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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182286 | 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... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179918 | Relay connection unit for vehicle A relay connection unit which is connected to a first communication line of a first communication protocol for communicating a first message via time-divided slots and a second communication line of a second communication protocol for communicating a second message ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177590 | Crimping terminal and method of manufacturing terminal-provided wire A crimp terminal whose crimp state can be easily evaluated and to provide a method of manufacturing a terminal-provided wire comprising the crimp terminal. The crimp terminal includes a pair of conductor barrels which are crimped onto a conductor of an electric wire... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177589 | Terminal connector with a crimping portion with recesses A plurality of recesses are formed on a surface of a wire barrel where an electric wire is provided. In a state before the electric wire is crimped onto the wire, barrel, at least one of sides comprising rims of an opening of each recess of a quadrangular shape is a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8172625 | Spherical terminal with guide groove In a pair of mutually connectable terminals, one terminal is provided with a joint having a spherical surface formed on the outer circumferential surface, and the other terminal is provided with a hole into which the joint can be fitted. At least one of the joint an... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8167653 | Shield shell A shield shell is composed of a tubular shell body made of a conductive resin and a metallic conductive body mounted in the shell body. The conductive body is capable of, in the base end part, connecting with a shielding member by being exposed on the surface of the... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164009 | Control knob which operates multiple systems A control knob capable of operating multiple systems has a first rotational body and a second rotational body coaxially arranged, and a shaft connected to the second rotational body. Opposite the shaft, a movable body is moved axially in response to rotation of the ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163994 | Fixing structure for electrical junction box and cassette A fixing structure for an electrical junction box and a cassette, the fixing structure being adapted to fix the cassette on a side wall outer surface of the electrical junction box. A locking portion is provided on an outer surface of the cassette. A rib plate that ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8157116 | Electrical junction box To provide an electrical junction box having a new structure that can decrease the size of the electrical junction box and can provide a drain hole in a bottom wall to prevent water from entering the drain hole from the outside. A bottom wall 24 of a lower co... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8146248 | 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 ele... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8137116 | 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 plur... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8126611 | On-vehicle communication system An on-vehicle communication system has a plurality of buses relay-connected through a relay connection unit, each of the buses having at least one ECU connected thereto. In the vehicle communication system, a basic routing table that specifies a relay point for tran... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124887 | Protector Locking hooks 26a are engaged with and locked into locking hook engaging frames 26b, the locking hooks 26a being provided in a lower end portion on both sides in a width direction of a lid 12, the locking hook engagin... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8115810 | Vehicle-periphery viewing apparatus A vehicle-periphery viewing apparatus comprises an imaging device, an electronic control unit, and a display device. The imaging device captures an image of a surrounding area of the vehicle and comprises a field of view larger in a horizontal direction than in a ve... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8105121 | Ground terminal fitting with a clamping section touching a ground member The present invention provides a ground terminal fitting capable of being fixed to a ground member through a simple operation while permitting production cost to be reduced, and a ground device having the ground terminal fitting. The ground terminal fitting comprise... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8105103 | 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 i... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8094461 | Printed board and bus bar assembly A printed board includes a printed board body having a first side, a second side opposing the first side, and a through-hole; a printed conductor disposed on the first side of the printed board body; and a bus bar disposed on the second side of the printed board bod... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091949 | Arrangement structure of door wire harness In an arrangement structure for a door wire harness, the door wire harness is arranged in a door of a vehicle body and is spanned in a space between the door and the vehicle body inside a vehicle room beyond a weather strip. The door wire harness is drawn out of a s... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8083543 | Joint connector and wire short-circuiting method using the same A joint connector capable of mutually short-circuiting wires reliably without an increase in the number of components and size thereof. The joint connector (JC) comprises a joint terminal for short-circuiting and a connector housing. The joint terminal includes a pl... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8083537 | Grounding wire connection device A ground connector comprises facing pieces one ends of which are interconnected via a connecting section, a pair of holding pieces formed by folding back the other ends defining an opening into the space defined by the facing pieces, a displacement section connected... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8083530 | Circuit board connector A circuit board connector with no delay (skew) of signals and no crosstalk of signals. In a circuit board connector, a plurality of terminals having horizontal portions to be connected to ends of electric wires and vertical portions extending downward from one ends ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081643 | Relay connection unit Provided is an on-vehicle relay connection unit which forms a network by arranging electronic control units between buses to which the electronic control units are respectively connected and relays a message transmitted and received between the electronic control un... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8076579 | Watertight structure for spliced portion A watertight structure for a spliced portion includes a container that has an open top adapted to receive a spliced portion of electrical wires and that is elongated in a longitudinal direction of the electrical wires, and a lid to be mounted on the container. The c... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8070536 | Crimp terminal, terminal-provided wire, and manufacturing method thereof Provided is a technique of enabling high-compression crimping without breaking a crimp terminal while forming a recessed portion promoting a wire crimp portion of the crimp terminal to cut into a conductor in the wire crimp portion. The crimp terminal according to t... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8070212 | Arranging structure of wire harness for motor vehicle An arranging structure spans a wire harness for a motor vehicle between a vehicle body and a slide member. The structure includes a corrugated tube for sheathing the wire harness; a protector made of a resin material, the protector holding opposite ends of the corru... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8063319 | Electrical junction box and method for assembling the same An electrical junction box may include a casing with a lower casing member and an upper casing member. A multi-layered circuit board may be retained in the electrical junction box. The multi-layered circuit board may contain a lower layer circuit board, an upper lay... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8057258 | Shielded connector A shielded connector achieving sufficient contact load between a shielded conductor and a crimp portion of an outer conductor shell without influence such as deformation of cross sections on signal wires when the crimp portion is crimped onto the conductor, and enha... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054605 | Power supply controller A gate driver 28 performs a normal charging operation for a power MOSFET 14 by driving a charge pump 90 solely, when a low-level control signal S1 (ON signal) is received during a normal state. On the other hand, if a low-level control si... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054602 | Power supply controller A comparator receives, on its second input terminal, a third anomaly threshold voltage from a threshold voltage generator, and outputs a low-level breaking indication signal to a control logic portion when a terminal voltage falls below the third anomaly threshold v... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8052466 | Outer conductor terminal An outer conductor terminal by which productivity of the outer conductor terminal having crimping portions provided with reticulated knurling grooves on the inner surfaces can be improved. An outer conductor terminal of a shielded connector is provided with a pair o... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8035040 | Electrical junction box provided with electric current sensor An electric current sensor is disposed in an upper end part of a casing in an electrical junction box. A detecting bus bar penetrates a through-hole in the electric current sensor so that opposite ends of the detecting bus bar project from the through-hole. A bolt h... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8017869 | 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 fi... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8013249 | Shield conductor and shield conductor manufacturing method A shield conductor Wa comprises: a metallic pipe 20, a wire 10 to be inserted into the pipe 20, and a groove-like fitting member 22 provided in the pipe 20 as extending along the direction of axis of the wire 10, and at the ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8013248 | Corrugated clamp A corrugated clamp includes a base section, a lid section, and a bracket section. The base section and lid section are provided on their inner peripheral surfaces with concavo-convex portions to be fitted to an annular concavo-convex portion of a corrugated tube. Th... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8011954 | Shielded connector Characteristic impedances of a shielded connector and a shielded cable are matched by lowering that of the connector conventionally high in a connection portion of an inner conductor terminal of the connector to a signal conductor of the cable, and transmission loss... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8004853 | Electrical junction box In the case where a printed board is contained in a casing of an electrical junction box, and where electrical components such as relays disposed on the printed board are connected to a bus bar disposed in the casing, a heat generated in the bus bar is uniformed in ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004562 | Driving support apparatus A driving support apparatus includes an imaging member taking an image corresponding to a vehicle peripheral area; a steering angle detecting member detecting a steering-wheel steering angle; a display member disposed in a vehicle interior to display the image; and ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7988493 | Electrical component holder An electrical component holder contains an electrical component to be connected to an internal circuit of a vehicle-installed electrical junction box. The holder has a casing main body and a lid to be mounted on an upper surface of the casing main body. The casing m... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7978459 | Electrical junction box To provide an electrical junction box that has a simple construction and an improved waterproof capability. An electrical junction box 10 comprises a circuit casing 30 and a circuit board 20 contained in the circuit casing. The circuit casing in... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7964796 | Protector In a protector, made of resin molding, through which a group of electric wires is penetrated, a branch-wire branching portion is projected slantly from a trough-shaped protector body along a direction in which the branch wires are wired, and the branch-wire branchin... | 06/21/2011 |
