Patents by Inventor Hironori Mizuki

Hironori Mizuki 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: 10584742
    Abstract: A rolling bearing includes an outer ring, a plurality of rolling elements, a cage configured to rollably hold the plurality of rolling elements, and a shield. An inner peripheral surface of at least one axial end portion of the outer ring is provided with a large-diameter part, which has a diameter larger than an inner diameter of the outer ring, opens outward in an axial direction, and has an axial width greater than an axial width of the shield. An outer shape surface of the shield is configured by a plurality of circular arcs having a same central angle and equidistantly arranged on a circumference and a plurality of chords connecting adjacent circular arcs each other. The shield is press-fitted and fixed to the large-diameter part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Masaumi Tsukamoto, Hironori Mizuki, Masato Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20190360523
    Abstract: A rolling bearing includes an outer ring, a plurality of rolling elements, a cage configured to rollably hold the plurality of rolling elements, and a shield. An inner peripheral surface of at least one axial end portion of the outer ring is provided with a large-diameter part, which has a diameter larger than an inner diameter of the outer ring, opens outward in an axial direction, and has an axial width greater than an axial width of the shield. An outer shape surface of the shield is configured by a plurality of circular arcs having a same central angle and equidistantly arranged on a circumference and a plurality of chords connecting adjacent circular arcs each other. The shield is press-fitted and fixed to the large-diameter part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: NSK Ltd..
    Inventors: Masaumi TSUKAMOTO, Hironori MIZUKI, Masato NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 9567545
    Abstract: A grease composition for EV/HEV driving motor bearing, containing a diurea thickener of the following formula (A): wherein R1, R2 and R3 are defined, with the ratio of the number of moles of the straight-chain or branched alkyl group having 16 to 20 carbon atoms to the total number of moles of the cyclohexyl group and the straight-chain or branched alkyl group having 16 to 20 carbon atoms, expressed as [((the number of alkyl group)/(the number of cyclohexyl group+the number of alkyl group))×100] being 60 to 80%, and a base oil which has a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 15 to 50 mm2/s and includes a trimethylolpropane ester oil in an amount of 80 mass % or more based on the total base oil mass. The grease composition can exhibit a long bearing lubrication life at high temperature and high speed, and satisfactory low-temperature flowability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignees: NSK LTD., KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Mizuki, Takeshi Maejima, Kenichi Iso, Kazunori Nakagawa, Yutaka Imai, Ryo Aida
  • Patent number: 8998498
    Abstract: A tapered roller bearing improves durability during a state of insufficient lubrication by sufficiently lengthening the time until rotation becomes impossible due to seizure. Oil retaining concave sections, recessed outward in the radial direction, are formed in portions on the inner circumferential surface of a large-diameter rim section of the retainer whose phase in the circumferential direction coincides with the pockets. A portion of the bottom surface of each of the oil retaining concave sections, open to the inside surface of the pocket, face a concave section formed in an end surface on the large-diameter side of tapered roller that is held inside the pocket. When lubrication becomes insufficient, oil remaining in the concave sections is effectively used for lubricating areas of sliding contact between the end surfaces on the large-diameter side and the inside surface in the axial direction of a large-diameter side flange section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Mizuki, Yasuhiro Ishimori, Masahiro Kita, Hiroki Maejima, Kinji Yukawa, Tomoharu Saito, Yingyi Wen
  • Publication number: 20140142012
    Abstract: A grease composition for EV/HEV driving motor bearing, containing a diurea thickener of the following formula (A): wherein R1, R2 and R3 are defined, with the ratio of the number of moles of the straight-chain or branched alkyl group having 16 to 20 carbon atoms to the total number of moles of the cyclohexyl group and the straight-chain or branched alkyl group having 16 to 20 carbon atoms, expressed as [((the number of alkyl group)/(the number of cyclohexyl group+the number of alkyl group))×100] being 60 to 80%, and a base oil which has a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 15 to 50 mm2/s and includes a trimethylolpropane ester oil in an amount of 80 mass % or more based on the total base oil mass. The grease composition can exhibit a long bearing lubrication life at high temperature and high speed, and satisfactory low-temperature flowability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicants: KYODO YUSHI CO., LTD., NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Mizuki, Takeshi Maejima, Kenichi Iso, Kazunori Nakagawa, Yutaka Imai, Ryo Aida
  • Publication number: 20120263405
    Abstract: A tapered roller bearing improves durability during a state of insufficient lubrication by sufficiently lengthening the time until rotation becomes impossible due to seizure. Oil retaining concave sections, recessed outward in the radial direction, are formed in portions on the inner circumferential surface of a large-diameter rim section of the retainer whose phase in the circumferential direction coincides with the pockets. A portion of the bottom surface of each of the oil retaining concave sections, open to the inside surface of the pocket, face a concave section formed in an end surface on the large-diameter side of tapered roller that is held inside the pocket. When lubrication becomes insufficient, oil remaining in the concave sections is effectively used for lubricating areas of sliding contact between the end surfaces on the large-diameter side and the inside surface in the axial direction of a large-diameter side flange section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Mizuki, Yasuhiro Ishimori, Masahiro Kita, Hiroki Maejima, Kinji Yukawa, Tomoharu Saito, Yingyi Wen