Patents by Inventor Kaoru Hoshide

Kaoru Hoshide 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).

  • Publication number: 20190128330
    Abstract: Provided is a diagnosis method of appropriately recognizing a state of a rolling surface of a track member of a rolling guide device or a lubrication state of rolling elements using a sensor mounted to the rolling guide device. The diagnosis method is applied to a rolling guide device including: a track member having a rolling surface extending along a longitudinal direction of the track member; and a moving member, which is assembled to the track member through intermediation of a plurality of rolling elements configured to roll on the rolling surface so that the moving member is movable along the track member, and has an endless circulation path for the rolling elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hoshide, Toshiro Tojo, Yoshiyuki Honjo, Ryuji Furusawa, Ayako Miyajima
  • Publication number: 20190024713
    Abstract: Provided is a rolling guide device which is capable of directly recognizing an operation condition of a moving member with respect to a track member or a circulation state of rolling elements in an endless circulation path, the rolling guide device including: a track member having a rolling surface; and a moving member, which is assembled to the track member through intermediation of a large number of rolling elements which roll on the rolling surface, and has an endless circulation path for the rolling elements, the moving member including: a main body member having a load rolling surface and a no-load return path for the rolling elements, the load rolling surface being opposed to the rolling surface of the track member to define a load path for the rolling elements, a pair of covers, which have direction change paths for allowing the rolling elements to move between the load path and the no-load return path, and is mounted to the main body member; and a measurement plate, which is interposed at least betwee
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hoshide, Toshiro Tojo, Yoshiyuki Honjo, Ryuji Furusawa, Ayako Miyajima
  • Patent number: 10174787
    Abstract: A motion guide apparatus ensures that a retaining portion retains a rolling element. A rolling element retainer having retaining portions that prevent a rolling element from falling out of a movable body, the retaining portions extending along a loaded rolling element rolling portion, is incorporated in the movable body of the motion guide apparatus. End plates are formed integrally with the retaining portions. Fall prevention portions to reduce the widths of openings between the retaining portions are provided to center parts of the retaining portions in a length direction thereof. The fall prevention portions are padding portions integrated with the retaining portions, the padding portions rising in such a manner as to reduce the widths of the openings, and/or projections integrated with the retaining portions, the projections touching the movable body in such a manner that the center parts of the retaining portions bend toward a track member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Sakai, Kaoru Hoshide, Shigeo Tomita, Yuki Nakamura, Nobuyuki Maki, Muten Iwamoto, Kazuya Horike, Kenji Narata, Katsunori Yamamura, Fukuji Nakano, Shigemi Nakamura, Yosuke Irie
  • Patent number: 10125813
    Abstract: A motion guide apparatus ensures that a retaining portion retains a rolling element. A rolling element retainer having retaining portions that prevent a rolling element from falling out of a movable body, the retaining portions extending along a loaded rolling element rolling portion, is incorporated in the movable body of the motion guide apparatus. End plates are formed integrally with the retaining portions. Fall prevention portions to reduce the widths of openings between the retaining portions are provided to center parts of the retaining portions in a length direction thereof. The fall prevention portions are padding portions integrated with the retaining portions, the padding portions rising in such a manner as to reduce the widths of the openings, and/or projections integrated with the retaining portions, the projections touching the movable body in such a manner that the center parts of the retaining portions bend toward a track member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Sakai, Kaoru Hoshide, Shigeo Tomita, Yuki Nakamura, Nobuyuki Maki, Muten Iwamoto, Kazuya Horike, Kenji Narata, Katsunori Yamamura, Fukuji Nakano, Shigemi Nakamura, Yosuke Irie
  • Publication number: 20180291999
    Abstract: An actuator includes a track member provided with a base extending along a longitudinal direction and a pair of walls erected from opposite ends of the base in a width direction, with rolling-element rolling grooves formed along the longitudinal direction; and a moving member assembled movably along the longitudinal direction between the walls, with respective load rolling-element rolling grooves corresponding to the rolling-element rolling grooves being formed in the moving members; and a screw shaft passed through a through-hole formed in the moving member, with a screw rolling-element rolling groove formed in the screw shaft, the screw rolling-element rolling groove being spiral in shape, wherein the moving member has the nut member attached to the through-hole, with the screw load rolling-element rolling groove corresponding to the screw rolling-element rolling groove formed in the nut, the nut member is assembled via a flange member which includes a lubricant supply device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuto Homma, Kenichi Hasebe, Toshihisa Maeda, Junichi Sakai, Nobuyuki Maki, Kaoru Hoshide
  • Publication number: 20180283449
    Abstract: A motion guide device is formed of: a track member including a base portion extending along a longitudinal direction, and a pair of wall portions erected from both edges of the base portion in a width direction, and having rolling element rolling grooves formed along a longitudinal direction; and a moving member which is assembled in a movable manner along the longitudinal direction between the wall portions, and to which a pair of guide members are assembled, load rolling element rolling grooves which correspond to the rolling element rolling grooves being formed in the guide members, wherein at least either one of the guide members is equipped with a biasing member on a surface of the guide member on a side opposite to a surface of the guide member on which the load rolling element rolling groove is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuto Homma, Kenichi Hasebe, Toshihisa Maeda, Junichi Sakai, Nobuyuki Maki, Kaoru Hoshide
  • Publication number: 20180266484
    Abstract: This slewing bearing includes: an inner ring having an inner-ring-side rolling-element rolling surface on an outer peripheral surface; an outer ring having an ring-side rolling-element rolling surface on an inner peripheral surface, and being arranged outside the inner ring such that the outer-ring-side rolling-element rolling surface faces the inner-ring-side rolling-element rolling surface; and a plurality of rolling elements rollably disposed on a rolling-element rolling passage formed by the inner-ring-side rolling-element rolling surface and the outer-ring-side rolling-element rolling surface. The inner ring or the outer ring is configured to have combination of a press-worked part having a contour shape formed by pressing work, and a removal-processed part including at least the inner-ring-side rolling-element rolling surface or the outer-ring-side rolling-element rolling surface formed by removal processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Sakai, Kaoru Hoshide, Nobuyuki Maki, Masato Ito, Tomoya Ozaki
  • Patent number: 10030700
    Abstract: A guide body can be prevented from being disengaged from a track rail even where the track rail is made of a low-rigidity material, thereby securing reliable movement along the track rail. The guide body includes: a large number of rolling elements that roll on a rolling surface formed along a structure, the guide body being movable relative to the structure; an endless circulation path through which the large number of rolling elements circulate; a load opening portion for allowing the large number of rolling elements in the endless circulation path to be held in contact with the rolling surface of the structure; and a guide portion formed on at least one side of the load opening portion so as to project toward the structure side with respect to projecting ends of the large number of rolling elements projecting from the load opening portion toward the structure side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hoshide, Hiroaki Mochizuki, Hiroomi Kuribayashi, Akito Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20180134182
    Abstract: A seat moving/securing device 10 includes a long reference member 11 extending in a longitudinal direction of a seat installation surface and securely installed, a leg part attachment member 50a having securely installed therein a leg part of a seat, a linear guide 20 attached between the long reference member 11 and the leg part attachment member 50a and enabling the leg part attachment member 50a to move horizontally along a longitudinal direction of the long reference member 11, and a locking mechanism 60 securely installed on the leg part attachment member 50a. A coil spring 68 serving as an elastic body exhibiting a pressing force is installed between the leg part attachment member 50a and the linear guide 20. Due to having this type of configuration, the seat moving/securing device 10 can move and secure a seat 200 easily and quickly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hoshide, Hiroaki Mochizuki, Eiji Hosaka, Hiroomi Kuribayashi, Akito Kaneko, Keisuke Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20180073558
    Abstract: A motion guide apparatus ensures that a retaining portion retains a rolling element. A rolling element retainer having retaining portions that prevent a rolling element from falling out of a movable body, the retaining portions extending along a loaded rolling element rolling portion, is incorporated in the movable body of the motion guide apparatus. End plates are formed integrally with the retaining portions. Fall prevention portions to reduce the widths of openings between the retaining portions are provided to center parts of the retaining portions in a length direction thereof. The fall prevention portions are padding portions integrated with the retaining portions, the padding portions rising in such a manner as to reduce the widths of the openings, and/or projections integrated with the retaining portions, the projections touching the movable body in such a manner that the center parts of the retaining portions bend toward a track member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Sakai, Kaoru Hoshide, Shigeo Tomita, Yuki Nakamura, Nobuyuki Maki, Muten Iwamoto, Kazuya Horiike, Kenji Narata, Katsunori Yamamura, Fukuji Nakano, Shigemi Nakamura, Yosuke Irie
  • Patent number: 9863470
    Abstract: An object is to provide a motion guide apparatus that can facilitate an assembly operation. An end member (4a, 4b) including an inner peripheral side of a direction changing path (2c) is placed on an end surface in a movement direction of a moving member body (3). At least one of a pair of the end members (4a and 4b) includes an opening (21) linking to the inner peripheral side of the direction changing path (2c) to load rolling elements (42) into a circulation path. Opposing surfaces (18) of the pair of the end members (4a and 4b) to the moving member body (3) are formed in flat surfaces. The pair of the end members (4a and 4b) molded integrally with a holding portion (5) is incorporated into the moving member body (3) in a direction orthogonal to the movement direction of the moving member body (3). A lid member (7a, 7b) closes the opening (21) in the end member (4a, 4b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeo Tomita, Junichi Sakai, Nobuyuki Maki, Kaoru Hoshide, Katsunori Yamamura, Muten Iwamoto, Kazuya Horiike, Kenji Narata, Fukuji Nakano, Shigemi Nakamura, Yosuke Irie, Yuki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20170146059
    Abstract: An object is to provide a motion guide apparatus that can facilitate an assembly operation. An end member (4a, 4b) including an inner peripheral side of a direction changing path (2c) is placed on an end surface in a movement direction of a moving member body (3). At least one of a pair of the end members (4a and 4b) includes an opening (21) linking to the inner peripheral side of the direction changing path (2c) to load rolling elements (42) into a circulation path. Opposing surfaces (18) of the pair of the end members (4a and 4b) to the moving member body (3) are formed in flat surfaces. The pair of the end members (4a and 4b) molded integrally with a holding portion (5) is incorporated into the moving member body (3) in a direction orthogonal to the movement direction of the moving member body (3). A lid member (7a, 7b) closes the opening (21) in the end member (4a, 4b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeo Tomita, Junichi Sakai, Nobuyuki Maki, Kaoru Hoshide, Katsunori Yamamura, Muten Iwamoto, Kazuya Horiike, Kenji Narata, Fukuji Nakano, Shigemi Nakamura, Yusuke Irie, Yuki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20150176643
    Abstract: A guide body can be prevented from being disengaged from a track rail even where the track rail is made of a low-rigidity material, thereby securing reliable movement along the track rail. The guide body includes: a large number of rolling elements that roll on a rolling surface formed along a structure, the guide body being movable relative to the structure; an endless circulation path through which the large number of rolling elements circulate; a load opening portion for allowing the large number of rolling elements in the endless circulation path to be held in contact with the rolling surface of the structure; and a guide portion formed on at least one side of the load opening portion so as to project toward the structure side with respect to projecting ends of the large number of rolling elements projecting from the load opening portion toward the structure side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hoshide, Hiroaki Mochizuki, Hiroomi Kuribayashi, Akito Kaneko
  • Patent number: 8486021
    Abstract: Provided is a syringe drive unit (1) which is capable of imparting a fine moving amount to a plunger pressing member (6) when a plunger is pushed into a syringe body using a feed screw mechanism, to thereby eject liquid medicine from the syringe body with high accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hoshide, Hirokazu Tatsuzuki, Takashi Ogata
  • Publication number: 20110301540
    Abstract: Provided is a syringe drive unit (1) which is capable of imparting a fine moving amount to a plunger pressing member (6) when a plunger is pushed into a syringe body using a feed screw mechanism, to thereby eject liquid medicine from the syringe body with high accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hoshide, Hirokazu Tatsuzuki, Takashi Ogata
  • Patent number: 8006579
    Abstract: Provided is an electric linear actuator advantageous in downsizing and weight reduction. The electric linear actuator includes: a housing; a motor held by the housing; a nut member rotatably held with respect to the housing; a screw shaft threadedly engaged with the nut member; a drive shaft directly coupled with the motor; a rotation transmitting member rotatably supported about the drive shaft; a rotary driven member fixed to the nut member and rotated in accordance with the rotation transmitting member; a clutch member to which rotation of the drive shaft is transmitted, and which is provided so as to freely advance and retract in an axial direction of the drive shaft, and in which meshing with the rotation transmitting member is effected at an engagement position, and meshing with the rotation transmitting member is cancelled at a retraction position; and a setting lever capable of setting the clutch member to one of the advance position and the retraction position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroomi Kuribayashi, Kentaro Eto, Kaoru Hoshide
  • Patent number: 7984590
    Abstract: At both sides of a pair of doors 10L, 10R, a pair of television cameras (two-dimensional image sensors) 18A, 18B for detecting a moving object, and a pair of spare infrared ray sensors 20A, 20B are provided. A central control unit 16 calculates the position and moving direction of moving object by image processing of outputs of television cameras 18A, 18B, and predicts the passing position of moving object on the vertical plane P when the moving object approaches, thereby calculating the target opening degree of a pair of doors 10L, 10R individually, and determines the target opening degree of doors in full closing when the moving object leaves away, and thus outputs move command signals to motor controllers 14L, 14R so that the pair of doors 10L, 10R may be set at the target opening degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hoshide, Miki Tobita, Akira Sato
  • Patent number: 7967402
    Abstract: Provided is a slide rail unit which, when accommodating a second rail (2) in a first rail (1), can automatically draw in the second rail to an end position and retain it at that position and which can be produced easily with a small number of parts and at low cost, the slide rail unit being equipped with a retaining pin (30) provided upright so as to be movable with respect to the first rail (1) in the longitudinal direction and the width direction thereof, an elastic member (31) for urging the retaining pin (30) toward the stroke end of the second rail (2), a pin guide member (32) provided on the first rail (1) and adapted to lock the retaining pin (30) at a standby position spaced apart from the stroke end against an urging force of the elastic member (31) and to guide the retaining pin (30) detached from the standby position toward the stroke end with the urging force, and a cam member (33) provided on the second rail (2) and adapted to detach the retaining pin (30) from the standby position of the pin gui
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hoshide, Akira Sato, Soichi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20110065067
    Abstract: Provided is a drive simulator steering capable of offering a feeling of actually driving a car to a player. The steering for drive simulator of the present invention has a first screw shaft which is connectable to a steering wheel and rotatable around an axial line together with the steering wheel; a first nut which is fit on the first screw shaft and moves linearly in an axial direction of the first screw shaft with rotation of the first screw shaft; a second screw shaft which is connectable to a motor, in parallel with the first screw shaft and rotatable around the axial line; and a second nut which is fit on the second screw shaft, moves linearly in an axial direction of the second screw shaft with rotation of the second screw shaft 15 and is connected to the first nut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventors: Shigekazu Tanaka, Kaoru Hoshide, Takashi Ogata
  • Patent number: D789186
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Sakai, Kaoru Hoshide, Nobuyuki Maki, Masato Ito, Tomoya Ozaki