Patents Assigned to Nidec Tosok Corporation
  • Publication number: 20190195345
    Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor part having a shaft; a pump part that is positioned on one side of the motor part and is driven by the motor part via the shaft and discharges oil; and a control part configured to control an operation of the motor part, wherein the motor part includes a rotor, a stator disposed to face the rotor, and a motor housing, wherein the pump part includes a pump rotor and a pump housing having a housing part, wherein the control part includes a plurality of electronic components and a board, the plurality of electronic components include a heat generating component, wherein the motor housing has a cylindrical part and a plurality of heat dissipating fins that extend from the cylindrical part, wherein the board has a first surface and a second surface, and the heat generating component is mounted on the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigehiro KATAOKA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190199269
    Abstract: A control unit calculates necessary power necessary to drive a motor in accordance with a torque designation value and a rotational speed of a motor, sets a voltage value to a predetermined voltage value, changes a current value in accordance with the necessary power, and drive the motor in a case in which the calculated necessary power is less than a predetermined threshold value, and sets the current value to a predetermined current value, changes the voltage value in accordance with the necessary power, and drives the motor in a case in which the calculated necessary power is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Okuhata, Tadayuki Hatsuda
  • Publication number: 20190199177
    Abstract: This disclosure provides an electric actuator and a rotation control mechanism. The electric actuator includes: a motor; a speed reduction mechanism; an output part; and a rotation detection device. The output part extends in an axial direction and is disposed on one side in the axial direction with respect to a motor shaft of the motor. The rotation detection device has: a magnet that is fixed to the output part and extends in a circumferential direction of the output part; and a rotation sensor that faces the magnet in the axial direction or in a radial direction. The magnet has multiple magnetic poles disposed in the circumferential direction. At least one magnetic pole of the magnet is disposed at a predetermined angular position with respect to an angle reference position of the output part in a rotation direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka UEMATSU, Jaehyun KIM, Toshiaki NAKAMURA, Shuichi KINJO, Hiroshi SHIRAI
  • Publication number: 20190199250
    Abstract: A motor control device includes: a voltage boosting circuit that boosts a power source voltage supplied from an outside; a condenser that smooths a voltage output by the voltage boosting circuit; an inverter circuit that generates a drive voltage of a motor by switching a voltage output by the voltage boosting circuit and smoothed by the condenser; and a control part that causes the voltage boosting circuit to bypass and causes the power source voltage to be supplied to the inverter circuit, and a distance between the voltage boosting circuit and the inverter circuit is a distance with which a parasitic inductance is equal to or less than a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadayuki HATSUDA, Yoshihisa OKUHATA
  • Publication number: 20190195348
    Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor part having a shaft; a pump part that is driven by the motor part via the shaft and discharges oil; and a control part configured to control an operation of the motor part. The motor part includes a rotor, a stator, and a motor housing. The pump part includes a pump rotor and a pump housing having a housing part. The control part includes a plurality of electronic components and a board. The motor housing has a cylindrical part in which the rotor and the stator are accommodated, a plurality of heat dissipating fins that extend from the cylindrical part, and a fin support that supports the heat dissipating fins. The heat dissipating fins are disposed at intervals in the axial direction. The fin support has an inter-fin through-hole between a pair of heat dissipating fins adjacent in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigehiro KATAOKA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190199160
    Abstract: A motor includes: a housing that accommodates a stator that has a field coil and a rotor; an inverter that is provided in the housing; a voltage boosting circuit that has a reactor provided in the housing; and a coolant flow path that is provided at a position at which the coolant flow path overlaps with the inverter and the voltage boosting circuit in the housing in a diameter direction, and the inverter has a control board that controls a drive current or a drive voltage and a drive element that is provided on the side of the housing with respect to the control board and supplies power to the field coil in accordance with control from the control board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihisa OKUHATA, Tadayuki HATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20190195346
    Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor part having a shaft; a pump part that is positioned on one side of the motor part and is driven by the motor part via the shaft and discharges oil; and a control part configured to control an operation of the motor part. The motor part includes a rotor, a stator disposed to face the rotor, and a motor housing in which the rotor and the stator are accommodated. The pump part includes a pump rotor attached to the shaft and a pump housing having a housing part. The control part includes a plurality of electronic components and a board on which the electronic components are mounted. The motor housing has a cylindrical part. An end of the board is disposed at a position overlapping the cylindrical part in a direction orthogonal to a surface of the board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Shigehiro KATAOKA, Yutaka OMORI
  • Publication number: 20190199268
    Abstract: A motor control device includes a temperature input unit that inputs a temperature of a motor and a control unit that performs control such that the control unit drives the motor by constant current/variable voltage control by lowering a power source voltage in a case in which the input temperature of the motor is equal to or less than a first threshold value and drives the motor by constant voltage/variable current control at a predetermined power source voltage in a case in which the temperature of the motor exceeds the first threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadayuki HATSUDA, Yoshihisa OKUHATA
  • Publication number: 20190195349
    Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor part having a shaft; a pump part that is driven by the motor part via the shaft and discharges oil; and a control part configured to control an operation of the motor part. The motor part includes a rotor, a stator, and a motor housing in which the rotor and the stator are accommodated. The pump part includes a pump rotor attached to the shaft and a pump housing having a housing part in which the pump rotor is accommodated. The control part includes an electronic component and a board having a surface on which the electronic component is mounted. The board is disposed outside the stator in a radial direction and within a range of the motor part in the axial direction, and the surface of the board is disposed to face the stator and extends in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigehiro KATAOKA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190173356
    Abstract: There is provided an electric actuator including a motor, a first case having a first opening, a second case having a second opening that opens to the other side in the axial direction, a rotation sensor, and a plurality of bus bars which are electrically connected to a plurality of sensor terminals that extend from the rotation sensor and are held in the second case. The first and second cases are fixed to each other while the first opening and the second opening face each other in the axial direction, and parts connecting the plurality of bus bars and the plurality of sensor terminals are disposed at positions shifted from each other in a circumferential direction and radially outward from the rotation sensor. Among the plurality of connecting parts, at least one pair of adjacent connecting parts are disposed at positions different from each other in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIRAI, Toshiaki NAKAMURA, Yutaka UEMATSU
  • Publication number: 20190173360
    Abstract: An electric actuator is provided. The electric actuator includes a motor, a deceleration mechanism, case, an output part, a first rotation sensor and a holding member that holds the first rotation sensor in the case. The case includes a first recess that is recessed from an inner surface of the case to one side in a first direction and a support surface that faces the other side in the first direction. The first rotation sensor includes a sensor main body which includes a sensor chip and is accommodated in the first recess and a projection that protrudes in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction from the sensor main body. The projection is supported on the support surface from one side in the first direction. The sensor main body is disposed on the other side in the first direction away from the bottom surface of the first recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIRAI, Toshiaki NAKAMURA, Yutaka UEMATSU
  • Patent number: 10295424
    Abstract: An oil sensor attachment structure includes a guide projection disposed on an upper surface of an oil passage body and a sensor case. The guide projection includes a pair of first walls, a pair of first protrusions protruding toward each other, and a second wall. A receiving portion having a first receiving opening is provided between the first walls. The second wall faces the first receiving opening in a second direction with a gap therebetween. The sensor case includes a columnar portion, a flange protruding from the columnar portion, and a facing portion that is connected to the flange and that protrudes to a position above the flange. Each of the first protrusions has a first surface facing toward the other side in the second direction. The facing portion is disposed on the other side of the first surface in the second direction and faces the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoka Osawa, Hironobu Wakabayashi, Toshiaki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20190085996
    Abstract: A solenoid valve includes a solenoid portion that moves a pin to one axial side and a nozzle portion including a valve body connected to one axial side of the pin, and a nozzle body that houses the valve body. The nozzle body includes a valve chamber that has a cavity recessed toward one axial side with an opening on the other axial side and that houses the valve body on one axial side of the cavity, and a solenoid housing portion that houses the solenoid portion on the other axial side of the valve chamber of the cavity. The valve body is driven by the pin and moves to one axial side to close a valve hole and is urged by a spring and moves to the other axial side to open the valve hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dongming CHEN, Tomohiko NAKANISHI, Koichi ISHIKAWA, Yoshikatsu GOTO
  • Publication number: 20190085999
    Abstract: A solenoid valve includes a solenoid portion that moves a pin to one axial side and a nozzle portion including a valve body connected to one axial side of the pin. The valve body is driven by the pin and moves to one axial side to close a valve hole and urged by a spring and moves to the other axial side to open the valve hole. The spring is disposed in an annular space between a radial outer surface of a second valve body portion and a radial inner surface of a valve chamber, one axial side of the spring is in contact with a bottom surface of the valve chamber, the other axial side is in contact with a first valve body portion extending radially from an outer surface of the second valve body portion, and the spring urges the valve body toward the other axial side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dongming CHEN, Tomohiko NAKANISHI, Koichi ISHIKAWA, Yoshikatsu GOTO
  • Publication number: 20190063633
    Abstract: An oil pressure control device is provided with a valve member including: a cylindrical sleeve having a first end part and a second end part opposite thereto; a valve body arranged on the side of the second end part; a movable member arranged in the hollow part on the side of the first end part, housed to be movable along the hollow part, having a pressure receiving surface on the side of the first end part of the cylindrical sleeve to receive an oil pressure, and having a contact part on the side of the second end part to contact the valve body according to the oil pressure on the pressure receiving surface; and a detent member arranged between the valve body and the second end part to limit movement of the valve body towards the side of the second end part within a predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Saori NUIYA
  • Publication number: 20190063634
    Abstract: Provided is a hydraulic control device having a valve member wherein the valve member includes a cylindrical sleeve including a first end and a second end which is opposite side to the first end, a valve body which is disposed on the second end side of a hollow portion in the cylindrical sleeve and opens and closes an oil path, a movable member which is disposed on the first end side in the hollow portion, movably accommodated along the hollow portion, and includes a pressure receiving surface provided to receive a hydraulic pressure and a contact portion provided to be brought into contact with the valve body according to the hydraulic pressure on the pressure receiving surface, and a movement stopping member which is disposed between the valve body and the second end and limits movement of the valve body toward the first end side within a predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Saori NUIYA
  • Publication number: 20190032657
    Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor unit having a shaft, and a pump unit which is disposed on a front side of a motor unit and is driven via the shaft and discharges oil. The motor unit includes a rotor that rotates around the shaft, a stator that is disposed to face the rotor, and a resin housing in which the rotor and the stator are housed. The pump unit includes a pump rotor installed to the shaft and a pump housing having a housing part in which the pump rotor is housed. A step that is recessed inwardly in the radial direction of the pump housing is provided on an outer surface outside the pump housing in the radial direction, the step is disposed on a rear side with respect to the housing part, and a front side end of the resin housing is fixed to the step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigehiro KATAOKA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190036422
    Abstract: An electric actuator includes a first wiring member with a first connection portion exposed to one side in an axial-direction of a first case and a second wiring member with a second connection portion exposed to another side in the axial-direction of a second case, the first and second connection portions each having two opposing portions that respectively oppose in first and second directions with first and second gaps therebetween, the first gap having a narrow portion and a wide portion (larger in the first direction) connected thereto on the other side in the axial-direction, the second gap having a narrow portion and a wide portion (larger in the second direction) connected thereto on the one side in the axial-direction, and the first and second gaps overlapping at least partially when the first and second case are fixed, and the first and second connection portions are electrically connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIRAI, Shuichi KINJO, Yutaka UEMATSU, Kenichi OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20190036415
    Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor unit having a shaft centered on a central axis that extends in an axial direction of the shaft and a pump unit which is disposed on a front side of the motor unit, is driven by the motor unit, and discharges oil. The motor unit includes a rotor that is fixed on a rear side of the shaft, a stator that is disposed outside the rotor in a radial direction, a resin housing in which the rotor and the stator are housed, and a connector assembly that is disposed outside the resin housing in the radial direction. The connector assembly is integrally molded with the resin housing. The pump unit includes a pump rotor installed to the shaft that protrudes from the motor unit and a pump housing in which the pump rotor is housed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigehiro KATAOKA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Noriyuki IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20190032656
    Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor unit having a shaft and a pump unit which is disposed on a front side of the motor unit, is driven by the shaft, and discharges oil. The motor unit includes a rotor, a stator, and a resin housing in which the rotor and the stator are housed. The pump unit includes a pump rotor provided at the shaft and a pump housing having a housing part in which the pump rotor is housed. The pump housing includes the pump body that is supported by the shaft via a sliding bearing and a pump cover that covers a front side of the pump body. A rear side of the shaft is supported by the resin housing via a rolling bearing and a front side of the shaft that protrudes from the motor unit is supported by a pump body via the sliding bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Koji HIGUCHI, Yutaka HASHIMOTO, Shigehiro KATAOKA