Yazaki Corporation

Takashi Endo

Takahiro Ohmoto

Ryosuke Ohfuku

Masaru Shinmura

Kazuyuki Iwashita

Yuki Goto

Yu Saito

Akihiro Tsuruta

You Yanagida

Kazuhide Ikeya

Shinji Kodama

Kunihiko Yamada

Tomoyoshi Fukaya

A connector includes a first housing, a second housing and a fitting assuring member. The second housing includes a first locking protrusion portion having a first slope. The fitting assuring member includes a first assuring locking portion that gets over the first locking protrusion portion to be thereby locked to the first locking protrusion portion when the first housing and the second housing are fitted to each other. The first assuring locking portion begins to slide on the first slope before completion of the fitting, and stays on the first slope until the completion of the fitting.

Connector and connector unit

A connector includes a housing having a terminal receiving chamber having an opening on one or both of opposite sides in a preset direction crossing an insertion direction of a connection terminal; and a side retainer having a pair of opposed plate portions disposed in positions to sandwich the housing from the opposite sides in the preset direction. The side retainer is attached laterally to the housing and movably supported on the housing to move between a temporary locking position to temporarily lock the connection terminal and a formal locking position to formally lock the connection terminal. One or both of the opposed plate portions of the side retainer covers one or both of the opposite sides of the terminal receiving chamber when the side retainer locates at the formal locking position.

Connector with a locking retainer

A member locking structure includes: a first locking portion provided in a first member; and a second locking portion provided in a second member. The first locking portion and the second locking portion have a first locking face and a second locking face. The first locking face has a first inclined face and a first abutment portion. The second locking face has a second inclined face and a second abutment portion. The first inclined face contacts the second abutment portion and then the first abutment portion contacts the second inclined face, during a relative movement of the first member to the second member in an opposite direction to the locking direction from the locking state, to elastically deform the first locking portion in a direction opposite to lock on the second locking portion by the first inclined face and the second inclined face to release the locking state.

Member locking structure

A connector includes a housing; and a fitting assurance member slidably attached to an outer side of the housing. The housing has a locking portion to be locked to the locked portion during a movement of the housing in a fitting direction to the counterpart housing. The fitting assurance member slides and moves relatively to the housing in the fitting direction from a temporary locking position to a formal locking position. The housing has an unlocking operation portion to apply unlocking force to the locking portion. The fitting assurance member has a pair of side walls on the outer side of the housing and a coupling portion connecting end portions of the pair of side walls. The coupling portion is located between the unlocking operation portion and the housing and separated from the unlocking operation portion.

Connector having a locking portion, an unlocking portion and a fitting assurance member

A wired/wireless composite communication system and a wired/wireless composite communication method perform control to use wired communication for communication data having high priority and to use wireless communication for communication data having low priority among the types of communication data transmitted and received between communication devices provided within a vehicle. Specifically, the wired/wireless composite communication system and the wired/wireless composite communication method transmit wired communication data and wireless communication data divided on the basis of the priority set for each type of the communication data separately by wired communication and wireless communication, and couple the wired communication data and the wireless communication data separately received on a reception side to each other to reconstruct the communication data.

Wired/wireless composite communication system and wired/wireless composite communication method

A vehicle system is provided with a plurality of vehicle modules each modularized depending on the assembly structure of a vehicle, the vehicle modules each including a gateway unit connected with a plurality of devices different in protocol from each other in the vehicle in a communicable manner, and a trunk line that connects between the gateway units of the respective vehicle modules.

Vehicle system and vehicle module

A wired-wireless hybrid communication system and a wired-wireless hybrid communication method perform control such that, of the types of communication data transmitted and received between communication devices provided in a vehicle, wired communication is used for high-priority communication data and wireless communication is used for low-priority communication data. Specifically, wired communication data and wireless communication data divided based on the priority defined for each type of the communication data are separately transmitted via wired communication and wireless communication, and the wired communication data and the wireless communication data separately received at the received side are combined to reconstruct the communication data.

Wired-wireless hybrid communication system and wired-wireless hybrid communication method

While a ferrule or a laser beam is being shifted in an axial direction, the laser beam is applied, thereby forming a plurality of welded portions at the boundary between a coating of an optical fiber and the ferrule. A YAG laser in a Q switch pulse mode is used to provide a laser beam. The beam. The YAG laser in the Q switch pulse mode is preferably oscillated in a pulse exciting system. The ferrule is made of transparent or semi-transparent synthetic resin. The coating of the optical fiber is made of translucent synthetic resin. In this way, an optical fiber fixing method can be provided which can surely fix an optical fiber and a ferrule in a shortened time, and minimize the thermal influence on the vicinity of the portion to be processed.

Optical fiber fixing method

A ferrule for a connector of an optical fiber, which can be joined in short time with the optical fiber and can position the optical fiber securely, and a method of welding the ferrule and the optical fiber are provided. Projections for contacting with a surface of an optical fiber are disposed, preferably at equal intervals, along a circumferential direction of an inner wall of a through hole of a ferrule . By inserting the optical fiber into the ferrule , and by heating and melting the projections and an inner cover of the optical fiber by ultrasonic vibration, the optical fiber and the ferrule are joined together.

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Takashi Endo