Bizarre Patents
A small umbrella which may be removably attached to a beverage container in order to shade the beverage container from the direct rays of the sun.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7163753 | Arc-resistant terminal, arc-resistant terminal couple and connector or the like for automobile An arc-resistant terminal, couple, and connecter are provided. In an embodiment, a metal-based electrical contact portion thereof includes at least one of Cu, Ni or Sn, and not more than 0.06 mass % P, wherein the arc-resistant terminal capable of suppressing arc di... | 01/16/2007 |
| 6942490 | Routing structure of vehicle connector A vehicle-connector routing structure is provided with which routing can be made through a narrow space. The vehicle-connector routing structure includes a chassis having an engine compartment and a tunnel continuing from the engine compartment, motors provided in t... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6682157 | Panel driving device A panel driving device turns an openable panel inside out by rotating the openable panel by 180° about a rotation center shaft and moving the rotation center shaft upward or downward during a specific period while the openable panel is rotated. The panel... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6670555 | Terminal A terminal includes a fixing section that is fixed to a vehicle body, and a removable section to which an electric wire is attached. A line of weakness is provided between the fixing section and the removable section. When the electric wire is pulled duri... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6666413 | Attachment structure for a center display unit Metal brackets are provided on the back of a resin frame of an instrument panel. Bosses are provided on right and left sides of an opening of the resin frame and project from the front and back surfaces of the resin frame, and may share the same axes. A d... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6641426 | Press-contacting terminal for a flat cable A press-contacting terminal for a flat cable includes a press-contacting portion having a pair of press-contacting blades opposed to each other with a slot formed therebetween. Blade portions for cutting a sheath of the flat cable in a direction of a widt... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6639444 | Protection circuit A protection circuit 10 has a diode 31 being connected in parallel to an inductive load 11 and having a forward direction set reverse to the conduction direction of a power supply current and a Zener diode 33 being placed between one terminal of the diode... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6619995 | Electronic device connector and connection structure for use within a vehicular environment Device-side connectors 14A and 14b are provided on a plurality of electronic control units 10A and 10B, respectively. A harness-side connector 20 is provided at a wire harness 30. The harness-side connector 20 has a plurality of fitting convex portions 21... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6522528 | Electric power distributor for use in motor vehicle An electric power distributor mountable on a motor vehicle for distributing power from a power source installed in the motor vehicle to a plurality of electric load units equipped in the vehicle has a plurality of semiconductor operative elements which ar... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6494723 | Terminal that provides connection between a wire circuit and a printed circuit, and electric junction box including said terminal A terminal is mounted on an electric wiring board that has both a wire circuit formed by a wire and a printed circuit formed by a printed conductor. The terminal includes a connecting portion capable of electrically connecting an internal circuit of the e... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6490785 | Manufacturing apparatus of wire harness In a manufacturing apparatus of a wire harness in which pallet P, on which a plurality of connectors C are juxtaposed, is moved by a pallet feeding section 1 and a pressure-contact terminal of connector C is automatically positioned at a pressure-contact ... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6475025 | Flexible flat cable connector with sliding member A connector in which a slider 30 is pushed into a housing 20 in a state in which a terminal of a flexible wiring member 40 has been inserted in the housing 20, thereby holding the terminal of the flexible wiring material 40 at a position where its conduct... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6472772 | Electric power distributor for use in motor vehicle An electric power distributor is mountable on a motor vehicle for distributing power from a power source installed in the motor vehicle to a plurality of electric load units equipped in the vehicle, and is provided with an input conductive strip having an... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6472995 | Vehicle surrounding viewing system In the vehicle surrounding viewing system 1A, the light shielding member 27, that is coated on the areas other than the effective area of the surface of the prism 4 provided in the case 3, can transmit only the ray of light 18L, that enters into the trans... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6464538 | Shield connector and terminal connecting device for shielding electric wire A connector body 30 to be fixed to a motor case 51 is formed of an aluminum die cast, and is provided, on one of side surfaces thereof, with a cylindrical housing portion 31 for inserting a terminal of a motor cable 10 to be a shielding electric wire. A d... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6446743 | Wire harness assembly line and wheeled worktables Each of the wheeled worktables 1, which is isolated from the others, travels self-dependently with drive of the motor M and the sensor (optical recognition device) 5 is provided on each wheeled worktable 1 while the optical recognition tape T as the recog... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6447312 | Connector and connector structure A structure of mounting a lever 30 on a body housing 20 includes pivotal movement support portions 28, having a cross-sectional shape other than a round shape, and intrusion grooves 36, into which said pivotal movement support portions 28 can intrude, res... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6442036 | Substrate mount type terminal A terminal main body portion 2 of a rectangular cylindrical shape capable of being inserted into an attachment hole formed at a substrate is provided with a male type coupled terminal at its upper end portion and an attachment base portion 5 at its lower ... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6437245 | Terminal processing method and structure for shield cable The invention relates to terminal processing method and structure for grounding the terminal of a shielding braid wire 34 contained in a shield cable 30. The invention employs first connectors 14A, 14B fixed to members 10A, 10B to be grounded at least upo... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6438470 | Vehicle-mounted control unit having checking program installed therein, inspection device, and inspection method An inspection program having custom-designed inspection procedures set is stored for each control unit in an inspection program storage section on the control unit. The inspection program is transferred, by means of communications means, to a rewritable i... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6431896 | Connector When the holder 20 is assembled to the male side housing 10 (stationary side housing), the cam grooves 23a, 23b respectively engage with the cam pins 41a, 41b, so that the female side housing 40 (movable side housing) is displaced in a direction perpendic... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6425774 | Rotary connection device In a rotary connection device, a rotor and a case are fitted relatively rotatably with a flat cable stored therebetween. The rotor is provided with a plurality of ribs radially on the cable facing surface thereof, with an elastic sheet provided on the low... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6422889 | Automotive electric equipment and automotive interior unit Electric equipment 130 is fitted in an opening 121 from a passenger compartment side (outside) of an interior member 120 so that an electric wire connecting unit 134 of the electric unit 130 can be electrically connected to electric wires 110 disposed on ... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6350143 | On-board unit receiving connector positioning structure In the guide ribs 2b of the meter unit 2 and the guide rail grooves 3b of the insertion opening 3 of the center cluster panel 1, there are formed play restrict portions 2c, 2d as well asb 3c, 3d respectively for restricting the movements of the guide ribs... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6337448 | Circuit breaker In a circuit breaker, fixed electrodes 14 in pair are secured in a male housing 13. A female housing 21 which contains a moving electrode 30 is fitted into the male housing 13, whereupon the moving electrode 30 contacts and straddles the fixed electrodes ... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6325635 | Circuit connection structure for electric connection box and circuit forming method Circuits are provided by fixing straight bus bars on an insulation plate, fixing tub terminals at the side part with respect to the bus bars, and bonding the tub terminals and the bus bars with wires with an insulation coat.... | 12/04/2001 |
