Patents Assigned to Alloy Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20140199198
    Abstract: An internal gear pump includes an inner rotor having n teeth and an outer rotor having (n+1) teeth. A tooth profile of the inner rotor is an envelope of a group of locus circles (13) each having a diameter C and having a center on a trochoidal curve (T), the trochoidal curve being drawn along a locus of a fixation point, which is located distant from a center of a rolling circle (12) by e, when the rolling circle (12) rolls along a base circle (11) without sliding. A tooth profile of the outer rotor is an envelope of a group of tooth-profile curves of a formation inner rotor, the envelope being obtained by first drawing the formation inner rotor in which a diameter of the locus circle (13) is equal to C? determined from expression (C?t), revolving a center (OI) of the formation inner rotor by one lap along a circle (S) having a diameter (2e) and centered on a center (OO) of the outer rotor, and rotating the formation inner rotor 1/n times during the revolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Uozumi, Toshiyuki Kosuge
  • Publication number: 20140191839
    Abstract: A compact 10 is obtained by compression-molding coated soft magnetic particles covered with insulating coatings, and is a modified frustum body having, as a main body, a frustum portion 113 sandwiched between plate-shaped portions 111 and 112 arranged in opposing relation. A vertical cross-section of the compact 10 is made up of a trapezoidal surface 113s, a long-side rectangular surface 111s joining to a long side of the trapezoidal surface 113s, and a short-side rectangular surface 112s joining to a short side of the trapezoidal surface 113s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sato, Masato Uozumi, Koji Yamaguchi, Kazushi Kusawake
  • Patent number: 8632323
    Abstract: A gear pump rotor is provided including a combination of an inner rotor and an outer rotor whose numbers of teeth are different by one, and the discharge amount of the pump is increased by an increase of the tooth depth. At least one of an addendum curve and a dedendum curve of an inner rotor is formed by a locus of one point on formation circles that satisfy moving conditions that the formation circles move from moving start points to moving end points while changing the distances from an inner rotor center to the centers of the formation circles. The centers of the formation circles move by a distance in the radial direction of a base circle, and the formation circles rotate by an angle at a constant angular velocity in the same directions of the moving directions of the formation circles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Uozumi, Harumitsu Sasaki, Kentaro Yoshida, Yuichirou Egami
  • Publication number: 20130322135
    Abstract: A low-loss compact and a method for producing the compact are provided. A method for producing a compact by using coated soft magnetic powder that includes coated soft magnetic particles constituted by soft magnetic particles and insulating coatings coating outer peripheries of the soft magnetic particles includes a raw material preparation step and an irradiation step. In the raw material preparation step, a raw compact is prepared by press-forming coated soft magnetic powder. In the irradiation step, part of a surface of the raw compact is irradiated with a laser. Irradiating a part of a surface of a raw compact with laser increases the number of disrupted portions of conductive portions where constituent materials of the soft magnetic particles at the surface of the raw compact have become conductive to each other, and the loss of the compact can be decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushi Kusawake, Masato Uozumi, Atsushi Sato, Koji Yamaguchi, Mamoru Ono, Hiroyuki Murase, Kazuo Nakamae
  • Publication number: 20130271256
    Abstract: A method includes a step of compacting an insulation-coated pure iron powder or an iron-based alloy powder mainly containing iron using a die to obtain a dust core, a step of heat-treating the obtained dust core, and a step of post-machining at least one portion of the heat-treated dust core using a grinding wheel. In the post-machining step, grinding is performed in such a manner that the dust core and the grinding wheel are rotated, whereby isotropic machining marks are formed on a machined surface of the dust core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ueno, Yoshiyuki Shimada
  • Publication number: 20130127574
    Abstract: When an outer core that is to be mounted on a reactor is seen in plan, the outer core is a compact that has a plan-view shape in which a side of the outer core that is opposite to a facing side of the outer core, which faces the inner cores, has a smaller dimension in a width direction, which is parallel to a facing surface, than the facing side of the outer core. A method of manufacturing such an outer core includes a preparing step and a compacting step. In the preparing step, coated soft magnetic powder including multiple coated soft magnetic particles formed by coating soft magnetic particles with insulating coated films is prepared as raw-material powder of the outer core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Uozumi, Atsushi Sato, Kazushi Kusawake
  • Publication number: 20130038420
    Abstract: Provided are a green compact from which a low-loss core can be formed, a method of manufacturing the green compact, and a core for a reactor using the green compact. Parts of outer circumferential surfaces of green compacts 41 and 42 are molded with an inner peripheral surface of a through hole 10hA of a die 10A, and the other parts are molded with an outer circumferential surface of a core rod 13A that is inserted and disposed in the through hole 10hA. A raw-material powder P, which is a coated soft magnetic powder, is fed into compacting spaces 31 and 32 and pressurized by using a lower punch 12 (first punch) and an upper punch 11 (second punch). Then, the green compacts 41 and 42 are removed from the compacting spaces 31 and 32 by moving the die 10A with respect to the green compacts 41 and 42 without moving the core rod 13A with respect to the green compacts 41 and 42.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Uozumi, Atsushi Sato, Kazushi Kusawake
  • Patent number: 8241518
    Abstract: A soft magnetic material includes a plurality of composite magnetic particles including a metal magnetic particle and an insulating film surrounding a surface of the metal magnetic particle. The insulating film also contains a phosphate. The soft magnetic material further includes an aromatic polyetherketone resin and a metallic soap and/or an inorganic lubricant having a hexagonal crystal structure. The metallic soap and the inorganic lubricant are particles with an average particle size of not more than 2.0 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Denso Corporation, Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto Igarashi, Takao Nishioka, Yoshiyuki Shimada, Tsuyoshi Akao
  • Publication number: 20120177525
    Abstract: An object is to meet the demands for increasing the number of teeth of a rotor in an internal gear pump while maintaining a theoretical discharge amount by using an equivalent body configuration so as to enhance the pump performance relating to discharge pulsation due to the increased number of teeth. In a pump rotor 1 formed by combining of an inner rotor (2) having N teeth and an outer rotor (3) having (N+1) teeth and disposing the rotors eccentrically relative to each other, the relational expression ?Dma <1.7e·sin(?/180)/sin {?/(180·N)} is satisfied, ?Dmax being a maximum value of a working pitch diameter of the inner rotor (2) and the outer rotor (3), and a working position (G) of the inner rotor (2) and the outer rotor (3) is always located rearward of an eccentric axis (CL) in a rotating direction of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Uozumi, Harumitsu Sasaki, Kentaro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8051566
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rigid internal gear of a wave gear device in which an internally toothed portion formed with internal teeth and a gear main body portion are joined integrally, the method including preforming an internal teeth-forming ring or disc for forming the internally toothed portion by using a first aluminum alloy powder; manufacturing a forging in which the internal teeth-forming ring or disc is placed in a forging die and is integrally formed on its outer side with the gear main body portion using a second aluminum alloy powder, the first aluminum alloy powder being harder and having higher abrasion resistance than the second aluminum alloy powder; and applying post-processing including cutting teeth to the forging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignees: Harmonic Drive Systems, Inc., Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Kobayashi, Toshihiko Kaji
  • Publication number: 20100229395
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rigid internal gear of a wave gear device in which an internally toothed portion formed with internal teeth and a gear main body portion are joined integrally, the method including preforming an internal teeth-forming ring or disc for forming the internally toothed portion by using a first aluminum alloy powder; manufacturing a forging in which the internal teeth-forming ring or disc is placed in a forging die and is integrally formed on its outer side with the gear main body portion using a second aluminum alloy powder, the first aluminum alloy powder being harder and having higher abrasion resistance than the second aluminum alloy powder; and applying post-processing including cutting teeth to the forging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicants: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS, INC., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru KOBAYASHI, Toshihiko Kaji
  • Publication number: 20100209276
    Abstract: Flexibility is given in setting the tooth depth and the number of teeth of a pump rotor including a combination of an inner rotor and an outer rotor whose numbers of teeth are different by one, and the discharge amount of the pump is increased by the increase of the tooth depth. At least one of an addendum curve and a dedendum curve of an inner rotor (2) is formed by a locus of one point (j) on formation circles (B, C) that satisfy moving conditions that the formation circles (B, C) move from moving start points (Spa, Spb) to moving end points (Lpa, Lpb) while changing the distances from an inner rotor center (OI) to the centers of the formation circles, the centers of the formation circles move by a distance (R) in the radial direction of a base circle (A) during this, and the formation circles (B, C) rotate by an angle ? at a constant angular velocity in the same directions of the moving directions of the formation circles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Uozumi, Harumitsu Sasaki, Kentaro Yoshida, Yuichirou Egami
  • Patent number: 7748118
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a rigid internal gear for a wave gear device comprising an internally toothed portion and a gear main body portion comprised of different materials. In this method, a gear main body ring for forming a gear main body portion is preformed using a first aluminum alloy powder; an internal teeth-forming ring is preformed using a second aluminum alloy powder that has lower processability, is less durable, has higher abrasion resistance, and is harder than the first aluminum alloy powder; the internal teeth-forming ring is fitted inside the gear main body ring and the assembly is integrated by powder forging; and the resulting ring-shaped forging is subjected to post-processing, including cutting teeth. The gear main body portion and internally toothed portion are securely integrated by powder forging, and a lightweight rigid internal gear with high durability can therefore be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignees: Harmonic Drive Systems Inc., Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Kobayashi, Toshihiko Kaji
  • Patent number: 7716838
    Abstract: An outer ring of a cross roller bearing is a composite component having an outer ring main body portion constructed of a lightweight metal alloy and a raceway surface formation portion linked to an inner side thereof and constructed of a ferrous material. A ring for forming the raceway surface formation portion is preformed, and is inserted into a forging die, powder forging is performed using a metal powder for manufacturing the outer ring main body portion, a composite component is manufactured in which a ringshaped portion for forming the outer ring main body portion is integrally formed with the raceway surface formation ring, and an after-treatment is performed on the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignees: Harmonic Drive Systems, Inc., Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Kobayashi, Toshihiko Kaji
  • Publication number: 20090197782
    Abstract: A soft magnetic material includes a plurality of composite magnetic particles including a metal magnetic particle and an insulating film surrounding a surface of the metal magnetic particle. The insulating film also contains a phosphate. The soft magnetic material further includes an aromatic polyetherketone resin and a metallic soap and/or an inorganic lubricant having a hexagonal crystal structure. The metallic soap and the inorganic lubricant are particles with an average particle size of not more than 2.0 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., DENSO CORPORATION, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Igarashi, Takao Nishioka, Yoshiyuki Shimada, Tsuyoshi Akao
  • Patent number: 7429337
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for removing an area of a layer of a component consisting of metal or a metal compound. According to prior art, corrosion products of a component are removed in a first step by applying a molten mass or by heating in a voluminous powder bed. This requires high temperatures or a large amount of space. The inventive method for removing corrosion products of a component is characterized in that a cleaning agent is applied locally, which removes the corrosion products by means of a gaseous reaction product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignees: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Diffusion Alloys, Ltd.
    Inventors: Norbert Czech, Andre Jeutter, Adrian Kempster, Ralph Reiche, Rolf Wilkenhöner
  • Patent number: 7407373
    Abstract: An inner motor is structured to increase the discharge rate of an internal gear pump by making it possible to freely adjust the eccentricity e between the inner and outer rotors. Each tooth of the inner rotor includes a tooth bottom defined by hypocycloidal curves, an engaging portion to be brought into engagement with the outer rotor and defined by involute curves, and a tooth top defined by a predetermined curve such as a part of a circle or an oval or an epicycloidal curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Ogata, Naoki Inui, Shinya Arinaga
  • Patent number: 7258812
    Abstract: A compound magnetic material having high heat resistance is provided. A fabrication method of a compound magnetic material includes the step of preparing mixed powder including an organic resin and compound magnetic particles. The long-period heat resistance temperature of the organic resin is at least 200° C. The containing ratio of the organic resin to the compound magnetic particles exceeds 0 mass % and not more than 0.2 mass %. The compound magnetic particle includes a metal magnetic particles, and a coat layer containing metal oxide, directly bound to the surface of the metal magnetic particle. The fabrication method of a compound magnetic material includes the steps of forming a compact by introducing mixed powder into a die having a lubricant applied to its surface and conducting warm-compacting, and applying heat treatment to the compact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Shimada, Hitoshi Oyama, Takao Nishioka
  • Publication number: 20070158003
    Abstract: This invention provides a heat-resistant, high-toughness aluminum alloy which has a good balance between strength and ductility at a temperature from room temperature to around 300 degrees C. and has a high fracture toughness, a method of manufacturing the same, and engine parts. The heat-resistant, high-toughness aluminum alloy of this invention contains 10 to 16 mass. % of silicon, 1 to 3 mass % of iron, 1 to 2 mass % of nickel, 0.5 to 2 mass % in total of one or more selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconium, chromium and vanadium, 0.6 to 3 mass % of copper, and 0.2 to 2 mass % of magnesium, the balance being essentially aluminum, and is obtained by densifying aluminum alloy powder prepared by gas atomizing. The silicon has an average grain diameter of 4 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2004
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC SINTERED ALLOY, LTD., KABUSHIKI KAISHA HONDA GIJUTSU KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Terukazu Tokuoka, Toshihiko Kaji, Hiroyuki Horimura, Tomoo Oka
  • Patent number: 7138065
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for removing an area of a layer of a component consisting of metal or a metal compound. According to prior art, corrosion products of a component are removed in a first step by applying a molten mass or by heating in a voluminous powder bed. This requires high temperatures or a large amount of space. The inventive method for removing corrosion products of a component is characterized in that a cleaning agent is applied locally, which removes the corrosion products by means of a gaseous reaction product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignees: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Diffusion Alloys Ltd.
    Inventors: Norbert Czech, Andre Jeutter, Adrian Kempster, Ralph Reiche, Rolf Wilkenhöner