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).

  • Patent number: 11221044
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Kojima, Katsuyuki Harada, Naoki Masuda, Hironori Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 11181149
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Jtekt Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Kojima, Katsuyuki Harada, Naoki Masuda, Hironori Hiraoka
  • Publication number: 20210108681
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke KOJIMA, Katsuyuki HARADA, Naoki MASUDA, Hironori HIRAOKA
  • Publication number: 20210095721
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke KOJIMA, Katsuyuki HARADA, Naoki MASUDA, Hironori HIRAOKA
  • Patent number: 8991359
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Hamada, Hiroshi Ueno, Isao Usuki, Hironori Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 8714832
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Usuki, Hiroshi Ueno, Hirosato Nakanishi, Masashi Sakaguchi, Kazuki Hamada, Hironori Hiraoka
  • Publication number: 20130239727
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Hamada, Hiroshi Ueno, Isao Usuki, Hironori Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 8393801
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Jtekt Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Hamada, Hiroshi Ueno, Isao Usuki, Hironori Hiraoka
  • Publication number: 20120321237
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Usuki, Hiroshi Ueno, Hirosato Nakanishi, Masashi Sakaguchi, Kazuki Hamada, Hironori Hiraoka
  • Publication number: 20120321234
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Usuki, Hiroshi Ueno, Hirosato Nakanishi, Masashi Sakaguchi, Kazuki Hamada, Hironori Hiraoka
  • Publication number: 20120174882
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Hamada, Hiroshi Ueno, Isao Usuki, Hironori Hiraoka, Kotaro Yamashita, Hiroshi Satou, Takaaki Ikeda, Ryo Oonishi
  • Publication number: 20120141060
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki HAMADA, Hiroshi UENO, Isao USUKI, Hironori HIRAOKA
  • Publication number: 20120073533
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Hamada, Hiroshi Ueno, Isao Usuki, Kunio Yanai, Hironori Hiraoka, Kotaro Yamashita, Hiroshi Satou, Takaaki Ikeda, Ryo Oonishi