element, and the wire are integrally provided. | 11-29-2012 |
20120279776 | SHIELD CONDUCTING PATH - A shield conducting path of the present invention includes a plurality of electric wires which is formed by enclosing electric conductors with insulation coatings, and a metallic pipe which protects and shields the electric wires by inserting them therethrough. The pipe has a tube main body which has a tubular shape and through which the electric wires are inserted, and a partition wall which is extended from an inner wall of the tube main body and partitions an inner portion of the tube main body. The present invention is characterized in that the partition wall has a cross section of a curved shape or a bent shape when cut in a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the tube main body. | 11-08-2012 |
20120273268 | COMPOSITION FOR WIRE COATING MEMBER, INSULATED WIRE, AND WIRING HARNESS - A composition for a wire coating member having flame retardancy that is heat resistant and productive without using electron irradiation crosslinking, and an insulated wire and a wiring harness having the same. The insulated wire includes a wire coating member containing the composition for the wire coating member that contains water-crosslinkable polyolefin containing polyolefin that is modified by a silane coupling agent, unmodified polyolefin, modified polyolefin that is modified by a functional group, a bromine flame retardant, a cross-linking catalyst, a phenolic antioxidant, and either one of a zinc sulfide, and a zinc oxide and an imidazole compound. The insulated wire is prepared by extrusion-coating a conductor with the composition to form the wire coating member around the conductor, and the wire coating member is water-crosslinked. | 11-01-2012 |
20120261186 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING WIRING HARNESS, AND WIRING HARNESS - Provided is a method for producing a wiring harness including a sealing member having higher airtightness, the method including a coat formation step of forming a coat of a composition solution by providing the composition solution that contains at least a photo polymerization initiator, a thermal radical polymerization initiator, a redox catalyst and a polymerizable compound to an exposed bunched portion and a coated bunched portion that is adjacent to the exposed bunched portion of the bunch of electric wires, and a light irradiation step of irradiating the coat formed on the exposed bunched portion and the adjacent coated bunched portion with light to photocure the coat. | 10-18-2012 |
20120261185 | WIRING HARNESS - Provided is a wiring harness that has favorable radiation performance, is capable of achieving a reduced space for wiring, and allows an easy wiring task. A wiring harness includes three single flat cables, each of which has a flat shape in cross section in a width direction and includes a conductor having a flat shape and an insulator with which the conductor is coated, wherein the single flat cables are disposed in parallel in the width direction in a protection member where the flat cables are prevented from overlapping each other. | 10-18-2012 |
20120252234 | CIRCUIT STRUCTURE AND ELECTRIC JUNCTION BOX - A circuit structure includes a circuit board having a conduction path and a through-hole continuing to the conduction path, a wire routing member that has a wire holding convex portion holding a wire configured to form a pre-determined conduction path and that is disposed to face the circuit board, a relaying wire whose one end is inserted into the through-hole in the circuit board to thereby connect the conductor path on the wire routing plate to that on the circuit board, and a positioning portion that is provided on the wire routing plate to thereby position a tip of the relaying wire. | 10-04-2012 |
20120247828 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING WIRING HARNESS, AND WIRING HARNESS - Provided is a method for producing a wiring harness including a sealing member having higher airtightness, the method including a coat formation step of forming a coat of a composition solution by providing the composition solution that contains at least a photo polymerization initiator, a thermal radical polymerization initiator, and a polymerizable compound to an exposed bunched portion and a coated bunched portion that is adjacent to the exposed bunched portion of the bunch of electric wires, and a curing step of irradiating the coat formed on the exposed bunched portion and the adjacent coated bunched portion with light to photocure the coat and to thermally cure the coat by heat of the photocure and heat of collected light. | 10-04-2012 |
20120241190 | COMPOSITION FOR WIRE COATING MATERIAL, INSULATED WIRE, AND WIRING HARNESS - Provided is a composition for a wire coating material that is capable of achieving heat resistance and a mechanical property at the same time even if silane crosslinking and magnesium hydroxide that is made from a natural mineral are used in combination. The composition contains (A) silane-grafted polyolefin that defines polyolefin onto which a silane coupling agent is grafted, (B) unmodified polyolefin, (C) modified polyolefin that is modified by a functional group, (D) magnesium hydroxide that is made from a natural mineral, and (E) a cross-linking catalyst. Provided is an insulated wire including a wire coating material that contains the composition that is silane-crosslinked. Provided is a wiring harness including the insulated wire. | 09-27-2012 |
20120241189 | FLAME RETARDANT, FLAME-RETARDANT RESIN COMPOSITION, AND INSULATED WIRE - Provided are a flame retardant, a flame-retardant resin composition and an insulated wire that have favorable low-temperature characteristics, excellent cold resistance and high productivity. The insulated wire includes a conductor that is insulation-coated with the flame-retardant resin composition that contains the flame retardant that contains magnesium hydroxide and a surface treatment agent with which the magnesium hydroxide is surface-treated, wherein the surface treatment agent has a degree of crystallization of 60% or more, and at least a base resin. | 09-27-2012 |
20120236525 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RELAY DEVICE AND WIRING HARNESS - GateWay (GW) having a shape of a substantially-flat rectangular parallelepiped and including terminals on one wide surface or both wide surfaces, GWs are stacked on each other so as to connect first corresponding terminals while connecting second corresponding terminals. The corresponding terminals are connected inside each GW, and are connected with each other via a component for transmitting a communication signal through a communication line and via a relay processing section for executing a relaying process for the communication signal. By stacking GWs on each other, the function of a multi-bus GW can be realized. | 09-20-2012 |
20120234576 | FLAME RETARDANT, FLAME-RETARDANT RESIN COMPOSITION, AND INSULATED WIRE - Provided are a flame retardant, a flame-retardant resin composition and an insulated wire that have favorable low-temperature characteristics, excellent cold resistance and high productivity. The insulated wire includes a conductor that is insulation-coated with the flame-retardant resin composition that contains the flame retardant that contains magnesium hydroxide and a surface treatment agent with which the magnesium hydroxide is surface-treated, wherein the surface treatment agent has a weight-average molecular weight of 10000 or less, and at least a base resin. | 09-20-2012 |
20120228024 | WIRE HARNESS INCLUDING SHORT CIRCUIT AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR - A wire harness capable of forming a short circuit by use of a plurality of electric wires and a joint connector while being slenderized and reduced in weight. The wire harness includes a plurality of circuit modules each forming a short circuit. Each of the circuit modules, includes a plurality of electric wires, and a plurality of external-connection connectors, connected to respective first ends of the electric wires, and a joint connector, connected to respective second ends of the electric wires to short-circuit the electric wires. The electric wires constituting the circuit modules are bundled together so that the joint connector of each of the circuit modules is discretely disposed so as to be located in a vicinity of at least one of the external-connection connectors included in the circuit module, around which electric wires a binding tape is wound. | 09-13-2012 |
20120224817 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATION MODULE - It is expected to provide an optical communication module that can avoid the reduction in the performance of light communication when an edge emitting type photoelectric device is mounted. The optical communication module is configured to include: a basement where a convex first and second lenses are integrally formed on the upper and lower surfaces, respectively; and a laser diode aligned with the first lens on the upper surface to emit light in the direction toward the first lens. It is configured that the first lens refracts the light emitted from the laser diode to become substantially parallel to the upper surface of the basement and the refracted light is reflected toward the direction of second lens. | 09-06-2012 |
20120212220 | ELECTRIC JUNCTION BOX AND CURRENT DETECTION DEVICE - An electric junction box includes a current detection device that has a magneto-electric conversion element and a magnetic core with a gap portion where the magneto-electric conversion element is disposed to detect magnetic flux occurring on the magnetic core as a current. The magnetic core has a conductor insertion portion through which the conductor subject to current detection is inserted. The conductor has a terminal portion to be connected to any other members, a round-shaped cross-sectional portion whose cross section perpendicular to an axial direction of the conductor is shaped like a circle and whose cross-sectional diameter is set equal to or less than an inner diameter of the conductor insertion portion, and a thin wall portion whose thickness is set equal to or less than a width size X of the gap portion. | 08-23-2012 |
20120206225 | ELECTRIC JUNCTION BOX AND CURRENT DETECTION DEVICE - An electric junction box includes a current detection device. The current detection device has a magneto-electric conversion element and a magnetic core having a disposing space in which this magneto-electric conversion element is disposed, to detect magnetic flux occurring on the magnetic core as a current. The magnetic core has a bus bar insertion space through which a bus bar from which the current is to be detected is inserted, which bus bar has an insertion portion which is formed not to be larger than a width size of the disposing space in the magnetic core and to be inserted into the disposing space. | 08-16-2012 |
20120205151 | ANTICORROSIVE, COATED ELECTRIC WIRE WITH TERMINAL, AND WIRING HARNESS - Provided are an anticorrosive that is not sticky when a connected portion between a wire conductor and a terminal is subjected to anticorrosive treatment using the anticorrosive and accordingly has excellent handleability, and can coat the connected portion in a convincing way to prevent corrosion from building up at the connected portion, a coated electric wire with a terminal using the anticorrosive, and a wiring harness using the anticorrosive. The anticorrosive contains an ethylene-alpha-olefin copolymer that has a melt flow rate of 200 g/10 min or more at 190 degrees C. at 21.18 N, which is measured in accordance with the JIS K6922-1, wherein the ratio of copolymerization of an alpha-olefin in the ethylene-alpha-olefin copolymer is 10% by mass or more. In a coated electric wire with a terminal, a connected portion between a wire conductor and a terminal is coated with the anticorrosive. | 08-16-2012 |
20120199391 | ANTICORROSIVE, COATED ELECTRIC WIRE WITH TERMINAL, AND WIRING HARNESS - Provided is an anticorrosive that has an excellent coating property and excellent anticorrosive capability compared with a conventional anticorrosive. The anticorrosive mainly contains a thermoplastic polyamide resin, and has a tensile lap-shear strength of lapped aluminums of 6 N/mm | 08-09-2012 |
20120189302 | ON-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, OPTICAL COMMUNICATION HARNESS AND OPTICAL DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS - Plural optical communication apparatuses are connected through communication lines with a star topology to an optical coupler that is arranged at the center of star topology and can distribute input light. Each optical communication apparatus makes an optically transmitting unit input an optical signal into an optically inputting unit of the optical coupler, and makes an optically receiving unit receive an optical signal output from an optically outputting unit of the optical coupler, for detecting a collision based on the reception signal. After transmitting an optical signal from the optically transmitting unit, each of optical communication apparatuses makes the optically receiving unit receive the optical signal, performs the collision detection based on the comparison between the transmission signal and the reception signal. When having detected the collision, each of optical communication apparatuses stops own processing for transmitting the optical signal and performs processing for receiving optical signals. | 07-26-2012 |
20120185876 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An intermediate processing layer including AP input and output processing sections and conformed to the input and output of the application side and PF input and output processing sections and conformed to the input and output of the platform side is provided between an application layer and a platform layer, and the processing sections are conformed based on an externally set definition table in which input and output of each application program and platform program are defined. | 07-19-2012 |
20120184686 | MODIFIED RECYCLED POLYESTER RESIN AND MOLDED ARTICLE USING THE SAME - To provide a modified recycled polyester resin that has stable moldability, is capable of producing as a by-product only a small amount of gel-like material during the process of modification to allow stable cross-linking reaction, and can prevent the possibility of recleavage, and to provide a molded article using the same. The modified recycled polyester resin contains a recycled PET resin having a carboxyl group, and a modifying agent having an epoxy group and an oxazoline group, ends of the carboxyl group of the recycled PET resin being modified with the modifying agent, wherein a mole ratio between the oxazoline group and the epoxy group is within a range of 100:90 to 100:0.01, and an additive amount of the modifying agent is 0.001 to 15 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the recycled PET resin. | 07-19-2012 |
20120182004 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROLLER - A power supply controller includes a switch circuit to be provided between the power source and power supply path, the switch circuit switches the power supply from the power source to the load between on and off, and a power-supply-path protection circuit. The power-supply-path protection circuit controls switching operation of the switch circuit according to a power-supply command signal that commands to start or terminate the power supply to the load, to calculate a temperature of the power-supply path, and if the calculated temperature reaches a predetermined upper limit, to inhibit the switch circuit from the power supply, thereby protecting the power-supply path. In a case where the power supply by the switch circuit is inhibited, if the temperature of the power supply path decreases to a predetermined threshold temperature, the power-supply-path protection circuit removes inhibition of the power supply by the switch circuit. | 07-19-2012 |
20120176115 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROLLER - The power supply controller performs the power-supply-path protection operation to restrict power supply through the switch element if a value of temperature increase of the power supply path W with respect to the reference temperature To exceeds the temperature threshold value and remove the restriction if the temperature decreases to the temperature threshold value or lower. And the controller performs the switch protection operation to restrict the power supply through the switch element if the value of the flowing current exceeds the current threshold value and remove the restriction after the reference time H elapses. And also the controller adds the additional value F to the value of temperature increase on condition that the value of the flowing current exceeds the current threshold value in the power supply protection operation and compares a post-addition temperature to the temperature threshold value. | 07-12-2012 |
20120172511 | COVERING MATERIAL FOR ELECTRIC WIRE - A polyvinyl chloride-type covering material for electric wire that has an excellent damage-resistance property, cold-resistance property and low-temperature property after aging. The covering material containing a polyvinyl chloride comprises, with respect to 100 parts by mass of the polyvinyl chloride, (A) 15 to 30 parts by mass of a plasticizer comprising 15 parts by mass or more of one or more plasticizers selected from trimellitate plasticizers and pyromellitate plasticizers, (B) 2 to 10 parts by mass of a chlorinated polyolefin, and (C) 1 to 6 parts by mass of a methyl methacrylate-butadiene-styrene copolymer. | 07-05-2012 |
20120170164 | OVERCURRENT CUTOFF DEVICE, AND OVERCURRENT DETECTING ELEMENT TO BE USED IN OVERCURRENT CUTOFF DEVICE - An overcurrent cutoff device includes a heat generating unit located in series with a path leading from a battery B for a vehicle to a motor via a wire, and a heat sensing unit with characteristics varying with the temperature supplied from the heat generating unit. The overcurrent cutoff device cuts off overcurrent by activating a switching element, based on a signal in accordance with the temperature obtained from the heat sensing unit. The overcurrent cutoff device includes an overcurrent detecting element in which the heat generating unit and the heat sensing unit are integrally covered with a molded resin section. | 07-05-2012 |
20120169318 | LOAD DRIVING DEVICE - The source of FET is connected to a battery voltage +V through a fuse, while the drain of FET is connected to an electric load. The gate of FET is connected to the connection node of a capacitor and a resistor of a serial circuit configured with the capacitor the resistor. The serial circuit is connected in series with FET. The source and drain of FET are connected to both ends of the capacitor. The gate of FET is connected to the connection node of resistors. The resistor is connected to FET. | 07-05-2012 |
20120146614 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROLLER - If a power supply path is in an abnormal state, a power-supply-path protection circuit of a power supply controller inhibits a switching circuit that switches on/off power supply from a power source to a load from power supply, using data related to a protection-current temperature characteristic line set by a characteristic setting circuit. The protection-current temperature characteristic line has a characteristic in which a protection current value is constant corresponding to increase in an ambient temperature or a negative characteristic in which the protection current value reduces corresponding to increase in the ambient temperature. Within a temperature range equal to or lower than an supposed maximum ambient temperature around the power-supply-path, the protection-current temperature characteristic line and a power-supply-path temperature characteristic line have a relation that the protection-current value is equal to or lower than an allowable current value at an identical ambient temperature. | 06-14-2012 |
20120141143 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATION MODULE - It is expected to provide an optical communication module that does not require making a conductive plate, such as a leadframe, become thinner in response to the downsizing of the photoelectric conversion device, such as a laser diode or a photodiode, and does not require downsizing a lens. A laser diode is connected and fixed to a conductive plate on the top surface of a transparent light-passing board. The light-passing board is connected and fixed to a conductive plate on the top surface of a transparent base. A first lens and a second lens are integrally formed on the top and the bottom surfaces of the base, respectively. The laser diode performs transmission of optical signals through the gap of conductive plate, the transparent light-passing board, the opening portion of a conductive plate, the opening portion of conductive plate, the first lens, the transparent base and the second lens. | 06-07-2012 |
20120099872 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATION MODULE - Plural conductive plates extend from a transparent containing unit containing the photoelectric conversion device, plural electrical circuit components are connected to the conductive plate, and the conductive plate extending from the transparent containing unit is accommodated in a housing while the conductive plate is bent. At that time, the conductive plate extending from the transparent containing unit is coupled at two portions in an extending direction by coupled-fixing members made of non-conductive synthetic resin, the electrical circuit components are mounted between the coupled-fixing members and the conductive plate is bent at portions outside these two coupled-fixing members. In the case that the conductive plate must be cut to generate a floating point portion, a floating-point fixing member is provided for coupling and fixing the floating point portion to an adjacent conductive plate. | 04-26-2012 |
20120063188 | INVERTER DEVICE RELAY-CONNECTING MEMBER - A relay-connecting member ( | 03-15-2012 |
20120061122 | CONDUCTOR FOR ELECTRIC WIRE, AND ELECTRIC WIRE FOR AUTOMOBILE - A conductor for electric wire that has excellent strength and excellent weldability, and an electric wire for automobile including the conductor. The conductor for electric wire contains a copper alloy having an oxygen content of 50 mass parts per million or less, the copper alloy containing 0.1 to 0.6 mass % Mg, and a balance of copper and an unavoidable impurity. It is preferable that the copper alloy further contains one or a plurality of material elements selected from the group consisting of Ag, In, Sr and Ca, the selected one or plurality of material elements being 0.0005 to 0.3 mass % in total. It is preferable that the copper alloy further contains 0.2 to 0.75 mass % Sn. | 03-15-2012 |
20120055605 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING WIRE HARNESS - A method of manufacturing a wire harness is provided. A portion of a wire is mounted on a first holder such that the portion of the wire is disposed between a thermoplastic material and another thermoplastic material, the thermoplastic material and the other thermoplastic material, that are mounted on the first holder, are pressed by heater-equipped the lower mold and the upper mold, thereby press-forming and heating the thermoplastic material and the other thermoplastic material, so that the portion of the wire is covered around with the thermoplastic material and the other thermoplastic material and that mutually contacting surfaces of the thermoplastic material and the other thermoplastic material are welded, and thereafter, the portion of the wire that is covered the thermoplastic material and the other thermoplastic material is removed from the lower mold and the upper mold while being mounted on an upper side of the first holder. | 03-08-2012 |
20120028494 | TERMINAL CONNECTOR AND ELECTRIC WIRE WITH TERMINAL CONNECTOR - An electric wire with a terminal connector includes an electric wire and a female terminal connector crimped onto a core wire exposed at the electric wire. A female terminal connector has a wire barrel having a surface to be applied to the core wire. The surface has a plurality of recesses formed therein. Each recess has a parallelogram-shaped opening edge. The opening edge of the recess includes a pair of first opening edges that are parallel to each other and a pair of second opening edges that are parallel to each other and different from the first opening edges. The recesses are spaced in the extending direction of the first opening edges and are spaced in the extending direction of the second opening edges. | 02-02-2012 |
20120022708 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROLLER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A power supply controller is connected between a power source and a power-supply path, and includes a switch circuit, a power-supply path protection circuit, and a sleep mode setting circuit. The switch circuit is configured to permit and inhibit power supply from the power source to the load. The protection circuit controls switching operation of the switch circuit according to a power-supply command signal commanding start or stop of the power supply to the load, calculates a temperature of the power-supply path regardless of whether power is supplied to the load, do not calculate the temperature of the power-supply path in a sleep mode, and inhibits power supply to the switch circuit according to the calculated temperature reaching an upper limit. The sleep mode setting circuit sets the power supply controller to the sleep mode according to the of the power-supply path satisfying a temperature condition. | 01-26-2012 |
20120000069 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRIC WIRE WITH TERMINAL - A method for manufacturing an electric wire with a terminal, includes crimping a barrel portion of the terminal onto a core wire constructed of metal wires and creating a crack in a metal oxide layer immediately before the crimping. The metal oxide layer is formed on a metal surface of the core wire. The creating of crack is accomplished by applying a mechanical force to the metal oxide layer. | 01-05-2012 |
20110294317 | GROUND CONNECTING DEVICE AND WIRE HARNESS HAVING THE SAME - Provided are a ground connecting device occupying only a little space and a wire harness having the ground connecting device. The ground connecting device comprises first and second ground joint connectors to connect a plurality of first and second grounding wires included in a wire harness to a ground site. The first ground joint connector includes a plurality of first wire terminals to be attached to respective terminal ends of the first grounding wires and a first ground conductor having a first ground-side terminal portion and a first connector housing which holds the first ground conductor. The second ground joint connector includes a plurality of wire terminals to be attached to respective terminal ends of the second remaining grounding wires, and a second ground conductor having a second ground-side terminal portion, and a second connector housing which holds the second ground conductor. The first and second connector housings are stacked above a wall surface while the ground-side terminal portions of the first and second ground conductors are stacked. | 12-01-2011 |
20110287647 | WATER-PROOFING JOINT CONNECTOR - The present invention provides a water-proofing joint connector capable of electrically interconnecting a plurality of terminals, with a simple structure, irrespective of the number of the terminals. The water-proofing joint connector includes a connection conductor, a housing and a cap member. The connecting conductor has a plurality of fitting portions to be fitted with respective terminals, preliminarily held within the housing. The housing includes a plurality of terminal insertion portions and a cap-member insertion portion which opens to an opposite side of the terminal insertion portions. The cap member has a cap portion to close the cap-member insertion portion and a fit detection portion to come into contact with the terminal locking portion elastically displaced by the terminals failing to be fully fitted, to thereby prevent the cap member from being attached to the cap-member insertion portion. | 11-24-2011 |
20110272193 | Construction for stopping water from penetrating into drain wire contained in shielded wire and method for stopping water from penetrating thereinto - A Drain wire led out from the interior to the exterior of a shielded wire is covered with a heat shrinkable tube made of an insulating resin or with a rubber tube including silicon or EPDM (ethylene-propylene rubber). A water-stop agent is penetrated between the element wires of the drain wire in the heat shrinkable tube or the rubber tube. In addition, A boundary portion between a terminal connected to an end of the drain wire and the heat shrinkable tube is covered with a rubber stopper. | 11-10-2011 |
20110269323 | GROUND JOINT CONNECTOR AND WIRE HARNESS INCLUDING THE SAME - The present invention provides a ground joint connector capable of collectively connecting a plurality of grounding wires included in a wire harness for a vehicle, to a given ground site, while occupying a little space. The ground joint connector JC comprises a plurality of wire terminals to be attached to respective terminal ends of the grounding wires, a grounding conductor a connector housing holding the grounding conductor. The grounding conductor includes a plurality of wire-side terminal portions to be fitted to the respective wire terminals in a terminal fitting direction and a ground-side terminal portion to be connected to the ground site while fixed onto the wall surface around the ground site. The wire-side terminal portions aligned in a direction approximately perpendicular to the terminal fitting direction and parallel to the wall surface, and integrally joined to the ground-side terminal portion. The connector housing holds the grounding conductor to allow the ground-side terminal portion to protrude to outside and includes a plurality of terminal receiving chambers and a plurality of terminal locking portions. The terminal locking portions lock the respective wire terminals inserted into the respective terminal receiving chambers and fitted with the respective wire-side terminal portions. | 11-03-2011 |
20110266026 | FLAME RETARDANT, FLAME-RETARDANT RESIN COMPOSITION, AND INSULATED WIRE - A flame retardant, a flame-retardant resin composition and an insulated wire that have an excellent low-temperature property and cold-resistance property, and high manufacturability. The flame retardant contains magnesium hydroxide that is obtained by chemical synthesis, and a surface treatment agent that contains an organic polymer having a melting point of 150° C. or more, with the surface treatment agent, a surface of the magnesium hydroxide being treated. The flame-retardant resin composition contains the flame retardant and a resin that is a base material. The insulated wire is prepared by covering and insulating a conductor with the flame-retardant resin composition. | 11-03-2011 |
20110266025 | FLAME-RETARDANT RESIN COMPOSITION, AND INSULATED WIRE - A flame-retardant resin composition that has an excellent cold-resistance property and wear-resistance property even when containing as a flame retardant a metallic hydrate such as magnesium hydroxide, and an insulated wire including the composition. The resin composition contains a flame retardant mainly consisting of a metallic hydrate, and a base resin, wherein the base resin contains two or more kinds of polyolefin resins having a flexural modulus of 2000 MPa or more, wherein at least one of the polyolefin resins has a melt flow rate (MFR) of 5 g/10 min or less. The base resin preferably further contains a polyolefin resin having a melt flow rate (MFR) of more than 5 g/10 min. At least one of the polyolefin resins is preferably a polypropylene resin having a functional group. The insulated wire includes a conductor, and an insulator containing the flame-retardant resin composition, with which the conductor is covered. | 11-03-2011 |
20110247857 | Conductor of an electric wire, and an insulated wire - A conductor of an electric wire, and an insulated wire which are excellent in corrosion resistance and recyclability, of which the strength which is decreased by weight reduction and diameter reduction is improved. The conductor includes a strand which includes a first elemental wire made from pure copper and a second elemental wire made from a copper alloy. In the conductor, a cross-sectional area of the first elemental wire as a percentage of a cross-sectional area of the conductor is preferably within a range of 10 to 90%. Examples of the copper alloy include a Cu—Ni—Si alloy, and a copper alloy containing Sn, Ag, Mg, or Zn. The conductor may be compressed concentrically. The insulated wire is prepared by covering the conductor with an insulator. | 10-13-2011 |