Patents Assigned to Minebea Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20170213625
    Abstract: A rare earth bonded magnet comprises a rare earth-iron-based magnetic powder and a thermosetting resin composition. The thermosetting resin composition is obtained by blending a dicyclopentadiene type epoxy resin as a base resin and dicyandiamide as a curing agent. The dicyclopentadiene type epoxy resin includes a predetermined structure wherein an average value of a repeating unit n is 1 to 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shiho OHYA, Yu OKAWARA, Susumu TERAOKA, Toshinori SUZUKI, Akihiro YAMANE
  • Publication number: 20170211589
    Abstract: An axial fan is provided which has a high degree of freedom of design of a condition of gas to be discharged. An axial fan 1 of the present disclosure comprises a discharge port; a rotation axis; an impeller 23; and a casing 30 including a side wall 31 part that encloses the impeller 23, wherein the side wall part 31 includes a plurality of inner face parts 37a1 in a circumferential direction on the discharge port 2 side, and an inner face part angle is an angle of the inner face part 37a1 with respect to the rotation axis, and the inner face part angle on an outwardly spreading side with respect to the rotation axis is a positive angle, and the inner face part angles are greater than 0°, and the two inner face parts adjacent to each other have different inner face part angles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya MURAKAMI, Yukihiro HIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9714986
    Abstract: A resolver has a stator includes a circular yoke, multiple salient poles radially projecting inward from the yoke, and winding wires wound around the salient poles via an insulator; a rotor disposed inside the stator; a wire outgoing portion arranged with plural terminal pins, the terminal pins being connected to end portions of the winding wires; and a terminal pin cover attached to the wire outgoing portion and covering the terminal pins. The terminal pin cover includes multiple spaces that individually contain one of the terminal pins. A filler is filled in each space, whereby the end portion of the winding wire electrically connected to the terminal pin is sealed in the filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haruki Otobe
  • Publication number: 20170207689
    Abstract: A fan apparatus comprises a stator unit, a rotor unit comprising an impeller, and a casing that houses the stator unit and the rotor unit. The casing comprise a side wall portion that surrounds a periphery of the impeller, a base portion that holds the stator unit and the rotor unit, and a plurality of connection portions that connect the side wall portion and the base portion. The casing is formed by at least two members including a first member and a second member coupled to the first member. The first member includes at least one of the connection portions and at least part of the base portion, and the second member includes at least one of the connection portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 9709073
    Abstract: A centrifugal fan includes an impeller, and a lower casing provided below the impeller. The impeller includes an upper shroud having an upper portion formed with an inlet, a lower shroud, and a plurality of blades arranged along a circumference direction between the upper shroud and the lower shroud. The blades extend from an inner side area to an outer side area in a radial direction, and are only connected to the lower shroud with the inner side area such that at least an outer circumferential side portion of each blade faces an upper surface of the lower casing. A surface of the lower casing, which faces the impeller, configures a portion of a wall surface which guides the fluid introduced from the inlet. A surface of each blade at a side of a leading edge portion is formed with a discontinuous portion having a step shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takako Otsuka, Seiya Fujimoto, Takayuki Yamasaki, Masaki Ogushi
  • Publication number: 20170187260
    Abstract: An inner-rotor motor including: an armature assembly including a rotating shaft, an armature unit coupled to the rotating shaft and a pressing unit; a frame assembly including a frame housing the armature unit, a first bearing unit located on one side with respect to the armature unit in an axial direction, and a second bearing unit located on another side with respect to the armature unit in the axial direction; and an urging structure that urges the rotating shaft in a direction away from the second bearing unit and that presses the pressing unit toward the first bearing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki MOCHIZUKI, Minoru KURODA
  • Publication number: 20170184778
    Abstract: A planar illumination apparatus according to an embodiment includes a light source and a light guide plate. The light source includes a light emitting diode and a wavelength conversion material that is excited by light emitted from the light emitting diode so as to emit light, and emits white light. The light guide plate includes an incident end surface on which the light source is disposed, and an emission surface that emits light incident from the incident end surface. The light guide plate is provided with a light scattering unit on at least one of the emission surface and a rear surface opposed to the emission surface. The light scattering unit mainly scatters light emitted from the light emitting diode than light emitted from the wavelength conversion material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru ONDA, Kenta TAKAKUSAKI
  • Patent number: 9692280
    Abstract: A production method for a rotor core for a VR type resolver has a structure in which one protrusion is formed on an inner edge thereof in which the rotor cores can be rotated and laminated without increasing cost. In a production method of a rotor core for a VR type resolver, a plurality of tabular rotor core pieces are laminated. In this case, in the rotor core pieces, four protrusions are simultaneously formed, one of them is left, the remainder thereof is removed, and rotating lamination is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takaaki Ochiai
  • Publication number: 20170177152
    Abstract: There is provided a portable apparatus capable of detecting a touch position where a user touches the portable apparatus and a touch strength with which the user touches the portable apparatus. The portable apparatus includes: a rectangular frame on which a display panel unit is to be mounted; four touch detection-dedicated legs respectively extending from vicinities of four corners of the frame; a first strain gage attached to each of the touch detection-dedicated legs; and a calculation unit that finds the touch position and the touch strength based on an output of the first strain gage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi SATO, Naoyuki TERADA, Kazumasa ADACHI, Makoto FURUTA, Takahiro SHIMURA, Shigeyuki ADACHI
  • Patent number: 9685895
    Abstract: A motor current controller operates to: set a reference current value and a decay mode switching time for each PWM cycle based on a positional relationship between a rotor and a stator; switch an H-bridge circuit to the charge mode at the time of start of each PWM cycle; switch the H-bridge circuit to the fast decay mode and store a charge mode time when determined that the motor current is greater than the reference current value; switch the H-bridge circuit to the slow decay mode when the decay mode switching time elapses; compare the charge mode time of the corresponding PWM cycle in a present falling side with the charge mode time of the PWM cycle in a previous falling side; update the decay mode switching time of the PWM cycle previous to the corresponding PWM cycle in a subsequent falling side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Hijikata
  • Publication number: 20170167895
    Abstract: An angle detecting apparatus using a resolver disposed at a position where an external magnetic field is present on one side in an axial direction includes a rotor that is rotatable and made of a magnetic material, a magnetic permeability of the magnet material having an uniaxial anisotropy as an entirety, and a stator disposed to face the rotor, the stator including an exciting coil and a detection coil for detecting a magnetic flux generated by the exciting coil, the rotor being provided between the stator and the external magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki OCHIAI, Takuji YAMADA, Ichiro SASADA, Takuya MATSUDA, Jisho OSHINO
  • FAN
    Publication number: 20170159707
    Abstract: A fan includes a shaft, a first rolling bearing provided on one end side of the shaft in an axial direction of the shaft and having a first inner ring on an outer circumference side of the shaft and a first outer ring on an outer side in a radial direction of the first inner ring, a second rolling bearing provided on another end side of the shaft and having a second inner ring on the outer circumference side of the shaft and a second outer ring on the outer side in a radial direction of the second inner ring, a bearing housing accommodating the first and second rolling bearings, an elastic member between the first and second rolling bearings. At least one of the first and second rolling bearings is a loose-fit bearing. A resistance-applying part is interposed between the loose-fit bearing and the elastic member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki YAMAWAKI, Kazuhiro MORI
  • Publication number: 20170163118
    Abstract: A stator of a motor comprises a core section including a core outer circumference part forming an annular shape and a plurality of core tooth parts projecting radially inward from the core outer circumference part; an insulator covering at least an outer circumference of each of the core tooth parts and an end face in an axial direction of the core outer circumference part; a coil wound on each of the core tooth parts via the insulator; and a terminal attached to the core outer circumference part via the insulator, an end portion of the coil being connected to the terminal, wherein the terminal includes: a leg portion extending in the axial direction; a hook portion including an open end opened in the axial direction and disposed on the core outer circumference part at a position corresponding to one of the core tooth parts in a circumferential direction, the end portion of the coil being connected to the hook portion; and a coupling portion extending from the leg portion in the circumferential direction alon
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuhei KIMPARA
  • Patent number: 9664196
    Abstract: An axial flow fan motor 100 comprises: a casing outer frame 61; an impeller 10; a rotor shaft 20 as a rotation axis at a center of the impeller 10; a bearing housing 30 in an inside of a rotor housing 11; and a base portion hub 62 in an air blowout opening side 2, wherein, in a cross-sectional view along the rotation axis, the base portion hub 62 has an outer peripheral portion 65 at least partially inclined to the rotation axis side by an angle ?1 toward the air blowout opening side 2 with regard to a straight line parallel to the rotation axis, and the casing outer frame 61 has an inner peripheral portion 67 at least partially inclined to the rotation axis side by an angle ?2 toward the air blowout opening side 2 with regard to a straight line parallel to the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Higuchi, Atsushi Taroda
  • Patent number: 9664498
    Abstract: A variable reluctance resolver has a stator combined with a housing. The resolver does not require extra space in a case for a device, into which the resolver is mounted, and it is easily coaxially mounted to the device. The resolver includes a ring-like stator 10, a rotor 20, and a housing 30. The stator 10 has a stator core 100, a first insulator 110, a second insulator 120, and coils 130. The stator core 100 is provided with plural salient poles 101. The first insulator 110 and the second insulator 120 hold the stator core 100 therebetween from both sides of the stator core 100. The coils 130 are wound to the salient poles 101 via the first insulator 110 and the second insulator 120. The housing 30 accommodates the stator 10. The first insulator 110 is coaxially integrally formed with the housing 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Ochiai, Shuumei Shirayanagi
  • Patent number: 9657886
    Abstract: A rotation range-limiting device 10 is provided with a rotation body 20 provided with a first surface and a carrying surface, and a stationary body 30 supporting the rotation body such that the rotation body is rotatable about a center point thereof. The stationary body has a second surface opposed to the first surface. One 212 of the first surface and the second surface is provided with an arc-shaped slide-guiding portion 24 whose center corresponds to the center point of the rotation body, and a slider 26 movable along the slide-guiding portion. The other 301 of the first surface and the second surface is provided with a locking portion 36, which projects toward the slide-guiding portion at a location on a circle having the same diameter as the slide-guiding portion such that it can abut against the slider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroya Hoshi, Shinichi Fujisawa
  • Publication number: 20170141663
    Abstract: A stator structure includes a stator unit, and first and second coil covers, the stator unit having: a stator core having a first main body portion with a plurality of through holes, and a plurality of teeth portions; and a coil, and the first and second coil covers covering the coil from a stator core axial direction; the first and second coil covers have first and second protecting portions and first and second engagement portions; each of the first and second protecting portions is arranged between the teeth portions; the first and second protecting portions arranged between the same teeth portions are in a non-restrained state, where their mutual movement in the axial direction is not restrained; their distal end portions overlap each other; and the first and second engagement portions are engaged with each other through the respective through holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi ABE, Naohiro YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20170141644
    Abstract: A holder is used while attached to a chassis of a vibration generator that moves a vibrator to generate a vibration. The holder includes a vibrator retention unit retaining the vibrator, a fixed unit fixed to the chassis, and an arm. The arm connects the fixed unit and the vibrator retention unit, and the arm supports the vibrator retention unit while the vibrator retention unit can be displaced with respect to the fixed unit. The fixed unit, the arm, and the vibrator retention unit are integrally formed using resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru KURODA, Makoto TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20170141664
    Abstract: A holder is used while attached to a chassis of a vibration generator that moves a vibrator to generate a vibration. The holder includes a vibrator retention unit retaining the vibrator, a fixed unit fixed to the chassis, and an arm. The arm connects the fixed unit and the vibrator retention unit, and the arm supports the vibrator retention unit while the vibrator retention unit can be displaced with respect to the fixed unit. The fixed unit, the arm, and the vibrator retention unit are integrally formed using resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru KURODA, Makoto TANAKA
  • Patent number: D791819
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sagawa, Koshi Fujiura