Patents Assigned to Nidec Tosok Corporation
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Patent number: 11522404Abstract: An electric actuator includes a motor which has a rotor having a motor shaft extending along a central axis and a stator facing the rotor in a radial direction, a motor case for housing the motor, and a deceleration mechanism coupled to one axial side of the motor shaft. The motor case has a case cylinder portion, a lid for covering, and a plurality of screws. The case cylinder portion has a plurality of screw fixing portions. The lid has a top plate portion, an outer cylinder portion which surrounds the case cylinder portion from a radial outer side, an annular groove portion, and a seal member which seals the opening portion of the case cylinder portion. In the lid, an axial thickness of a region which overlaps the annular groove portion as viewed in the axial direction is larger than an axial thickness of the top plate portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Shuichi Kinjo, Hiroshi Shirai, Yutaka Uematsu
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Patent number: 11512774Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor part having a shaft; a pump part that is positioned on one side of the motor part and is driven by the motor part via the shaft and discharges oil; and a control part configured to control an operation of the motor part, wherein the motor part includes a rotor, a stator disposed to face the rotor, and a motor housing, wherein the pump part includes a pump rotor and a pump housing having a housing part, wherein the control part includes a plurality of electronic components and a board, the plurality of electronic components include a heat generating component, wherein the motor housing has a cylindrical part and a plurality of heat dissipating fins that extend from the cylindrical part, wherein the board has a first surface and a second surface, and the heat generating component is mounted on the second surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Shigehiro Kataoka, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11486484Abstract: A motor assembly includes a motor, a housing that accommodates the motor, an inverter electrically connected to the motor, an inverter case that accommodates the inverter, an auxiliary device provided in a lower portion of the housing to oppose a road surface, a wire harness that includes a first connector connected to a connector provided in the inverter case, a second connector connected to a connector provided in the auxiliary device, and an electric wire connecting the first connector and the second connector, and a lower connector cover provided in the lower portion of the housing and covering the second connector from a lower side.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignees: NIDEC CORPORATION, NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Shuhei Nakamatsu, Keisuke Fukunaga, Naohiro Wada, Masumi Mizutani
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Patent number: 11480261Abstract: Provided is an electromagnetic valve capable of preventing damage due to wear while preventing an increase in weight of a valve element. The electromagnetic valve includes a solenoid having a plunger movably supported along an axial direction, a flow path member having a fluid passage flow path and a valve element housing portion, and a valve element disposed in the valve element housing portion and movable along the axial direction together with the plunger. The valve element includes a body part, a valve part that opens and closes the fluid passage flow path as the plunger moves, and a pin in a rod-like shape that passes through the body part along the axial direction. The body part is provided with at least one opening that opens in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction and through which the pin is exposed.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiko Nakanishi, Takashi Takai
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Publication number: 20220320974Abstract: An electric pump includes: a motor including a shaft; a pump mechanism coupled to an axial one side of the shaft; a circuit substrate located outward in a radial direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the shaft, and a housing capable of accommodating the motor and the circuit substrate. The circuit substrate includes a plate surface facing the shaft and following the axial direction. The housing includes a motor housing part, a substrate housing part, a pump housing part, and an attachment plate part located outward in a radial direction. The attachment plate part includes an attachment surface facing the shaft and following the axial direction. The motor and the pump mechanism are located on an inner angle side of an angle at which a third surface including the plate surface and a fourth surface including the attachment surface intersect.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yuzo NAGAI, Shigehiro KATAOKA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 11462963Abstract: An electric pump device includes a motor having a rotor and a stator portions, a pump portion and a housing. The stator portion has a stator core, and coils each having a winding portion and a crossover portion. The housing has a housing body portion having a tubular shape and extending in the axial direction, and a flange portion expanding radially outward from the outer peripheral surface of the housing body portion. The flange portion has an end surface that faces toward one side in the axial direction and is disposed in the axial direction between a first and a second virtual plane. The first and the second virtual planes pass through parts of the stator core, the winding portion, and the crossover portion located respectively closest to one and the other sides in the axial direction and expanding in a direction perpendicular to a central axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi Sakamoto, Koji Higuchi, Kunihiro Kajita, Tomokazu Ikeda
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Patent number: 11431220Abstract: A motor assembly includes a motor, a housing that houses the motor, an inverter that is electrically connected to the motor, an inverter case that houses the inverter and is provided integrally with the housing, a wire harness including a first connector electrically connected to a connector positioned on a side surface of the inverter case, a second connector electrically connected to a connector of the housing, and an electric wire electrically connecting the first connector and the second connector, and a side connector cover provided over the side surface of the inverter case, covering the first connector laterally.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignees: NIDEC CORPORATION, NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Shuhei Nakamatsu, Keisuke Fukunaga, Naohiro Wada, Masumi Mizutani
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Patent number: 11415238Abstract: An electromagnetic valve includes a mover that is able to move in a predetermined direction. The mover includes a valve body part including a valve body base part and an annular elastic body. The valve body base part includes a large diameter part and a small diameter part connected via a step difference. The annular elastic body includes a first contact surface, a second contact surface in contact with a step difference surface in the step difference, and a sealing projecting part that is able to come into contact with a peripheral edge part of an opening part of a first flow path in the predetermined direction. The sealing projecting part surrounds the opening part when seen in the predetermined direction. The sealing projecting part, the second contact surface, and the step difference surface are at least partially superimposed on each other when seen in the predetermined direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiko Nakanishi, Yuji Takada, Hiroki Shimizu, Naoki Tamura
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Patent number: 11408485Abstract: An electric actuator includes a motor with a motor shaft extending along a central axis, a speed reducer connected to the motor shaft, an output portion including an output shaft portion, a rotation detector to detect rotation of the output portion, a case, a first bearing to connect the motor shaft to the output portion to be rotatable with respect to each other, and a second bearing to rotatably support the output portion with respect to the case. A support tubular portion into which the second bearing is fitted is provided at a portion of an inner surface of the case on one side in the axial direction for the speed reducer. The first bearing, the output portion, the second bearing and the support tubular portion overlap each other when seen in a radial direction. At least a portion of the rotation detector faces an outward side of the support tubular portion in the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Shuichi Kinjo, Yutaka Uematsu
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Publication number: 20220243799Abstract: A gearbox and a motor driver having the gearbox are provided. The gearbox includes: a first gear, configured to be rotatable around a first gear shaft parallel to a first direction; a second gear, configured to be rotatable around a second gear shaft parallel to the first gear shaft, and the second gear engages with the first gear, and an outer diameter of the second gear is larger than an outer diameter of the first gear; a parking gear portion, configured to be rotatable around the second gear shaft; a rotation prevention member, configured to be movable between a position where the rotation prevention member is interposed between teeth of the parking gear portion and a position where the rotation prevention member is not interposed between the teeth of the parking gear portion; and a transmission mechanism, configured to transmit a driving force to the rotation prevention member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshihisa OKUHATA
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Patent number: 11401844Abstract: A blow-by gas leak diagnostic device includes a first PCV flow path, a second PCV flow path, a fresh air inlet, a pressure measurement unit, a first valve that opens and closes the first PCV flow path, a second valve that opens and closes the second PCV flow path, a third valve that opens and closes the fresh air inlet, a valve control unit, and a leak diagnosis unit. The valve control unit controls an opening degree of the third valve when a downstream side of an intake manifold with respect to a throttle valve has a negative pressure, and the second valve is in a closed state. The leak diagnosis unit diagnoses presence or absence of a leak in the first PCV flow path on the basis of an inner pressure of the first PCV flow path measured by the pressure measurement unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Chikao Komaki, Ryota Ito
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Patent number: 11398762Abstract: An electric pump device is provided. The electric pump device includes a motor, an inverter substrate electrically connected to the motor, a housing for housing the motor and the inverter substrate, and a pump portion driven by power of the motor. The housing includes a motor housing portion for housing the motor and an inverter housing portion for housing the inverter substrate. The motor housing portion has strut portions which extend inside the inverter housing portion and fixed to the inverter substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Tomohiro Sakata, Chisato Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 11398761Abstract: A motor includes: a housing that accommodates a stator that has a field coil and a rotor; an inverter that is provided in the housing; a voltage boosting circuit that has a reactor provided in the housing; and a coolant flow path that is provided at a position at which the coolant flow path overlaps with the inverter and the voltage boosting circuit in the housing in a diameter direction, and the inverter has a control board that controls a drive current or a drive voltage and a drive element that is provided on the side of the housing with respect to the control board and supplies power to the field coil in accordance with control from the control board.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihisa Okuhata, Tadayuki Hatsuda
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Patent number: 11394275Abstract: A motor unit includes a motor having a motor shaft disposed along a central axis which extends in an axial direction, and a cooling unit which cools the motor, wherein the cooling unit includes a first suction port configured to suction a first refrigerant which cools the motor, a first discharge port configured to discharge the first refrigerant suctioned from the first suction port, a second suction port configured to suction a second refrigerant which cools the first refrigerant by exchanging heat with the first refrigerant, and a second discharge port configured to discharge the second refrigerant suctioned from the second suction port.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshihisa Okuhata
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Patent number: 11378070Abstract: A controller of a motor control device increases a voltage to be applied to a coil based on a control signal calculated from an estimated rotation speed, when the estimated rotation speed becomes equal to or lower than a predetermined rotation speed, increases the voltage to be applied to the coil based on a control signal calculated from an actual rotation speed, in a case where the actual rotation speed is lower than the predetermined rotation speed when the estimated rotation speed becomes higher than the predetermined rotation speed, and decreases the voltage to be applied to the coil based on a control signal calculated from the actual rotation speed, in a case where the actual rotation speed is higher than the predetermined rotation speed when the estimated rotation speed becomes higher than the predetermined rotation speed.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2017Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Kei Sato, Yuichi Hibi, Yasuhiro Shirai
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Publication number: 20220196180Abstract: An electromagnetic valve includes a solenoid having a plunger; a flow path member including a fluid passage flow path having a first flow path, a second flow path, and a relay flow path which is disposed between the first flow path and the second flow path and which connects the first flow path and the second flow path, and a cylindrical space; a valve body movably disposed in the cylindrical space; and a spring which is disposed concentrically with the valve body on an outer peripheral side of the valve body in the cylindrical space and urges the valve body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiko NAKANISHI, Dongming CHEN, Satoshi YABUSHITA
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Patent number: 11362572Abstract: An electronic board includes a board, and includes on the board: a power input part inputting power output from an in-vehicle power supply; a drive circuit driving a drive source; a controller controlling driving of the drive source performed by the drive circuit; and a drive command signal input part inputting a drive command signal transmitted from outside. The electronic board further includes on the board: a drive command signal detection circuit capable of detecting the drive command signal, and controlling whether to supply the power input to the power input part to the controller based on whether the drive command signal is detected; and a voltage varying part varying a voltage from the power input part and outputting a varied voltage to the drive command signal detection circuit.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventor: Yusaku Seki
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Patent number: 11339892Abstract: An electromagnetic valve includes a solenoid having a bobbin, a plunger and a coil; a flow path member having a first flow path, a second flow path, a relay flow path and a valve body housing; a valve body movably disposed in the valve body housing; and a spring disposed in the valve body housing and urging the valve body, wherein the valve body further includes a plurality of guide parts which are provided at different positions along the axial direction and which are guided on an inner wall surface of the valve body housing, and a taper part which is provided between the plurality of guide parts and whose outer diameter decreases toward the one side in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiko Nakanishi, Dongming Chen, Satoshi Yabushita
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Patent number: 11339780Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor including a shaft, a pump driven with the shaft therebetween, and an inverter fixed to a rear side of the motor. The motor includes a motor housing. The inverter includes an inverter housing including a circuit board accommodation portion. The inverter housing includes bus bars that connect coil ends inside the circuit board accommodation portion and extending from the motor and a circuit board to each other. The motor housing includes a bottomed cylindrical shape including a bottom portion on the inverter side. The inverter housing includes a fixed portion that is fixed to the bottom portion. The fixed portion is fixed to the bottom portion using fixing members, and the fixing members are disposed within a region surrounded by bus bars.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2018Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Shigehiro Kataoka, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11333050Abstract: In an electric oil pump, a motor includes a main body including a coil, bus bars electrically connected to lead wires of the coil, and a shaft including a portion on one side in an axial direction protruding from an end of the main body on the one side in the axial direction and connected to a pump, a control board includes a power supply input portion and a power supply output portion and is disposed in a posture in which any one of a first surface and a second surface of the control board lies in the axial direction, the power supply input portion is at an end portion of the control board on the other side in the axial direction, and bus bar terminals are disposed on one side of the main body in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Shigehiro Kataoka