Patents by Inventor Hironori Hiraoka
Hironori Hiraoka 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: 11221044Abstract: A rolling bearing includes: an inner ring; an outer ring; a plurality of rolling elements provided between an inner ring raceway and an outer ring raceway; and a cage that holds the rolling elements at intervals in a circumferential direction. The cage includes an annular portion provided in a first axial direction with respect to the rolling elements, and a plurality of cage bars provided to extend in a second axial direction from the annular portion. The annular portion includes a contact surface that makes sliding contact with a shoulder portion. The cage bars each include a first projecting portion and a second projecting portion. The second projecting portion covers a part of the inner ring raceway on a side of the shoulder portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Keisuke Kojima, Katsuyuki Harada, Naoki Masuda, Hironori Hiraoka
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Patent number: 11181149Abstract: A rolling bearing includes an inner ring, an outer ring, a plurality of balls, and a cage that holds the balls. The cage includes an annular portion and a plurality of cage bars. Each of the balls is received a pocket between each pair of cage bars that is adjacent in the circumferential direction. A portion of the pocket in a second axial direction opens with a dimension that is smaller than a diameter of the balls. The cage bar includes a flat surface that is continuous with an inner peripheral surface of the annular portion, and an inclined surface that extends away from the inner ring toward the second axial direction from the flat surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Jtekt CorporationInventors: Keisuke Kojima, Katsuyuki Harada, Naoki Masuda, Hironori Hiraoka
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Publication number: 20210108681Abstract: A rolling bearing includes an inner ring, an outer ring, a plurality of balls, and a cage that holds the balls. The cage includes an annular portion and a plurality of cage bars. Each of the balls is received a pocket between each pair of cage bars that is adjacent in the circumferential direction. A portion of the pocket in a second axial direction opens with a dimension that is smaller than a diameter of the balls. The cage bar includes a flat surface that is continuous with an inner peripheral surface of the annular portion, and an inclined surface that extends away from the inner ring toward the second axial direction from the flat surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Keisuke KOJIMA, Katsuyuki HARADA, Naoki MASUDA, Hironori HIRAOKA
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Publication number: 20210095721Abstract: A rolling bearing includes: an inner ring; an outer ring; a plurality of rolling elements provided between an inner ring raceway and an outer ring raceway; and a cage that holds the rolling elements at intervals in a circumferential direction. The cage includes an annular portion provided in a first axial direction with respect to the rolling elements, and a plurality of cage bars provided to extend in a second axial direction from the annular portion. The annular portion includes a contact surface that makes sliding contact with a shoulder portion. The cage bars each include a first projecting portion and a second projecting portion. The second projecting portion covers a part of the inner ring raceway on a side of the shoulder portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Keisuke KOJIMA, Katsuyuki HARADA, Naoki MASUDA, Hironori HIRAOKA
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Patent number: 8991359Abstract: An intake camshaft device 1 includes an intake camshaft, a first rolling bearing and a second rolling bearing for rotatably supporting both end parts of the intake camshaft, and a first sliding bearing and a second sliding bearing for rotatably supporting the intake camshaft between the first and second rolling bearings. The first rolling bearing is arranged in a same plane as a rotation plane of a sprocket for an intake cam. In other words, the first rolling bearing is positioned in a plane which is overlapped with a plurality of teeth of the sprocket for the intake cam, and perpendicular to a center axis. The first sliding bearing is disposed adjacent to the first rolling bearing backward in an axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Kazuki Hamada, Hiroshi Ueno, Isao Usuki, Hironori Hiraoka
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Patent number: 8714832Abstract: A conical roller cage that implements a conical roller bearing that is able to suppress torque and that is able to smoothly supply lubricant to a raceway surface includes: a small-diameter annular portion, a large-diameter annular portion having a bore diameter larger than a bore diameter of the small-diameter annular portion, pillar portions that couple the small-diameter annular portion to the large-diameter annular portion and that are located at intervals from each other in a circumferential direction, roller partition wall portions each radially extending from a radial end face of a corresponding one of the pillar portions, and canopy portions each protruding from a radial end portion of a corresponding one the roller partition wall portions, at an opposite side to a side of the pillar portion, toward both sides in the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Isao Usuki, Hiroshi Ueno, Hirosato Nakanishi, Masashi Sakaguchi, Kazuki Hamada, Hironori Hiraoka
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Publication number: 20130239727Abstract: An intake camshaft device 1 includes an intake camshaft, a first rolling bearing and a second rolling bearing for rotatably supporting both end parts of the intake camshaft, and a first sliding bearing and a second sliding bearing for rotatably supporting the intake camshaft between the first and second rolling bearings. The first rolling bearing is arranged in a same plane as a rotation plane of a sprocket for an intake cam. In other words, the first rolling bearing is positioned in a plane which is overlapped with a plurality of teeth of the sprocket for the intake cam, and perpendicular to a center axis. The first sliding bearing is disposed adjacent to the first rolling bearing backward in an axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2011Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuki Hamada, Hiroshi Ueno, Isao Usuki, Hironori Hiraoka
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Patent number: 8393801Abstract: An outer ring has a tapered tubular portion having a tapered raceway surface, a small diameter side extension portion that extends radially outward from a small diameter side edge of the tapered tubular portion, and a large diameter side extension portion that extends from a large diameter side edge of the tapered tubular portion in a direction away from the axis of the outer ring. The small diameter side extension portion and the large diameter side extension portion are larger in thickness than the tapered tubular portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2011Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Jtekt CorporationInventors: Kazuki Hamada, Hiroshi Ueno, Isao Usuki, Hironori Hiraoka
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Publication number: 20120321237Abstract: A conical roller cage that implements a conical roller bearing that is able to suppress torque and that is able to smoothly supply lubricant to a raceway surface includes: a small-diameter annular portion, a large-diameter annular portion having a bore diameter larger than a bore diameter of the small-diameter annular portion, pillar portions that couple the small-diameter annular portion to the large-diameter annular portion and that are located at intervals from each other in a circumferential direction, roller partition wall portions each radially extending from a radial end face of a corresponding one of the pillar portions, and canopy portions each protruding from a radial end portion of a corresponding one the roller partition wall portions, at an opposite side to a side of the pillar portion, toward both sides in the circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2011Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Usuki, Hiroshi Ueno, Hirosato Nakanishi, Masashi Sakaguchi, Kazuki Hamada, Hironori Hiraoka
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Publication number: 20120321234Abstract: In a cage, parallel portions are formed that face a raceway surface of a inner ring in a radial direction and that extend in an axial direction from a small diameter side of a tapered raceway surface toward a side of a large flange part. Grooves extending in the axial direction are formed on inner surfaces of the parallel portions. Between the tapered raceway surface of the inner ring and the inner surfaces of the parallel portions, gaps are formed that allow gear oil to be retained in the grooves through agency of surface tension of the gear oil when the cage is stationary relative to the inner ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2011Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Usuki, Hiroshi Ueno, Hirosato Nakanishi, Masashi Sakaguchi, Kazuki Hamada, Hironori Hiraoka
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Publication number: 20120174882Abstract: Among a plurality of bearings that rotatably support a camshaft (1), the bearing closest to a pulley (P) is a rolling bearing (4), and the other bearings are plain bearings (3). The rolling bearing (4) is formed of a roller bearing portion (5) that has a first outer ring raceway surface (51) and a plurality of cylindrical rollers (53) that roll on the first outer ring raceway surface (51) and a ball bearing portion (6) that is arranged next to the roller bearing portion (5) in an axial direction and that has a second outer ring raceway surface (61) and a plurality of balls (63) that roll on the second outer ring raceway surface (61). The first outer ring raceway surface (51) and the second outer ring raceway surface (61) are formed on the inner peripheral surface (7a) of a single outer ring (7).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2010Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuki Hamada, Hiroshi Ueno, Isao Usuki, Hironori Hiraoka, Kotaro Yamashita, Hiroshi Satou, Takaaki Ikeda, Ryo Oonishi
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Publication number: 20120141060Abstract: An outer ring has a tapered tubular portion having a tapered raceway surface, a small diameter side extension portion that extends radially outward from a small diameter side edge of the tapered tubular portion, and a large diameter side extension portion that extends from a large diameter side edge of the tapered tubular portion in a direction away from the axis of the outer ring. The small diameter side extension portion and the large diameter side extension portion are larger in thickness than the tapered tubular portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2011Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuki HAMADA, Hiroshi UENO, Isao USUKI, Hironori HIRAOKA
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Publication number: 20120073533Abstract: A camshaft device (10) includes a camshaft (11) onto which a cam (18) is fitted; a plurality of rolling bearings (12) that are fitted at intervals in an axial direction onto this camshaft (11); and a support frame (13) that is mounted on a cylinder head (15) of an engine, and that has a plurality of bearing holes (25) which are formed on the same axis and into which the rolling bearings (12) fitted, and that rotatably supports the camshaft (11) via the rolling bearings (12) that are fitted into the bearing holes (25). The support frame (13) is formed by connecting a plurality of split bodies (27), (28) together, and the plurality of split bodies (27), (28) includes a first split body (27) on which a plurality of first concave portions (29) that form half of the bearing holes (25) is integrally formed, and a second split body (28) on which a plurality of second concave portions (30) that form the other half of the bearing holes (25) is integrally formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2010Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuki Hamada, Hiroshi Ueno, Isao Usuki, Kunio Yanai, Hironori Hiraoka, Kotaro Yamashita, Hiroshi Satou, Takaaki Ikeda, Ryo Oonishi