Patents by Inventor Kazuyasu Chiba

Kazuyasu Chiba 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: 7946018
    Abstract: An assembly apparatus for assembling a ball screw device includes a support block, a nut arranged in a longitudinal direction, a nut reception base that arranges the nut so that its axial direction towards vertical direction of the assembly apparatus and that supports the nut so as to elevate the nut with respect to the support block, a temporary shaft inserted into an inner diameter side of the nut arranged on the nut reception base and rotatably supported by the support block, an inclined face provided at a forward end portion of the temporary shaft, for guiding balls into the nut raceway groove and a pushing mechanism that has elasticity in the radial direction of the temporary shaft and that pushes balls which are fed into the nut raceway groove by a forward end portion protruding from the outer circumferential face of the temporary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeo Tokura, Kazuyasu Chiba, Zongxuan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20070137349
    Abstract: An assembly apparatus for assembling a ball screw device includes a support block, a nut arranged in a longitudinal direction, a nut reception base that arranges the nut so that its axial direction towards vertical direction of the assembly apparatus and that supports the nut so as to elevate the nut with respect to the support block, a temporary shaft inserted into an inner diameter side of the nut arranged on the nut reception base and rotatably supported by the support block, an inclined face provided at a forward end portion of the temporary shaft, for guiding balls into the nut raceway groove and a pushing mechanism that has elasticity in the radial direction of the temporary shaft and that pushes balls which are fed into the nut raceway groove by a forward end portion protruding from the outer circumferential face of the temporary shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Inventors: Shigeo Tokura, Kazuyasu Chiba, Zongxuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 7089654
    Abstract: There are provided with a ball given quantity supply apparatus for supplying a given quantity of balls to an apparatus using a given quantity of balls such as a bearing, a ball screw and a linear guide, and a method and apparatus for assembling a ball screw apparatus for use in a feed mechanism employed in various machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyasu Chiba, Hiroshi Araki
  • Publication number: 20060112561
    Abstract: There are provided with a ball given quantity supply apparatus for supplying a given quantity of balls to an apparatus using a given quantity of balls such as a bearing, a ball screw and a linear guide, and a method and apparatus for assembling a ball screw apparatus for use in a feed mechanism employed in various machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Inventors: Kazuyasu Chiba, Hiroshi Araki
  • Publication number: 20040103517
    Abstract: There are provided with a ball given quantity supply apparatus for supplying a given quantity of balls to an apparatus using a given quantity of balls such as a bearing, a ball screw and a linear guide, and a method and apparatus for assembling a ball screw apparatus for use in a feed mechanism employed in various machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyasu Chiba, Hiroshi Araki
  • Patent number: 6510609
    Abstract: In a ball bearing having an inner ring and an outer ring independently supported in a relative displacement manner, balls are arranged by placing the balls in an annular space between the inner ring and the outer ring, placing nozzles beside the inner ring and the outer ring, the number of which is at least the same to that of the balls, making each of the nozzles face the opening on one side of the annular space between the inner ring and the outer ring, and causing stream of fluid by each of the nozzles to make the balls move circumferentially, so that the balls are arranged circumferentially with a uniform interval, wherein when the stream is caused by each of the nozzles, one of the inner and outer rings is relatively displaced with reference to the nozzles and the other ring, so that the relationship in position between the nozzles and the balls is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyasu Chiba, Hiroshi Shibazaki
  • Publication number: 20010020330
    Abstract: In a ball bearing having an inner ring and an outer ring independently supported in a relative displacement manner, balls are arranged by placing the balls in an annular space between the inner ring and the outer ring, placing nozzles beside the inner ring and the outer ring, the number of which is at least the same to that of the balls, making each of the nozzles face the opening on one side of the annular space between the inner ring and the outer ring, and causing stream of fluid by each of the nozzles to make the balls move circumferentially, so that the balls are arranged circumferentially with a uniform interval, wherein when the stream is caused by each of the nozzles, one of the inner and outer rings is relatively displaced with reference to the nozzles and the other ring, so that the relationship in position between the nozzles and the balls is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Publication date: September 13, 2001
    Inventors: Kazuyasu Chiba, Hiroshi Shibazaki
  • Patent number: 5678310
    Abstract: A ball bearing is assembled by evenly spacing the balls through the pressurized air which is directed axially to the balls from a plurality of nozzles and agitated by an agitating plate provided adjacent the balls on the side remote from the nozzles, such that the balls are circumferentially moved before evenly spaced apart from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Assignee: NSK Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuyasu Chiba