Patents Assigned to Nidec Sankyo Corporation
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Patent number: 11561380Abstract: A wide-angle lens (100) includes a front group (110), an aperture (80), and a rear group (120). The front group (110) includes a first lens (10), a second lens (20), and a third lens (30) arranged in order from a side (La) closest to an object to an image side (Lb). In such a wide-angle lens, to suppress an occurrence of a ghost caused by multiple reflection between a lens surface (22) of the second lens (20) on the image side (Lb) and a lens surface (31) of the third lens (30) on the object side (La), the sag amount Sag31 (mm) and the diameter D31 (mm) of the lens surface (31) satisfy the following conditional expression: 0<1Sag31/(D31/2)<0.125.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventor: Yosuke Kanzaki
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Publication number: 20230012117Abstract: An actuator includes a movable body provided with a magnet, a support body provided with a case and a coil assembly, a connecting body to be connected to the movable body and the support body, and a magnetic drive circuit. The coil assembly includes a first plate. The case includes a first case member, and a second case member. The coil assembly is positioned in a Z direction by fitting a protruding plate portion protruding from an edge of the first plate to an outer peripheral side into a first cutout concave portion provided in an edge of the first case member, and a second cutout concave portion provided in an edge of the second case member, and abutting a curved portion provided on an edge of each of the cutout concave portions against the protruding plate portion from both sides in the Z direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji HATANO, Masao TSUCHIHASHI
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Publication number: 20230011290Abstract: The actuator includes a movable body and a support body, first and second connecting bodies connected to the movable body and the support body, and a magnetic drive circuit. The movable body includes a first yoke including a first flat plate portion overlapping a coil from a Z1 direction, and a pair of first connecting plate portions extending from both ends of the first flat plate portion in a Z2 direction, and a second yoke including a second flat plate portion overlapping the coil in the Z2 direction and a pair of second connecting plate portions extending from both ends of the second flat plate portion in the Z1 direction. The first yoke and the second yoke are assembled by press-fitting the pair of second connecting plate portions into the pair of first connecting plate portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji HATANO, Tadashi TAKEDA
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Publication number: 20230008952Abstract: An actuator includes a movable body, a support body provided with a case that houses the movable body and a coil assembly, a first connecting body and a second connecting body to be connected to the movable body and the support body, and a magnetic drive circuit that vibrates the movable body with respect to the support body in an X direction. The coil assembly includes a first plate that overlaps the coil from a Z1 direction, and a second plate that overlaps the coil from a Z2 direction. The first plate includes a notch portion that comes into contact with a short side portion of the coil from an outer peripheral side, and positions the coil by the notch portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji HATANO, Masao TSUCHIHASHI
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Patent number: 11552528Abstract: An actuator includes a first damper member and a second damper member that couple a movable body and an immovable body and each include a gel member in a tubular form. The gel member has a first end face and a second end face that are different from each other in cross-sectional shape. The first damper member and the second damper member are oppositely oriented in the axial direction, and are opposite from each other in position of the first end face and the second end face. Consequently, the characteristic variance due to the difference in the direction, in which the movable body moves, is reduced or removed in the actuator as a whole, even if each single damper member is involved with such characteristic variance.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventor: Shoji Hinata
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Patent number: 11543673Abstract: An optical unit with a shake correction function includes a gimbal mechanism swingably supporting a movable body and including a connection mechanism including a spherical body and a support part contacted with the spherical body. The movable body includes a holding part holding a gimbal frame receiving member including a plate part fixed with the spherical body and a pair of protruded parts protruded to the support part side. The holding part is formed in a cut-out recessed part including a rear wall face, a pair of side wall faces, and a bottom wall face. When viewed in the optical axis direction, a pair of the protruded parts overlaps the support part. The movable body includes a facing wall part facing a pair of the protruded parts, and a separated distance between the facing wall part and the protruded parts is narrower than a thickness of the support part.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventor: Shinji Minamisawa
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Patent number: 11536985Abstract: An optical unit with shake-correction function is provided. A rotational support structure for supporting a movable body including a camera module around an optical axis is rotatably supported around a first axis and a second axis by a gimbal mechanism. The rotational support structure includes: a first annular groove, provided in the movable body; a plate roller, having a second annular groove facing the first annular groove in a direction of a Z axis; and a plurality of spherical objects, configured to be inserted into the first annular groove and the second annular groove, and roll between the movable body and the plate roller. The gimbal mechanism is configured to rotatably support the plate roller around the first axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo Kasahara, Shinji Hatano
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Patent number: 11536984Abstract: An optical unit with shake-correction function is provided and includes: a movable body, a rotational support structure, a gimbal mechanism, and a fixed body. The rotational support structure rotatably supports the movable body having a camera module around an optical axis. The rotational support structure is rotatably supported by the gimbal mechanism around a first axis and a second axis. The rotational support structure includes a first annular groove in the movable body, a plate roller having a second annular groove, multiple spherical objects to roll between the first annular groove and the second annular groove, and a pressurization structure configured to apply a force for bringing the first annular groove and the second annular groove close to each other in the direction of the optical axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Hatano, Shogo Kasahara
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Patent number: 11539262Abstract: A connection structure of an electric component, a motor and a connection method of an electric component are provided. The connection structure of the electric component includes: an electric component main body having a connection terminal; a connector for wiring which is connected with the connection terminal; a base member; and a cover member. The base member is provided with an accommodation recessed part which accommodates inside a connected portion between the connection terminal and the connector. The accommodation recessed part has an opening part opened to an upper side. The cover member is attached to the base member so as to cover the opening part. An inside of the accommodation recessed part is filled with a sealing material which seals the connected portion between the connection terminal and the connector, and the sealing material fixes the connected portion, the base member and the cover member to each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshige Suguro, Takanori Ohkawa, Osamu Kodaira
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Patent number: 11530759Abstract: A valve device includes: a shell provided with a chamber formed on an inner surface with an inlet and first and second outlets; a valve core provided with a main abutting portion, and first and second separation portions that are separated by the main abutting portion; and a driving portion driving the valve core to rotate, The valve core includes an auxiliary abutting portion. The auxiliary abutting portion is arranged that the area of the surface of the first separation portion opposite to the valve seat surface is closer to the area of the surface of the second separation portion opposite to the valve seat surface when the auxiliary abutting portion is not provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventor: Satoru Yokoe
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Patent number: 11529730Abstract: A robot system includes a robot controller and an object robot including a first storage part storing a hardware identifier, individual discrimination data, and device specific data including an individual difference parameter. The same hardware identifier is assigned to the object robot having the same mechanism. The robot controller includes a second storage part storing common configuration information corresponding to the hardware identifier and the individual discrimination data and the individual difference parameter of the object robot, and a control part configured, in a case that the hardware identifier corresponding to the common configuration information stored in the second storage part and the hardware identifier assigned to the object robot are collated and matched with each other, to create hardware definition information of the object robot based on the common configuration information stored in the second storage part and the individual difference parameter read from the first storage part.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Hirokatsu Okumura, Jun Otsuji, Tetsuya Inomata
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Patent number: 11526023Abstract: An optical unit with a shake correction function includes a movable body having a lens, a turning support mechanism structured to turnably support the movable body around an optical axis of the lens, a gimbal mechanism structured to turnably support the turning support mechanism, a fixed body which supports the movable body through the gimbal mechanism and the turning support mechanism, a shake correction magnetic drive mechanism, and a rolling correction magnetic drive mechanism. The turning support mechanism includes a plate roll fixed to the movable body, a plate holder provided with a facing part which faces the plate roll in a direction of the optical axis, and a turning mechanism which is provided between the plate roll and the facing part and is structured so that the plate roll is turnable with respect to the plate holder. The gimbal mechanism turnably supports the plate holder around the first axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventor: Hiromitsu Takei
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Patent number: 11525613Abstract: An ice making machine may include an ice tray comprising a water storage recessed part in which water supplied from a water supply pipe is stored, a drive part structured to reverse the ice tray around an axial line passing the ice tray between a water storage position where the water storage recessed part faces an upper side and an ice separation position where the water storage recessed part faces a lower side, and a frame which supports the ice tray and the drive part. The frame includes a frame portion which is separated to a side from a turning locus formed by turning of the ice tray, and a water pouring part which is protruded from the frame portion to a side of the turning locus.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventor: Katsuhiko Hayashi
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Patent number: 11526022Abstract: An optical unit having a shake correction function, includes a movable body including an optical module, a fixed body supporting the movable body in a swingable manner, a swing drive mechanism swinging the movable body relative to the fixed body and including a magnet and a coil, one of the magnet and the coil being fixed to the movable body, the other one of the magnet and the coil being fixed to the fixed body, a magnetic member returning the movable body to an original position, a magnetic detection sensor detecting a magnetic field of the magnet, and a wiring member being connected with the coil. The wiring member includes a mounting face on which the magnetic detection sensor, the magnetic member, and the coil are fixed. The centers of the magnetic detection sensor, the magnetic member, and the coil are coaxially fixed to the mounting face.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventor: Shinji Minamisawa
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Publication number: 20220381248Abstract: A pump device includes a motor and an impeller which is disposed in a pump chamber provided on one side in a rotation center axial line with respect to the motor and is connected with a rotor of the motor. The rotor is made of resin and includes a seat part which supports an end part on one side of a drive magnet and a cylindrical tube part which is extended from the seat part along the rotation center axial line and is fitted to an inner side of the drive magnet. An outer peripheral face of the cylindrical tube part is provided with a rib extended along the rotation center axial line at a plurality of positions in a circumferential direction, and the drive magnet is press-fitted to the cylindrical tube part so as to contact with the rib from an outer side in a radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi YAMAMOTO, Takehiko YAZAWA
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Patent number: 11513421Abstract: An optical unit includes a movable body with an optical module; a fixed body; a gimbal mechanism having a hole portion through which at least a part of the optical module passes, and serving as a support mechanism that swingably supports the movable body with respect to the fixed body in a direction intersecting an optical axis direction as a pivot axis; and a drive mechanism having a coil and a magnet, and configured to move the movable body with respect to the fixed body. One of the coil and the magnet, as a movable body drive mechanism, is provided on a lateral portion of the movable body in a direction intersecting the optical axis direction. The hole portion is provided with a size such that at least a part of the movable body drive mechanism is visible through the hole portion when viewed from the optical axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Hatano, Takeshi Sue, Shogo Kasahara
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Publication number: 20220375706Abstract: A motor device includes a shell, a motor body and a connection terminal. The motor body is supported on the shell and includes a power supply terminals a support and a lead wire. The power supply terminal penetrates a through hole of the support in a first direction and is pressed into a pressing portion of the connection terminal. The lead wire extends from the power supply terminal in a direction perpendicular to the first direction, or extends in a direction inclined with respect to the first direction toward a side approaching the connection terminal. A first protrusion restricting movement of the power supply terminal in the first direction toward a side opposite to the connection terminal is provided at a position on the shell facing the power supply terminal in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventor: Junya KARASAWA
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Patent number: 11506910Abstract: An optical unit may include a movable body, a turning support mechanism turnably supporting the movable body around an optical axis, a gimbal mechanism turnably supporting the turning support mechanism, and a fixed body. The turning support mechanism includes a plate roll fixed to the movable body, a plate holder having a facing part facing the plate roll in the optical axis direction and is turnably supported by the gimbal mechanism, spherical bodies disposed between the plate roll and the facing part, and a magnetic attraction mechanism for generating an attraction force so that the plate roll and the facing part approach each other in the optical axis direction. The magnetic attraction mechanism includes an attraction part provided in one of the plate roll and the plate holder and an attracted part provided in the other, and the attraction part includes a magnet.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo Kasahara, Shinji Hatano, Tsutomu Arai
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Patent number: 11500221Abstract: An optical unit with a shake correction function includes a movable body having a lens, a turning support mechanism structured to turnably support the movable body around an optical axis of the lens, a gimbal mechanism structured to turnably support the turning support mechanism around a first axis and around a second axis intersecting the optical axis, a fixed body which supports the movable body through the gimbal mechanism and the turning support mechanism, a shake correction magnetic drive mechanism structured to turn the movable body around the first axis and around the second axis, and a rolling correction magnetic drive mechanism structured to turn the movable body around the optical axis. The shake correction magnetic drive mechanism and the rolling correction magnetic drive mechanism are arranged in a circumferential direction around the optical axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventor: Hiromitsu Takei
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Patent number: 11493104Abstract: A damper member may include a gel-like member and a first film joined to a first surface of the gel-like member in a thickness direction, in which a side surface of the gel-like member located between a second surface opposite to the first surface of the gel-like member in the thickness direction and the first surface is opened.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventor: Shoji Hinata