Yazaki Corporation

Goro Nakamura

Takayoshi Endo

Takahiro Sato

Hiroki Kondo

Norihiro Ohashi

Kenji Muramatsu

Yasuhiro Kominato

Takahiro Satoh

Mitsuhiko Totsuka

Norio Matsumura

Hikaru Sano

Shoichi Nomura

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Shigemitsu Inaba

Akira Maeda

Keiichi Ito

Eiji Shimochi

Takahiko Katsuramaki

Yoshihiko Nakahama

Kenji Matsushita

Kazuhiro Kusuyama

Naoki Matsuoka

Hidenori Yokoyama

Tadahide Kunitachi

Syoichi Nomura

Hironori Kondo

Mika Suzuki

Arata Kawamoto

A detector includes a first flexible sheet, a second flexible sheet placed opposite to the first flexible sheet, and an insulation sheet intervening between them. The first flexible sheet includes a second antenna unit and first contact portions formed on a first opposing surface. The second flexible sheet includes a detection unit and second contact portions formed on a second opposing surface. The first contact portions and the second contact portions become a state of contact by an external force based on the seating of an occupant, cause the second antenna unit to output a transmission signal to the detection unit, and cause the detection unit to output a detection signal to the second antenna unit.

Vehicular detector and vehicular detection system

A slide device includes an upper rail to which a slide seat for a vehicle is attached, a slide rail to which the upper rail is slidably attached, a light emitter, and an attachment portion that attaches the light emitter to the upper rail. The attachment portion is attached to the upper rail such that the light emitter is arranged outside the slide rail. According to the slide device, since the attachment portion is attached to the upper rail such that the light emitter is positioned outside the slide rail, the light emitter does not move inside the slide rail to which a large amount of grease is applied, and a decrease in communication performance can be prevented.

Slide device and light emitting device for slide device

A detection system for vehicle includes a reader and a first detector. The reader is provided in a vehicle, transmits and receives radio signals, and transmits transmission signals including at least radio signals for supplying electric power. The first detector is driven by the radio signals for supplying electric power included in the transmission signals when receiving the transmission signals and can transmit first response signals output in response to the transmission signals to the reader. The first detector is disposed in a sitting area on a seat where the first response signals transmitted to the reader are blocked. The reader determines a sitting state of a passenger based on whether the first response signals are received in response to the transmission signals.

Detection system for vehicle

A routing structure includes a flexible conductive body, a flexible regulating member, a flexible exterior member, and a case. The conductive body has one end fixed to a vehicle body and has the other end fixed to a seat sliding along a rail arranged on the vehicle body. The regulating member extends along the conductive body and regulates a route of the conductive body. The exterior member has the conductive body and the regulating member each inserted therein, and is inserted into the rail. The case is arranged adjacent to the rail, houses parts of the conductive body, the regulating member, and the exterior member on the side of the vehicle body, and absorbs extra lengths of the conductive body, the regulating member, and the exterior member depending on the sliding of the seat.

Routing structure

A flat cable winding device includes a case, a flat cable guide portion provided in the case and that introduces the flat cables into the case separately, a rotary table that is rotatable around a central shaft portion, a biasing unit that rotates and urges the rotary table in a winding direction of flat cables, a plurality of rollers that are rotatable around the central shaft portion on the rotary table, a separation guide path that guides the flat cables introduced into the case from the flat cable guide portion to the winding start position separately, and a slack absorption unit provided in the separation guide path and that absorbs slack of a flat cable located at an inner peripheral side.

Flat cable winding device and flat cable routing structure

A winding device includes a case that includes a cable lead-out path, a rotating body that is accommodated in the case and is supported to be rotatable, and a cable that has one end connected to the rotating body to be wound in the case and the other end passing through the cable lead-out path of the case to be pulled out to an outside of the case. In the winding device, a first foreign substance removing portion and a second foreign substance removing portion which remove foreign substances pulled in together with the cable, are provided in the cable lead-out path, and the second foreign substance removing portion is capable of removing the foreign substances smaller than the foreign substances that are removable by the first foreign substance removing portion.

Winding device and wiring structure

In a blade-type fuse () according to the present invention one of an upper casing () and a lower casing () includes a fixing post (K), the other casing includes a through-hole (K) through which the fixing post (K) is passed, and also the flat terminal portion () includes a through-hole (K) through which the fixing post (K) is passed. The flat terminal portion () is formed bilaterally symmetrically about a vertical line passing through a center of the blade-type fuse (), and vertically symmetrically about a horizontal line passing through the center of the blade-type fuse ().

Blade-type fuse

A flexible flat cable connecting structure for connecting a flexible flat cable in which a plurality of rectangular conductors are provided in parallel and a plurality of connector terminals arranged at an array pitch different from that of the rectangular conductors comprises an intermediate cable arranging member one end of which is coupled to the connector terminals and in which a plurality of branch conductors are provided in parallel which are set to have mutually different longitudinal dimensions according to the array pitch. The intermediate cable arranging member is laid on the flexible flat cable so that the intermediate cable arranging member and the flexible flat cable are in the same plane and form an angle. The other ends of the branch conductors of the intermediate cable arranging member are connected to the respective rectangular conductors.

Connecting structure and connecting method for flexible flat cable

A connector is provided in which the number of components required for connecting operation can be reduced, and the manufacturing cost and weight thereof can be reduced. A connector housinghas an opening portionA that accommodates a mating connector when the connector is engaged with the mating connector. The connector housingsupports a flat cableso that one end of the flat cable where the conductorsare exposed by removing the insulating sheath is arranged at the opening portionA. At least one of the conductorsexposed at the one end of the flat cableis brought into contact with a terminal of the mating connector when the connector is engaged with the mating connector.

Flat cable connector having cable support structure

Disclosed is a fusible link unit having a fuse circuit structure containing screw fixing terminal portions linked through fusible members to a linking plate, and a housing into which the first fuse circuit structure is assembled, wherein a plurality of terminal supports for supporting the screw fixing terminal portions in a state that the front surfaces of the screw fixing terminal portions are exposed to outside are provided in the housing. The fusible link unit is improved in that the terminal supports of the housing each include pawl parts for preventing each screw fixing terminal portion from displacing to a surface thereof.

Fusible link unit

A fusible link unit having a fuse circuit structure containing a plurality of female terminal parts linked through fusible members to a linking plate and screw fixing terminal parts, which are connected to the fuse circuit structure in a chain manner, and a housing into which the fuse circuit structure is assembled, is disclosed. In the fusible link unit, the fuse circuit structure is formed by laminating a plurality of part plates, and the part plates include linking portions corresponding to the linking plates, and the female terminal parts with the fusible members connected thereto and the screw fixing terminal parts, which are shared by the part plates.

A load side terminal connected to a load portion, a power source side terminal connected to a power source portion and a sacrifice electric pole connected to the power source side terminal are fixed to an apparatus main body. A movable plug is provided movably to the apparatus main body. The sacrifice electrode is constituted by a sacrifice electric pole with resistor connected to the power source side terminal via a resistor and a through sacrifice electric pole directly connected to the power source side terminal and arranged to shift from each other such that in a procedure of moving a conductive portion of the movable plug from a circuit opened position to a circuit closed position. The conductive portion is firstly brought into contact with the load side terminal, successively brought into contact with the sacrifice electric pole and finally brought into contact with the power source side terminal.

Circuit breaking apparatus

A rotating terminal ( ) has a circumferential outer peripheral surface ( ) having its center disposed at an axis ( ) of rotation of the rotating terminal, and has electrically conductive areas and non-electrically conductive areas alternately arranged on the outer peripheral surface in the circumferential direction. At least one pair of fixed terminals ( ) are fixed and disposed outwardly of a path of rotation of the outer peripheral surface of the rotating terminal. In accordance with a rotating position of the rotating terminal, the pair of fixed terminals can be switched between an electrically-conducting condition, in which the pair of fixed terminals are electrically connected together through the rotating terminal, and an interrupting condition in which the pair of fixed terminals are not electrically connected together through the rotating terminal.

Power control apparatus

A fuse assembly including a pair of terminals which are arranged in parallel to each other, a housing having a cavity for containing one end portions of the terminals, and a fusible body interconnecting the terminals The fusible body consists of a pair of supporting portions connected to end faces of the terminals and a connecting portion interconnecting the supporting portions The fuse assembly further includes anchoring parts for fixing the fusible body to the housing and second anchoring parts for fixing the terminals to the housing The anchoring parts include through holes formed in the supporting portions and projections projected from an inner face of the housing and adapted to be engaged in the through holes Thus, conduction of heat generated in the fusible body to electrical equipments connected to the terminals can be restrained.

Fuse assembly

A compact gas-expansion-type power source breaker by which a power supply circuit can be forcedly and surely isolated only in case of abnormalities such as short-circuiting of a wire harness or collision of road vehicles is provided. A lock for constraining movement of a shaft is set in a locked state by means of pushing force for constraining the movement of the shaft forcedly provided by a reset spring on one hand, and is connected via a lock operation plate with a piston for forcedly providing a reverse pushing force beyond the pushing force of the reset spring sublimation of a gaseous actuating reagent contained in a igniter on the other hand. Once a circuit-cut signal is applied to the igniter , the gas actuating reagent will vaporize or sublimate, and the piston will operate to make the lock released forcedly from the shaft , only when the piston is provided with the reverse pushing force beyond the pushing force of the reset spring by means of gases generated by the vaporization or sublimation of the gaseous actuating reagent . Consequently, it can be avoided that the shaft may move slidingly due to any other causes such as impulse, vibration than the vaporization or sublimation of the gaseous actuating reagent , resulting in the isolation of the power supply circuit.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Goro Nakamura