Patents Assigned to NOK Corporation
  • Patent number: 11905954
    Abstract: An electric pump includes a housing that includes a gear chamber, a rotor chamber, and a motor chamber. The electric pump includes a first seal member, a second seal member, and a third seal member. The first seal member seals a space between the gear chamber and the rotor chamber. The second seal member seals the space between the gear chamber and the rotor chamber. The third seal member seals a space between the gear chamber and the motor chamber. The third seal member seals the space between the gear chamber and the motor chamber to a lesser extent than the first seal member and the second seal member seal the space between the gear chamber and the rotor chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsushi Mori, Shintaro Kashiwa, Daisuke Masaki, Kenichi Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11906049
    Abstract: A sealing device includes: a sealing device main body to be attached to an outer periphery side member; and a slinger to be attached to an inner periphery side member. The sealing device main body includes: an annular reinforcement ring centered on an axis; and an annular elastic body part that is made of an elastic body attached to the reinforcement ring and is centered on the axis. A through hole that passes through a portion between an internal space side surface and an atmosphere side surface of the reinforcement ring is formed in the reinforcement ring, and a positioning part for fixing the position of the reinforcement ring at the time of vulcanization is formed on an internal space side surface of the elastic body part. In the sealing device, the through hole and the positioning part are formed at positions separated in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu Ariizumi
  • Publication number: 20240052928
    Abstract: Provided are a sealing device that can be easily manufactured and achieve a reduction in friction and a method for manufacturing the sealing device. A sealing device is provided between a housing in which a plurality of opening portions are formed in a tubular inner peripheral surface and a rotor that is disposed in the housing and switches a flow path by rotating relative to the housing. The sealing device includes a sealing device main body that is disposed along the inner peripheral surface and includes a sliding member provided on an inner surface or an outer surface. The sealing device main body has a plurality of through-holes that communicate with each of the plurality of openings, and the sealing device main body is a strip plate-shaped member with a flat plate shape that is bent and deformed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hikaru TADANO, Tokunori YANAGI, Hiroshi SUZUKI, Koichi YOSHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230415279
    Abstract: A welding jig device includes a jig on one side, a jig on the other side, and a jig clamp. The jig on one side includes a joint face on one side that contacts one face of faces exposed on outer surface sides of a plurality of workpieces that are overlaid one on top of the other. The jig on the other side includes a joint face on the other side that contacts the other face of the faces exposed on the outer surface sides of the plurality of workpieces. An opening corresponding to a desired welded portion of the plurality of workpieces is provided in at least one of the jig on one side or the jig on the other side. The jig clamp sandwiches the jig on one side and the jig on the other side together with the plurality of workpieces in a stacking direction of the plurality of workpieces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junpei INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230416506
    Abstract: A nitrile rubber-based composition comprising 1,000 to 2,500 parts by weight of a magnetic powder or silylated magnetic powder having a compressed density of 3.4 to 3.7 g/cm3, 0.5 to 20 parts by weight of alkoxyalkylsilane, and 8 to 40 parts by weight of a plasticizer, based on 100 parts by weight of nitrile rubber, hydrogenated nitrile rubber, or blend rubber thereof. The nitrile rubber-based composition that does not cause deterioration in roll processability and in adhesion between an adhesive applied to a metal plate and the rubber, even when a magnetic powder is added at a ratio as high as 1,000 parts by weight or more based on 100 parts by weight of nitrile rubber, hydrogenated nitrile rubber, or blend rubber thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunsuke ABE
  • Patent number: 11855315
    Abstract: A separator-integrated gasket with improved productivity includes a separator main body for a fuel cell and an elastic gasket formed integrally with the separator main body. The separator main body includes a bead and a pair of protrusions located on opposite sides of the bead to block the liquid rubber applied to the bead. The gasket is formed when the liquid rubber is cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime Yui, Toshihiro Shimazoe, Ryo Tomita
  • Patent number: 11835136
    Abstract: A sealing device capable of suppressing depletion of lubricant is provided. A sliding surface of a side lip 220 at a position away from a distal end of the side lip 220 is provided with a plurality of annular grooves 222 adjacent each other, each of all parts that form annular protrusions 223 between adjacent annular grooves 222 protrudes most at a center in a width direction thereof, with an amount of protrusion gradually decreasing with increasing separation from the center, and both sides of the center in the width direction are symmetric in shape. A tip portion of the sliding surface of the side lip 220 on the distal side of a region, which is provided with the plurality of annular grooves 222, is configured to make a planar contact with an end face of the annular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiki Watanabe, Kokichi Hamamoto, Tomoaki Nishimura, Masayuki Tanida
  • Patent number: 11835137
    Abstract: A sealing member for mechanical seals, which is a peroxide vulcanized molded article of a hydrogenated nitrile rubber having a bound acrylonitrile content of less than 20% and an iodine number of 20 mg/100 g or less. The sealing member for mechanical seals is obtained as a peroxide vulcanized molded article of a hydrogenated nitrile rubber composition comprising 0 to 5 parts by weight of carbon black, 20 to 100 parts by weight of silica, and 0.5 to 3 parts by weight of silane coupling agent, based on 100 parts by weight of hydrogenated nitrile rubber, and preferably further compounding 50 parts by weight or less of titanium oxide non-reinforcing filler. The obtained vulcanized molded article is to provide a sealing member for mechanical seals that can achieve desired LLC resistance, and that has excellent compression set characteristics, cold resistance, processability, hardness, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Abe, Hideyuki Murakami
  • Patent number: 11828366
    Abstract: A sealing device includes a reinforcement ring and an annular elastic body portion including a main body covering the reinforcement ring, a lip waist portion including an inner circumferential edge portion of the main body, a main lip extending from the lip waist portion to a first target side to be sealed and is to be in slidable contact with a rotary shaft, and a second dust lip extending from the lip waist portion to a second target side opposite to the first target side relative to the sealing device and being provided relative to the main lip with an annular space between the second dust lip and the main lip. The second dust lip includes a first lip slide portion being to be in slidable contact with the rotary shaft, a first protrusion formed on an inner circumferential surface of the second dust lip and closer to the first lip slide portion, and a second protrusion formed on the inner circumferential surface and closer to the lip waist portion than the first protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenichi Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20230364612
    Abstract: A fine particle capture device, having a chip that has a plane part and projection parts, and is configured such that fine particle-containing liquid entering from an inlet port passes on the surface of the plane part in the chip and between a projection part and another projection part adjacent thereto and the liquid is discharged from an outlet port. The projection parts are disposed on the plane part in the form of layers. The layers each has a plurality of projection parts, and are configured such that the fine particle-containing liquid having passed through a layer on the inlet port side passes through a layer on the outlet port side adjacent thereto. Each layer has a capture part and a bypass part. The capture part is disposed on the outlet port side of the bypass part in a specific layer as a portion of another layer adjacent thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki KOMORI
  • Publication number: 20230364613
    Abstract: A leukocyte trapping apparatus configured so: a chip having protruding parts arranged on a flat part, a blood-containing solution that enters through an inlet port is allowed to pass through the surface of the flat part and through spaces between two adjacent protruding parts in the chip and is discharged through a discharge port; the protruding parts are arranged in layers on the flat part, layer containing a plurality of the protruding parts, and the blood-containing solution that has passed through a layer located on the inlet port side passes through another layer that is adjacent to the layer on the discharge port side; a trapping part and a bypass part are between two adjacent protruding parts in each layer; and the trapping part is on the discharge port side of the bypass part in a specific layer as a portion of another layer adjacent to the specific layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicants: NOK CORPORATION, National University Corporation Ibaraki University
    Inventors: Asako NAKAMURA, Kenta TAKAHASHI, Takayuki KOMORI
  • Publication number: 20230349467
    Abstract: A sealing structure capable of providing consistent sealing performance for a prolonged time, and an assembling method of the sealing structure. An installation component is provided with an annular fitting groove in which a resin gasket is mounted. The fitting groove has a bottom with an annular projection including a tapered surface increasing in a diameter thereof from a pressure side to a non-pressure side, and a tapered surface decreasing in a diameter thereof from the pressure side to the non-pressure side. The tip of the annular projection is positioned closer to the pressure side than a center in a width direction of the fitting groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenichi NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11796004
    Abstract: A sealing device adapted to be disposed between an inner member and an outer member that rotate relative to each other includes a first sealing member including a cylindrical part adapted to be mounted to the outer member, and an annular part that extends radially inward from the cylindrical part; and a second sealing member including a sleeve adapted to be mounted to the inner member, and a flange. The first sealing member includes a lip that extends toward the flange of the second sealing member. An annular first clearance is provided between the flange and the cylindrical part of the first sealing member. The second sealing member includes a labyrinth lip extending from the flange radially outward and extending toward the atmosphere side more than the cylindrical part of the first sealing member, and a second clearance is provided between the labyrinth lip and the outer member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Seki
  • Publication number: 20230323102
    Abstract: An ethylene/propylene-based copolymer rubber composition having excellent mold contamination resistance obtained by adding a primary antioxidant, a secondary antioxidant, and a plasticizer to ethylene/propylene-based copolymer rubber, wherein based on 100 parts by weight of the ethylene/propylene-based copolymer rubber, 0.3 parts by weight or more of the benzimidazole-based antioxidant (A) is contained as the secondary antioxidant, less than 10 parts by weight of the ether ester-based plasticizer (B) is contained as the plasticizer, and the (B)/(A) ratio is 4.0 times or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11780993
    Abstract: An NBR composition for rubber laminated metal having 1 to 3 parts by weight of sulfur and 1 to 15 parts by weight of a disulfide compound such as 4,4?-dithiodimorpholine or dithiodicaprolactam represented by the general formula RN—S—S—NR (wherein RN is a cyclic linking group formed together with the N atom bonded to the S atom), based on 100 parts by weight of NBR. The rubber composition that can improve the protrusion properties of a rubber layer when used for, for example, a gasket or a brake shim material that is a laminated composite metal laminated with another metal plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Watanabe, Daiki Takekawa
  • Publication number: 20230314979
    Abstract: A conductive roller includes: a core member including an outer surface along and about an axial line thereof; and a surface layer arranged along the outer surface of the core member. The surface layer includes a conductive portion formed of a conductive resin composition, and a surface roughness imparting material in a form of particles dispersed in the conductive portion. An average particle size of the surface roughness imparting material is in a range of 6 micrometers or greater and 10 micrometers or less. The number of particles of the surface roughness imparting material per unit area of the surface layer is in a range of 1.0×104 particles per mm2 or greater and 2.0×106 particles per mm2 or less. An average thickness of the surface layer is in a range of 3.0 micrometers or greater and 15.0 micrometers or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo SUZUKI, Atsushi IKEDA, Satoshi FUKUOKA, Kenji SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11773906
    Abstract: A sealing device for sealing a gap between inner and outer members includes a mounted part attached to a cylindrical end of the outer member; at least one lip disposed radial inside the mounted part and extending toward the inner member; an annular part covering an end surface of the end of the outer member; and an annular flange formed from an elastic material connected to the annular part and disposed radial outside the end of the outer member. The inner member includes an inner portion disposed radial inside the outer member; a flange extending radially outward from the inner portion; and a through-hole formed in the flange for inserting a screw for securing the inner member to another member. The outer edge of the flange of the sealing device is disposed radial outside a portion of the through-hole that is the closest to the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Go Kanzaki
  • Patent number: 11773981
    Abstract: A sealing device includes a mounted part to be mounted to the inner peripheral surface of the shaft hole, a cylindrical part disposed radially inside the mounted part, a seal lip portion extending from the cylindrical part and in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the rotational shaft, a bellows part connecting the mounted part and the cylindrical part, and an annular sliding member made of a resin and disposed radially inside the cylindrical part, the outer peripheral surface of the rotational shaft being slidable on the annular sliding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11773980
    Abstract: Provided is a sealing device capable of exhibiting a screw pumping effect in an early stage while inhibiting leakage of a fluid to be sealed by providing thread protrusions. A second inclined surface is provided with a plurality of first thread protrusions that cause a fluid to be sealed to flow toward a region to be sealed when the seal lip rotates in one direction relative to a shaft, and a plurality of second thread protrusions that cause the fluid to be sealed to flow toward the region to be sealed when the seal lip rotates in another direction relative to the shaft. In a state before progress of sliding wear on the seal lip, a sidewall of each of the first thread protrusions on a side facing the region to be sealed and a sidewall of each of the second thread protrusions on the side facing the region to be sealed are both designed to be parallel to a center axis line of the shaft in a state in which the seal lip is in contact with a surface of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuto Manaka
  • Patent number: 11773982
    Abstract: A sealing device that is adapted to be disposed between a reciprocating shaft and an inner peripheral surface of a shaft hole in which the reciprocating shaft is disposed, and that separates an oil side from an atmosphere side, includes an annular oil seal made of a resin, an oil-side rigid ring made of a metal, an elastomeric annular dust seal, and an atmospheric-side rigid ring made of a metal. The oil seal has an oil lip adapted to be in slidable contact with the reciprocating shaft and is formed of a resin having a glass transition temperature of 80 degrees Celsius or higher. The oil-side rigid ring is disposed around the oil seal and supports the oil seal. The dust seal is disposed on the atmosphere side of the oil seal and has a dust lip adapted to be in slidable contact with the reciprocating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Onodera, Nobuhiro Nishimura, Masamichi Kishiro