Patents Assigned to Nidec Tosok Corporation
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Patent number: 12255502Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor, a stator having a coil, a substrate electrically connected to the coil, a bus bar assembly having a bus bar electrically connecting the coil and the substrate, and a housing having a stator housing portion accommodating the stator and a substrate housing portion accommodating the substrate. The substrate housing portion is radially outside the stator housing portion. The housing has a connection hole radially connecting the stator housing portion and the substrate housing portion. The bus bar assembly radially passes through the connection hole. The bus bar includes a coil connection portion electrically connected to the coil, and a substrate connection portion electrically connected to the substrate. The bus bar assembly includes a bus bar holder that holds the bus bar, and a fixing member that is held by the bus bar holder and fixed to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Shigehiro Kataoka, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 12136863Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor, a stator, a substrate, a bus bar, a housing having a stator housing portion and a substrate housing portion, and a cover member. The substrate housing portion is located radially outside the stator housing portion. The housing has a connection hole connecting the stator housing portion and the substrate housing portion. The bus bar radially passes through the connection hole. The bus bar includes a coil connection portion electrically connected to the coil in the stator housing portion, and a substrate connection portion electrically connected to the substrate in the substrate housing portion. The bus bar is located on one side in the axial direction of the stator. The cover member has an opposing portion located on one side in the axial direction of the bus bar in the stator housing portion, and having an axial positioning portion for the bus bar.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Shigehiro Kataoka, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 12132359Abstract: An electric actuator includes a motor, an output shaft, a detent plate, an elastic portion including a contacted portion, a first rotation sensor, a second rotation sensor, and a controller. In a case where an abnormality has occurred in the second rotation sensor, the controller executes causing the motor to rotate to cause the contacted portion to abut a first side wall portion located on one end side in the circumferential direction of a first valley portion in the detent plate, acquiring the first rotation angle when the contacted portion abuts on the first side wall portion, reversely rotating the motor to an angle, and determining that the contacted portion is stationary at the parking position.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Takamitsu Suzuki, Kei Sato, Masaya Furushou
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Patent number: 12088175Abstract: An electric pump includes a motor including a rotor rotatable about an axis extending in an axial direction and a stator with a coil wire, a pump connected to the rotor, a circuit board on a first side in the axial direction of the motor, and a coil guide between the motor and the circuit board. The coil wire extends to the first side in the axial direction and is connected to the circuit board. The coil guide includes a first portion guiding the coil wire along the axial direction, and a second portion which faces the motor and in which the first portion is opened. The second portion is a surface inclined to the first side in the axial direction toward an opening of the first portion. A width of the second portion as viewed from the axial direction decreases toward the opening of the first portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro Sakata, Shigehiro Kataoka
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Patent number: 12081070Abstract: One aspect of a pump of the present invention includes a rotor rotatable about a central axis, a stator assembly located radially outside the rotor and surrounding the rotor, a pump unit connected to a first side in an axial direction of the rotor, a support member including a rotor accommodating portion, the rotor accommodating portion being located radially inside the stator assembly and accommodates the rotor therein, and a resin housing in which the stator assembly and the support member are molded. The rotor accommodating portion includes a lid portion that covers the rotor from a second side in the axial direction, and a tubular portion that is located between the rotor and the stator assembly in a radial direction and is open to the first side in the axial direction. The stator assembly includes a stator core having an annular shape, a plurality of coils mounted on the stator core, and a stator cover that covers the plurality of coils.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Shizuku, Shigehiro Kataoka, Takanobu Yahata, Thao Lethithanh, Nguyen Thi Thanh Tam
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Patent number: 12038006Abstract: An electric pump includes a motor unit rotationally driving a drive shaft, and a pump unit. The pump unit includes a pump rotor that sends the fluid by a driving force of the driving shaft, and a pump housing that surrounds at least one side of the pump rotor. The pump housing includes an attachment surface extending in the axial direction and in contact with an attached body, first and second flow paths respectively on the suction side and the discharge side, and a fixing location within the attachment surface and fixed to the attached body by a fixing member within a maximum outer shape of the motor housing as viewed in the axial direction. Opening locations of the first and second flow paths are displaced from each other in the axial direction on the attachment surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Nan Wu, Tomohiro Sakata, Nguyen Thi Thanh Tam
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Patent number: 12025124Abstract: An electric pump includes a motor unit rotationally driving a drive shaft, and a pump unit. The pump unit includes a pump rotor that sends the fluid by a driving force of the driving shaft, and a pump housing that covers at least one side of the pump rotor. The pump housing includes an attachment surface extending in the axial direction and in contact with an attached body, first and second flow paths respectively on the suction side and the discharge side, and a partition wall positioned between pump-side openings of the first flow path and the second flow path facing the pump rotor, and extends in a direction along the attachment surface, and locations of attachment-side openings of the first flow path and the second flow path on the attachment surface are displaced from each other on the attachment surface in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Nan Wu, Nguyen Thi Thanh Tam
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Patent number: 12007253Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure provides a rotation angle detecting device capable of detecting a rotation angle of a rotation body rotatable about a central axis. The rotation angle detecting device includes: a sensor magnet, having multiple magnetic poles provided side-by side in a circumferential direction about the central axis and installed to the rotation body; a magnetic sensor, overlapped with the sensor magnet when viewed in a predetermined first direction and capable of detecting a magnetic field of the sensor magnet; and a pair of magnetic parts, provided to sandwich the magnetic sensor in a second direction intersecting the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yosuke Ito, Toshiaki Nakamura
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Patent number: 11976739Abstract: In solenoid valve provided with: a valve case that has an annular collar expanding in a radial direction of an opening, which is opened at an axial end surface, and accommodates a valve body inside; and an annular seal member mounted in an annular recessed groove provided on one axial end surface of the collar of the valve case, the collar includes a through-hole penetrating the collar in an axial direction, and a connecting portion connecting the through-hole and the annular recessed groove, the through-hole has a reduced diameter portion, and the seal member includes an annular portion mounted in the annular recessed groove and a protruding portion protruding at least in the axial direction with respect to the annular portion and penetrating the through-hole, the protruding portion including an enlarged diameter portion having an outer diameter ?D1 (>?d2) larger than an inner diameter ?d2 of the reduced diameter portion of the through-hole.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Shimizu, Tomohiko Nakanishi
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Patent number: 11973380Abstract: An aspect of an electric pump of the present invention is an electric pump attached to a predetermined object. The electric pump includes a motor having a rotor rotatable about a center axis extending in an axial direction, a pump mechanism coupled to the rotor, a circuit board located radially outside the motor and having a plate face directed in a radial direction, an electrolytic capacitor attached to the plate face of the circuit board, and a housing that houses the motor, the pump mechanism, the circuit board, and the electrolytic capacitor therein. The housing has a mounting face attached to a predetermined object. The mounting face is a face directed radially outward. The plate face of the circuit board is disposed along a direction intersecting the mounting face. The electrolytic capacitor is disposed at a position closer to the mounting face than the center axis in the direction orthogonal to the mounting face.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Tomohiro Sakata, Yuzo Nagai, Hideo Nagai
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Patent number: 11962227Abstract: An electric actuator of the disclosure includes a motor, a speed reduction mechanism, and a bearing fixed to a motor shaft having an eccentric axis portion. The speed reduction mechanism has: an externally toothed gear, an internally toothed gear, a facing member facing the externally toothed gear, column members protruding from one member of the facing member and the externally toothed gear toward the other member and surrounding the motor axis, and at least one tube member surrounding the column members. The other member has hole portions surrounding the motor axis. The column members are inserted into the hole portions respectively, and support the externally toothed gear to be swingable around the motor axis via an inner side surface of each of the hole portions. The at least one tube member surrounds the column members in the hole portions and is rotatable around a rotary axis passing through the hole portions.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Shirai, Kohei Osuga, Kenichi Ozawa
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Patent number: 11920591Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor including a motor shaft, a pump assembly including a vane pump driven by the motor to suction and discharge oil, and an inverter to drive the motor. The motor includes a rotor, a stator on a side outward from the rotor in a radial direction, and a motor housing containing the rotor and the stator. The motor housing includes a suction port through which the vane pump suctions oil from outside, and a discharge port through which the vane pump discharges oil to outside. The motor housing includes flat surface portions in a portion of an outer periphery thereof. The suction port and the discharge port are located in a first surface of side surfaces which are the flat surface portions of the motor housing and are parallel or substantially parallel to the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignees: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION, KYB CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Higuchi, Yutaka Hashimoto, Yoshiyuki Maki, Kohei Kubo
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Patent number: 11894790Abstract: A control substrate capable of effectively reducing noise input to a plurality of MOSFETs is provided. The control substrate includes at least three parallel snubber circuits (132, 134, and 135). Each of the parallel snubber circuits (132, 133, and 134) is connected in parallel with each of U-phase MOSFETs (126a and 126b), V-phase MOSFETs (127a and 127b), and W-phase MOSFETs (128a and 128b).Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventor: Yusaku Seki
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Patent number: 11802635Abstract: An electromagnetic valve includes: a solenoid having a plunger movably supported along an axis O1 direction; a flow path member having a fluid passage flow path and a valve element housing portion; and a valve element in a columnar shape that is disposed in the valve element housing portion, is movable along the axis O1 direction together with the plunger, and can switch between an open state and a closed state. The flow path member has an abutment portion that abuts on the valve element in the valve element housing portion, and a biasing member that biases the valve element. The valve element has an enlarged-diameter portion on the radially outer side. The enlarged-diameter portion has an opposing surface portion opposing the abutment portion at least in the axis O1 direction. The opposing surface portion is in contact with the abutment portion in the open state.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Kenta Kuramochi, Satoshi Yabushita, Tomohiko Nakanishi, Hiroki Shimizu, Luong Cao Dai
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Patent number: 11750135Abstract: One aspect of a motor control device according to the present invention is a motor control device that controls a motor of an electric pump. The motor control device includes a drive unit that supplies a drive current to the motor; a control unit that controls a rotation speed of the motor by controlling the drive unit based on a rotation speed command value; and a current detection unit that detects the drive current supplied to the motor, and supplies a current detection value indicating a detection result of the drive current to the control unit. The control unit determines whether or not a foreign fluid suction abnormality occurs in the electric pump, based on a first current detection value acquired at a first timing when the rotation speed command value changes from a first command value to a second command value and a second current detection value acquired after the first timing.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhiro Shirai
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Patent number: 11739741Abstract: A control device for a motor unit provided in a vehicle is disclosed. The motor unit includes a motor including multiple coils provided side by side around a motor axis; a transmission mechanism transmitting power of the motor to an axle; a housing housing the motor and the transmission mechanism; an electric oil pump delivering oil stored in the housing; and a coil temperature sensor detecting a temperature of the coil. The control device includes a motor controller driving and controlling the motor; and a pump controller driving and controlling the electric oil pump. The pump controller estimates an oil temperature according to an ambient temperature and the temperature of the coil, and determines a start timing of the electric oil pump based on an estimated oil temperature.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Masaya Furushou, Yasuhiro Shirai
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Patent number: 11703142Abstract: To provide an electromagnetic valve that can prevent damage due to wear of a valve element and a case of a solenoid, or occurrence of a striking sound when a valve is opened. An electromagnetic valve includes a solenoid having a case, a flow path member, and a columnar valve element that is housed in the valve element housing portion of the flow path member and moves with a plunger of the solenoid to open and close a flow path. A first seat member in contact with the plunger is disposed on the valve element, and a second seat member in contact with the plunger is disposed on the case of the solenoid. An elastic modulus of the first seat member is larger than an elastic modulus of the valve element, and an elastic modulus of the second seat member is smaller than an elastic modulus of the case.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiko Nakanishi, Hiroki Shimizu
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Patent number: 11705852Abstract: A motor driving device for driving a motor is provided. The motor driving device includes: a driver outputting a drive signal for driving the motor to the motor; and a controller controlling a duty ratio of the drive signal based on three control parameters which are an initial duty ratio, a duty ratio increasing speed, and a target duty ratio. The controller has a normal control mode in which each of the three control parameters is a predetermined value, and a cryogenic control mode in which at least one of the three control parameters is a smaller value than in the normal control mode.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Shirai, Tadayuki Hatsuda
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Patent number: 11698069Abstract: An electronic board includes a board, and includes on the board: a power input part inputting power output from an in-vehicle power supply; a drive circuit driving a drive source; a controller controlling driving of the drive source performed by the drive circuit; and a drive command signal input part inputting a drive command signal transmitted from outside. The electronic board further includes on the board: a drive command signal detection circuit capable of detecting the drive command signal, and controlling whether to supply the power input to the power input part to the controller based on whether the drive command signal is detected.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventor: Yusaku Seki
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Patent number: D1005341Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yuzo Nagai, Shigehiro Kataoka, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi