Patents Assigned to Nidec Tosok Corporation
  • Patent number: 11333266
    Abstract: An electromagnetic valve includes: a solenoid, including a bobbin, a plunger, and a coil that moves the plunger; and a valve mechanism, including a flow path member that includes a first flow path, a second flow path, a relay part and a valve body housing, and a valve body that is inserted into the valve body housing, movably supported along an axial direction together with the plunger, and switches between passage and blockage between the first and the second flow paths. The valve body includes: a protrusion provided protruding radially outward from an outer periphery of the valve body and guided by an inner wall surface of the valve body housing when the valve body moves; a body made of resin; and a pin made of metal, provided at a center of the body along the axial direction and penetrating the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiko Nakanishi, Takashi Takai
  • Patent number: 11313450
    Abstract: The disclosure reduces inconvenience for a driver at the time of operating parking locking, thereby curbing cost reduction and space saving becoming difficult due to additional installation of a drive source for parking locking. The disclosure provides a motor driver mounted on a vehicle, including a rotation prevention arm which can move between a position where it is interposed between teeth of a parking gear portion to prevent rotation of a second gear thereby preventing rotation of each gear in a transaxle and a position where it is not interposed between the teeth, and a transmission mechanism which transmits a driving force of a motor shaft of an electric pump for transferring oil in a housing of the transaxle to the rotation prevention arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Okuhata
  • Patent number: 11316399
    Abstract: An electric actuator includes a motor which has a rotor having a motor shaft and a stator, a motor case for housing the motor, and a deceleration mechanism coupled to the motor shaft. The motor case has a case cylinder portion and a lid. The lid has a top plate portion, an outer cylinder portion, an inner cylinder portion, an annular groove portion, and an annular seal member. An axial length of the outer cylinder portion is larger than an axial length of the inner cylinder portion. An inner diameter of the annular seal member is smaller than an outer diameter of the inner cylinder portion in a state that the annular seal member is removed from the lid. The annular seal member is housed in the annular groove portion in a state of being in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the inner cylinder portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Kinjo, Hiroshi Shirai, Yutaka Uematsu
  • Patent number: 11305637
    Abstract: A vehicle cooling system includes a circulation flow path section which has a first flow path section and a second flow path section, and a solenoid valve which can switch between an open state in which the first flow path section and the second flow path section are connected and a closed state in which the first flow path section and the second flow path section are blocked. The circulation flow path section includes a valve body accommodating section configured to include a first accommodating section and a second accommodating section which connects the first flow path section and the second flow path section in the open state, and a connection flow path section whose one end is connected to the first flow path section. The other end of the connection flow path section opens to the first accommodating section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: SUBARU CORPORATION, NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Hiraoka, Tomoya Ozawa, Takashi Asai, Daisuke Murata, Keita Kobayashi, Tomohiro Yasuda, Kenro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11300127
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigehiro Kataoka, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11286927
    Abstract: The pump device includes a motor portion that includes a shaft rotating about a central axis and a pump portion that is driven by a motor portion via the shaft. The pump portion includes a pump rotor that rotates along with the shaft and a pump housing that includes an accommodation portion that accommodates the pump rotor. The pump housing includes a pump body that includes a first bearing portion that supports the shaft and a pump cover with an accommodation portion disposed between the pump cover and the pump body. The pump cover includes a flow path through which oil is discharged and suctioned, and includes a second bearing portion that rotatably supports the shaft and that communicates with the flow path. An end portion of the shaft on one side in the axial direction is disposed at the second bearing portion or inside the flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamitsu Eto, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Koji Higuchi, Yutaka Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11289257
    Abstract: A solenoid device includes a yoke, a core, a shaft, a bobbin, a coil, a plunger, a lid, and a housing. A housing body part of the housing has a first opening; a first inner wall part expanding toward the outer side in the radial direction on an inner wall; and a first caulking part extending from the rear side end. The first inner wall part has a first step part extending toward the outer side in the radial direction at an end on the other side in the axial direction. A first cylindrical part of the yoke has a first flange part. The first flange part contacts the first step part with an end surface on the other side in the axial direction. The first caulking part is bent toward the inner side in the radial direction to contact a circumferential edge part of the lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Kuramochi, Weiming Chen, Tomohiro Yasuda
  • Patent number: 11286924
    Abstract: A control device is provided for controlling a rotation speed of an electric oil pump, including a motor and a pump mechanism connected to the motor, based on a command value input from a host device. The control device includes: a first calculator calculating a first duty value of current to be output to the motor based on a deviation between the command value and a rotation speed of the motor; a second calculator calculating a second duty value of current to be output to the motor based on a deviation between a current limit value of the motor and a current value of the motor; and a drive current determiner comparing the first duty value calculated by the first calculator and the second duty value calculated by the second calculator, and selecting the lower duty value as a duty value of current that drives the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shirai, Koji Higuchi
  • Patent number: 11268621
    Abstract: A hydraulic control apparatus includes an output-side oil passage into which oil from a first oil passage and oil from a second oil passage flow, and a pressure regulating check valve regulating a hydraulic pressure in the second oil passage. The pressure regulating check valve includes first and second elastic portions housed in a spool hole between a valve body and a bottom of the spool hole. A natural length of the second elastic portion is shorter than a distance between the valve body and the bottom when the valve body closes an inflow hole. The second elastic portion applies an elastic force to the valve body in a state in which the valve body opens the inflow hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION, SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kunio Kimpara, Masayuki Nojo, Mamoru Murakami, Hiroaki Kosugi
  • Patent number: 11245302
    Abstract: An electric pump apparatus includes a motor, an inverter board, a coil support, a housing, and a pump portion driven by the motor. Coils include first end portions and second end portions drawn out from the coils, the first end portion and the second end portion defining both end portions of each of conducting wires of the coils. The inverter board is on a first axial side of the motor. The coil support includes a neutral point busbar that electrically connects the coils to one another. The coil support includes a first region including the first end portions arranged therein, each first end portion being directly connected to the inverter board, and a second region including the second end portions and the neutral point busbar arranged therein, each second end portion being connected to the neutral point busbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignees: NIDEC CORPORATION, NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Homma, Tomohiro Sakata, Susumu Maeda, Masato Aono, Takashi Hattori
  • Patent number: 11228227
    Abstract: An electric actuator according to an aspect of the disclosure includes: a motor including a rotor having a motor shaft extending along a central axis and a stator facing the rotor in a radial direction; and a deceleration mechanism which is disposed on a side of the stator in an axial direction and connected to the motor shaft. The motor shaft includes an eccentric shaft part with an eccentric axis, which is eccentric with respect to the central axis, as a center, and the eccentric shaft part is connected with the deceleration mechanism. The eccentric shaft part includes a balance concave part disposed on an end part of the eccentric shaft part in a predetermined direction which is in a radial direction from the central axis toward the eccentric axis. The balance concave part is recessed from an outer surface of the eccentric shaft part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Kinjo, Hiroshi Shirai, Yutaka Uematsu
  • Publication number: 20210396551
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke ITO, Toshiaki NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11199255
    Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor part having a shaft, a pump part located on a front side of the motor part and driven via the shaft, and a control part controlling the motor part. The motor part includes a rotor, a stator, and a motor housing accommodating the rotor and the stator. The pump part includes a pump rotor mounted on the shaft protruding from the motor part, and a pump housing accommodating the pump rotor. The control part includes a substrate having a surface on which a plurality of electronic components are mounted. The surface of the substrate is disposed to face the cylindrical portion of the motor housing and extends in the axial direction. The substrate has an axial length shorter than an axial length of an assembly of the motor part and the pump part and is disposed within an axial range of the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Shigehiro Kataoka, Yutaka Omori
  • Publication number: 20210384798
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIRAI, Kohei OSUGA, Kenichi OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20210381582
    Abstract: 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 arranged facing the externally toothed gear, and column members arranged to protrude from one member of the facing member and the externally toothed gear toward the other member and surround the motor axis. The other member has hole portions arranged to surround 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. At least one of the column members is attached to the one member in a manner of being rotatable around a central axis of the at least one column member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIRAI, Tomoki SATO
  • Patent number: 11190082
    Abstract: An electric actuator includes a motor including a rotor having a motor shaft extending along a central axis and a stator, a deceleration mechanism connected to the motor shaft, an output shaft, a bearing, and a deceleration mechanism case. The motor shaft includes an eccentric axis part with an eccentric axis as a center. The bearing is fitted on of the eccentric axis part. The deceleration mechanism includes an internal gear in a ring shape; an external gear connected to the eccentric axis part via the bearing and engaging with the internal gear; and an output flange part which transmits rotation of the external gear around the central axis to the output shaft. The deceleration mechanism case includes a plurality of gear supporting parts which support an end surface of the internal gear facing one axial-direction side and which are disposed in a circumferential direction with intervals from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Kinjo, Hiroshi Shirai, Yutaka Uematsu
  • Publication number: 20210348620
    Abstract: An electric pump provided with a pump unit configured to discharge working oil by being rotationally driven by an electric motor includes: a drive shaft configured to transmit rotational driving force from the electric motor to a rotor of the pump unit; a rotation-detection shaft provided coaxially with the drive shaft, the rotation-detection shaft being configured to be rotated together with the rotor; and a rotation detector unit configured to detect rotation of the rotation-detection shaft. The rotation-detection shaft has: an engagement portion configured to engage with the rotor; and a detection-target portion facing the rotation detector unit, and an outer diameter of the detection-target portion is set so as to be larger than an outer diameter of the engagement portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicants: KYB Corporation, NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei KUBO, Tomoyuki FUJITA, Koichiro AKATSUKA, Yoshiyuki MAKI, Koji HIGUCHI, Yutaka HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11171547
    Abstract: One aspect of an electric actuator of the disclosure includes: a motor having a motor shaft rotating about a central axis; a speed reduction mechanism connected to a portion on one side in an axial direction of the motor shaft; a case accommodating the motor and the speed reduction mechanism; an output part to which rotation of the motor shaft is transmitted via the speed reduction mechanism; a rotation detector having a rotation sensor detecting rotation of the output part; and a wiring member electrically connected with the rotation sensor. The case has a first concave part located on an outer surface of the case. One end part of the wiring member penetrates the case from inside the case and protrudes inside the first concave part. The rotation sensor is located inside the first concave part and connected with one end part of the wiring member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shirai, Yutaka Uematsu, Kazuhiro Saito, Shuichi Kinjo, Toshihiko Akiba, Koichi Ishige
  • Patent number: 11152832
    Abstract: An electric actuator includes a motor and a deceleration mechanism. The motor has a motor case having a first opening end surface. The deceleration mechanism has a deceleration mechanism case having a second opening end surface. The motor case and the deceleration mechanism case are connected via a sealing member. The first opening end surface has a first end surface body part and a first end surface protrusion part. The second opening end surface has a second end surface body part and a second end surface protrusion part. The sealing member has a body part sealing part and a protrusion part sealing part. The protrusion part sealing part has an axial-direction protrusion that faces a side surface of the motor case in the first end surface protrusion part or a side surface of the deceleration mechanism case in the second end surface protrusion part in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Kinjo, Hiroshi Shirai, Yutaka Uematsu
  • Patent number: 11152835
    Abstract: An electric actuator includes a motor portion, a circuit board, a speed reduction mechanism, a busbar holder that holds a busbar, and a housing. The housing has a motor case and a compartmental wall. The compartmental wall has a through-hole which penetrates the compartmental wall in an axial direction. The busbar holder has a base portion and a projecting portion which projects from the base portion in the axial direction and is disposed in the through-hole. An end portion of the busbar at one side projects from the busbar holder toward one side in the axial direction and is connected to the circuit board, and an end portion of the busbar at the other side projects into the through-hole from a side surface of the projecting portion of the busbar holder and is connected to a coil of a stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shun Kato, Youngdae Kang, Hiroaki Takahashi