Patents Assigned to Mikuni Corporation
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Patent number: 11646688Abstract: The present invention includes a phase angle detection unit generating a phase angle signal switched at a timing at which a cogging torque generated with the rotation of a rotor of a brushless DC motor reaches near a peak on a negative side hindering the rotation of the rotor, an inverter circuit energizing coils of respective phases of the brushless DC motor by switching elements according to an input of a driving signal, an energization period calculation unit calculating an energization period Tw from a target rotation speed set for the brushless DC motor, and a drive control unit energizing the coils sequentially by outputting the driving signal to the respective switching elements for each energization period, gradually increasing a duty of the driving signals to the switching elements at a start of each energization period, and decreasing the duty after the phase angle signal is switched.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventor: Naoki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11635050Abstract: An intake manifold which can ensure a pressure resistance strength, a mechanical strength, and the like and also reduce a passage resistance and an outboard motor which can be made smaller and thinner in a width direction. A resinous intake manifold made of a resin and configured to be applied to an engine of an outboard motor includes: a surge tank which forms a flat contour and includes an intake inlet; and a plurality of branch pipes which defines intake passages communicating with an internal space of the surge tank, wherein a contour wall of the surge tank includes a plurality of ridge portions which protrudes toward the internal space and is oriented toward the intake passage side.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventor: Hirobumi Oosawa
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Patent number: 11624424Abstract: A rotation driving device includes: a body 10, made of resin, and having an accommodation hole 13 in a cylindrical shape with an axis S as a center; a motor M, comprising a rotor 60 provided in an accommodation hole of the body and rotating around the axis and a rotation shaft 40 integrally rotating around the axis with the rotor and extending in an axial direction; a first bearing B1 fixed to an end side of the body and a second bearing B2 fixed to the other end side of the body in the axial direction, so as to rotatably support the rotation shaft; and a first cover member 110 connected to the one end side of the body and a second cover member 120 connected to the other end side of the body.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventors: Hisashi Shiokawa, Daiki Ihara, Shota Yagoh, Katsushi Takami
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Publication number: 20230075042Abstract: A liquid pump device sucking and discharging liquid includes: a pump unit 50, rotating to make the liquid flow; a housing H, accommodating the pump unit and defining a passage 14 of the liquid; and a temperature sensor 80 having a tip region 80a protruded in the passage 14 of the liquid to measure a temperature of the liquid flowing on the passage 14.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichi MIKAMI, Takeshi OGI, Jun TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20230040215Abstract: An electric oil pump includes: a pump unit 2, rotating to make oil flow; a motor 3 driving the pump unit; a control unit 4 exerting driving control on the motor; and a housing 1 accommodating the pump unit, the motor, and the motor control unit. In the electric oil pump, the motor control unit 4 directly receives detection information of a temperature sensor 5 detecting a temperature of the oil and exerts driving control on the motor based on the detection information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventors: Osamu MIURA, Yasuaki OTA, Takashi DOI
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Patent number: 11569702Abstract: To provide an on-vehicle brushless motor device capable of being downsized with respect to an axial direction of a rotor and a method of manufacturing the same. The on-vehicle brushless motor device 1 includes a brushless motor 10 and an electronic substrate 30. The brushless motor 10 includes a rotor 12 and a stator 16 including a plurality of coils 18 arranged around the rotor 12. The electronic substrate 30 includes a through hole 34 penetrating in the axial direction X of the rotor 12 and includes a substrate body 32 arranged along a plane P intersecting the axial direction X on the side opposite to the output shaft of the brushless motor 10, and a terminal 40 fixed on the surface of the substrate body 32 on the side opposite to the rotor 12. A coil wire 20 of the coil 18 is inserted into the through hole 34 and is welded to the terminal 40 on the opposite side of the rotor 12 with respect to the substrate body 32.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventor: Tadashi Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20220412350Abstract: The present invention provides an oil pump device capable of preventing foreign matters from getting caught at a sliding part of an oil pump, and thus of preventing a situation where the oil pump is locked and prevented from rotating. The oil pump device includes an oil pump connected to a supply target apparatus by a hydraulic circuit, the oil pump discharging and supplying oil to the supply target apparatus through the hydraulic circuit; a motor driving the oil pump; a trapping member interposed along the hydraulic circuit, the trapping member trapping a foreign matter mixed in the oil discharged from the oil pump; and a motor control unit controlling the motor to perform a normal control mode of driving the oil pump in a normal control rotation range and perform, at operational start of the oil pump, a lock-avoiding mode of driving the oil pump with a lock-avoiding rotational speed set in advance as a lower limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventor: Hideaki KUSANAGI
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Patent number: 11527935Abstract: To provide an on-vehicle brushless motor device capable of being downsized with respect to an axial direction of a rotor and a method of manufacturing the same. The on-vehicle brushless motor device 1 includes a brushless motor 10 and an electronic substrate 30. The brushless motor 10 includes a rotor 12 and a stator 16 including a plurality of coils 18 arranged around the rotor 12. The electronic substrate 30 is arranged on a side opposite to an output side of the brushless motor 10 along a plane P intersecting an axial direction X. The on-vehicle brushless motor device 1 further includes a soldering portion 40 that connects a coil wire 20 of the coil 18 and the electronic substrate 30.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventor: Tadashi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11519341Abstract: The present invention provides an intake device and a fuel delivery pipe for a multiple-cylinder engine including a transpiration gas passage or an intake air pressure collecting passage capable of reducing the number of components and improving assembly operability. The intake device and the fuel delivery pipe for a multiple-cylinder engine include: a throttle body including a plurality of bores, each of which communicates with an inside of each cylinder of the engine, and provided with throttle valves for adjusting intake volumes inside the bores in an openable and closable manner; injectors provided in the throttle body and injecting a fuel to the bores; a delivery pipe for supplying the fuel to the injectors; and an intake pipe communication passage connected to an inside of the bores and communicating with the inside of the bores, and the intake pipe communication passage is formed integrally with the delivery pipe.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventor: Yuta Kiku
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Patent number: 11492983Abstract: A transmission mechanism includes: an intermediate shaft secured to a support portion provided in a valve body of an electric throttle valve and disposed in parallel to a motor shaft and a valve shaft; and an intermediate gear rotatably disposed at the intermediate shaft, in which the intermediate gear has a first intermediate gear engaged with a motor gear secured to the motor shaft and a second intermediate gear engaged with a valve gear secured to the valve shaft, the first intermediate gear and the second intermediate gear are integrally configured to be aligned in an axial direction of the intermediate shaft, a hemispherical recessed portion recessed upward around an axial center of the intermediate shaft is formed at a lower end portion of the intermediate gear, and a projecting portion projecting upward in a hemispherical shape around the axial center of the intermediate shaft and supporting the recessed portion is formed in a surface of the support portion facing the recessed portion of the intermediaType: GrantFiled: March 16, 2022Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventors: Yuuhei Sanekata, Keigo Suzuki, Yuusaku Ide, Hiroki Ota
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Publication number: 20220341419Abstract: The disclosure provides a pump device capable of suppressing hydraulic amplitude and reducing noise or vibration associated with hydraulic amplitude while simplifying the structure. The pump device includes: a housing which defines a suction port, a discharge port, and an accommodation chamber; and a pump unit which is arranged in the accommodation chamber and which defines a pump chamber that expands and contracts to exert a pumping action including a suction stroke and a pressurization and discharge stroke on a fluid. The housing includes an air introduction hole that is opened to introduce air into the pump chamber at a predetermined opening timing immediately before the suction stroke is completed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventor: Norio TAKEHANA
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Publication number: 20220325670Abstract: An engine throttle device (1) including a throttle valve (5) supported by a throttle shaft (4) inside a throttle bore (2a, 3a) of a valve body (2, 3) and driven to open and close, and a throttle sensor (11) including an excitation conductor provided at one end of the throttle shaft (4) , and a substrate (15) provided with an exciting conductor (13) and a signal detection conductor (14) to face the excitation conductor includes: an excitation conductor unit (12) including an excitation conductor portion (12a) functioning as the excitation conductor, a sensor-side screw portion (12d) provided on a shaft line of the excitation conductor portion (12a), and a sensor-side abutting surface (12e) surrounding the sensor-side screw portion (12d), the excitation conductor unit (12) being integrally formed of a metal material; a shaft-side screw portion (17) formed at one end (4a) of the throttle shaft (4) and screwed to the sensor-side screw portion (12d); and a shaft--side abutting surface (18) formed at the one end (4Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2019Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshinobu KOMOTO
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Publication number: 20220316560Abstract: A rotation driving device includes: a body 10, made of resin, and having an accommodation hole 13 in a cylindrical shape with an axis S as a center; a motor M, comprising a rotor 60 provided in an accommodation hole of the body and rotating around the axis and a rotation shaft 40 integrally rotating around the axis with the rotor and extending in an axial direction; a first bearing B1 fixed to an end side of the body and a second bearing B2 fixed to the other end side of the body in the axial direction, so as to rotatably support the rotation shaft; and a first cover member 110 connected to the one end side of the body and a second cover member 120 connected to the other end side of the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventors: Hisashi SHIOKAWA, Daiki IHARA, Shota YAGOH, Katsushi TAKAMI
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Publication number: 20220299116Abstract: Provided is an electric throttle valve incorporating a deceleration mechanism in a housing space between a cover including a connector and a valve body with the valve body and the cover laser-welded to seal the housing space, in which the deceleration mechanism includes an intermediate shaft disposed to be parallel to a motor shaft and a valve shaft, a first intermediate gear engaged with a motor gear secured to an end portion of the motor shaft, and a second intermediate gear engaged with a valve gear secured to the valve shaft, the first intermediate gear and the second intermediate gear are disposed to be aligned in an axial direction of the intermediate shaft and are integrally configured, the first intermediate gear is disposed to be closer to the electric motor than the second intermediate gear, and the connector is disposed above the motor shaft and on a side of the second intermediate gear.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventors: Yuuhei SANEKATA, Keigo SUZUKI, Yuusaku IDE, Yuuta TANAKA
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Publication number: 20220298978Abstract: A transmission mechanism includes: an intermediate shaft secured to a support portion provided in a valve body of an electric throttle valve and disposed in parallel to a motor shaft and a valve shaft; and an intermediate gear rotatably disposed at the intermediate shaft, in which the intermediate gear has a first intermediate gear engaged with a motor gear secured to the motor shaft and a second intermediate gear engaged with a valve gear secured to the valve shaft, the first intermediate gear and the second intermediate gear are integrally configured to be aligned in an axial direction of the intermediate shaft, a hemispherical recessed portion recessed upward around an axial center of the intermediate shaft is formed at a lower end portion of the intermediate gear, and a projecting portion projecting upward in a hemispherical shape around the axial center of the intermediate shaft and supporting the recessed portion is formed in a surface of the support portion facing the recessed portion of the intermediaType: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventors: Yuuhei SANEKATA, Keigo SUZUKI, Yuusaku IDE, Hiroki OTA
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Patent number: 11448142Abstract: Provided is an exhaust valve device 1 for a vehicle in which a valve element 7 is supported in an exhaust passage 4 by a rotating shaft 5 axially supported by a valve body 3, a flexible joint member 16 is secured to an output shaft 13a of a motor unit 13 attached to the valve body 3, and a lower end of the flexible joint member 16 and an upper end of the rotating shaft 5 are coupled via a rigid joint member 15, in which the rigid joint member 15 includes: a sealing element 18 having a sealing surface 18a and arm portions 18c, the sealing surface 18a being coupled to one end of the rotating shaft 5 and sealing an axially supported portion of one end of the rotating shaft to prevent exhaust gas from leaking, the arm portions 18c being formed in a periphery of the sealing surface 18a; and a transmission element 19 having a spring groove 19a and engagement grooves 19b, the spring groove 19a being coupled to the end of the flexible joint member 16, the engagement grooves 19b being engaged with the arm portions 18cType: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiaki Ishii, Makoto Koyama, Daisuke Takayama, Naoki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20220290621Abstract: The present invention provides an intake device and a fuel delivery pipe for a multiple-cylinder engine including a transpiration gas passage or an intake air pressure collecting passage capable of reducing the number of components and improving assembly operability. The intake device and the fuel delivery pipe for a multiple-cylinder engine include: a throttle body including a plurality of bores, each of which communicates with an inside of each cylinder of the engine, and provided with throttle valves for adjusting intake volumes inside the bores in an openable and closable manner; injectors provided in the throttle body and injecting a fuel to the bores; a delivery pipe for supplying the fuel to the injectors; and an intake pipe communication passage connected to an inside of the bores and communicating with the inside of the bores, and the intake pipe communication passage is formed integrally with the delivery pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventor: Yuta KIKU
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Patent number: 11408532Abstract: An electromagnetic switching valve includes: a sleeve, defining a port communicating with an oil passage; a spool, reciprocally movably disposed on an axis in the sleeve, opening and closing the port; an electromagnetic actuator, including a plunger disposed on the axis and a stator; a transmission member interposed between the plunger and the spool; and an energizing spring, energizing the spool toward the plunger. The transmission member includes a first abutting part of a convex shape tiltably abutting against a receiving recess of the plunger; a second abutting part of a concave shape abutting against a convex end of the spool; and an outer peripheral wall that, in a state of being deviated from the axis and inclined, regulates the inclination by contacting an inner peripheral surface of the sleeve or the stator.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiki Ogasawara, Masashi Ueda
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Publication number: 20220247268Abstract: A permanent magnet-embedded motor and a pump device are provided. The permanent magnet-embedded motor includes: a stator, including an annular stator core having teeth and slots disposed in a circumferential direction and coils wound around the teeth; and a rotor, including a rotor core having insertion fitting holes disposed to face the teeth of the stator and disposed in the circumferential direction and permanent magnets inserted and fitted into the insertion fitting holes. The rotor core includes: a groove-shaped recessed part, provided between the insertion fitting holes in the circumferential direction to define an outer circumferential magnetic pole part; a pair of notch parts, provided from both ends toward a center side of the outer circumferential magnetic pole part in the circumferential direction to be recessed inward with respect to an outer circumferential contour; and an outer circumferential magnetic pole surface, sandwiched between the pair of notch parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2021Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicants: MIKUNI CORPORATION, National University Corporation Gunma UniversityInventors: Shin SUZUKI, Takeo ISHIKAWA, Kota TAKATA
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Patent number: 11391387Abstract: An electromagnetic switching valve includes: a sleeve, defining a port communicating with an oil passage; a spool, reciprocally movably disposed on a predetermined axis in the sleeve, opening and closing the port; an electromagnetic actuator, including a plunger disposed on the axis and a stator exerting magnetomotive force on the plunger; and a tubular transmission member, disposed on the axis to be interposed between the plunger and the spool and transmit driving force. The stator includes an insertion hole through which the transmission member is inserted. The transmission member includes a regulated part regulated not to deviate from a range allowing an upper end of the transmission member to be inserted into the insertion hole of the stator when the transmission member is dropped and assembled into the sleeve from a vertical direction for a lower end of the transmission member to abut against the spool integrated into the sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: MIKUNI CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiki Ogasawara, Masashi Ueda