Patents Assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.
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Patent number: 11962202Abstract: A motor includes a shaft, a rotor, a stator including a coil and opposed to the rotor, and a bearing configured to support the shaft. In addition, the motor further includes a first temperature sensor disposed farther toward an outer periphery side than the coil, and a second temperature sensor disposed farther toward an inner periphery side than the coil.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Kouji Kebukawa, Kentaro Suzuki, Wataru Nogamida, Yoshihisa Okabuchi, Takayuki Sugaya, Takahiro Saito
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Patent number: 11948609Abstract: Provided are at least two bearings; an outer shaft having a tubular shape and supporting the bearings at an outer circumferential surface; and an inner shaft housed in the outer shaft with one end extending out from one opening part of the outer shaft. The inner shaft includes a male thread part at least at a portion extending out from the outer shaft.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventor: Shinya Ohnuma
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Patent number: 11949310Abstract: A vibration actuator includes: a movable body including a core around which a coil is wound in a state in which a tip part of the core is exposed; a fixed body including one or more magnets disposed away from and facing the tip part of the core; and a shaft part rotatably supporting the movable body on a side of a base end part of the core, and generates vibration by oscillation of the tip part of the core around the shaft part with respect to the one or more magnets by cooperation among the coil, the core and the one or more magnets.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Minebea Mitsumi Inc.Inventors: Katsuhiro Hashimoto, Takanori Kato, Yuki Takahashi
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Patent number: 11942740Abstract: A motor includes a frame having an outer diameter of 10 millimeters or less and an inner surface. The motor also includes an annular magnet attached to the inner surface of the frame, a bracket provided at the frame, and a columnar brush formed of carbon and having an outer peripheral surface. In addition, the motor includes a commutator contacting the outer peripheral surface of the brush, and an elastic member supporting the brush at the bracket. A part of the elastic member is disposed inside of the columnar brush.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Minebea Mitsumi Inc.Inventors: Mikio Umehara, Atsushi Omura, Kazuaki Sato
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Publication number: 20240097544Abstract: Provided is a vibration actuator that includes: a coil; a core around which the coil is wound, the core including both ends projecting from the coil; a yoke formed of a magnetic material and disposed opposite to the both ends of the core at a position adjacent to the both ends of the core with a gap provided between the yoke and the both ends of the core in a direction orthogonal to a winding axis of the coil; and an elastic part fixed between the core and the yoke and configured for elastic support to enable a movement between the core and the yoke in a direction opposite to at least one of the both ends of the core.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Yuki TAKAHASHI, Tomoya ISHITANI
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Patent number: 11935680Abstract: A stator for an electric motor is provided, the stator comprising a hollow cylindrical stator yoke and comprising a stator star arranged within the stator yoke and including a plurality of radially outwardly extending stator teeth having tips contacting, in the assembled state, corresponding connection positions on the inner circumference of the stator yoke, wherein the stator yoke and the stator star are each formed by a laminated metal sheet pack, wherein the metal sheet pack of the stator star comprises sheet metal layers of stator sheets, closed in the circumferential direction, comprising stator teeth connected with each other via pole shoe bridges and sheet metal layers of individual stator teeth spaced with respect to each other in the circumferential direction. Each of the pole shoe bridges may have at least one material recess extending in the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Minebea Mitsumi Inc.Inventors: Karl-Heinz Glatz, Peter Würfel, Vladimir Popov, Mark Kempa, Peter Borsai
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Publication number: 20240079942Abstract: Provided is a vibration actuator including: a movable body including a magnet having a pillar shape; and a fixing body including a coil and a main body part. The main body part includes an inner peripheral surface, which surrounds the movable body with a gap between the inner peripheral surface and an outer peripheral surface of the movable body inside the coil, and supports the movable body via an elastic support part such that the movable body is vibratable in an axial direction of the movable body. The vibration actuator is configured to cause a flow of a fluid in a direction opposite to a direction of movement of the movable body in the gap and to generate a pipe resistance to the fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Minebea Mitsumi Inc.Inventors: Shigeyuki SHIMOMURA, Yuki OGIHARA, Yosuke KINOSHITA
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Patent number: 11913637Abstract: In a planar illumination device according to an embodiment, a reflector can be stably fixed to a substrate even when a temperature change occurs. A planar illumination device includes a substrate provided with a plurality of light sources at one surface side, a reflector provided at the one surface side of the substrate, a bottom frame provided at a surface side of the substrate opposite to the one surface side, a first fixing member configured to fix a center portion of the reflector in a longitudinal direction to the bottom frame, and a second fixing member configured to fix the one surface of the substrate and the reflector. A force of the second fixing member restricting the substrate and the reflector is greater at a center portion of the reflector 4 in the longitudinal direction than at a portion of the reflector 4 separated in the longitudinal direction from the center portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Ippei Kusunoki, Toru Kunimochi, Takahito Yoshida
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Patent number: 11915720Abstract: The spindle motor includes; a shaft including a shaft portion and a flange portion, the shaft portion having a columnar shape extending in an axial direction, the shaft portion including a shaft end portion, the flange portion being provided at the shaft end portion and receiving a load in the axial direction; and a bearing sleeve rotatably supporting the shaft, the bearing sleeve having a tubular shape including a sleeve end portion having a large-diameter recess part formed in the axial direction. The shaft is a member formed of a copper alloy containing from 0.5 mass percent to 1.5 mass percent of silicon and from 0.5 mass percent to 3.0 mass percent of manganese, and the member includes the shaft portion and the flange portion integrated with one another.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Hideaki Showa, Daigo Nakajima
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Patent number: 11913784Abstract: An absolute encoder preferable in being made compact is provided. The absolute encoder includes a first drive gear, a first permanent magnet, a first angle sensor, and a first driven gear of a central axis that is perpendicular to a central axis of the first drive gear, the first driven gear engaging with the first drive gear. The absolute encoder includes a second drive gear coaxially provided with the first driven gear, the second drive gear being configured to rotate in accordance with rotation of the first driven gear. The absolute encoder includes a second driven gear of which a central axis is perpendicular to the central axis of the first driven gear, the second driven gear engaging with the second drive gear. The absolute encoder includes a second permanent magnet provided on a top end side of the second driven gear.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Yasuo Osada, Hiroki Negishi, Katsunori Saito, Norikazu Sato
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Patent number: 11904359Abstract: A vibrator-mounted holder is attached to a casing of a vibration generator which moves a vibrator to generate a vibration when used. The vibrator-mounted holder includes a vibrator, a vibrator retention unit retaining the vibrator, a fixing unit fixed to a casing, and an arm. The vibrator includes a magnet having a plate shape parallel to a horizontal surface and a yoke arranged on the magnet. The arm connects the fixing unit to the vibrator retention unit, and supports the vibrator retention unit in a manner that the vibrator retention unit is displaceable with respect to the fixing unit. The yoke has a projecting portion which is projected downward and fixed to the vibrator retention unit. The arm is connected to a portion, at which the projecting portion is arranged, within the vibrator retention units.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventor: Mikio Umehara
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Patent number: 11906300Abstract: An absolute encoder suitable for size reduction is provided. An absolute encoder includes: a first driving gear configured to rotate according to rotation of a spindle; a first driven gear having a center axis perpendicular to a center axis of the first driving gear and configured to engage with the first driving gear; and a second driving gear provided coaxially with the first driven gear and configured to rotate according to rotation of the first driven gear. The absolute encoder includes a permanent magnet (8) provided on a layshaft gear (5A) having a center axis perpendicular to the center axis of the first driven gear and where a worm wheel portion (52e) is formed to engage with the second driven gear; and a resin sheet (5A1) provided on the layshaft gear (5A) to prevent the permanent magnet (8) from coming out from the layshaft gear (5A) in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Katsunori Saito, Hiroki Negishi, Yasuo Osada, Norikazu Sato
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Patent number: 11901788Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, a vibration generating device includes a protruding part; a base provided with the protruding part and formed of a magnetic body; an annular coil surrounding the protruding part; a plate facing the base and formed of a magnetic body; and an elastic member supporting the plate with respect to the base. The plate and the base constitute magnetic circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Mikio Umehara, Yutaka Kamogi
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Patent number: 11898604Abstract: A ball bearing includes an inner ring; an outer ring placed outside of the inner ring; a plurality of rolling bodies intervening between the inner ring and the outer ring; and an annular cage including pockets rotatably holding the rolling bodies in a circumferential direction at intervals determining a rotation axis to be a center. The cage comprises a resin composition comprising a polyetherketone-based resin, graphite, and a carbon fiber. The resin composition comprises the polyetherketone-based resin in an amount of 60% by weight or more and 80% by weight or less, the graphite in an amount of 10% by weight or more and 30% by weight or less, and the carbon fiber in an amount of 5% by weight or more and 20% by weight or less when the entire resin composition is determined to be 100% by weight.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Tadahiko Karaki, Hirotaka Tohyama, Kunihiro Matsumoto
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Patent number: 11898547Abstract: A pump contains a sealed chamber, a movable wall for changing a volume of the sealed chamber, and a vibration actuator which can be electromagnetically driven for displacing the movable wall to discharge fluid in the sealed chamber to an outside of the sealed chamber. Further, three axes perpendicular to each other are respectively defined as an X axis, a Y axis, and a Z axis. When a direction along the X axis is defined as an X axis direction, a direction along the Y axis is defined as a Y axis direction, and a direction along the Z axis direction is defined as a Z axis direction, an outer shape of the pump is a concave shape in a planar view from the Y axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.Inventors: Yuta Yoshii, Chikara Sekiguchi, Shigenori Inamoto, Yuki Takahashi, Daisuke Kodama, Kenta Ueda, Daisuke Kurita
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Patent number: 11901851Abstract: A motor drive control device 1_2 includes a target point determination unit 12_2 determining a target point P of zero crossing of a coil current Iu of a U phase based on a position detection signal Shu, a current zero crossing point estimation unit 14_2 estimating a zero crossing point Q of the coil current Iu of the U phase by detecting a change in a current direction of the coil current Iu of the U phase at a predetermined timing in every cycle of a PWM signal, an adjustment instruction signal generation unit 19_2 generating at least one of a phase adjustment instruction signal Sp for instructing phase adjustment of the coil current Iu and a frequency adjustment instruction signal Sf for instructing frequency adjustment of the PWM signal according to a phase difference ?? between the target point P and the zero crossing point Q such that the phase difference is within a predetermined range, and a drive control signal generation unit 16_2 generating a drive control signal Sd based on at least one of the phasType: GrantFiled: April 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Masato Aoki, Hiroyuki Kaidu, Wataru Nogamida, Syu Hayashi, Takahiro Asami
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Patent number: 11892033Abstract: A motor according to the present application includes a rotating shaft, a bearing, a bearing holder configured to accommodate the bearing, a holder disposed at one end portion side of the bearing holder in a rotating shaft direction, and a lid disposed at another end portion side of the bearing holder in the rotating shaft direction. A labyrinth structure is formed of one end portion of the bearing holder and an inner peripheral portion of the holder, and/or a labyrinth structure is formed of the rotating shaft and the lid.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventor: Seiya Fujimoto
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Patent number: 11884407Abstract: A parachute device includes a parachute, a parachute accommodation section configured to accommodate the parachute, at least one flying body including a flying body main body section connected to the parachute, and a gas generating device configured to generate gas. The parachute device further includes an ejection section configured to eject the flying body, and a lead wire configured to ignite the gas generating device. The flying body main body section is engaged with the ejection section, the gas generating device is disposed in an internal space defined by the ejection section and the flying body main body section, and the lead wire is led out from the internal space in a different direction from an ejection direction of the flying body in a state with one end connected to the gas generating device.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventors: Yuzuru Sakamoto, Shoji Shimohisa, Yoshihiro Mochida
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Patent number: 11879796Abstract: A force torque sensor device includes a sensor chip that detects a displacement in a predetermined axis direction, a strain body that transmits an applied force to the sensor chip, and an adhesive that bonds the sensor chip to the strain body. The Young's modulus of the adhesive is greater than or equal to 130 MPa and less than or equal to 1.5 GPa.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventor: Tomohito Taki
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Patent number: D1015543Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventor: Shinya Oguchi