Patents Assigned to Nidec Tosok Corporation
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Patent number: 10812001Abstract: A control device to control a motor includes a stator including a coil, a rotor including a permanent magnet, a detector that detects a rotational position of the rotor at every predetermined angle and outputs a position signal indicating the detected rotational position, and a controller that receives the position signal output by the detector and adjusts a duty ratio of a driving signal of the rotor by a pulse width modulation scheme based on the received position signal to control rotation of the rotor. The controller raises the duty ratio from a first duty ratio, starting from a point in time at which the position signal is received, and returns the raised duty ratio to the first duty ratio when a next position signal has been received.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Kei Sato, Yuichi Hibi, Yasuhiro Shirai
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Patent number: 10801605Abstract: The disclosure provides a pressure control device that improves the workability in assembling a body and a filter unit. The pressure control device includes a body and a filter unit. The body has a flow path that includes a groove and a widened part. The widened part is connected to the groove, extends to a bottom of the groove, and has a width larger than a width of the groove. The filter unit is housed along a depth direction of the widened part to capture foreign matter mixed in a fluid that passes through the flow path. The filter unit includes a cylindrical frame and a flat plate-shaped filter member, wherein the frame includes a through hole part that penetrates in a direction orthogonal to a central axis, and the filter member is disposed to block the through hole part.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Nakano, Yoshinori Yamaki, Tomohiro Yasuda, Weiming Chen, Kenta Kuramochi
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Patent number: 10804771Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka Uematsu, Jaehyun Kim, Toshiaki Nakamura, Shuichi Kinjo, Hiroshi Shirai
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Patent number: 10801629Abstract: 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 cylindrical first inner wall part having a first step part extending toward the outer side in the radial direction; and a cylindrical second inner wall part having a second step part extending toward the outer side in the radial direction. A first cylindrical part has a first flange part. The outer diameter of the first flange part is larger than the inner diameter of the first inner wall part and smaller than the inner diameter of the second inner wall part. A circumferential end part of the first flange part contacts the second step part. The lid is non-magnetic, and a circumferential edge part is held between the first step part and the first flange part.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Kenta Kuramochi, Weiming Chen, Tomohiro Yasuda
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Publication number: 20200319048Abstract: A pressure detection apparatus includes a base plate including a first surface, a second surface, and an opening, a pressure sensor disposed on the first surface so as to cover the opening of the base plate and outputting an electric signal according to a pressure of measured fluid inside the opening, a lead terminal electrically connected to the pressure sensor, a housing holding the base plate and the lead terminal and including an exposed portion in which a portion of the lead terminal is exposed, and a capacitor protecting the pressure sensor. The housing includes a capacitor housing portion, the capacitor being electrically connected to the lead terminal inside the exposed portion, and a positioning portion that positions, inside the capacitor housing portion, the capacitor that has been mounted in the capacitor housing portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2017Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: Nidec Tosok CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Shigehiro KATAOKA, Yoshihiro KAMIMURA
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Publication number: 20200318696Abstract: A clutch control device includes a pump to feed oil to a hydraulic clutch, an input side oil passage connecting an oil tank and the pump and through which oil sucked from the oil tank to the pump passes, and an output side oil passage connecting the pump and the hydraulic clutch and through which oil that is pressurized by the pump and is fed from the pump to the hydraulic clutch passes. A damper connected to the input side oil passage and the output side oil passage includes an oil container containing oil, a partition that partitions the oil container into first and second spaces along a predetermined direction and at least a portion of which is movable in the predetermined direction, a first connection oil passage connecting the first space and the input side oil passage, a second connection oil passage connecting the second space and the output side oil passage, and an elastic portion that applies a force to the partition to move the partition toward the second space in the predetermined direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2017Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: Nidec Tosok CorporationInventors: Takamitsu ETO, Fumiya SAGARA
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Patent number: 10794465Abstract: There is provided an electric actuator in which a speed reduction mechanism and an output portion are disposed adjacent to each other in a radial direction in an opening portion of a housing main body, a cover member has a speed reduction mechanism cover which faces and surrounds the speed reduction mechanism, an output portion cover which faces and surrounds the output portion, and a constricted portion which connects the speed reduction mechanism cover and the output portion cover, the cover member is fixed to the housing main body by a plurality of caulking portions provided on a side wall portion, and, between two adjacent caulking portions interposing the constricted portion therebetween, one of the two caulking portions of the speed reduction mechanism cover is fixed toward a central axis of the speed reduction mechanism, and the other is fixed toward a central axis of the output portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka Uematsu, Kazumi Shinkai, Shun Kato, Shuichi Kinjo, Kohei Osuga, Tadayuki Hatsuda
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Publication number: 20200309118Abstract: Provided is an electric pump device which includes a motor having a shaft extending along a first central axis, a pump portion driven by the motor, and a housing for housing the motor and the pump portion. The housing includes: a housing body portion which has a bottomed tube shape and extends in an axial direction, a flange portion which expands radially outward from an outer peripheral surface of the housing body portion, a seal portion which has a ring shape extending in a circumferential direction and is arranged at a corner portion in which the outer peripheral surface of the housing body portion and an end surface facing one axial side of the flange portion are connected, and a projection portion extending from a bottom portion of the housing body portion toward one axial side. A second central axis of the projection portion is arranged at a position shifted in a radial direction from the first central axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi SAKAMOTO, Koji HIGUCHI, Kunihiro KAJITA, Tomokazu IKEDA
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Publication number: 20200313505Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a pump part; a motor driving the pump part and having a rotor, a stator, and a motor shaft; a housing housing the motor; a control board including a drive circuit controlling driving of the motor; and a sensor board equipped with a rotation sensor detecting a rotation angle of the rotor of the motor. The motor shaft has one axial side connected to the pump part. The control board includes a sensor connection part performing electrical connection with the sensor board. The control board is arranged on a radially outer side with respect to the motor in a position of extending in an axial direction. The sensor board is arranged on the other axial side with respect to the motor shaft, and is arranged in a direction intersecting the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Shigehiro KATAOKA
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Publication number: 20200309130Abstract: Provided is an electric pump device which includes a motor having a shaft extending along a first central axis, a pump portion driven by the motor, and a housing for housing the motor and the pump portion. The housing includes: a housing body portion which has a bottomed tube shape and extends in an axial direction, a flange portion which expands radially outward from an outer peripheral surface of the housing body portion, and a projection portion extending from a bottom portion of the housing body portion toward one axial side. A second central axis of the projection portion is arranged at a position shifted in a radial direction from the first central axis. The flange portion has convex portions projected from the end surface facing the one axial side of the flange portion toward the one axial side.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi SAKAMOTO, Koji HIGUCHI, Kunihiro KAJITA, Tomokazu IKEDA
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Publication number: 20200307527Abstract: An actuator includes a control part, a first rotation sensor, and a second rotation sensor able to detect rotation of an output shaft. The control part performs a first rotation angle acquisition control for acquiring a target rotation angle of the output shaft when a movable part is moved from the second position to the first position as a first rotation angle. The first rotation angle is a rotation angle of the output shaft that is closer to the second position side than when the movable part abuts the first wall part. In the first rotation angle acquisition control, the control part causes the movable part abuts the first wall part, acquires a rotation angle of the output shaft when the movable part has abutted the first wall part, and calculates the first rotation angle based on the rotation angle of the output shaft that has been acquired.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicants: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION, NIDEC ELESYS CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro SAITO, Seiji HASHIMOTO, Agato UENO
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Publication number: 20200313592Abstract: A motor control device includes a first control unit performing feedback control on a motor with a command value; one or plural second control units performing feedback control on the motor with a limit value; a control switching unit selecting, based on a deviation between the limit value and a measured value, one of the first and the one or plural of second control units as control unit. The first control unit has a first calculation unit calculating a control value, based on a deviation between the command value and a measured value of the motor related to the command value. Each second control unit has a second calculation unit calculating a control value, based on a deviation between the limit value and a measured value of the motor related to the limit value. The first and second calculation units share terms of a calculation expression of the control value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventor: Kei SATO
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Publication number: 20200309156Abstract: An electric pump device includes a motor having a rotor and a stator portions, a pump portion and a housing. The stator portion has a stator core, and coils each having a winding portion and a crossover portion. The housing has a housing body portion having a tubular shape and extending in the axial direction, and a flange portion expanding radially outward from the outer peripheral surface of the housing body portion. The flange portion has an end surface that faces toward one side in the axial direction and is disposed in the axial direction between a first and a second virtual plane. The first and the second virtual planes pass through parts of the stator core, the winding portion, and the crossover portion located respectively closest to one and the other sides in the axial direction and expanding in a direction perpendicular to a central axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi SAKAMOTO, Koji HIGUCHI, Kunihiro KAJITA, Tomokazu IKEDA
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Patent number: 10767780Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Dongming Chen, Tomohiko Nakanishi, Koichi Ishikawa, Yoshikatsu Goto
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Publication number: 20200277974Abstract: A pressure control device includes a body having a groove-shaped flow path including a groove part and a widened part, and a filter unit capturing foreign matters mixed in a fluid which passes through the groove-shaped flow path; the filter unit having a frame body including a through hole part and a filter member in a planar plate shape disposed with respect to the through hole part, and the filter unit being accommodated in the widened part. The frame body has: a first part having a first shape, a second part having a second shape smaller than the first shape, and a step part located at a boundary part between the first part and the second part The second part has a storage part provided in a penetrating manner on a bottom part side of the groove-shaped flow path and storing the captured foreign matters.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Masaru MIYAGI, Kenichi OZAWA
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Publication number: 20200276522Abstract: A pressure control device includes: a body having a groove-like channel containing a groove part and a widened part; and a filter unit having a cylindrical frame including a through hole part penetrating in a direction orthogonal to a central axis and a plate-shaped filter member disposed to cover the through hole part and supported on an inner side of the frame. The filter unit is accommodated in the widened part with a direction of the central axis of the frame being arranged along a depth direction of the widened part. The frame includes a convex part orthogonal to the penetrating direction of the through hole part and protruding toward an outer side of the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Masaru MIYAGI, Kenji OOHARA
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Publication number: 20200276520Abstract: A pressure control device includes a body with a groove-shaped flow path including a groove part and a widened part connected to the groove part and having a width larger than a width of the groove part; and a filter member accommodated in the widened part to intercept the groove-shaped flow path and capturing foreign matters mixed in a fluid passing through the groove-shaped flow path. The filter member is in a cylindrical shape whose central axis is along a depth direction of the widened part, has elasticity in its radial direction, and is energized toward a radial-direction outer side when accommodated in the widened part to contact the widened part.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventor: Masaru MIYAGI
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Publication number: 20200276524Abstract: A pressure control device is provided and includes a body which has a groove-shaped flow path including a groove part and a widened part connected to the groove part and having a width larger than a width of the groove part, and a filter unit which captures foreign matters mixed in a fluid which passes through the groove-shaped flow path. The filter unit includes a frame body being in a cylindrical shape and including a through hole part which penetrates in a direction along a central axis, and at least one filter member being in a planar plate shape disposed to intercept the through hole part and supported inside the frame body, in which the filter unit is accommodated in the widened part so that a direction orthogonal to the central axis of the frame body is along a depth direction of the widened part.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Masaru MIYAGI, Kenichi OZAWA
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Publication number: 20200276523Abstract: A pressure control device includes: a body having groove-like channel containing a groove part and a widened part; a filter unit having a cylindrical frame formed of an elastic material and including a through hole part penetrating in a direction orthogonal to a central axis and a plate-shaped filter member disposed to cover the through hole part and supported on an inner side of the frame. The filter unit is accommodated in the widened part with a direction of the central axis of the frame being arranged along a depth direction of the widened part; and a separate plate installed to the body to cover the groove-like channel in a state in which the filter unit is accommodated in the widened part. The frame has a length along the central axis greater than a depth of the widened part.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Masaru MIYAGI, Kenji OOHARA
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Publication number: 20200278036Abstract: A pressure control device includes a body having a groove-shaped flow path including a groove part and a widened part; a filter unit having a frame body including a through hole part that penetrates in a direction orthogonal to a central axis, a filter member in a planar plate shape disposed on one end side in a direction of an axis of the groove-shaped flow path with respect to the through hole part, and a seal member in a ring shape disposed along an outer-side circumferential edge part of the frame body when viewed from the through hole part; and a plate-shaped member being attached to the body to cover the groove-shaped flow path in a state where the filter unit is accommodated in the widened part. The frame body has a regulating part which regulates a disposition direction of the filter member with respect to the groove part.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventor: Masaru MIYAGI