Patents by Inventor Hiroki Kuratani
Hiroki Kuratani has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11434911Abstract: A pump device is provided. In the pump device, in a first wall portion of an insulator configured to surround an inner partition wall portion arranged on an inner peripheral side of a stator core and to prevent a winding of a driving coil from collapsing, there is provided a first notch cut out from an end surface on a Z2 direction side of the first wall portion toward a Z1 direction side. And, in a second wall portion of an insulator configured to surround an inner partition wall portion and to prevent a winding of a driving coil from collapsing, there is provided a second notch cut out from an end surface on a Z1 direction side of the second wall portion toward a Z2 direction side.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Noboru Otsuki, Hiroki Kuratani
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Patent number: 11342807Abstract: A motor may include a rotor provided with a rotating shaft that protrudes to a first side in an axial direction; a stator disposed on an outer peripheral side of the rotor; a resin sealing member that covers the stator; and a cover member that is disposed on the first side of the resin sealing member and supports the rotating shaft. The cover member may include a plurality of gate marks disposed at different angular positions and a plurality of ribs that protrude to a second side in the axial direction. The ribs may be disposed at positions where each midpoint between the gate marks adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction overlap with an axis of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Harada, Hiroki Kuratani, Takashi Yamamoto, Nobuki Kokubo
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Patent number: 11333152Abstract: A pump device may include a motor, an impeller to turn by use of drive power of the motor, and a circuit board for controlling the motor; the pump device being able to become low-profile in an axial direction of a turning center shaft as a turning center of the impeller. In a pump device, there are formed a wall part surrounding a circuit board and a substrate contacting surface, which contacts a lower surface of the circuit board in order to locate circuit board, in a pump case. In the wall part, there is shaped a cutout part that is cut out downward from an upper end surface of the wall part, and meanwhile a leading wire, whose one end side is soldered to the circuit board, passes through the cutout part in such a way as to be drawn out to an outer side of the wall part. In the pump device, a cutout bottom part, which is a lower end part of the cutout part, and the leading wire do not contact each other so as to be detached from each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroki Kuratani
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Patent number: 11303180Abstract: A motor may include a rotor including a rotating shaft that protrudes to a first side in an axial direction; a stator disposed on an outer peripheral side of the rotor; a resin sealing member that covers the stator; and a cover member that is disposed on the first side of the resin sealing member and supports the rotating shaft. The resin sealing member may include a resin sealing member side position regulating surface that makes contact in the axial direction with a cover member side position regulating surface provided on the cover member, and a resin sealing member side securing surface that faces, in the axial direction and with a gap, a cover member side securing surface provided on the cover member. At least a portion of the resin sealing member side securing surface is secured to the cover member side securing surface via an adhesive agent layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Hiroki Kuratani, Nobuki Kokubo, Masaki Harada
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Patent number: 11286940Abstract: A pump device is provided. In the pump device, a bottom portion of a case body with a suction port formed therein is provided with a through-hole through which a fluid sucked through the suction port passes, and the case body is provided with a shaft holding portion holding the lower end of the fixed shaft and a plurality of connection portions disposed with a space interposed therebetween in the circumferential direction of the rotor so as to surround the through-hole and connecting the shaft holding portion and the bottom portion. The upper end side of the connection portion is provided with a protrusion protruding upward beyond the upper end surface of the shaft holding portion, and at least one of the protrusions is a rotation preventing portion that prevents rotation of the thrust bearing in the circumferential direction of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Noboru Otsuki, Hiroki Kuratani
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Patent number: 11268517Abstract: To provide a pump device configured such that the impeller can be prevented from being moved toward a case body by which a pump chamber is defined. An impeller is arranged in a pump chamber defined by a case body and an end wall portion of a motor. The impeller includes back blades protruding from a shroud toward the end wall portion of the motor. When the impeller is driven to circulate fluid through the pump chamber, a fluid is drawn out by the back blades from a clearance between the impeller and the end wall portion of the motor. Therefore, the impeller is moved by the negative pressure toward the end wall portion of the motor. The back blades function as a suction power generation mechanism configured to generate suction power sucking the impeller toward the end wall portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuki Kokubo, Hiroki Kuratani, Takashi Yamamoto, Masaki Harada
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Patent number: 11088584Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a stator having coils, a connector for supplying electrical power to the coils, and a resin sealing member. The resin sealing member comprises an opposite-to-output side sealing part and a connector sealing part covering the connector. The connector comprises a frame part into which the cable side connector is to be inserted, and the opposite-to-output side sealing part comprises a first protruded part and a second protruded part. A tip end face of the first protruded part and a tip end face of the second protruded part are located on one imaginary face intersecting the rotation center line, a tip end on the opposite-to-output side of the frame part is located on the output side with respect to the imaginary face, and the second protruded part is provided at a position closer to the frame part between the first protruded part and the frame part.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Harada, Hiroki Kuratani, Takashi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11088587Abstract: A motor provided with: a resin sealing member that is made from a resin and that covers a stator; and a cover member that is fixed to the resin sealing member. The protrusions protruding radially outward are formed on the resin sealing member. A part of the cover member on a Z2 direction side thereof is configured as a cylindrical cover section covering the resin sealing member from the outer circumferential side. The cover section has formed therein notch sections, engagement grooves that extend toward one side in the circumferential direction from the ends of the notch sections on a Z1 direction side and with which the protrusions engage, and a stopper restricting movement of the cover member toward the other side in the circumferential direction. The widths of the notch sections are wider than the widths of the protrusions in the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2017Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Kuratani, Takashi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20200200158Abstract: A pump device may include a motor, an impeller to turn by use of drive power of the motor, and a circuit board for controlling the motor; the pump device being able to become low-profile in an axial direction of a turning center shaft as a turning center of the impeller. In a pump device, there are formed a wall part surrounding a circuit board and a substrate contacting surface, which contacts a lower surface of the circuit board in order to locate circuit board, in a pump case. In the wall part, there is shaped a cutout part that is cut out downward from an upper end surface of the wall part, and meanwhile a leading wire, whose one end side is soldered to the circuit board, passes through the cutout part in such a way as to be drawn out to an outer side of the wall part. In the pump device, a cutout bottom part, which is a lower end part of the cutout part, and the leading wire do not contact each other so as to be detached from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventor: Hiroki KURATANI
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Publication number: 20200195080Abstract: A motor may include a rotor provided with a rotating shaft that protrudes to a first side in an axial direction; a stator disposed on an outer peripheral side of the rotor; a resin sealing member that covers the stator; and a cover member that is disposed on the first side of the resin sealing member and supports the rotating shaft. The cover member may include a plurality of gate marks disposed at different angular positions and a plurality of ribs that protrude to a second side in the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2018Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Masaki HARADA, Hiroki KURATANI, Takashi YAMAMOTO, Nobuki KOKUBO
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Patent number: 10658894Abstract: A rotor may include a rotation shaft, a magnet on an outer peripheral side, a holding member holding the rotation shaft and the magnet, and a plurality of recessed parts provided in an end face of the magnet in an axial line direction of the rotation shaft so as to be separated from each other in a circumferential direction. A surface of each of the recessed parts is formed in a spherical shape, the holding member has a flange portion which covers the end face of the magnet from an end on an inner peripheral side of the end face of the magnet to an outer peripheral side with respect to the plurality of the recessed parts, and the flange portion is adhered to the surfaces of the recessed parts.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Kuratani, Takashi Yamamoto, Nobuki Kokubo, Masaki Harada
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Publication number: 20200052563Abstract: A motor may include a rotor; a stator disposed on an outer peripheral side of the rotor; and a resin sealing member covering the stator. The stator may include a stator core; a coil wound around the stator core; and a connector disposed on an outer peripheral side of the stator core. The resin sealing member may include a connector sealing part protruding to the outer peripheral side of the stator core and covering the connector. The connector may include a connection opening through which an external connector is attached and detached, and the connection opening protrudes in an axial direction of the rotor from the connector sealing part and is opened in the direction of the axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2018Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Masaki HARADA, Hiroki KURATANI, Nobuki KOKUBO, Takashi YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20200052535Abstract: A motor may include a rotor comprising a rotating shaft and a bearing component structured to rotatably support. The bearing component may include a sliding surface that the rotor sliding-contacts from a first side in an axial direction. The rotor may include a holding member structured to hold the rotating shaft from an outer circumferential side; a magnet held by the holding member; and a metal component fixed to the rotating shaft and held by the holding member so as to protrude to the outer circumferential side from the rotating shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2018Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Masaki HARADA, Hiroki KURATANI
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Publication number: 20200021162Abstract: A motor may include a rotor including a rotating shaft and a magnet a bearing member; a stator including a plurality of coils arranged on the rotor; and a resin sealing member. The resin sealing member may include a bottom portion that covers the bearing member and the plurality of coils from a first direction side along an axis of the rotating shaft. The bottom portion may include a cylindrical bearing support section which surrounds the bearing member from an outer peripheral side in a radial direction, a coil sealing section positioned on the first direction side of the coils, and a connection section that connects between the bearing support section and the coil sealing section. A thickness of the connection section in an axial direction may be smaller than a thickness of the bearing support section and the coil sealing section.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2018Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventors: Nobuki KOKUBO, Takashi YAMAMOTO, Hiroki KURATANI, Masaki HARADA
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Publication number: 20200021161Abstract: A motor may include a rotor including a rotating shaft that protrudes to a first side in an axial direction; a stator disposed on an outer peripheral side of the rotor; a resin sealing member that covers the stator; and a cover member that is disposed on the first side of the resin sealing member and supports the rotating shaft. The resin sealing member may include a resin sealing member side position regulating surface that makes contact in the axial direction with a cover member side position regulating surface provided on the cover member, and a resin sealing member side securing surface that faces, in the axial direction and with a gap, a cover member side securing surface provided on the cover member. At least a portion of the resin sealing member side securing surface is secured to the cover member side securing surface via an adhesive agent layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2018Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventors: Takashi YAMAMOTO, Hiroki KURATANI, Nobuki KOKUBO, Masaki HARADA
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Publication number: 20200021160Abstract: A motor may include a rotor; and a stator arranged on an outer peripheral side of the rotor. The stator may include a stator core, a plurality of insulators covering the stator core, a coil wound around the stator core through each of the insulators, and a common wire formed of a conductive wire drawn from the coil. At least one of the plurality of insulators includes a first common wire support portion configured to support the common wire from an outside in a radial direction. The first common wire support portion extends inward in the radial direction toward a tip end side of the common wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2018Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventors: Hiroki KURATANI, Takashi YAMAMOTO, Nobuki KOKUBO, Masaki HARADA
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Publication number: 20190280552Abstract: A motor provided with: a resin sealing member that is made from a resin and that covers a stator; and a cover member that is fixed to the resin sealing member. The protrusions protruding radially outward are formed on the resin sealing member. A part of the cover member on a Z2 direction side thereof is configured as a cylindrical cover section covering the resin sealing member from the outer circumferential side. The cover section has formed therein notch sections, engagement grooves that extend toward one side in the circumferential direction from the ends of the notch sections on a Z1 direction side and with which the protrusions engage, and a stopper restricting movement of the cover member toward the other side in the circumferential direction. The widths of the notch sections are wider than the widths of the protrusions in the circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2017Publication date: September 12, 2019Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki KURATANI, Takashi YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20190249673Abstract: A pump device is provided. In the pump device, in a first wall portion of an insulator configured to surround an inner partition wall portion arranged on an inner peripheral side of a stator core and to prevent a winding of a driving coil from collapsing, there is provided a first notch cut out from an end surface on a Z2 direction side of the first wall portion toward a Z1 direction side. And, in a second wall portion of an insulator configured to surround an inner partition wall portion and to prevent a winding of a driving coil from collapsing, there is provided a second notch cut out from an end surface on a Z1 direction side of the second wall portion toward a Z2 direction side.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2019Publication date: August 15, 2019Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Noboru OTSUKI, Hiroki KURATANI
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Publication number: 20190249672Abstract: A pump device is provided. In the pump device, a bottom portion of a case body with a suction port formed therein is provided with a through-hole through which a fluid sucked through the suction port passes, and the case body is provided with a shaft holding portion holding the lower end of the fixed shaft and a plurality of connection portions disposed with a space interposed therebetween in the circumferential direction of the rotor so as to surround the through-hole and connecting the shaft holding portion and the bottom portion. The upper end side of the connection portion is provided with a protrusion protruding upward beyond the upper end surface of the shaft holding portion, and at least one of the protrusions is a rotation preventing portion that prevents rotation of the thrust bearing in the circumferential direction of the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2019Publication date: August 15, 2019Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Noboru OTSUKI, Hiroki KURATANI
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Patent number: D928843Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Kuratani, Makoto Hamawaki