Patents Assigned to Nidec Sankyo Corporation
  • Publication number: 20220143839
    Abstract: A control device for an industrial robot includes a plurality of types of safety devices capable of connecting with the control device and connected with a power source in series, and the safety device is configured to be capable of being manually switched between electric cutoff of a wiring path and resumption from the cutoff. The control device further includes detection circuits connected with respective output side terminals of the plurality of the types of the safety devices, and each of the detection circuits detects whether the output side terminal is in a first state that power is supplied from the power source or in a second state that power supply from the power source is stopped, and the control device further includes a control part configured to perform notification based on an output of the detection circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kokyu MUKAI
  • Publication number: 20220143809
    Abstract: In a teaching method for an industrial robot having a hand on which a conveyance object is to be mounted, the teaching method includes a positioning member attaching step in which a positioning member for determining a position of a conveyance object to be mounted on the hand in a horizontal direction is attached to an upper face side of the hand and, after that, a teaching step in which the hand is moved to a predetermined position to perform teaching for the industrial robot, and after that, a positioning member detaching step in which the positioning member is detached from the hand. When the conveyance object is mounted on the hand in a state that an end face of the conveyance object is contacted with the positioning member, the conveyance object is disposed at a normal mounting position on the hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tamotsu KURIBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220143813
    Abstract: An industrial robot includes a supported part, a support part which is disposed on a lower side with respect to the supported part and with which the supported part is turnably connected, a turning member to which the supported part is fixed from an upper side so as to be turned together with the supported part and which is turnably held by the support part, a fixing bolt for fixing the supported part to the turning member, and a lifting bolt for lifting the supported part with respect to the turning member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tamotsu KURIBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220146797
    Abstract: To provide a wide-angle lens having a four-group, five-lens configuration and capable of increasing an angle while maintaining productivity of a second lens and an object-to-image distance of an entire lens system is reduced. A wide-angle lens has a four-group, five-lens configuration. A second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens are plastic lenses, and the fourth lens and the fifth lens constitute a cemented lens. A refractive index n1 of the first lens is 1.839, which satisfies the following conditional expression (1), 1.800<n1??Conditional expression (1), As a ratio between a focal length f2 of the second lens and a focal length f0 of an entire lens system, f2/f0 is ?2.680, and satisfies the following conditional expression (2), ?3.000<f2/f0<?2.500??Conditional expression (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsukasa TSUCHIYA
  • Patent number: 11329540
    Abstract: An actuator may include a movable body; a support body; a connecting body arranged where the movable body and the support body face each other to contact both of the movable body and the support body; and a magnetic drive circuit. The magnetic drive circuit may include an air-core coil provided on a first-side member among the movable body and the support body; and a permanent magnet provided on a second-side member among the movable body and the support body to face the coil in a first direction, the magnetic drive circuit being configured to vibrate the movable body with respect to the support body in a second direction crossing the first direction. In the first-side member, the coil may be fixed by an adhesive to a surface of a plate-shaped coil holder on a first side in the first direction while an air-cores is directed in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Tsuchihashi, Tadashi Takeda, Hiroshi Kitahara
  • Patent number: 11323015
    Abstract: An actuator is provided. In order to reduce the planar area of an actuator, a first magnetic drive circuit and a third magnetic drive circuit that vibrate a movable body in an X direction with respect to a support are provided respectively on both sides, in a Z direction, of a second magnetic drive circuit that vibrates the movable body in a Y direction with respect to the support. The movable ranges, in the X direction and the Y direction, of the movable body with respect to the support are regulated by a stopper mechanism constituted between a first magnet and a first coil holder holding a first coil, a stopper mechanism constituted between a second magnet and a second coil holder holding a second coil, and a stopper mechanism constituted between a third magnet and a third coil holder holding a third coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kitahara, Tadashi Takeda, Masao Tsuchihashi
  • Publication number: 20220123644
    Abstract: An actuator is provided. A movable body oscillating in an actuator has a shaft, and first and second inner frame members fixed to the shaft. A support body has a cylindrical case, a first and second lid members fixed to the ends of the case, and a first and second outer frame members disposed inside the case. The first inner frame member is connected to the first outer frame member by the first connecting body, and the second inner frame member is connected to the second outer frame member by the second connecting body. The first lid member has a pressing convex portion which abuts the first outer frame member, and the second lid member has a pressing convex portion which abuts the second outer frame member. The number of the pressing convex portions arranged spaced apart along the circumference direction is limited to two or three.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi KITAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220123614
    Abstract: In a rotor of a motor or the like, in order to suppress scattering of a part of a magnet provided around a rotating shaft, the rotor has a cylindrical magnet through which the rotating shaft passes, a first holder which covers the magnet from one side in an axial direction of the rotating shaft and a second holder which covers the magnet from the other side in the axial direction. The magnet is press-fitted into a first body portion of the first holder and a second body portion of the second holder, and a first end of the first body portion and a second end of the second body portion are joined by welding or the like. An inner diameter of the first end and the inner diameter of the second end are larger than an outer diameter of the magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro KOSUGE, Masato GOMYO, Kazuma YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220123643
    Abstract: The actuator includes a magnetic drive mechanism to relatively move the movable body with respect to the support body. The magnetic drive mechanism has a magnet and a coil. The connecting element connected to the support body and the movable body is a viscoelastic member. The viscoelastic member has a temperature characteristic that a loss tangent (Tan ?) thereof measured by a dynamic viscoelasticity measurement decreases as a temperature rises. When using a silicone gel as the connecting element, the decrease in the peak value of the acceleration of the movable body caused by the decrease in the current flowing through the coil is cancelled by the increase in the peak value of the acceleration of the movable body caused by the decrease in Tan ? of the silicone gel. Therefore, the oscillation of the movable body is unchanged even if a temperature changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaaki ANDO
  • Publication number: 20220113488
    Abstract: A case to hold a movable unit, which is provided with an optical module and a flexible circuit board having one end connected to the optical module, in a swingable manner that the optical module is swingable, is provided. The case includes: a holder, swingable together with the optical module to house the optical module; a fixing portion, provided at the holder to fix the flexible circuit board; and a pedestal, provided at the holder and having a placing face along which the flexible circuit board is disposed at a side opposite to a side of the one end with respect to an area fixed to the fixing portion in the flexible circuit board, and the pedestal is provided in a configuration in which a swing center of the optical module is positioned on an extended line of the placing face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji MINAMISAWA, Tsutomu ARAI, Takeshi SUE
  • Patent number: 11303180
    Abstract: A motor may include a rotor including a rotating shaft that protrudes to a first side in an axial direction; a stator disposed on an outer peripheral side of the rotor; a resin sealing member that covers the stator; and a cover member that is disposed on the first side of the resin sealing member and supports the rotating shaft. The resin sealing member may include a resin sealing member side position regulating surface that makes contact in the axial direction with a cover member side position regulating surface provided on the cover member, and a resin sealing member side securing surface that faces, in the axial direction and with a gap, a cover member side securing surface provided on the cover member. At least a portion of the resin sealing member side securing surface is secured to the cover member side securing surface via an adhesive agent layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Hiroki Kuratani, Nobuki Kokubo, Masaki Harada
  • Patent number: 11300802
    Abstract: An optical unit may include a gimbal mechanism having a gimbal frame part supporting a movable body through a support mechanism. The gimbal frame part may have a first support part extended part and a second support part extended part, and the support mechanism includes a first support part fixed to the fixed body and supporting the first support part extended part, and a second support part fixed to the movable body and supporting the second support part extended part. The first and the second support part extended parts are respectively supported by fitting a spherical projecting surface to a spherical recessed surface. The optical unit further includes a first and a second restriction mechanisms for restricting movement in the optical axis direction between the first and the second support part extended parts and the first and the second support parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji Minamisawa
  • Publication number: 20220107549
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji HATANO, Takeshi SUE, Shogo KASAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220107479
    Abstract: An optical unit includes a movable body, a fixed body surrounding the movable body, a turning support mechanism turnably supporting the movable body with respect to the fixed body, and a drive mechanism including a coil disposed on the movable body or the fixed body, and multiple magnets disposed on the other of the movable body and the fixed body at a position facing the coil. An end part in an optical axis direction of the coil is bent in a direction approaching a turning axis of the movable body, and the magnets are disposed side by side so that faces of the magnets facing the coil become approximately parallel to the coil when viewed in a direction of the turning axis in comparison with a case that the magnets are arranged along the optical axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi SUE
  • Publication number: 20220108911
    Abstract: A first sensor is disposed in such a way that optical axes of a light emitting element and a light receiving element thereof are parallel to a left-right direction. A second sensor is disposed in such a way that optical axes of a light emitting element and a light receiving element thereof are parallel to a front-rear direction. When a position of a wafer to be loaded on a loading portion is taught, a position of the loading portion or a teaching jig to be loaded on the loading portion in the front-rear direction is detected by the first sensor by moving a hand in the front-rear direction by a moving mechanism, and a position of the loading portion or the teaching jig in the left-right direction is detected by the second sensor by moving the hand in the left-right direction by the moving mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Wataru MURATA
  • Patent number: 11295581
    Abstract: An information processing device structured to process information of an information recording medium having been inserted inside may include a communication part which receives a radio wave of a specific frequency band, and a foreign matter detection part structured to detect that a foreign matter has been attached in response to an intensity of the radio wave received by the communication part being greater than or equal to a threshold value for a predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaya Fujimoto, Junro Takeuchi, Kohei Okui
  • Publication number: 20220099921
    Abstract: An optical unit includes: a reflection portion that reflects an incident light flux incident from outside on a reflection surface in a reflection direction from an incident direction toward an imaging element; a movable body having the reflection portion and a holder supporting the reflection portion; a fixed body; a rotation support mechanism that causes the movable body to rotate with respect to the fixed body with an axial direction as a rotation axis; and a drive mechanism having a magnet and a coil and causing the movable body to rotate with respect to the fixed body. The magnet is provided at a position not contacting the reflection portion in the holder and on a back side of the reflection surface, and has a parallel surface parallel to the reflection surface. The coil is provided at a position opposing the magnet in the fixed body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu ARAI, Shogo KASAHARA, Takeshi SUE
  • Publication number: 20220099922
    Abstract: An optical unit including a reflection portion, a movable body, a fixed body; and a rotation support mechanism that rotates the movable body with respect to the fixed body in an axial direction as a rotation axis, in which the rotation support mechanism has a U-shaped spring member disposed between the fixed body and the movable body in the axial direction and applies a force in a direction that widens the space between the fixed body and the movable body, the spring member has a rotation-axis first forming member, the movable body has a rotation-axis second forming member, and the rotation-axis first forming member and the rotation-axis second forming member are arranged at positions where a rotation axis passes through a center of gravity position of the movable body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsutomu ARAI, Shinji MINAMISAWA, Takeshi SUE
  • Publication number: 20220099908
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an optical unit including a movable body including an optical module, a fixed body, and correction mechanisms for correcting the optical axis direction by changing the arrangement of the movable body with respect to the fixed body. An optical unit includes a movable body including an optical module, a fixed body surrounding the movable body in peripheral directions intersecting the optical axis direction of the optical module, and correction mechanisms that correct the arrangement of the movable body with respect to the fixed body. The correction mechanisms include a tilt mechanism that swingably supports the movable body with respect to the fixed body in directions intersecting the optical axis direction as rotation axes, and shift mechanism that movably supports the movable body with respect to the fixed body with the directions intersecting the optical axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi SUE, Shinji MINAMISAWA, Tsutomu ARAI
  • Publication number: 20220099350
    Abstract: A driving mechanism and an air door device including the driving mechanism. A switch signal can be switched when a driving gear rotates forward to one position and rotates backward to another position. The driving mechanism comprises the following components in a shell: a switch; a rotary pressing member rotating toward a pressing direction in which a first pressing portion presses the switch and a departure direction in which the first pressing portion departs from the switch; a force application component for driving the rotary pressing member to rotate toward the pressing direction; a driving gear for driving the rotary pressing member to rotate, a motor for driving the driving gear to rotate and a driven gear being engaged with the driving gear are further arranged in the shell, the driving gear is provided with a first abutting portion and a second abutting portion arranged along the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoru YOKOE