Patents Assigned to Nidec Corporation
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Publication number: 20240154560Abstract: A power conversion device converts DC power into n-phase AC power. A first voltage and a second voltage lower than the first voltage are applied to the power conversion device, and the power conversion device outputs an n-phase output voltage based on a modulation factor. n is the number of phases of the AC output, and is an odd number of 3 or more. At a low modulation factor equal to or less than a first modulation factor, the output voltage becomes a sinusoidal output. At the second modulation factor larger than the first modulation factor, the output voltage is switched every electrical angle ?/n between the phase in which the output voltage is fixed to the maximum voltage and the phase in which the output voltage is fixed to the minimum voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2021Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventor: Kotaro KATAOKA
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Patent number: 11978481Abstract: A motor includes a shaft, a base portion, a stator, and a rotor. The shaft extends along a central axis extending in an axial direction. The base portion extends in a radial direction on one axial direction side of the shaft. The stator is located in another axial direction with respect to the base portion and surrounds the shaft. The rotor is rotatable around the central axis. The rotor includes a rotor tube portion, a magnet, and a rotor flange portion. The rotor tube portion surrounds the stator. The magnet is opposed to the stator in the radial direction. The rotor flange portion extends in a radially outer direction from one axial end portion of the rotor tube portion. The rotor tube portion includes a yoke tube portion and a hub tube portion. The yoke tube portion is located on a radially inside surface of the hub tube portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Nidec CorporationInventors: Naoyuki Kimura, Kazuhiro Sato, Tomoki Uchibori
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Publication number: 20240136883Abstract: This disclosure provides a motor. The motor includes a housing and a lid molded by pressing. The lid includes a first wall portion extending along an axial direction. One side in the axial direction of the first wall portion is tightly fitted or loose-fitted to the housing, and the other side in the axial direction of the first wall portion is connected to an external device. This structure facilitates coaxial alignment and connection between the housing and the lid and reduces costs.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yu WANG, Keisuke YOSHINO, Yonggang YANG, Masashi OMI
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Publication number: 20240136882Abstract: The disclosure provides a motor and a motor assembling method. The motor includes a housing having a bottom and a wall portion extending from an edge of the bottom along an axial direction, and a lid connected to the housing on one side in the axial direction of the bottom of the housing. A surface on the one side in the axial direction of the bottom of the housing has a first connection surface. Housing portions on an inside and an outside in a radial direction of the first connection surface are respectively bent in opposite directions intersecting the first connection surface, which ensures sufficient working space when performing work for connecting the housing and the lid.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yu WANG, Keisuke YOSHINO, Yonggang YANG, Masashi OMI
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Patent number: 11966154Abstract: An optical unit includes a movable body including an optical element, a support body swingably supporting the movable body, and a suction mechanism. The optical element reflects light traveling in a first direction to an intersecting second direction. The suction mechanism generates suction force in the movable body between the movable body and the support body, and includes a magnet and a magnetic member. One of the magnet and the magnetic member is in the movable body, while the other is in the support body. The magnet and the magnetic member overlap each other when viewed from a predetermined direction, which is one of the first direction, the second direction, and a third direction. The third direction intersects the first and second directions. When viewed from the predetermined direction, a center of the magnet and a center of the magnetic member are separated from each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Iwase, Tomohiro Egawa, Genki Tanaka, Soichiro Kimura
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Patent number: 11964536Abstract: There are included a first heat exchanger (42) for causing heat to be exchanged between refrigerant and air in an interior of a vehicle (1), a heating circuit (36) for causing the refrigerant with a temperature higher than that of the air in the interior of the vehicle to circulate through the first heat exchanger, a secondary battery (21) where charging and discharging of power are performed, a cooling water circuit (50) for causing cooling water that exchanges heat with the secondary battery to circulate, a second heat exchanger (61) for causing heat to be exchanged between the refrigerant and the cooling water, the second heat exchanger being provided in a manner including a portion of the heating circuit downstream of the first heat exchanger and a portion of the cooling water circuit, and a case (23) for covering the secondary battery, the cooling water circuit, and the second heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignees: SANDEN CORPORATION, NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Iino, Osamu Takazawa, Yurio Nomura
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Publication number: 20240128916Abstract: An inverter circuit includes at least three output terminals, a first input terminal, a second input terminal, and at least three series bodies. A total switching duration and a one-phase fixed duration are present within a single cycle of AC output. The waveform of each phase of an output voltage is such that a shared offset wave is deducted from a sinusoidal waveform. The waveform of the offset wave matches one phase of the sinusoidal waveform, or matches a waveform obtained by shifting the one phase of the sinusoidal waveform in the amplitude direction, during the one-phase fixed duration. During switching between the total switching duration and the one-phase fixed duration, the inclination of the waveform of the offset wave either continuously changes or remains fixed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventor: Kotaro KATAOKA
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Patent number: 11957294Abstract: A blower apparatus includes a motor including a rotor including a shaft extending along a vertically extending central axis, and a stator opposing the rotor in a radial direction, an impeller below the stator and fixed to the shaft, and a housing surrounding an outer side of the impeller in the radial direction. The impeller includes a base portion that widens in a direction intersecting the central axis, and blades arranged on an upper surface of the base portion along a circumferential direction. An annulus is fixed to an upper end portion of the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Akikazu Fujiwara, Motoi Sawasaki
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Patent number: 11962199Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft, a cylindrical rotor core, a connector, magnets and a cover. The shaft extends along a central axis. The rotor core surrounds the shaft. The connector is provided radially inside the rotor core and connects the rotor core and the shaft. The magnets are provided radially outside the rotor core along a circumferential direction. The cover is provided radially outside the magnets. The connector includes a cylindrical body surrounding the shaft and a flange. The flange extends radially outward from one axial end of the body and faces the magnets in the axial direction. The cover includes a peripheral surface and an eave. The peripheral surface faces the magnets in a radial direction. The eave extends radially inward from an other axial end of the peripheral surface and faces the magnets in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoya Ueda, Toshiyuki Sasaki
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Patent number: 11958543Abstract: A motor control system includes an inverter, and a control calculation unit that feedback-controls the inverter. The control calculation unit includes a voltage control calculation unit that calculates a voltage command value indicating a voltage to be applied to the motor from the inverter on the basis of a current deviation between a current command value and an actual current detection value, a torque ripple compensation calculation unit that adds a compensation value for compensating a torque ripple in the motor to a signal value on at least one of an upstream side and a downstream side in a signal flow that passes through the voltage control calculation unit, and a current limit calculation unit that limits the current command value by adaptive control based on an actual angular velocity value indicating an angular velocity at which the motor rotates.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shuji Endo, Tokuji Tatewaki, Tomoya Ueda, Masanori Watahiki, Tomonari Mori
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Patent number: 11952057Abstract: A motor control system includes an inverter, a voltage control calculating a voltage command value indicating a voltage to be applied to a motor from the inverter based on a deviation between the current command value and the actual current detection value, and a torque ripple compensation unit adding a compensation value for compensating a torque ripple in the motor to a signal value on an upstream side in a signal flow that passes through the voltage control unit. The torque ripple compensation unit includes a phase compensator calculating a compensation value component in the voltage control unit based on an actual angular velocity value indicating an angular velocity at which the motor rotates, and an inverse characteristic processor calculating a compensation value component for compensating the torque ripple based on an inverse characteristic of an open loop transfer function in a feedback control.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shuji Endo, Tokuji Tatewaki, Tomoya Ueda, Masanori Watahiki, Tomonari Mori
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Patent number: 11953021Abstract: An air blower includes an impeller rotatable about a central axis extending vertically, a motor to rotate the impeller, and a holder to hold the motor. The air blower is a centrifugal air blower which generates a radial airflow perpendicular to the central axis. The holder includes a base supporting the motor, attachments on a radial directional-outer side of the impeller, arms connecting the base and each of the attachments, and a wall surface on a side of the impeller, between the base and each attachment, and opposing a radial-directional inner side. An axial lower end of the impeller is located below an axial upper end of the wall surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventor: Shingo Yoshino
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Publication number: 20240113591Abstract: Disclosed is a motor, which includes: a housing; a support plate fixed on the housing; an upper busbar holder holding the upper busbar and defined on the support plate; a lower busbar holder holding the lower busbar; one end of the upper busbar is connected to the lower busbar, and the other end of the upper busbar is connected to an external power supply; one end of the lower busbar is connected to the coil lead wire, and the other end of the lower busbar is connected to the upper busbar, the upper busbar holder has a first through-hole penetrating in the axial direction, the support plate has a second through-hole penetrating in the axial direction; the other end of the lower busbar passes through the first through-hole and the second through-hole, and is connected to one end of the upper busbar.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Wang, Suyan Ge, Hiroshi Sambuichi, Xueling Zhou
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Patent number: 11946491Abstract: A liquid feeder includes a pump which is prevented from idling, and a replenisher including a cylinder that is a bottomed tube including an opening on a side adjacent to a communication flow path, the opening being connected to the communication flow path, and that is capable of accommodating a liquid in at least a portion of the cylinder, a seal that is housed in the cylinder in a movable manner along the cylinder, and seals the liquid in the cylinder, and a pressurizer to pressurize the seal toward a pump chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihiko Tokeshi, Takahiro Imanishi, Yoshihisa Kitamura, Takehito Tamaoka
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Patent number: 11946543Abstract: A parking mechanism includes an actuator having a manual shaft rotating around the first axis, a flange provided on an outer periphery of the manual shaft, a cam rod having a coupling portion coupled to the flange and a rod body moveable along a second axis orthogonal to the first axis with a movement of the flange, a coil spring attached to the rod body, a cam that is attached to the rod body and moves along the second axis by motion of the rod body transmitting via the coil spring, a pawl member having a meshing portion and operating with a movement of the cam, and a parking gear having a tooth portion with which the meshing portion meshes. The self-holding torque of the actuator is larger than the torque applied to the manual shaft at the time of maximum compression of the coil spring.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hideaki Matsuo, Mitsuhiro Hara, Masashi Yuboku
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Patent number: 11949293Abstract: A rotor used in an outer rotor motor includes a rotor holder in a tubular shape extending along a center axis, a rotor core in a tubular shape extending in an axial direction and being fixed to a surface of the rotor holder, directed radially inward, and permanent magnets bonded to an inner circumferential surface of the rotor core and side by side in a circumferential direction. The rotor core includes projection portions projecting radially inward from the inner circumferential surface of the rotor core. One or more of the projection portions are in a gap between the permanent magnets adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. Each of the projection portions has an axial length shorter than an axial length of each of the permanent magnets.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Takemoto, Tomoya Ueda, Mitsuhiro Takemoto, Yusuke Isogai
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Patent number: 11933316Abstract: A blower includes a moving blade rotatable about a central axis, a motor to rotate the moving blade, a housing, and a substrate. The housing includes a holding portion below the moving blade to hold the motor, and a peripheral wall portion having a cylindrical shape extending upward from a radially outer end portion of the holding portion. The peripheral wall portion includes a peripheral wall recess recessed downward from an upper end of the peripheral wall portion and connecting a space radially inside and a space radially outside of the peripheral wall portion. The peripheral wall recess includes a first peripheral surface that opposes one circumferential direction opposite to a rotation direction of the moving blade, the first peripheral surface extending from an upper end of the peripheral wall recess toward a lower side of the peripheral wall portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuta Tokuno, Hideki Aoi
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Patent number: 11936267Abstract: A blower apparatus includes a rotor, a stator, a circuit board, and a resin portion which covers the stator and the circuit board. The stator includes a conductive pin which protrudes downward from a stator core and is connected to a conducting wire to electrically connect the coil and the circuit board. The resin portion includes a first resin portion which covers the stator core and the coil, a second resin portion which covers the circuit board, and a third resin portion which is between the first resin portion and the second resin portion and covers the conductive pin. At least a portion of an outer peripheral surface of the third resin portion which intersects with an extension line extending from a center axis to the conductive pin is on a radially outer side away from the first resin portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yukinobu Shiraishi, Takashi Uchino
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Patent number: 11936276Abstract: A motor assembly includes a motor, an electric pump to supply oil to the motor, an inverter assembly connected to the motor, and a first wire harness and a second wire harness. The inverter assembly includes an inverter to convert a high-voltage direct current into an alternating current and supply the alternating current to the motor, and a controller to control the inverter and the electric pump. The first wire harness electrically connects an external power supply and the inverter assembly, and passes a low-voltage power supply line. The low-voltage power supply line is, at a branch point, branched into a controller power supply line to supply drive power to the controller and a pump power supply line to supply drive power to the electric pump.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Keisuke Fukunaga, Yohei Miyata, Hironobu Kumagai
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Patent number: 11937400Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a first heat dissipator, a second heat dissipator, a first tank connected to one side of each of the first heat dissipator and the second heat dissipator in a first direction, and a second tank connected to another side in the first direction. A coolant flows through an inside of the first heat dissipator, the second heat dissipator, the first tank, and the second tank. The first tank includes a tank-side first outflow port through which the coolant flows out to a first cooling device, and a tank-side first inflow port through which the coolant from the first cooling device flows in. The second tank includes a tank-side second outflow port through which the coolant flows out to a second cooling device, and a tank-side second inflow port through which the coolant from the second cooling device flows in.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Naoyuki Takashima, Takehito Tamaoka, Toshihiko Tokeshi