| AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD. Patent applications |
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| 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 |
| 20110208884 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, RELAY APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - It is expected to provide a communication apparatus, relay apparatus, communication system and communication method for effectively performing a communication timing adjustment when a collision has occurred on a communication line, efficiently reducing the communication collision with reducing processing loads on each apparatus, for making each apparatus effectively perform the transmission timing adjustment, and for improving the communication efficiency. ECUs are connected to communication lines with a bus topology. A relay apparatus is connected to the communication lines, obtains a time distribution based on a number of messages transmitted to the communication lines. When the bias occurs in the transmission timings, the relay apparatus transmits an instruction message that instructs to perform the timing adjustment for messages transmitted between the ECUs. In addition, it is determined whether a message to be relayed is held. When it is determined that such a message is held, the instruction message is transmitted. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110198107 | FLAME RETARDANT, FLAME-RETARDANT COMPOSITION, AND INSULATED WIRE - A flame retardant capable of improving cold resistance and manufacturability of a flame-retardant composition containing itself, and a flame-retardant composition and an insulated wire including the same. A flame retardant is prepared by subjecting an aggregation prepared by aggregating particles mainly consisting of magnesium hydroxide made from magnesium chloride contained in seawater to surface treatment using a surface treatment agent containing an organic polymer. The organic polymer is an olefin resin such as polyethylene and polypropylene. The organic polymer is a resin having a low melt viscosity or a low melting point, and specifically a resin having a melt viscosity of 1000 mPa·s or less at 140° C., or having a melting point of 100° C. or less. The flame-retardant composition contains the flame retardant and a matrix polymer. The insulated wire is prepared by covering a conductor with the composition. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110193414 | ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY CONTROL CIRCUIT - An electric power supply control circuit includes a bypass circuit connected in parallel with a semiconductor switch. Upon a control circuit being in an inactive state while a load being in a non-electrifying state or in a standby state, the bypass circuit connects a power source to the load. The bypass circuit includes a electrifying decision circuit that generates an activation signal for activating the control circuit in accordance with the load being put in an operation state. The electrifying decision circuit supplies the activation signal to the control circuit so as to turn on the semiconductor switch and allow electric power supply to the load through an electrifying line. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110168423 | Shielded wire-grounding construction - The lead-out side end of a drain wire led out from a shield wire and either a conductor exposed to one end of a ground wire, to the other end of which a ground terminal is connected, or a conductor exposed to one end of a ground wire, to the other end of which a connector receiving terminal is connected, are collectively connected together by crimping by using a U-shape cross-sectioned intermediate crimp terminal formed by a pair of opposed barrels, or connected by twisting them together, or connected through a joint bus bar. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110151722 | 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 of the horizontal portions and arranged to be connected to a signal pattern of a printed circuit board are included, vertical portions of upper terminals are located on the back side of vertical portions of lower terminals, are bent in the width directions, and the path lengths of the upper terminals and of the lower terminals are equal, A tip portion of the lower terminal is received by a receiving groove of an inner housing housing a base portion of the vertical portion of the adjacent terminal. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110140518 | VEHICLE POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS - There is provided a vehicle power supply apparatus which includes a battery charged by a generator and supplies, to a plurality of loads, electric power discharged by the battery and electric power generated by the generator. The apparatus includes an electric double layer capacitor connected in parallel to the battery, and a connection circuit for switching connection and disconnection between respective homopolar terminals of the battery and the electric double layer capacitor. The connection circuit is connected to charge the electric double layer capacitor based on a potential difference between terminals of the connection circuit. The plurality of loads include loads each of which generates a rush current of a predetermined value or more and each of which is fed electric power outputted by the electric double layer capacitor. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110131590 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A control apparatus, a control method and a computer program are provided that are capable of shortening the developmental process and reducing the developmental load by enabling control that flexibly handles various required specifications and improving the reusability of programs. Functions implemented in an application layer and a platform layer are implemented by constructing a function framework which is an aggregate of components that implement detailed functions related with attributes such as a function or a role. The attribute information may be provided in a plurality of pieces, and when a function framework is constructed, a function framework conforming to various specifications can be constructed according to the selection of the attribute information. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110128065 | LOAD DRIVING APPARATUS - Semiconductor relays switch power supplied from a power source to drive loads, and further detect current values of electric currents flowing through the loads. A control section intermittently turns ON the semiconductor relays via driving circuits, thereby limiting electric power consumption of the loads. Further, the control section calculates, based on the current values detected by the semiconductor relays, load electric power consumption of the loads, and estimated electric power consumption of the loads when the semiconductor relays are continuously ON, and allows a display section to display, as a value indicative of an energy-saving effect, an electric power amount difference i.e. a saved electric energy that is based on an electric power difference obtained by subtracting the load electric power consumption from the estimated electric power consumption. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110126218 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Functions of platform layer based on platform program are separated into a resource manager layer that performs logical controls for hardware resources and a resource controller layer that performs physical controls for the hardware resources. The resource manager layer requires identifying a desired data based on an application program, but does not require knowing the actual address of the desired data in a storing unit. The resource controller layer knows the actual address, and physically reads out and replies the data instructed by the resource controller layer. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110107349 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A middleware layer based on a middleware program is provided between a platform layer and an application layer. In the middleware layer, an interface on the application layer side is selectable, and also an interface on the platform layer side is selected. Further, functions in the middleware layer are configured as functional modules so that they are selectable according to a function on the application layer side and a function on the platform layer side. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110105017 | RELAY DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - The relay devices store data received from an ECU connected to each of the relay devices in the first reception buffers, respectively. During a synchronizing period, the relay devices perform transmission and reception by mainline frames including attribute value groups mutually received from the ECUs. Data read out from the databases are transmitted to the ECUs. The databases are synchronized with one another only when the relay device receives the final frame from the relay device which received all the mainline frames and issues COMMIT. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110098875 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Provided is a computer program and a control apparatus that can minimize a modification required for a part corresponding to scheduling of a program in response to a change of the program, even when the program is changed. A system monitoring program obtains operation conditions of each layer, to determine whether an operation mode should be changed or not, and selects an operation mode. A system configuration managing program notifies an operation mode to a configuration managing program of each layer. The configuration managing program determines an execution possibility of each program in accordance with the notified operation mode. A system scheduler performs scheduling of a scheduler included in each layer, in accordance with time passage and an event occurrence. The scheduler of each layer performs scheduling of programs allowed by the configuration managing program to be executed. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110094797 | ELECTRIC WIRE WITH TERMINAL CONNECTOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTRIC WIRE WITH TERMINAL CONNECTOR - An electric wire with terminal connector including an electric wire having a core wire including a plurality of wires and a female terminal connector including a wire barrel that is crimped onto the core wire exposed from the electric wire, the following steps are executed. The steps include a step of removing wire insulation covering an outer peripheral surface of the core wire to expose the core wire, a step of holding the exposed core wire with jigs provided in a pair and applying ultrasonic vibration to the core wire via the jigs, and a step of crimping the wire barrel so as to surround a part of the core wire to which the ultrasonic vibration is applied. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110085547 | RELAY APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Relay apparatuses read the attribute values of data, i.e., numerical information representing measurement values, calculation values, control values, etc., from receive buffers in which data received from ECUs connected thereto is stored, and create trunk frames containing the numerical information and transmit and receive trunk frames via trunk lines. The relay apparatuses derive numerical information from trunk frames received from the other relay apparatuses and renew the numerical information on the data stored in their respective databases using the derived numerical information. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110081803 | 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 enhanced pull-out strength of a shielded cable against the shell. The shell includes a tubular connection portion having an arc-shaped cross section and arranged to be inserted into the conductor end portion exposed by stripping off a sheath portion at the cable end portion, shielded conductor crimping portions opposed to the connection portion and arranged to be crimped onto the conductor end portion into which the connection portion has been inserted, and fitting spaces provided to an inside of the conductor crimping portions at positions opposed to the tubular connection portion. Upper ends of the connection portion and the conductor are inserted into the spaces during crimping process. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110079428 | FLAME-RETARDANT COMPOSITION, INSULATED ELECTRIC WIRE, AND WIRING HARNESS USING THE SAME - A flame-retardant composition with excellent wear resistance and cold resistance, an insulated electric wire and a wiring harness using the same. The flame-retardant composition includes a base resin that has a flexural modulus of 500 MPa or more and a Charpy impact strength at −20° C. of 1 KJ/m | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110078694 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A system management layer changes a current program with a program (door lock failure diagnosis judgment program, security judgment program, door lock judgment program, keyless entry judgment program or the like) to be executed by an application layer, in accordance with an operation mode of on-vehicle equipment. Priorities of programs are previously stored for each operation mode, and a priority judgment program contributes to judge the priority of operation request based on the operation mode. Thus, plural programs of each hierarchal layer are categorized into groups per operation mode, although complicating in the single hierarchal layer. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the priority judgment processing from complicating for the operation request output by each computer program | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110067921 | FLAME-RETARDANT COMPOSITION, COVERED ELECTRIC WIRE, AND WIRING HARNESS - A flame-retardant composition that is not colored during compounding and molding, and a covered electric wire using the same. The flame-retardant composition contains at least a matrix polymer such as an olefin resin, a phenolic antioxidant having tert-butyl groups in positions 2 and 6 of a hydroxyl group, and a flame retardant that is a pulverized natural mineral containing magnesium hydroxide as the main ingredient, and the iron oxide concentration in the flame retardant is 1000 ppm or less. The covered electric wire uses the flame-retardant composition as a covering material. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110064126 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRE HARNESS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Plural ECUs are connected to each other by an electric power line that is for supplying electric power. Each ECU sends information with a carrier wave having a first frequency lower than a dip frequency estimated by the physical condition and the circuit structure of electric power line, or having a second frequency lower than the first frequency. Or, the physical condition and the circuit structure of electric power line are determined, on the contrary, to make the dip frequency become higher than the frequency of utilized carrier wave. The frequency utilized for sending information may be selected in accordance with the contents of information. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110056728 | FLAME-RETARDANT COMPOSITION AND INSULATED WIRE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING FLAME-RETARDANT COMPOSITION - A flame-retardant composition that is more excellent in heat resistance than a conventional flame-retardant composition. The flame-retardant composition contains silane-crosslinked polyolefin, polyolefin, a metallic hydrate, a phenolic antioxidant, a sulfurous antioxidant, a metallic oxide, and a copper inhibitor. The sulfurous antioxidant is preferably a benzimidazole compound, and the metallic oxide is preferably a zinc oxide. The silane-crosslinked polyolefin is preferably polyethylene having a density of 0.880 to 0.910 g/cm | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110047244 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - When sending data, an ECU sends time lag information indicating a time lag that is a difference between time of generating time point at which the data is generated and time of sending start time point at which the ECU actually starts sending the data. When transferring the data, a relay apparatus adds time lag information indicating a time lag that is a difference between time of receiving start time point at which the relay apparatus starts receiving the data and time of transferring start time point at which the relay apparatus starts transferring the data, onto the time lag added on the received data. When receiving the data, an ECU determines for the received data the time of the generating time point that is earlier the time lag indicated by the time lag information of the received data than the time at which the ECU starts receiving the data. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110045713 | CRIMP TERMINAL, TERMINAL-EQUIPPED ELECTRIC WIRE WITH THE CRIMP TERMINAL, AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THEM - Provided is a crimp terminal designed to be crimped onto an end portion of an electric wire to form a terminal-equipped electric wire, achieving both of ensuring mechanical strength of the terminal-equipped electric wire and reducing a contact resistance between the electric wire and the crimp terminal. The crimp terminal comprises an electric contact section and an electric-wire crimp section to be crimped onto a conductor in the end portion of the electric wire, the crimp terminal being formed of a metal plate which has a copper-containing plate body and a tin-plating layer covering a surface of the plate body. In the crimp terminal, the tin-plating layer has a smaller thickness in a crimp surface region where the electric-wire crimp section is to make contact with the end portion of the electric wire is less than that in an electrical contact surface region where the electric contact section is to make contact with a counterpart terminal. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110043180 | POWER SUPPLY CONTROLLER - A power supply controller includes: a controlling section that, upon determination that no anomaly has occurred, causes a semiconductor switch to execute turning on and, upon determination that the anomaly has occurred, causes the semiconductor switch to maintain an off state; a monitoring section that monitors which condition the controlling section is in, the condition being normal or anormal; and a switching section that, upon monitoring result by the monitoring section indicating the normal condition, causes turning on and off of the semiconductor switch by the controlling section and, upon the monitoring result indicating the anormal condition, causes turning on and off of the semiconductor switch with an external on-off command signals. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110036614 | 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. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110035521 | VEHICLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A vehicle communication system comprising a relay connection unit for relaying one or more buses connected to a message transmitter and a bus connected to a message receiver, wherein the relay connection unit generates new messages on the basis of a plurality of messages received from the message transmitter and transmits the generated messages to the message receiver via the bus, and wherein the number of new messages to be generated is not less than 1, a plurality of the new messages allow the messages for generating each of the messages to be divided into groups, and the plurality of messages which the relay connection unit receives from the message transmitter to generate one new message gradually advance the transmission timing. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110034091 | CRIMPED ELECTRIC WIRE WITH TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A crimped electric wire with a terminal, includes: an electric wire having a core wire made of aluminum or aluminum alloy; and a terminal fitting having an electric wire crimping section for crimping the core wire partly exposed from the electric wire, wherein: a value obtained by dividing the height of the electric wire crimping section by the width of the electric wire crimping section after the crimping of the electric wire crimping section is set to 0.5 or more and 0.6 or less; and the value obtained by dividing the gross cross-sectional area of the core wire after the crimping of the electric wire crimping section by the gross cross-sectional area of the core wire before the crimping of the electric wire crimping section is set to 55% or more and 65% or less. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110028054 | 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. The conductor barrel has an outer surface provided with a crimp state indicator for evaluating a crimp level thereof. The indicator may be a mark so shaped that a position of an internal end of an outwardly exposed part thereof is varied in a terminal axial direction corresponding to the crimp level, or include a plurality of marks spaced in a direction perpendicular to the terminal axial direction. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110009014 | TERMINAL CONNECTOR AND ELECTRIC WIRE WITH TERMINAL CONNECTOR - 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 crossing side crossing at an angle of from 85 degrees to 95 degrees to an extending direction. In a state before the electric wire is crimped onto the wire barrel | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110008634 | RUST INHIBITOR AND SURFACE TREATMENT METAL MATERIAL - A rust inhibitor usable for metal surface coating includes, as an effective component, a compound containing a chelate group, and a long chain alkyl group and/or a cyclic alkyl group, which are bonded by an ester bond or other bonds. The compound is obtained by reacting a chelate ligand having the chelate group, such as aminocarbonic acid, acetoacetic acid, acetoacetic ester, and hydroxycarbonic acid, with a compound having the long chain alkyl group and/or the cyclic alkyl group, such as long chain (cyclic) alkyl carbonic acid and long chain (cyclic) alkyl alcohol, | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110005826 | ELECTRIC CONNECTION BOX - An electric junction box having a casing and a circuit structure accommodated in the casing. The circuit structure includes a plurality of first bus bars arranged at intervals and synthetic resin members disposed between the adjacent first bus bars and firmly attached to the first bus bars. The synthetic resin members have heat conductivity higher than that of air. Since the heat generated from the first bus bars during electrical connecting can be transmitted to the synthetic resin members, the electric junction box can be prevented from being locally heated to a high temperature. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110003518 | TERMINAL CONNECTOR AND ELECTRIC WIRE WITH TERMINAL CONNECTOR - Rims of an opening of each recess form a parallelogram, and comprise two first opening rims that that are parallel to a first direction and two second opening rims that are parallel to a second direction. The first opening rims of each of the recesses that are aligned along the first direction are arranged on a straight line along the first direction. The second opening rims of each of the recesses that are aligned along the second direction are arranged on a straight line along the second direction. The recesses are formed by pressing a wire barrel with a die where a plurality of protruding parts are formed so as to correspond to recesses. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20100332072 | VEHICLE INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, VEHICLE INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND VEHICLE INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD - A GW device for relaying data sent and received between a plurality of ECUs mounted in a vehicle stores data sent from the respective ECUs in a database and then timely sends the data. The database is stored in a time series in association with time information, and copies of database at a plurality of time points are sent to a central device at predetermined time intervals, or at the time of detection of occurrence of a problem. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100329320 | 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 | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100325639 | ON-VEHICLE RELAY CONNECTION UNIT - It is possible to reduce the memory capacity of a buffer of relay connection unit and reduce the time required for deciding a message to be transmitted. A relay connection unit is arranged between bushes to which electronic control units are connected and relays a message transmitted and received between the electronic control units belonging to different bushes. The relay connection unit includes: a buffer which temporarily stores message in the order to receptions; a storage unit which stores the priority set for each of the message; and a processing unit which extracts N message in the order of the receptions from the buffer, reads the priorities of the respective messages extracted from the storage unit, compares the priorities of the N messages, and transmits the message having the highest priority. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100303133 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED RELAY CONNECTION UNIT - A message is efficiently relayed in a cut-through mode to a communication line of the transmission destination of a transmission rate higher than that of the communication line of the recipient while preventing the state that there is no data to be transmitted. A vehicle-mounted relay connection unit is used to relay messages received through first CAN communication lines to a second CAN communication line of a transmission rate higher than that of the first transmission lines in a cut-though mode. A relaying section measures the time difference between the time when the reception of the control field of a message among the messages simultaneously received through the first CAN communication lines is completed earliest and the time when the reception of the control field of another message is completed, determines the transmission waiting time from the completion of the reception of the control field of each message, and first relays the message such that the sum of the transmission waiting time and the time difference of the reception completion is small to the second CAN communication line. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100297894 | TERMINAL CONNECTOR AND WIRE HARNESS - A wire barrel to be crimped onto an end of an electric wire has a surface on a side to face the electric wire. The surface has a plurality of recesses that extend in a direction that is to cross the axial direction of the electric wire and are separated from each other in the direction that is to cross the axial direction of the electric wire. The wire barrel has a thickness in a range from 0.15 mm to 1 mm before being crimped to the electric wire. Each recess has a depth in a range from 30% to 60% of the thickness of the wire barrel before the wire barrel is crimped onto the electric wire. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100287563 | DEVICE CONTROL APPARATUS AND DEVICE CONTROL PROGRAM - A program of an application layer (upper layer) receives input information supplied from a platform layer (lower layer) and abstracts the information by an input information abstraction part. Based on the abstracted information, determination parts, a prioritized condition determination section and an information processing section make determinations and perform information processing, for example. A processing result obtained by the information processing section is converted into an information format suitable for the platform layer by an output information conversion section, and is outputted therefrom. When a format of information exchanged between the application layer and platform layer, for example, is changed, changes may be made to the input information abstraction part and the output information conversion section of the program of the application layer. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100280681 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED ELECTRONIC CONTROLLER - A vehicle-mounted electronic controller which executes applications by using the data acquired from the same vehicle-mounted device and in which the plurality of applications with different execution periods are installed comprises a storage section for storing the data acquired from the vehicle-mounted device and elapsed time(tb) from the time of acquiring the data and a processing section for comparing the elapsed time(tb) from the data acquisition in the storage section with allowable elapsed time(tb) the time of acquiring the data till the time of executing the applications by using the data, executing the applications by using the data when the elapsed time(tb) is within the allowable elapsed time(ta), and making a request for the transmission of the data to the vehicle-mounted device to acquire the latest data when the elapsed time(tb) exceeds the allowable elapsed time(ta). | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100270075 | WIRE HARNESS EXTERIOR PROTECTING TUBE AND WIRE HARNESS - A wire harness exterior protecting tube minimizes sagging of a wire harness laid in a straddling manner in a vehicle and allows smooth bending of the wire harness. The wire harness exterior protecting tube has longitudinal opposite ends supported in a straddling manner by the vehicle without support between the opposite ends. The protecting tube has at one side section a vertical flat plate section and also has the other section having a square U-shaped or semicircular ring-shaped cross-section. The other section connects to the one side section to form a square or semicircular cross-sectional shape. That portion of the other section which faces the flat plate section is a bellows section having a corrugated shape. The thickness of the flat plate section is adapted to suppress the sagging of the protecting tube caused by the weight of the wire harness and to be bendable by bending of the bellows. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100267280 | ELECTRIC-WIRE BUNDLE WITH WATER-PROOFING CONNECTOR - A connector-equipped electric-wire bundle including a plurality of types of electric wires different in conductor cross-sectional area and elongation. The connector-equipped electric-wire bundle comprises a first electric wire having a first conductor, and a second electric wire having a second conductor with a greater cross-sectional area and a greater breaking elongation than those of the first conductor. A second connector terminal having, as a second crimp portion, only a conductor barrel and a water-proofing-plug barrel is attached to an end of the second electric wire, and a first connector terminal having, as a first crimp potion, a conductor barrel, a water-proofing-plug barrel and an intermediate barrel is attached to an end of the first electric wire. The intermediate barrel is crimped onto an insulating cover in an intermediate region between the end of the conductor of the first electric wire and a water-proofing plug. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100263926 | WIRE HARNESS FOR AUTOMOBILE - A wire harness having a flat portion which holds a plurality of round wires arranged in parallel in a flat shape and a circular portion which holds the plurality of round wires, that have been converged to have a circular section, to have a circular section are provided continuously while being located in different areas along the length direction of the wire harness. The flat portion is provided in any one of the moving area, the curved area, the cross routing area between the body portions, or the routing area to a flat space of the wire harness, and the circular portion is provided in any one of the routing area about the axis, the twisted routing area, or an area other than the flat portion of the wire harness when the wire harness is routed in the automobile. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100261391 | CRIMP TERMINAL, TERMINAL-PROVIDED WIRE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a technique of ensuring mechanical strength in a terminal-provided wire and lowering contact resistance between the wire and the crimp terminal, without greatly varying a crimp height of a crimp terminal onto the wire in an axial direction. A crimp terminal according to the invention includes a conductor barrel which is crimped to a conductor of a wire. The conductor barrel has an inner surface which closely contacts the conductor by bending. The inner surface has such a shape a surface thereof which closely contacts a tip end side part of the conductor inwardly projects beyond a surface thereof which closely contacts a base side part of the conductor, thus performing a higher compression of the tip end side part of the conductor than that of the base side part thereof by the bending. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100254059 | 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. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100252322 | INSULATED ELECTRIC WIRE AND WIRING HARNESS - An insulated electric wire that has no possibility of buckling when a terminal of the insulated electric wire is inserted into a connector even if the insulated electric wire has a reduced external diameter of less than 1.1 mm, allowing the insertion to be performed easily. An insulated electric wire having an external diameter of less than 1.1 mm includes a conductor and an insulator that covers the conductor, and the insulator has a thickness of 0.25 mm or less, and is made from a material that is free from a halogen element and has a breaking elongation of 10% or more and a flexural modulus of more than 2.0 GPa. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100249953 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF PERFORMING OPERATION CONTROL OF ACTUATORS - In a microcomputer, by virtue of the function of one input signal judgment module in the application layer, with respect to whether the situation is such that operation is to be requested to a controlled object from each of a plurality of applications, judgment processing onto input signals representing status information of controlled objects or detection information from sensors or the like is made common. The object-oriented architecture is introduced into an embedded computer program so that the memory is saved and the apparatus is simplified. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100230160 | 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 the invention includes a wire crimp portion, which is crimped to a conductor of a wire and includes a first crimp portion crimped to a base side of the conductor and a second crimp portion crimped to a tip end side. A recessed portion for promoting a cutting-in effect is formed in an inner surface of the wire crimp portion. A recessed portion formed in the second crimp portion is divided in a terminal width direction or is shallower than a recessed portion formed in the first crimp portion. Alternatively, the recessed portion is omitted and a recessed portion is formed only in the first crimp portion. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100230158 | ACID ANHYDRIDE-INTRODUCED POLYMER, POLYMER COMPOSITION, COVERED ELECTRIC WIRE, AND WIRING HARNESS - An acid anhydride-introduced polymer and a polymer composition that have improved material properties including mechanical properties when used along with fillers. In the acid anhydride-introduced polymer, a side chain is grafted onto a polymer main chain, and an acid anhydride structure is introduced into the grafted side chain through an imide bond or an amide bond. The acid anhydride-introduced polymer may be obtained by reacting an amino group-containing polymer in which an alkyl chain having an amino group at a terminal is grafted onto a polymer main chain, and a compound having two acid anhydride structures. The polymer main, chain preferably is an olefin resin or a styrene thermoplastic elastomer. The polymer composition includes the acid anhydride-introduced polymer and fillers. The acid anhydride-introduced polymer content is preferably within the range of 0.1 to 20 mass %. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100221949 | 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 | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100215043 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND RELAY APPARATUS - A trunk line topology network is configured with: ECUs | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100211676 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - When communication is performed with the upstream and downstream sides being defined in the order of relay apparatuses, the relay apparatuses each transmit a keepalive message representing that they are effectively performing communication. When no keepalive message can be received from the relay apparatus and an abnormality is detected thereby, the relay apparatus transmits a keepalive message including abnormality information representing that the abnormality is detected. By receiving the keepalive message including the abnormality information, the relay apparatus detects the abnormality on the upstream side, changes a communication path, and transmits a master candidate notification to the relay apparatus on the downstream side in order that the relay apparatus itself becomes a master. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100208401 | INDUCTIVE LOAD DRIVING CIRCUIT - An inductive load driving circuit includes a control circuit and a protection circuit. The control circuit controls switching operation of a switching circuit. In normal connection of a battery, the switching circuit switches current-carrying to an inductive load between on and off. In reverse connection of the battery, the switching circuit can carry current in a direction reverse to a direction in the normal battery connection. The protection circuit has a current breaker that conducts at least at switching of the current-carrying from on to off by the switching circuit in normal battery connection and, in the reverse battery connection, does not conduct according to the reverse battery connection. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100207747 | Sound production controller - A sound production controller can include a horn device that performs a vibrating operation at a predetermined resonance frequency in response to a predetermined operation to produce a warning sound, an input section which receives a sound production command signal outputted in response to execution of a function that requires sound production in the vehicle other than the predetermined operation, and a sound production controller which, if the input section receives the sound production command, provides a high-frequency signal having a frequency higher than the predetermined resonance frequency to the horn device to cause the horn device to produce a sound. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100203756 | 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 plurality of electric contact portions and a short-circuiting portion connecting the electric contact portions. The connector housing has a bottom wall and other walls surrounding a terminal insertion space into which each of the wire-side terminal is inserted, and a lance for locking the inserted wire-side terminal. The lance adapted to be deflected so as to project outwardly from the bottom wall, until the wire-side terminal reaches a proper insertion depth position, to be retracted from the wire-side terminal, and elastically return into the bottom wall, when the wire-side terminal reaches the position. The deflection of the lance allows the insertion of the wire-side terminal to be checked. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100197179 | GROUND TERMINAL FITTING AND GROUND DEVICE WITH THE SAME - 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 comprises a terminal body surrounding a through-hole, a clamping piece having a rising portion rising from an outer peripheral edge of the terminal body and a distal end portion extending inwardly from the rising portion along the terminal body, and a clampable piece located adjacent to the clamping piece in a circumferential direction of the terminal body. The clamping piece is adapted to clamp, when the ground terminal fitting is superimposed on a second ground terminal fitting, a clampable piece of the second ground terminal fitting to prevent a relative displacement between the ground terminal fittings. The distal end portion is adapted to contact the ground member penetrating through the through hole to prevent a relative rotation of the ground terminal fitting with respect to the ground member. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100195257 | CIRCUIT PROTECTOR AND ELECTRIC CONNECTION BOX - An electric connection box | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100173538 | TERMINAL - 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 and the hole is formed in a plate member which can be displaced elastically in the fitting direction of the joint and the hole. When the pair of terminals and are connected, the joint touches the circumferential edge of the hole to displace the plate member elastically. When the joint is fitted in the hole, the plate member is reset elastically and holds the spherical surface of the joint under such a state as the spherical surface is pressed against the edge of the hole. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100169717 | 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 units belonging to the different buses. The relay connection unit includes a network management processing circuit of the relay connection unit and a storage device which stores as parameters, specification conditions of the network management functions held in the network management processing circuit and a condition which may be modified among the state transition conditions between the functions. Upon start of the relay connection unit, the network management processing circuit reads out the parameters from the storage device and executes the network management functions by using the parameters. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100169278 | DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMUNICATION METHOD - Distribution apparatuses include databases for storing data received from ECUs, and further include receiving buffers and sending buffers. The distribution apparatus continuously performs, in parallel, an operation for storing received data on the receiving buffer, operation for synchronizing contents of the database with the databases, and an operation for sending data from the sending buffer. Further, the distribution apparatus periodically copies data of the receiving buffer onto the database and data of the database onto the sending buffer. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100163302 | ELECTRIC CONNECTION BOX - An electric connection box has a circuit board, a conductive member (a first bus bar, a second bus bar, a first connection fitting, a second connection fitting, or a lead terminal) connected to the circuit board and extending in the direction away from the circuit board, a relay provided at the end of the conductive member which is located on the opposite side of the circuit board, and a case for receiving the circuit board and having an opening provided at a position corresponding to the relay. The relay is exposed at the opening to the outside of the case. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100163272 | COMPOSITION FOR A FLAME-RETARDANT SILANE-CROSSLINKED OLEFIN RESIN, AN INSULATED WIRE INCLUDING THE SAME, AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCING A FLAME-RETARDANT SILANE-CROSSLINKED OLEFIN RESIN - A composition for a flame-retardant silane-crosslinked olefin resin which is excellent in flexibility and gasoline resistance, an insulated wire including the same, and a method for producing a flame-retardant silane-crosslinked olefin resin which is excellent in flexibility and gasoline resistance. The composition contains silane-grafted polyethylene made by graft polymerization of very low-density polyethylene having a density of 0.880 to 0.895 g/cm | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100161083 | Control system, control apparatus, control method and computer readable medium - With utilizing a function of a selection unit | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100144193 | WIRE HARNESS AND WIRE HARNESS ASSEMBLING METHOD - A wire harness has a joint connector having a joint terminal and a connector housing. The joint terminal has a short-circuit section and a plurality of electrical contact portions aligned in a direction substantially orthogonal to an axial direction of wires. The connector housing has an external wall surrounding terminal chambers and exposed to the outside; and a plurality of terminal locking tabs formed integrally with the external wall, the terminal locking tabs locking wire terminals. Each of the terminal locking tabs has a shape deflectable between an engaging position that locks each wire terminal and a disengaging position. The joint connector is fixed to the peripheral surface of a wire harness main body while the outer surface of the external wall of the connector housing faces and contacts the peripheral surface of the wire harness main body, the connector housing being provided with the terminal locking tabs. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100141610 | MANIPULATOR - A selecting operation and a setting operation for setup items shown on a display are performed with using a selection change switch that can in steps rotate to three positions indicated by marks and a dial switch that is stacked on the selection change switch. The display shows three setup items at three locations. In a case that the selection change switch is rotated and a tip portion of the selection change switch indicates a position, it is thought that the selection operation is performed to select a setup item shown at a location corresponding to the indicated position. Then, the setting operation for the selected setup item is performed by rotating the dial switch. When the selection change switch has pivoted toward near side or far side, a window to be shown at the foreground is changed on the display. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100140059 | OPERATING DEVICE AND OPERATING SYSTEM - A mode switching switch and a dial switch are coaxially provided. A spring member is fixed to a linkage unit of the dial switch. The linkage unit is inserted through a click number change member, which has a cylinder unit and a shaft. The shaft is inserted into a guide groove formed on a cylinder unit of the mode switching switch. By the rotation of the mode switching switch, the click number change member is moved in the axial direction. On the inner circumferential surface of the cylinder unit of the click number change member, two click surfaces on which the different numbers of concaves or convexes are formed in the circumferential direction are aligned in the axial direction. By the movement in the axial direction of the click number change member, any one of the click surfaces is engaged with the spring member. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100138493 | 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. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138472 | IN-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A control section of a distribution apparatus decides whether data included in message has been stored by own DB or not, when distributing the message to an onboard apparatus based on transmitted information registered by second transmitted information table. From own DB, the control section of the distribution apparatus reads out data having been stored by the DB. For data that has not been stored by own DB, the control section of the distribution apparatus identifies another distribution apparatus having stored this data, and obtains this data from the identified another distribution apparatus. The control section of the distribution apparatus creates message including the data read out from own DB and the obtained data, and transmits the created message to an onboard apparatus which is a destination. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100136832 | 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 enhanced pull-out strength of a shielded cable against the shell. The shell includes a tubular connection portion having an arc-shaped cross section and arranged to be inserted into the conductor end portion exposed by stripping off a sheath portion at the cable end portion, shielded conductor crimping portions opposed to the connection portion and arranged to be crimped onto the conductor end portion into which the connection portion has been inserted, and fitting spaces provided to an inside of the conductor crimping portions at positions opposed to the tubular connection portion. Upper ends of the connection portion and the conductor are inserted into the spaces during crimping process. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100134939 | POWER SUPPLY CONTOLLER - A second forcing shutoff operation is performed for a power MOSFET | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100132974 | PROCESS OF PRODUCING FLAME-RETARDANT SILANE-CROSSLINKED OLEFIN RESIN, INSULATED WIRE, AND PROCESS OF PRODUCING INSULATED WIRE - A process of producing a flame-retardant silane-crosslinked olefin resin, an insulated wire, and a process of producing an insulated wire. The process includes kneading and molding a silane graft batch containing a silane-grafted olefin resin in which a silane coupling agent is graft polymerized onto an olefin resin, a flame retardant batch in which an olefin resin is mixed with a flame retardant containing metal hydroxide, a catalyst batch in which an olefin resin is mixed with a silane crosslinking catalyst, and water crosslinking the batches after kneading and molding. A mass ratio of the flame retardant batch to the silane graft batch is 60:40 to 90:10, and the catalyst batch amount is 3 to 10 part by mass with respect to 100 part by mass of a component of the silane graft and flame retardant batches. The wire is prepared by covering a conductor with the silane-crosslinked olefin resin. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100131816 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ADAPTING FOR CAR, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS ADAPTING FOR CAR, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD ADAPTING FOR CAR - It is provided about a communication system adapting for car, communication apparatus adapting for car and a communication method adapting for car that can perform data transmission under extensive range from a low speed communication to high speed communication, without generating data delay, data dropout and the like, caused by the data sending collision. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100126752 | SHIELD CONDUCTOR - This invention provides a shield conductor having heat dissipation property and flexibility. The shield conductor comprises: multiple wires; a shielding layer enwrapping the outer circumference of the wires while having flexibility; a sleeve pipe having multiple first housing members that are arranged in a row in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the wires and separately house the wires enwrapped by the shielding layer; a connecting member having multiple second housing members that are connected with each first housing member in the sleeve pipe and separately house the wires enwrapped by the shielding layer, while having a third housing member that is communicated with each second housing member and collectively houses the wires enwrapped by the shielding layer, and a corrugated tube connected with the third housing member in the connecting member and collectively housing the wires enwrapped by the shielding layer. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100124232 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - GW apparatuses send messages including data being sent from ECUs to a distribution apparatus without sending to an ECU. The distribution apparatus stores the messages on a database, and sends the messages to an ECU, and an ECU. In a case, the distribution apparatus sends the messages in a message sending order and the GW apparatuses relays the messages being sent from the distribution apparatus to the ECUs. The message sending order may be an order in which the distribution apparatus receives the messages an ascending (descending) order of values corresponding to message IDs applied to the messages, or an ascending order of message received time of the messages. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100122831 | SHIELD CONDUCTOR - This invention provides a shield conductor having improved heat dissipation property. The present invention relates to a shield conductor comprising: a wire, a shielding layer for enwrapping the outer circumference of the wire, and a sleeve pipe for housing the wire and the shielding layer, wherein the outer circumference of the wire tightly adheres to the shielding layer, while the shielding layer tightly adheres to the inner circumference of the sleeve pipe. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100116548 | INSULATED WIRE AND A WIRING HARNESS - An insulated wire and a wiring harness possessing sufficient flame retardancy and wear resistance superior to a conventional insulated wire. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100114403 | 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 transmitting from the relay connection unit to the ECU is stored in a ROM and a transmission list report message about message IDs is transmitted. The ECU receives the transmission list report message and sends back a transmission request message about a message ID, which is not included in the transmission list report message but should be received, to the relay connection unit. The transmission request message is received by a table creation unit in the relay connection unit. The table creation unit creates a new additional routing table indicating a correspondence relationship between an ID requested by the transmission request message and a transmission destination and being stored in a RAM. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100103859 | RELAY CONNECTION UNIT FOR VEHICLE - A Relay connection unit ( | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100096185 | WIRING HARNESS AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND A METHOD FOR CONNECTING INSULATED WIRES - A wiring harness which is excellent in peel strength at a joining portion where conductors of electric wires are joined together, even if at least one of the electric wires have a small diameter. A wiring harness includes insulated wires whose conductors are partly exposed, and a metal leaf with which the exposed conductors are bound, where the bound conductors are welded preferably by ultrasonic welding, and the conductors including elemental wires have a joining portion where the elemental wires are joined together, the joining portion being inside the metal leaf. The elemental wires and the metal leaf are preferably made from copper, a copper alloy, aluminum and/or an aluminum alloy, and are preferably made from a same metal or a same alloy. At least one of the conductors preferably has a cross-sectional area of 0.35 mm | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100079265 | RELAY APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - While ECUs are connected with a distribution apparatus via a communication line, each of the ECUs sends status notification representing own status to the distribution apparatus. The distribution apparatus creates status information representing status of the ECUs in accordance with status notifications received from the ECUs connected with the distribution apparatus. This status information is sent to other distribution apparatuses together with data for synchronizing a database. The other ECUs perform similar operations to those of the ECUs, while the other distribution apparatuses perform similar operations to those of the distribution apparatus. Therefore, each of the distribution apparatuses can recognize the status of all the ECUs. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100071933 | ELECTRIC WIRE CONDUCTOR AND A METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A conductor excellent in tensile strength, breaking elongation, impact resistance, electrical conductivity, and fatigue resistance, and a production method thereof. The conductor includes elemental wires made from an aluminum alloy containing Si whose content is 0.3-1.2 mass %, Mg whose content makes an Mg/Si weight ratio in a range from 0.8 to 1.8, and a remainder essentially including Al and an unavoidable impurity. The conductor has tensile strength of 240 MPa or more, breaking elongation of 10% or more, impact absorption energy of 8 J/m or more, and electrical conductivity of 40% IACS or more. The production method includes the step of preparing a strand by bunching elemental wires with the above composition, and the step of subjecting the wire to solution treatment, quenching, and aging heat treatment. Solution treatment temperature is 500-580° C., and aging heat treatment temperature is 150-220° C. Heating in solution treatment is high frequency induction heating. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100065301 | Wire covering material composition, an insulated wire and a wiring harness - A wire covering material composition which is systematically different from a polyolefin resin composition and which possesses favorable flame retardancy, tensile elongation and wear resistance, having 100 parts by weight of a polymer blend containing 40-95 wt % of polybutylene terephthalate, and 1 to 30 parts by weight of a phosphoric ester compound with respect to 100 parts by weight of the polymer blend, wherein 5 to 100 wt % of the total content of the polybutylene terephthalate in the polymer blend is made up of polybutylene terephthalate, whose molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn (where Mw: weight-average molecular weight; Mn: number-average molecular weight) is greater than or equal to 2.5. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100062643 | BRANCH CONNECTOR - A branch connector located at a position where a branch line is connectedly branched from a main line constituting a communication circuit, comprising: inside a connector housing thereof, one or a plurality of bus bars each having a joint part long and narrow and a plurality of electric wire connection terminal parts projected by spacing said electric wire connection terminal parts at a certain interval from said joint part in a longitudinal direction thereof; a plurality of cylindrical insulation parts each having a hollow portion through which one of said electric wire connection terminal parts is inserted; and a plurality of filter materials each of which is made of a conductive magnetic material and fitted on one of said cylindrical insulation parts to prevent each of said filter materials and said corresponding electric wire connection terminal part from contacting each other. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100051314 | SHIELD CONDUCTOR AND SHIELD CONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING METHOD - A shield conductor W comprises: a plurality of wires | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100046189 | SHIELD SHELL - A shield shell | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100044071 | Flat cable - A flat cable which is excellent in resistance to sliding and bending. A flat cable includes a plurality of conductors which are arranged in parallel apart from each other, and an insulation having a flexural modulus of no less than 200 MPa and less than 800 MPa, with which the conductors are extrusion-coated. It is preferable that the flexural modulus of the insulation is no less than 250 MPa and no more than 450 MPa. In addition, it is preferable that the insulation contains one or more than one kind of high polymer. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100042290 | RELAY CONNECTION UNIT AND VEHICLE-MOUNTED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A Relay connection unit ( | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100041268 | Electrical Equipment - It is an object to provide electrical equipment eliminating the need to change the diameter of wires, and capable of improving assembly workability. Vehicle-mounted camera equipment | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100039753 | Electric Power Distribution System - There is a concern that water on the top surface of a cover | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100039494 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED VIDEO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND VEHICLE-MOUNTED IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM - The present invention provides a vehicle-mounted video communication system being characterized in that the wiring between a plurality of image pickup devices and a plurality of video processing devices can be simplified, the total length of cables can be reduced, and the respective devices can be reduced in size. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100035449 | 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 by reflection of high-frequency signals is decreased. The connector for a shielded cable W comprising a signal conductor Wa, a shielded conductor Wd, an insulator Wb interposed between the conductors Wa and Wd, and a sheath covering the conductor Wd, comprises an inner conductor terminal | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100032185 | Method for Water-Sealing Treatment of On-Vehicle Electric Cables - The present invention is intended to enable a efficient water-sealing treatment for an on-vehicle electric cable | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100031106 | RELAY CONNECTION UNIT MOUNTED IN VEHICLE - A Relay connection unit which is connected with a plurality of buses and relays a message to a different bus. The relay connection section comprises a data check section for detecting an error in a data section of a received message, a storage section for storing set data or/and the previously sent data for message rewriting use for each ID (identifier) attached to the message, and a data rewrite portion for rewriting the data section of the message in which the error is detected into the set data or the previously sent data stored in the storage section. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100029142 | CONNECTOR TERMINAL AND CONNECTOR WITH THE CONNECTOR TERMINAL - An object of the present invention is to provide a connector terminal | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100025070 | FLAME RETARDANT, A FLAME-RETARDANT COMPOSITION, AN INSULATED WIRE, A WIRING HARNESS, AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE FLAME-RETARDANT COMPOSITION - A flame retardant that is arranged to improve the cold resistance and the productivity of a composition, a flame-retardant composition, an insulated wire, a wiring harness, and a method for manufacturing the flame-retardant composition. The flame retardant includes a pulverized natural mineral which is mainly composed of magnesium hydroxide, wherein the pulverized natural mineral is surface-treated with an organic high polymer such as polyolefin. The amount of surface treatment is within a range of 0.1 to 10 mass %. The flame-retardant composition includes 30 to 250 parts by mass of the flame retardant with respect to 100 parts by mass of an organic high polymer such as polyolefin. The insulated wire includes a conductor and the flame-retardant composition which covers the conductor, and the wiring harness includes the insulated wire. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100018745 | 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. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100014195 | 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 voltage. Three threshold setting resistors are serially connected between the source of a power MOSFET and a ground terminal. A divided voltage at the connecting point between the threshold setting resistors and is outputted as the third anomaly threshold voltage. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100002710 | Vehicle-Mounted lan system, electronic control unit, relay connection unit, and vehicle-mounted lan communication means - A vehicle-mounted LAN system comprises a plurality of vehicle-mounted LANs in each of which an electronic control unit is connected to a communication line to perform the transmission/reception of messages; and a relay connection unit that relays the messages between the vehicle-mounted LANs. Each electronic control unit has a reception port having a function of transmitting a reception confirmation signal to the relay connection unit in response to a received message. The relay connection unit has a relay management means that determines, based on the presence or absence of the reception confirmation signal responsive to the message relayed to each of the vehicle-mounted LANs, whether a relay is required or not and that then updates relay processing information stored in a storing means. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100000787 | FLAME-RETARDANT RESIN COMPOSITION, AN INSULATED WIRE AND A WIRING HARNESS - A flame retardant resin composition which is reasonable in price and possesses superior cold resistance, wear resistance and hot-water resistance, an insulated wire and a wiring harness. The flame-retardant resin composition includes a propylene polymer including an ethylene unit within a range of 1 to 15 mass %, and magnesium hydroxide derived from a natural mineral. The content of the magnesium hydroxide is preferably within a range of 50 to 200 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of a polymer component in the composition. A styrene-type thermoplastic elastomer is preferably included in the composition. A Charpy impact value of the propylene polymer at a temperature of −20° C. is preferably 3 to 8 KJ/m | 01-07-2010 |
| 20090314511 | Shielded Wire-Grounding construction - The lead-out side end of a drain wire ( | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090308632 | Shielded conductor - A shielded conductor A comprising a shield pipe | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090301756 | Insulated Wire and a Wiring Harness - An insulated wire possessing flame retardancy, and wear resistance which is superior to a conventional insulated wire, which includes a conductor, an inside coat of one or more layers arranged to cover the conductor, and an outside coat arranged to cover the outermost layer of the inside coat, wherein at least the layer of the inside coat which is in contact with the conductor is made from an olefin resin including a functional group, and the outside coat is made from a non-halogenous flame-retardant resin composition. The functional group is preferably one or more sorts of groups selected from a carboxylic acid group, an acid anhydrous group, an epoxy group, a hydroxyl group, an amino group, an alkenyl cyclic imino ether group, and a silane group. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090298310 | Electrical junction box - The present invention provides an electrical junction box that can prevent water in a casing from attaching to a circuit board. The electrical junction box may include a casing, an upper connector housing and fuse-mounting sections that are disposed on and are open in an upper wall in the casing, a circuit board contained in the casing, an upper frame portion that is disposed below the upper connector housing and fuse-mounting sections in the casing to cover an upper part of the circuit board, side frame portions that extend downward from side edges of the upper frame portion and are disposed adjacent to sides of the circuit board, slopes that are formed on an upper surface of the upper frame portion and slant down to the side frame portions, and groove portions that extend in a vertical direction on outer surfaces of the side frame portions. The casing may be provided with first drainage portions that are open at positions opposite lower end edges of the groove portions. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090298309 | Electric Connection Box - A circuit structure | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090294149 | SHIELD CONDUCTOR AND SHIELD CONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING METHOD - A shield conductor Wa comprises: a metallic pipe | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090288955 | 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 comprises a plating tank, a laser oscillator for emitting a laser beam, a conveying device for conveying a member to be plated, a photoelectronic sensor for detecting the position of a positioning hole of the member to be plated, and a galvanometer scanner having a galvanometer mirror capable of scanning the laser beam. The plated member is applied with fine spot plating by the laser plating. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090255708 | INSULATED WIRE AND A WIRING HARNESS - An insulated wire possessing preferable flame retardancy, water resistance and wear resistance. The insulated wire including an insulator layer made from a composition including 96 to 44 parts by weight of (A) a polyester type resin, 4 to 56 parts by weight of (B) a polyphenylene ether type resin, 1 to 70 parts by weight of (C) one or more than one sort of polymer selected from the group consisting of a styrene type polymer, an olefin type polymer including a functional group, and a polymer including an ester group with respect to 100 parts by weight of (A) the polyester type resin and (B) the polyphenylene ether type resin, and 1 to 50 parts by weight of (D) a phosphoester compound with respect to 100 parts by weight of (A) the polyester type resin and (B) the polyphenylene ether type resin. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090247009 | Coaxial connector and a structure for attaching the coaxial connector to a connector housing - A coaxial connector having excellent shielding performance. The coaxial connector | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090242266 | Electric Connection Box - Fluid drainage slopes are formed at a lower frame part constituting a housing that is provided below circuit board housed inside housing. Drainage ports are also formed at a lowermost part of fluid drainage slope in lower frame part. Thus, fluid that forms in the housing flows down from circuit board and onto fluid drainage slopes to be guided downward from fluid drainage slope to reach drainage ports and be discharged to outside housing. It is thus possible to prevent or suppress the occurrence of short circuits in a circuit board caused by fluid generated and/or accumulated inside the housing. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090239425 | Connecting terminal - A connecting terminal developed speedily while limiting a temperature rise when a current flows, comprising male and female terminals each having a wire crimp portion to which a wire is crimped, and a joint portion where the male and female terminals are joined to each other, wherein a contact resistance value of the whole connecting terminal is a sum of contact resistance values in the wire crimp portions and the joint portion, and a length of a contact portion is a sum of lengths of the wire crimp portions and the joint portion, wherein a normalized contact resistance value R | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090229880 | Conductor and Wire Harness - One aspect of the present invention can include a conductor to be installed on a vehicle for high current use including a stranded copper wire connected to an end portion of a single-core aluminum cable, an intermediary conductor made of copper is connected to the stranded copper wire and an end face of a core of the single-core aluminum cable is cold welded connected to an end face of a welding shaft formed on the intermediary conductor having approximately a same diameter as the core of the single-core aluminum cable. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090170356 | Joint Part and a Wiring Harness Using the Same - A joint part which allows connection work to be easily performed and a wiring harness using the same. A joint part A has a housing | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090167272 | Power Supply Controller - A first current corresponding to the drain-to-source voltage of a power MOSFET can pass through an FET; and a second current corresponding to a constant voltage can pass through an FET; a third current corresponding to the difference determined by subtracting the first current from the second current can pass into threshold setting resistors from the connecting point between FETs. Consequently, divided voltages at the connecting points between the threshold setting resistors varies directly with a voltage corresponding to the difference determined by subtracting the drain-to-source voltage of the power MOSFET from the constant voltage. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090167078 | Vehicle conductor - A vehicle conductor for use with an electric automobile can include a protection pipe including a wire in the protection pipe capable of supplying power, and a cooling pipe positioned proximate the wire in the protection pipe. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090166057 | Electric wire for automobile - A conductor for an automobile is provided that exhibits the characteristics of slender structure, improved strength and reduced weight. The conductor is configured by compressing a plurality of surrounding wires that surround a central wire. Individual wires of single materials are combined in various combinations to achieve the slender structure, improved strength and reduced weight. Materials from which individual wires are formed in one embodiment are one of stainless steel, copper or copper alloy. Materials from which individual wires are formed in another embodiment are one of stainless steel, aluminum or aluminum alloy | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090138136 | On-Vehicle Database Distribution Node and On-Vehicle Database System - A on-vehicle database system includes: a memory for recording an on-vehicle database connected to an on-vehicle LAN network and to an ECU for registering data inputted from respective ECU as attribute value data all at once; and data output means for registering data in the on-vehicle database when the data is inputted via I/O means and outputting the data to the ECU at the timing when the data is required by the ECU, by using the attribute value data in the on-vehicle database. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090128106 | Power supply controller and semiconductor device - A voltage-dividing circuit | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090126993 | 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. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090116161 | Power Supply Controller and Threshold Adjustment Method Thereof - An inrush current higher than a second anomaly threshold current ILfc passes through a power MOSFET | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090108894 | PWM Signal Generator - After an output signal S | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090107694 | Shielded Conductor for Vehicle - A shield conductor has a metal pipe and wires accommodated in the metal pipe. The metal pipe is stainless steel, and the stainless steel pipe is provided with a resin layer containing a magnetic material. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090098749 | Electric connection box - An electric connection box includes an electronic circuit board having an electronic component, and a power circuit board having a power circuit, which are disposed upright in a casing. A vertically-extending component area for mounting a heat generating component is formed on the power circuit board, so as not to face the electronic circuit board. A partition wall for separating the component area from the electronic circuit board is provided in the casing, and thereby a first air passage for allowing air to flow vertically along the component area is formed in the casing. A first inlet port connected to the first air passage is formed on the casing, and a first outlet port connected to the first air passage and positioned above the first inlet port is formed on the casing. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090095525 | Distributive Conductor - A distributive conductor electromagnetically shields and protects an insulated wire | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090057009 | Non-Halogenous Insulated Wire and a Wiring Harness - A non-halogenous insulated wire possessing sufficient flame retardancy, wear resistance, flexibility and workability, and excellent coordination with a halogen-containing material, which includes a conductor, an inside coat formed of one or more layers and an outermost coat, wherein the outermost coat is in the range of 10-100 μm in thickness and made from a resin composition including one or more sorts of polyethylene such that an average density of the included polyethylene becomes 0.910 g/cm | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090041452 | Camera Cover - It is an object of the present invention to mount a focusing mechanism of a camera device on a vehicle without bringing the mechanism in contact with a worker's hands in an in-focus state of a lens system in the camera device having an eyelid part for preventing stray light covering part of a lens, and to improve the beauty and increase mounting flexibility. In a camera cover according to the present invention, a cylinder body ( | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090039720 | TERMINAL MODULE FOR ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE, AND ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE - A terminal module for a rotating electric machine, allowing automatic assembling, is provided. The terminal module for a rotating electric machine includes a polygonal rail ( | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090038825 | Electric Connection Box and Manufacturing Method of Electric Connection Box - One aspect of the present invention can include an electric connection box including a housing, a circuit component positioned in the housing, a filler material in the housing enclosing the circuit component, a filling inlet configured to receive the filler material, the filling inlet positioned at an upper part of a wall portion of the housing, a filling cylindrical portion formed in the housing and connected to the filling inlet and extending in a direction to a bottom portion of the housing. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090029574 | Board Connector - A board connector ( | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090025978 | Non-Halogenous Insulated Wire and a Wiring Harness - A non-halogenous insulated wire possessing sufficient flame retardancy and excellent heat resistance, wear resistance and flexibility, and a wiring harness including the wire. The wire includes a conductor, an inside coat of one or more layers and an outermost coat, wherein the outermost coat is in the range of 10 to 100 μm in thickness and is made from a resin composition including an olefin resin with a melting point of 180° C. or more and/or an olefin resin having a —Si(X | 01-29-2009 |
| 20080310121 | Electrical Junction Box - The present invention improves heat dissipation of an electrical junction box. An electrical junction box includes a housing which houses a control circuit board disposed perpendicular to a power distribution board. The control circuit board includes a control circuit constructed on one side of an insulating substrate, electrical components mounted on the control circuit, and a heat dissipating means mounted on the other side. The power distribution board includes a plurality of bus bars laminated via a plurality of insulating layers. Consequently, heat generated by the electrical components can be dissipated efficiently by the heat dissipating means, thereby improving heat dissipation of the electrical junction box. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080293283 | Electric wire and water-stopping method therefor - An electric wire including a conductor; and a coating material outside of the conductor, wherein a water-stopping agent having a flowability is located between the conductor and the coating material on a connection terminal side of the electric wire. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080288137 | Vehicle-Mounted Load Drive Control System - It is an object of the invention to provide a vehicle-mounted load drive control system that allows synchronous drive of electrical loads located at dispersed sites while achieving great efficiency in mounting in a limited space. Bus connections between an electronic control unit ( | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080278581 | Vehicle-Mounted Camera System - The present invention has an object to provide a vehicle-mounted camera system capable of preventing the occurrence of only a smear in an area without a mask image on a picked up image, and substantially reducing a ghost and stray light. The vehicle-mounted camera system according to the present invention includes an imaging element ( | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080259946 | Vehicle network system - A vehicle network system is provided with a plurality of star networks, a plurality of devices mounted on a vehicle are connected in a star shape through respective branch lines in each of the star networks, and a trunk line for connecting the plurality of star networks, the branch lines are communication lines for optical communications, and the trunk line is a communication line for electric communication. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080259586 | Circuit Structure - There is provided a circuit structure in which a control circuit is formed on the upper surface of an insulating plate | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080258787 | Power Supply Controller - A parallel circuit | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080223597 | Electrical Connection Box - An electrical connection box includes a circuit casing comprising a casing for accommodating a circuit structure therein and a cover, a lower connector housing disposed on the lower surface side of the circuit casing and connectable to an external connector, and a plurality of lower on-bus-bar terminals for electrically connecting between the circuit structure and the lower connector housing. Each lower on-bus-bar terminal is disposed along a cabling path horizontally traversing the inside of the circuit casing and leads into the lower connector housing through the ceiling portion of the housing. In the circuit casing, a waterproof wall is provided for covering the ceiling portion from above. Water having intruded into the circuit casing drops onto the waterproof wall, and thereby is prevented from reaching the ceiling portion of the lower connector housing disposed below. Thus the water is prevented from accumulating on the ceiling portion, and consequently short-circuiting among the lower on-bus-bar terminals disposed on the ceiling portion is prevented. | 09-18-2008 |
