Patents Assigned to Nidec-Shimpo Corporation
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Patent number: 11879534Abstract: A gear includes a tubular portion and a diaphragm portion. The diaphragm portion extends in a direction including a radial component from one axial end portion of the tubular portion. The portion includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is on one axial side of the portion. The second portion is on another axial side relative to the first portion. The second portion includes teeth protruding radially outward. A maximum value of a thickness of the diaphragm portion is equal to or less than twice a distance from radially outer ends of the teeth to a radially inner surface of the second portion, and a minimum value of a thickness of the first portion is equal to or less than half the maximum value of the thickness of the diaphragm portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATIONInventor: Taihei Tsubone
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Publication number: 20230258257Abstract: An annular body includes a base, a first resistance wire, a second resistance wire, a first terminal, and a second terminal. The base surrounds a central axis and expands in a direction intersecting the central axis. Resistance values of the first and second resistance wires change according to strain of the base. The first terminal is electrically connected to the end of the first resistance wire. The second terminal is electrically connected to an end of the second resistance wire. The first terminal is at a first position in the circumferential direction. The second terminal is at a second position in the circumferential direction. When viewed in the axial direction, the central angle defined by the first position, the central axis, and the second position is equal to or greater than about 90°.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicants: Nidec-Shimpo Corporation, Nidec-Shimpo CorporationInventor: Daisuke TAKAGI
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Patent number: 11537140Abstract: A device includes an external sensor to scan an environment so as to periodically output scan data, a storage to store an environmental map, and a location estimation device to match the sensor data against the environmental map read from the storage so as to estimate a location and an attitude of the vehicle. The location estimation device determines predicted values of a current location and a current estimation of the vehicle in accordance with a history of estimated locations and estimated attitudes of the vehicle, and performs the matching by using the predicted values.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Suzuki, Tetsuo Saeki, Masaji Nakatani
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Patent number: 11298995Abstract: In an automated guided vehicle, a connection mechanism includes a connecting part and a movable part, and is connected to an object by the connecting part. When the connecting part is in a first state and the movable part is at a first position, an end portion on the other side in a first direction of the connecting part contacts a surface on one side in the first direction of the movable part or penetrates the movable part in the first direction to protrude toward the other side in the first direction with respect to the surface on one side in the first direction of the movable part. When the connecting part is in the first state and the movable part is at a second position, the movable part is away from the connecting part. A force applied to the movable part maintains the movable part at the first position.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATIONInventor: Masashi Sokuza
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Patent number: 11243546Abstract: A management system manages travel of at least one vehicle, and includes a vehicle and a travel management apparatus. The vehicle includes motors, a drive unit to move the vehicle by controlling the motors, a first communication circuit, and a control circuit. The travel management apparatus includes a signal processing circuit to generate an nth command for causing the vehicle to move from an n (n: a positive integer)th location to an (n+1)th location and a second communication circuit. When the vehicle arrives in a region defined for the (n+1)th location while moving from the nth location toward the (n+1)th location, the vehicle transmits a notification of arrival-in-region to the travel management apparatus. Upon receiving the notification of arrival-in-region, the travel management apparatus generates an (n+1)th command for causing the vehicle to move from the (n+1)th location to an (n+2)th location, and transmits it to the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Akamatsu, Noriyuki Murai
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Patent number: 11181178Abstract: A strain wave gear speed reducer unit includes: a casing extending in the axial direction; an internal gear disposed to be rotatable relative to the casing and having internal teeth on the inner circumference; a flexible external gear disposed to the inside of the internal gear in the radial direction, an end of which is fixed to the casing on one side in the axial direction, and which has external teeth on the outer circumference for meshing with the internal teeth; a cam disposed to the inside of the external gear in the radial direction and deforming the external gear in the radial direction by rotating together with a rotating shaft of a motor unit; a connecting part formed integrally with the cam and connected to the rotating shaft on the inside of the external gear; and a support connected to the casing and rotatably supporting the connecting part.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATIONInventors: Kikuo Okamura, Hitoshi Inoue
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Patent number: 11148697Abstract: An automatic guided vehicle according to one aspect of the present invention moves a trolley including a trolley body, wheels attached to the trolley body, and a section to be connected which is provided on the lower surface of the trolley body. The automatic guided vehicle is provided with: a vehicle body; drive wheels attached to the vehicle body; and a connection mechanism which is connected to the trolley, wherein the connection mechanism includes a connecting section disposed on an upper side of the upper surface of the vehicle body so as to be movable horizontally in a first direction, and includes a drive apparatus which moves the connecting section in the first direction and connects the connecting section to the section to be connected.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Akamatsu, Hiroki Akamatsu, Norio Deguchi, Syunta Sato, Hitoshi Inoue
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Patent number: 11041557Abstract: This speed reducer with an electric motor has: a hollow shaft; a casing fixed to the hollow shaft; a fixed part that is relatively stationary with respect to the casing; an electric motor; a speed reduction mechanism; an output part; and a torque sensor that is connected to the casing and the fixed part. The torque sensor has an elastically deformable strain body that has an annular outer ring and an annular inner ring and a plurality of strain sensors. The outer ring and the inner ring are respectively located at an end portion on the radial outside and the radial inside of the torque sensor and is connected to one of the casing and the fixed part. Each of the plurality of strain sensors is at least partially located in a radial direction between the outer ring and the inner ring.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignees: NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATION, NIDEC COPAL ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Koroyasu, Tomoyuki Otsuka, Takuro Yonemura, Takao Ikeda
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Patent number: 10866587Abstract: There is provided a management system for vehicles which can make it easier to introduce changes in the traveling path on the field. A management system 1 manages travel of a vehicle by using a travel management apparatus. The vehicle includes a plurality of driving wheels to be driven by a plurality of motors, a drive unit to rotate the driving wheels, a first communication circuit which receives data representing a traveling path from the travel management apparatus, and a control circuit which causes the vehicle to travel along the traveling path.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: NIDEC SHIMPO CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Akamatsu, Syunta Sato
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Patent number: 10862369Abstract: A power unit comprises: a wave gear speed reducer, a rotary shaft extending in the axial direction; a rotor unit that rotates integrally with the rotary shaft; a stator unit disposed facing the rotor unit; and a motor casing to which the stator unit is secured. The motor casing has a second cover that covers the rotor unit and the stator unit from the other side in the axial direction. The rotary shaft extends toward the other side in the axial direction, penetrates the second cover, and is connected to a cam. The second cover has a support part that extends toward the other side in the axial direction, supports the rotary shaft in a rotatable manner, and is positioned in a flexible cylindrical part of an external gear.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2017Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignees: NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATION, NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Kikuo Okamura, Takuro Yonemura, Hitoshi Inoue, Guo-Jhih Yan, Keng-Chang Wu, Hsiu-Ying Lin
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Publication number: 20200298426Abstract: Provided is a hollow-type rotary actuator. For example, a rotary actuator used in a joint part of an industrial robot is provided with: a hollow motor having a hollow rotary shaft; a hollow reduction gear having a hollow input shaft that is arranged coaxially with the rotary shaft and is coupled to the rotary shaft; a tubular member disposed on the inner peripheral side of the rotary shaft and the input shaft; and a holding member that holds one end side of the tubular member. The holding member is provided with a holding portion, in which a through-hole communicating with the inner peripheral side of the tubular member is formed. In the rotary actuator, one end side of the tubular member is held by the holding portion, and the other end side of the tubular member is loosely fitted to the output side portion of the hollow reduction gear.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2017Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicants: NIDEC CORPORATION, NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuu AYUZAWA, Toshiharu WAKABAYASHI, Takurou YONEMURA
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Patent number: 10612638Abstract: In a speed reducing unit with an electric motor, a speed reduction mechanism has: an elliptical cam that rotates together with a rotating part; a flexible external gear that deforms according to the rotation of the elliptical cam; a flexible bearing that is located between the elliptical cam and the flexible external gear; and a movable internal gear that rotates together with an output part. The flexible external gear and the movable internal gear are engaged with each other. The electric motor has: a rotor holder that is part of the rotating part and that rotates together with the elliptical cam; a rotor magnet that is fixed to the rotor holder; and a stator that is fixed to a casing. The rotor holder has a rotor-holder lid part, and the positions of the rotor-holder lid part and the flexible bearing in the axial direction at least partially overlap.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignees: NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATION, NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Otsuka, Takuro Yonemura, Tsuyoshi Hirokawa, Kosuke Mizuike
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Patent number: 10597273Abstract: A carrier vehicle can be used for a plurality of purposes. A carrier vehicle (100) according to the disclosure includes a flat plate (120) and a moving section (130). A through-hole (122p) is provided in the flat plate (120). The moving section (130) causes the flat plate (120) to move. The moving section (120) is switched among a reference mode in which the flat plate (120) is caused to move to a reference position, a penetrating mode in which the through-hole (122p) of the flat plate (120) is penetrated through, and a moving mode in which the flat plate (120) is caused to move from the reference position to a moving position without penetrating through the through-hole (122p) of the flat plate (120).Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATIONInventor: Masashi Sokuza
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Patent number: D873174Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATIONInventor: Masashi Sokuza
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Patent number: D876278Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi Sokuza, Masahiro Akamatsu
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Patent number: D880550Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATIONInventor: Masashi Sokuza
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Patent number: D886173Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATIONInventor: Masashi Sokuza
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Patent number: D898790Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATIONInventor: Masashi Sokuza
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Patent number: D907655Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya Adachi, Maiko Ryu, Yuhei Kakumiya, Masahiro Akamatsu
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Patent number: D914075Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATIONInventor: Masashi Sokuza