Patents Assigned to Nidec Corporation
  • Patent number: 11670993
    Abstract: A motor unit includes a motor having a motor shaft extending along a first direction, an inverter that supplies electric power to the motor, a housing that supports the motor therein, an inverter case that is fixed to one side of the housing in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and that houses the inverter, and a plurality of bolts that fasten the housing and the inverter case. The plurality of bolts include a first bolt extending along the first direction, a second bolt extending along the second direction, a third bolt extending along a third direction orthogonal to both the first direction and the second direction, and one or more fourth bolts extending in a fourth direction intersecting all of the first direction, the second direction and the third direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Ishikawa, Yohei Miyata
  • Patent number: 11664698
    Abstract: A motor including a rotating portion that is rotatable about a center axis that extends vertically and a stationary portion that rotatably supports the rotating portion. The stationary portion includes a stator facing at least a portion of the rotating portion in a radial direction, a base disposed axially below the stator, and a resin portion covering at least a portion of the stator, connecting the stator and the base. The base includes a recessed portion that is recessed downward in an axial direction and that accommodates at least a portion of the resin portion. The recessed portion includes an inner peripheral surface provided with an upper wall portion disposed axially above a portion of the resin portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Uchino, Yukinobu Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 11662573
    Abstract: An actuator that swings a swing portion about a first axis and a second axis perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to each other, includes a fixed portion, two first stator cores, two second stator cores, two first coils, and two second coils. The first coil is in the same region as a tooth portion of the first stator core, and the second coil is in the same region as a tooth portion of the second stator core. As viewed in a central axis direction, each extending portion of each of the first stator cores includes end surfaces that face a magnet and oppose each other with the magnet interposed therebetween along the first axis, and each extending portion of each of the second stator cores includes end surfaces that face the magnet and oppose each other with the magnet interposed therebetween along the second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuro Iguchi
  • Patent number: 11655879
    Abstract: A motor unit having a motor shaft, and a speed reduction mechanism connected to the motor shaft are included. The speed reduction mechanism includes a sun gear unit disposed on the motor shaft, planetary gear units meshing with the sun gear unit and arranged in the circumferential direction, a carrier at least a part of which surrounds the planetary gear units, and an output unit connected to the planetary gear units. The carrier includes a first cylindrical portion disposed outward of and above the sun gear unit and extending in the axial direction. The first cylindrical portion rotatably supports the output unit via a bearing, and the bearing is at least partly disposed radially inward of the radially outer end of the planetary gear unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kobayashi, Takeshi Ohiro, Takuya Ogawa, Ryosuke Takahashi, Toshitsugu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11658521
    Abstract: A stator includes a first sleeve extending in an axial direction and a first stator core on an outer periphery of the first sleeve. The first stator core includes a lower core and an upper core on a side of the lower core opposed to a first end of the axial direction. The lower core includes a lower annular portion with an annular shape and lower pole teeth protruding radially outward from a radially outer end surface of the lower annular portion and extending to a second end of the axial direction. The upper core includes an upper annular portion with an annular shape arranged on the lower annular portion opposed to the first end of the axial direction to overlap the lower annular portion, and upper pole teeth protruding radially outward from a radially outer end surface of the upper annular portion and extending to the second end of the axial direction. Each of the lower pole teeth and each of the upper pole teeth are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoki Uchibori
  • Patent number: 11652435
    Abstract: A command generation device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a command receiving unit that receives a high-level command value related to motion of a motor from a host device, and an internal target generation unit that generates an internal target value of the motor, including a position target value and a rotational speed target value, based on the high-level command value. The internal target generation unit includes a feedback calculator that generates the internal target value corrected based on a difference between the high-level command value and the internal target value, and generates the internal target value corrected in a cycle shorter than a cycle of receiving the high-level command value with the command receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Linfeng Lan, Tomohiro Fukumura, Koichi Takae
  • Patent number: 11649890
    Abstract: A drive apparatus includes a motor; a reduction gear connected to the motor; a differential connected to the reduction gear, for rotating an axle about a differential axis; a housing including a gear housing portion housing the reduction gear and the differential; and an oil housed in the gear housing portion. The differential includes a gear for rotating about the differential axis. An end portion of the gear is lower than the reduction gear, and is configured to soak in the oil. The housing includes an oil drain hole and an oil feed hole for joining an interior of the housing and a space outside of the housing, a first stopper member removably in the oil drain hole, and a second stopper member removably in the oil feed hole. Each of the oil drain hole and the oil feed hole is in a portion of the gear housing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Ishikawa, Shuhei Nakamatsu
  • Patent number: 11641992
    Abstract: A dust collector including a body with an intake portion and an exhaust portion includes a filter, a filter support that supports the filter, a motor case protruding from an inner surface of the body, and a vibration motor accommodated in the motor case. The body accommodates the filter support. A portion on the tip side of the motor case is at a position where it is allowed to come into contact with the filter support when the vibration motor is driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chun-Hsien Liu, Bo Yi Li, Chih-Hsiang Chen
  • Patent number: 11646061
    Abstract: A base plate is a portion of a housing of a disk drive apparatus, including a base body being a casting product, and an electrodeposition coating film covering at least a portion of a surface of the base body. The base body includes a bottom plate rectangular as viewed from an axial direction, a pivot post, and a protrusion. The bottom plate extends perpendicular to a rotation axis of a disk that extends vertically and a swing axis of a head that is disposed in a different position from the rotation axis and that extends vertically. The head reads or writes information from or to the disk. The pivot post protrudes upward from an upper surface of the bottom plate along the swing axis. The protrusion is provided protruding radially outward from a peripheral surface of the pivot post and protruding to the upper surface of the bottom plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michihiro Ito, Ryo Furuya
  • Patent number: 11644826
    Abstract: A robot control apparatus includes a controller to control operation of a robot, a storage to store operation logs with different preservation periods for the operation of the robot, a collector to, when a specific event occurs, select and collect an information element corresponding to a type of the event from the operation logs, a record generate to create a record from the information element collected by the collector, and a record preserver to preserve the record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Namikoshi
  • Patent number: 11634168
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor including an axially extending shaft, a stator, a housing, a heat sink disposed axially above the stator, a board fixed axially above the heat sink, a connector disposed radially outside the housing, and a connector pin accommodated in the connector. The heat sink includes a main body, and a protrusion which is continuous with the main body, the protrusion extending radially outward of the housing. The connector, the protrusion, and the board overlap in this order when viewed from axially below. The connector pin is positioned radially outside the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Hattori, Toshiya Okamoto, Takanobu Oyama
  • Patent number: 11630320
    Abstract: An optical assembly includes a movable body that includes an optical module, a frame body radially outward of the movable body, and support portions that swingably support the movable body with respect to the frame body. Each of the support portions includes a guide portion between the movable body and the frame body to support the movable body, and a preload portion that pushes the guide portion toward the movable body. A radially inner end portion of the preload portion is connected to a radially outer end portion of the guide portion. A radially outer end portion of the preload portion is supported by the frame body. One of the movable body and the guide portion includes a first convex surface, and the other includes a first concave surface in contact with the first convex surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Sazai, Tomohiro Egawa, Takayuki Iwase, Genki Tanaka, Tsutomu Arai, Shinji Minamisawa, Takeshi Sue
  • Patent number: 11627779
    Abstract: In a lacing module, one gear of a worm wheel gear and a clutch gear includes a protrusion, and another gear of the worm wheel gear and the clutch gear includes a recess. The worm wheel gear meshes with a worm gear rotatable together with a shaft of a motor. The clutch gear is fixed to a spool shaft portion of a spool around which a string can be wound. The protrusion protrudes in a direction between the one gear and the another gear. The recess is recessed in the direction between the one gear toward and the another gear. At least an end of the protrusion protruding from one gear to the other gear in a vertical direction is fitted into the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoichi Sekii
  • Patent number: 11632009
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a busbar assembly, a motor, an electrical product, and a method for manufacturing a busbar assembly. The busbar assembly includes a busbar for conducting electricity and a busbar holder for supporting the busbar. The busbar extends in a circumferential direction, a height of the busbar in an axial direction is greater than a thickness in a radial direction, and the busbar holder is integrally molded with the busbar. The busbar includes a plurality of convex portions extending in the axial direction, and the convex portions are exposed from the busbar holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Wang, Jun Gao, Wenlong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11627663
    Abstract: An optical unit includes a movable body including an optical module, a fixed body, a support mechanism, a flexible printed circuit board, and a fixing part. The fixing part is superposed on a bent part formed by bending the flexible printed circuit board. At least a part of the fixing part is fixed to the bent part of the flexible printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soichiro Kimura, Tomohiro Egawa, Genki Tanaka, Shinri Ono, Tsungting Hsieh, Kwun-Yao Ho, Tsutomu Arai, Shogo Kasahara, Shinji Hatano
  • Patent number: 11621609
    Abstract: One aspect of a motor of the present disclosure may include a rotor having a motor shaft disposed along a central axis extending in one direction, a stator facing the rotor via a gap in a radial direction, and a housing having an accommodating portion configured to accommodate the rotor and the stator, and to enable oil to be stored therein, wherein the housing comprises a lower wall portion facing a vertical-directional lower region in the inside of the accommodating portion, the lower wall portion comprises a cooling flow passage formed therein, and refrigerant flows in the cooling flow passage, and at least a portion of the cooling flow passage overlaps the vertical-directional lower region in the inside of the accommodating portion when viewed along a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Ishikawa, Takayuki Migita, Shuhei Nakamatsu
  • Patent number: 11616419
    Abstract: A motor unit includes a motor including a rotor and a stator, a gear connected to the rotor, a housing including a housing space to house the motor and the gear, oil in a vertically lower region of the housing space, and an oil passage to lead the oil from the vertically lower region of the housing space to be fed to the motor. The housing space includes a motor chamber to house the motor; and a gear chamber to house the gear. The housing includes a partition to divide the motor chamber and the gear chamber. A bottom portion of the motor chamber is higher than a bottom portion of the gear chamber. A portion of the oil fed to the motor is in a vertically lower region of the motor chamber. A vertically lower region of the partition includes a partition opening to bring the gear chamber and the motor chamber into communication with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuo Yamaguchi, Yuki Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11611260
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a stator including coils defined by windings of coil wires, a coil support into which the coil wires are inserted, a bearing supporting the shaft, a holder with a through-hole that holds both the bearing and the coil support. The coil support includes a base on the top surface of the stator, and a coil support portion extending axially upward from the base, at least a portion of which is located in the through-hole. The base is fitted to the stator through a gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya Okamoto, Takashi Hattori, Yusaku Yoshida, Yoshiaki Yamashita, Takahiro Kizu, Yuichi Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11608883
    Abstract: A drive device includes a first shaft, a gear portion, a lubricant flow path, and a housing. A gear portion having a second shaft is connected to an end portion of the first shaft in the axial direction. A side plate portion of the housing separates a motor tubular portion surrounding a motor accommodation portion that accommodates a rotor and a stator and a gear tubular portion surrounding a gear accommodation portion that accommodates the gear portion. First and second bearing holding portions disposed in the side plate portion rotatably support the first and second shafts via the first and second bearings, respectively. A lubricant supply portion that is disposed radially outward of the stator and supplies lubricant to the stator includes a lubricant flow path through which lubricant can flow. The lubricant flow path is connected to at least one of the first and second bearing holding portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Nakata, Yuki Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11611138
    Abstract: A method of producing a radio frequency member to construct a radio frequency confinement device based on a waffle iron structure includes providing an intermediate work of a plate shape or a block shape, the intermediate work including a main surface which is shaped as a plane or a curved surface and a plurality of rods extending away from the main surface. An interval between a side surface of one of the plurality of rods and a side surface of another rod that is adjacent to the one rod monotonically increases in a direction away from the main surface. The method also includes forming an electrically-conductive plating layer on the main surface and at least the side surface of the plurality of rods by immersing at least a portion of the intermediate work in plating solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignees: NIDEC CORPORATION, WGR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Ogawa, Yoshitomo Tatematsu, Daishi Nagatsu, Hideki Kirino, Hiroyuki Kamo