Patents Assigned to NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20230384612
    Abstract: In an optical unit with a shake correction function, a cylindrical holder having an inner peripheral side on which a camera module is fixed is composed of metal. In the optical unit with a shake correction function, a case-side protrusion projecting toward the inner peripheral side of a cylindrical case surrounding the outer peripheral surface of the holder is formed on the inner peripheral side of the case. When a movable body moves relative to a fixed body while the optical axis of a camera module tilts the most, portions of the holder farther inside in the optical axis direction than edges formed on the outer peripheral surface of the holder before the edges come into contact with the inner peripheral surface of the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu ARAI, Takeshi SUE, Shinji MINAMISAWA
  • Publication number: 20230387771
    Abstract: This actuator includes a movable body provided with a magnet and a yoke, and a support body provided with a case and a coil. A first case member includes a first case third side plate portion and a first case fourth side plate portion that are opposed in an X direction. A coil holder includes press-fitted fixed portions that are press-fitted between the first case third side plate portion and the first case fourth side plate portion. The press-fitted fixed portions include one side fixing surface and an other side fixing surface that make contact with leading edge parts of the first case third side plate portion and the first case fourth side plate portion, which are in a Z2 direction, from the inside, and parts further toward a Z1 side than the fixed surfaces are recessed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji HATANO
  • Publication number: 20230353003
    Abstract: A coil bobbin for a stator of an electric motor includes a body part in a rectangular column shape around which a conductive wire is to be wound, and a first flange part provided at an end of the body part. The body part is structured so that the conductive wire starts to be wound around the body part from a root part which is an end part on the first flange part side and, in a case that a corner of the root part which is a starting point where the conductive wire starts to be wound is referred to as a first corner part, a face of the first flange part directed to the body part side is formed with a groove part which passes at a position adjacent to a position of the first corner part and guides the conductive wire to the first corner part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuma YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230348213
    Abstract: A card conveyance unit having a plurality of card cassettes, a carriage for a card, a carriage conveyance passage extended along a plurality of the card cassettes, a code reader for reading a code indicated on the card, and a control part for controlling a card send-out mechanism, a carriage moving mechanism, a conveying mechanism in the carriage and the code reader. The control part drives the carriage moving mechanism to arrange the carriage at a card taking-in position, drives the card send-out mechanism and the conveying mechanism to take a card into the carriage from a card cassette, drives the carriage moving mechanism to move the carriage to a reading position for the code of the card held by the carriage and controls the code reader to perform a reading operation of the code, and drives the conveying mechanism to send out the card and issued.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi YOKOYAMA, Ryo UCHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230332815
    Abstract: An ice making device includes an ice making tray, and a drive unit which is structured to turn the ice making tray. In an ice separating operation, the drive unit turns and twists the ice making tray to one side as an ice separation preparatory operation, and then, the drive unit turns and twists the ice making tray to the other side to drop ice pieces from the ice making tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: NIDEC INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuta Oshima