Patents Assigned to NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20250128428
    Abstract: A hand of an industrial robot that conveys a conveyance object includes: a mounting section constituting a portion of the hand on a second direction side and having the conveyance object disposed on an upper side; a hand base constituting a portion of the hand on a third direction side and having an end of the mounting section on the third direction side attached thereto; a first support member fixed to an upper surface of the mounting section and supporting a portion of the conveyance object on the second direction side from below; a second support member supporting a portion of the conveyance object on the third direction side from below; and a first moving mechanism moving the second support member in the first direction. The first supporting member is formed with first and second support surfaces, and the second support member is formed with third and fourth support surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeyuki KAINO, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Ryota HORIUCHI
  • Patent number: 12260282
    Abstract: A card reader includes a card accommodating part which has an insertion port into which a card is inserted, accommodates at least a part of the card having been inserted, and has a discharge hole which is capable of discharging a foreign matter in an inside of the card accommodating part, and a foreign matter accommodation member which accommodates the foreign matter discharged through the discharge hole and is capable of being attached and detached. The foreign matter accommodation member structures an airtight space together with the card accommodating part, and the airtight space is airtight in a portion at least except the insertion port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryo Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20250093741
    Abstract: An optical unit includes a movable body having an optical module, a fixed body which holds the movable body, and a drive mechanism for turning the movable body with respect to the fixed body so that an optical axis of the optical module is inclined. The drive mechanism includes a drive magnet attached to the movable body and a drive coil attached to the fixed body. The drive magnet and the drive coil face each other in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis direction of the optical module when the optical module is located at a predetermined reference position. The drive magnet is magnetized in the optical axis direction, and a magnetic pole of one face of the drive magnet in the optical axis direction and a magnetic pole of the other face of the drive magnet in the optical axis direction are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji MINAMISAWA
  • Patent number: 12253094
    Abstract: An impeller of a pump device includes a vane wheel fixed to a flange portion of a rotor member. The vane wheel includes a plurality of vane portions protruding from a disc portion opposed to the flange portion in an axial direction. At a tip end of each vane portion, a rib that is inserted into a fixing groove provided in the flange portion is provided. A gap in the axial direction is provided between a tip end of an inner peripheral portion including an end portion on an inner side in a radial direction of the rib and a bottom surface of the fixing groove, and a welded portion welded to the fixing groove is provided at a tip end on another side in the axial direction of an outer peripheral portion including an end portion on an outer side in the radial direction of the rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiko Yazawa, Michiaki Takizawa
  • Patent number: 12243684
    Abstract: An actuator causes vibration of a movable body by a magnetic drive mechanism. The movable body includes: a support shaft having an outer circumferential surface fixed with a magnet; a cup-shaped first magnetic member fixed to an end surface of the magnet in an axial direction; and a second magnetic member fixed to an opposite side of an end plate of the first magnetic member from the side of the magnet. A weight adjustment section in the second magnetic member is a through hole. An outer shape of the second magnetic member is not reduced in size. A bent section of the first magnetic member overlaps an outer circumferential end of the second magnetic member. The weight adjustment section is provided on an inner circumferential side of an outer circumferential surface of the magnet. A magnetic member deficient portion is provided to avoid a portion with high magnetic flux density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Mori
  • Publication number: 20250013001
    Abstract: A lens unit includes a first lens disposed on an object side and a second lens disposed on an image side. A second flange surface of a second lens is provided with a convex portion. A first flange surface of the first lens is provided with facing portion inclined along an inclined portion. When Ra is an effective radius of the cemented lens, Ga is a first interval between a lens surface of the first lens and a lens surface of the second lens at the effective radius, Gb is a second interval that is three times the first interval, and Rb is an outer peripheral side radius where the second interval exists between the facing portion and the convex portion, the following conditional expression is satisfied. 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yosuke KANZAKI
  • Publication number: 20250003412
    Abstract: In this pump apparatus, each of plural gate marks formed in a second blade member is formed at an intermediate position in a circumferential direction of a rotor between two blades that are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction of the rotor, and the even number of blades are disposed between the gate marks in the circumferential direction of the rotor. The plural gate marks are disposed on an outer side, in the radial direction of the rotor, of an outer circumferential surface of a portion, which is connected to the second blade member, in a magnet holding member formed in a tubular shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takehiko YAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20250007356
    Abstract: In a motor of the pump device, a substrate includes a first terminal-soldered part to which a winding-wire terminal is connected and a second terminal-soldered part to which a connector terminal is connected. The substrate is fixed to the housing at two positions with a first fixing part and a second fixing part. When the distance between a first electric element, which is a maximum mass element having the largest mass on the substrate, and the second fixing part, which is a proximal fixing part closest to the first electric element among the two fixing parts, is taken as a first distance, and the distance between the proximal fixing part and a proximal soldering part closest to the proximal fixing part among multiple first terminal-soldered parts and multiple second terminal-soldered parts is taken as a second distance, the first distance is smaller than the second distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiko YAZAWA, Takashi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 12175320
    Abstract: A foreign matter detection device which detects a foreign matter in an inside of a card reader. The foreign matter detection device includes a control part which performs control for causing an imaging device provided in the inside of the card reader to image a space in the inside of the card reader, and a detection part which detects the foreign matter in the space by image analysis based on a captured image obtained by the imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshige Takeda, Takeshi Segawa, Yasushi Kasahara, Takahiro Matsuzawa
  • Publication number: 20240402470
    Abstract: In a cemented lens, an object-side lens includes a concave first lens surface, a first flange surface, and a first boundary portion between the first lens surface and the first flange surface. An image-side lens includes a convex second lens surface, a second flange surface, and a second boundary portion between the second lens surface and the second flange surface. A cross section including an optical axis of the first boundary portion includes a plurality of circular arc shapes. If the cross section has a circular arc shape with a single radius and a position of an apex of the circular arc shape is a virtual position, a distance between an actual apex position of the cross section and the first flange surface in a direction of the optical axis is shorter than that between the virtual position and the first flange surface in the direction of the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tadashi KOMIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240329355
    Abstract: A lens unit has a first lens barrel including an annular accommodating portion which accommodates an outer peripheral-edge portion of a lens, a second lens barrel which accommodates a lens and is held on an inner peripheral side of the first lens barrel, and a first O-ring. The lens has an end surface facing the image side on an outer peripheral side of a lens surface. An accommodating portion includes a support surface facing the end surface of the lens on an outer peripheral side of the second lens barrel from the image side. The lens includes an annular contact portion in surface contact with the end surface of the lens on an inner peripheral side of the support surface. The first O-ring is compressed between the lens and the support surface in an optical axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya KASAHARA, Tadashi KOMIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240329356
    Abstract: A lens unit includes a first lens and a second lens arranged in this order from an image side toward an object side. The second lens includes an annular contacting portion in contact with the first lens on an outer peripheral side of a lens surface on the image side. The first lens includes an annular contacted portion in contact with the contacting portion on an outer peripheral side of a lens surface on the object side. The contacting portion and the contacted portion are in line contact with each other. A contact line along which the contacting portion and the contacted portion are in contact with each other has an annular shape coaxial with an optical axis of the first lens and is located on a virtual perpendicular plane that is perpendicular to the optical axis of the first lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: yasuhiro HOSHINA, Tadashi KOMIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240329354
    Abstract: A lens unit includes a lens, a lens, a second O-ring disposed between the lens and the lens in an optical axis direction, and a second lens barrel that accommodates them. The second lens barrel includes an annular caulking portion which is brought into contact with an outer peripheral-edge portion of the lens from the object side and includes an object-side stepped portion on an inner peripheral surface. The lens is located between the caulking portion and the seating surface of the object-side stepped portion. The second O-ring is compressed in the optical axis direction at a position adjacent to an annular wall surface of the object-side stepped portion in a radial direction. The second O-ring exerts an urging force to urge the lens toward the object side and to urge the lens toward the image side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya KASAHARA, Tadashi KOMIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240329353
    Abstract: A lens unit has a lens and a lens disposed from an image side toward an object side and a second lens barrel accommodating them, and the lens includes a fitting portion fitted to the lens on an image side. A fitted portion to which the fitting portion is fitted from the object side is provided on a surface on the object side of the lens. An inner peripheral-surface portion on an outer side in a radial direction of the lens on an inner peripheral surface of the second lens barrel includes fitting protrusions pressure-joined to the lens at plural spots separated in a circumferential direction. An inner peripheral-surface portion on the outer side in the radial direction of the lens includes guide protrusions for guiding the lens in an optical axis direction at plural spots separated in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki NAKAJIMA, Tadashi KOMIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240333118
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a swinging unit is provided with a movable body, a support body which supports the movable body via fulcrum portions in such a state that the movable body is swingably displaceable, and a swing drive portion which swings the movable body. The swing drive portion is constituted by a pair of a coil, which is fixed to a coil fixed portion at one of the movable body and the support body, and a magnet, which is fixed to a magnet fixed portion at the other one of the movable body and the support body. The coil fixed portion is provided with a positioning portion which performs positioning of the coil relative to the coil fixed portion by being in contact with an inner surface of the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu ARAI, Takeshi SUE, Shinji MINAMISAWA
  • Publication number: 20240329357
    Abstract: A lens unit includes a second lens barrel (lens barrel) made of a resin and a lens held on an inner peripheral side of the second lens barrel. On an inner peripheral surface of the second lens barrel, an inner peripheral-surface portion located on an outer side in a radial direction of the lens is a tapered surface inclined to an outer peripheral side toward an object side, and a first inner peripheral-surface portion includes fitting protrusions which are pressure-joined to the lens at a plurality of spots separated in a circumferential direction. The plurality of fitting protrusions position the lens in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki NAKAJIMA, Tadashi KOMIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240329972
    Abstract: By setting an update target program as a target program, an attachment confirmation step of confirming whether a recording medium is attached to a settlement terminal is executed. When the recording medium is not attached, first update data is downloaded from a program server via a network to execute an update When the recording medium is attached, second update data is downloaded from the recording medium to execute an update. The steps are executed by an application program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryoichi YOKOMIZU
  • Patent number: 12103324
    Abstract: In an ink ribbon cassette, a case housing an ink ribbon wound around a supply-side bobbin and the ink ribbon wound around a wind-up side bobbin includes a case main body including a cylindrical supply-side case portion to house the ink ribbon wound around the supply-side bobbin and a cylindrical wind-up side case portion to house the ink ribbon wound around the wind-up side bobbin and a cover to close one end of the cylindrically formed supply-side case portion and one end of the cylindrically formed wind-up side case portion. The cover is removably attached to the case main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryo Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 12094495
    Abstract: A magnetic recording information processing device which reads out information from a magnetic recording medium includes a magnetic head which reads the magnetic recording medium and outputs a magnetic reproduction waveform, an AD (analog-digital) conversion part which converts the magnetic reproduction waveform into a digital signal, a memory which accumulates the digital signal sampled at a first sampling period as data, a thinning-out processing part which samples the digital signal at a second sampling period longer than the first sampling period, a demodulation processing part which performs demodulation processing of the information, and a control part which causes the demodulation processing part to execute demodulation processing in real time based on the digital signal sampled by the thinning-out processing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fumihiko Nimura
  • Publication number: 20240276667
    Abstract: A fixing structure of a circuit board includes a circuit board, a board fixing member, and a fixing screw for fixing the circuit board to the board fixing member. The circuit board is formed with a cut-out part in a ā€œUā€-shape recessed from its outer peripheral face, the board fixing member is formed with a protruding part. The protruding part is formed with a flat board contact face with which the circuit board is contacted, a screw hole with which the fixing screw is engaged, and a positioning protruded part engaged with the cut-out part for positioning the circuit board. The screw hole is recessed from the board contact face, the positioning protruded part protrudes from the board contact face, and the positioning protruded part is disposed on an opening side of the cut-out part with respect to the screw hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiko YAZAWA, Kazuhiko YANAGISAWA