Patents Assigned to NOK Corporation
  • Publication number: 20190085928
    Abstract: A buffer stopper capable of increasing an absorbable energy amount without causing changes in characteristics due to wear of a buffer body. In order to achieve the object, the buffer body containing a rubber elastic body disposed between an end surface formed in a housing and an end surface formed in a shaft which is relatively movable in the axial direction with respect to the housing and a wear resistant sheet which is provided so as to surround the outer peripheral surface of the buffer body and which can contact an inner peripheral surface of the housing by expansion and deformation in the radial direction of the buffer body are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shoji MIZUMACHI
  • Patent number: 10234037
    Abstract: A dust seal includes an annular dust seal body, an annular bushing through which a shaft is slidably inserted, and an annular seal lip provided on the bushing and slidably contacting the shaft. The dust seal body includes an annular elastic attaching portion that is fitted into an opening of a receiving portion, an annular first accordion unit having an elastic accordion, and an annular second accordion unit having an elastic accordion. The first accordion unit and the second accordion unit are arranged side by side in the direction of an axis. The first accordion unit is integral with the attaching portion, is joined to the attaching portion at an outer periphery, and is bonded to the bushing at an inner periphery by vulcanization. The second accordion unit is fixed to the attaching portion at an outer periphery, and engaged with the bushing at an inner periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoto Kobayashi, Takuya Kato
  • Publication number: 20190078638
    Abstract: Damping stopper for a mechanism in which a housing and shaft are not only displaced axially relative to each other but but also rotated relative to each other. The damping stopper is attached to a space portion between an end surface portion on housing side and an end surface portion on shaft side which is displaced axially relative to the housing and is rotated relative to the housing and has a metal fitting on one of the end surface portions, an elastic body connected to the metal fitting, and a sliding member connected to the elastic body. The sliding member contacts the other end surface portion to contact/separate from the other end surface portion and the sliding member is slidable and rotatable relative to the other end surface portion when the shaft is rotated while the sliding member, containing resin component, contacts the other end surface portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Suguru YAMADA
  • Patent number: 10228059
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a sealing device which has forward and reverse screw threads exhibiting a fluid-pumping action provided on a sliding portion of a seal lip, such that the pumping action is less susceptible to deterioration even with increasing wear on the screw threads and such that leakage of droplets from the screw threads is minimized. To achieve this, the forward and reverse screw threads which exhibit a pumping action on sealing fluid are arranged in a circle on the air-side lateral surface of the sliding portion of the seal lip. The forward and reverse screw threads each have a shape gradually increasing in thread height from the leading end of the lip to the air side. The forward screw threads and/or reverse screw threads are provided with seal protrusions for preventing leakage of droplets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideharu Hyakutake, Tomoaki Nishimura, Hiroki Matsui, Yuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20190072182
    Abstract: A sealing device includes: resin packing 100 having an outer peripheral lip 120, an inner peripheral lip 130 and an annular mounting groove 110, the mounting groove 110 being provided on a sealed-region side (H) of the packing 100, the outer peripheral lip 120 being located on a radially outward side of the packing 100 with respect to the mounting groove 110, and the inner peripheral lip 130 being located on a radially inward side of the packing 100 with respect to the mounting groove 110; and a spring 200 having an outer peripheral portion 210 that presses the outer peripheral lip 120 radially outwardly and an inner peripheral portion 220 that presses the inner peripheral lip 130 radially inwardly, the spring 200 being mounted in the mounting groove 110, wherein the inner peripheral lip 130 has an first annular groove 111 in its outer peripheral surface, the first annular groove 111 being formed adjacent to a groove bottom of the mounting groove 110.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuo WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20190072101
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a sealing structure for a casing that can reduce the number of used gaskets and achieve further weight reduction, with the sealing function of the gaskets secured. The object is solved by including: a case 2 having an opened top; a cover 3 attached to the top of the case 2 to form a fluid flow path therein; a center plate 5 interposed between the case 2 and the cover 3 and partitions an inner space into the side of the case 2 and the side of the cover 3; and a gasket 4, which is disposed between the case 2 and the cover 3, and forming the center plate 5 so as to have a size that is within an inner peripheral side relative to a sealing line 41 of the gasket 4 and stacking this center plate on the gasket 4, and attaching the cover 3 to the top of the case 2 with the stacked gasket 4 and center plate 5 sandwiched there between to compress the gasket 4 with the mutual butting surfaces between the case 2 and the cover 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya AIHARA, Shinya NAKAOKA, Isao TANJI
  • Patent number: 10215283
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a sealing device that has a small number of parts as three or less to achieve a more compact sealing device. The sealing device is combined an inner seal ring, an outer seal ring held in an outer circumferential holding groove of the inner seal ring, and a back ring. The outer seal ring satisfies a dimensional size relationship of T>A when T is the radial thickness dimension of the outer seal ring, G is the protrusion gap dimension, R is the radial width dimension of the chamfered sections on the edges of the open side of the seal installation groove, and A is the sum of the protrusion gap dimension G and the radial width dimension R of the chamfered sections on the edges of the open side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Maeda
  • Patent number: 10208802
    Abstract: A sealing device is constructed by combination of a lip seal member attached to a not-rotating stationary member and a seal flange member attached to a rotary member. The seal lip member has a lip seal member main body having an end face lip, an outward flange portion, and an outer peripheral tube portion. The seal flange member has a seal flange member main body and an outer peripheral side tubular portion. The sealing device further includes a non-contact type labyrinth seal having a predetermined axial length arranged between the outer peripheral tube portion in the lip seal member and the outer peripheral side tubular portion in the seal flange member. The sealing device can improve sealing performance, particularly muddy water sealing performance, while fulfilling the need for low torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuya Kato
  • Patent number: 10208861
    Abstract: A sealing device capable of preventing turnover of a dust lip and damage to a dust lip caused by insertion of a shaft. A bumper portion (125) made of a rubber-like elastic body and reducing an impact that the dust lip (122) receives from the shaft when the shaft is inserted into the sealing device (100) is provided on the side opposite to the sealed area (O) with respect to the dust lip (122), and an inner diameter of a tip of the bumper portion (125) on an inner peripheral side is set to be larger than an outer diameter of a part of the shaft on which a main lip (121) and the dust lip (122) slide and to be smaller than an inner diameter of a part having the largest inner diameter in a portion connecting the main lip (121) and the dust lip (122).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kokichi Hamamoto, Takehiro Nakagawa, Hideaki Nagahamaya, Shiho Sato
  • Patent number: 10195769
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a gasket forming mold with a structure in which curling of the reversing section of the gasket molding does not occur easily. To achieve said object, the forming mold for integrally forming an endless shaped gasket has forming grooves as cavities in the parting surfaces of the forming mold and the forming grooves have a reversing section in a part thereof. The reversing section has two linear portions and the ends of the two linear portions are connected by an arc-shaped curved section. The two linear portions are arranged at literally-symmetrical positions and are arranged so that a distance therebetween is enlarged little by little from one end toward the other. The ends where said distance is enlarged are connected by the circular arc-shaped curved section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Umezaki, Hideto Nameki
  • Patent number: 10197162
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a gasket capable of ensuring an excellent sealing property by a pair of seal beads oriented in directions axially opposing to each other, regardless of an inserting direction of the gasket into a setting groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventor: Tokunori Yanagi
  • Patent number: 10196497
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ethylene-acrylic rubber composition that is excellent in the compression set and also in the crosslinking bonding even when no secondary crosslinking is caused therein, an ethylene-acrylic rubber produced by causing primary crosslinking in the composition, a rubber metal composite formed by bonding the ethylene-acrylic rubber and a metal with each other, and a bonded piston sealing including the rubber metal composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventor: Tomonori Furukawa
  • Publication number: 20190032783
    Abstract: The invention provides a gasket having sealing lips in axial both ends of a gasket body in which a reinforcing ring is embedded. The gasket, has a structure in which the gasket body is displaced to the one axial side within the mounting groove when pressure acts on the gasket because the rigidity of a second sealing lip is set to be higher than the rigidity of a first sealing lip or a reinforcing ring is disposed closer to the one axial side within the gasket body. Furthermore, a seal bead which is brought into close contact to the bottom surface of the mounting groove when mounted is provided in the gasket body and a space portion surrounded by the second sealing lip, the seal bead, and the bottom surface and the other side surface of the mounting groove when mounted is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tokunori YANAGI, Masasuke UCHIYAMA, Takuya AMANO, Yuki NAKAGAWA, Naoki HAGIWARA
  • Publication number: 20190031227
    Abstract: Shock-absorbing stopper for preventing an elastic body from contacting a mating component, to cause sliding wear in a structure having a hollow in an outer peripheral surface. The stopper has a cylindrical elastic body, to which a fixed-side metal fitting is connected and to which a movable-side metal fitting is connected and an annular hollow in the outer peripheral surface, in which the stopper is sectioned into three portions by the hollow of a small diameter portion formed by the hollow, a fixed-side large diameter portion located closer to the fixed side, and a movable-side large diameter portion located closer to the movable side. The outer diameter dimension of the movable-side large diameter portion is smaller than the outer diameter dimension of the fixed-side large diameter portion and the axial width of the movable-side large diameter portion is smaller than the axial width of the fixed-side large diameter portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki HANADA
  • Patent number: 10190014
    Abstract: A surface-treating agent for vulcanized rubber, comprising, based on 100 parts by weight, as solid matters, of isocyanate group-containing 1,2-polybutadiene, an organic solvent solution containing 10 to 160 parts by weight of fluororesin particles and 2.5 to 20 parts by weight of a perfluoroalkyl group-containing oligomer-based, fluorine-containing surfactant as a dispersant. The surface-treating agent for vulcanized rubber improves the solution stability of the organic solvent solution, improves the further hardness of the entire coating film formed from the surface-treating agent, abrasion resistance, and product torque evaluation, and is effectively used as, for example, a coating agent for seal lip parts of oil seals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Natsumi Kimura, Katsumi Abe
  • Patent number: 10190691
    Abstract: A sealing device between a shaft hole formed on a housing and a rotary shaft, is provided with a rotating seal member fixed to the rotary shaft that rotates integrally with the rotary shaft, and a fixed seal member fixed to an inner surface of the shaft hole. The fixed seal member has a lip contacting the rotary shaft and an axial dust lip contacting the rotating seal member. The rotating seal member is formed by a rigid body, and an opening is formed on the rotating seal member connecting to a space defined by the rotary shaft, the lip and the axial dust lip of the fixed seal member, and the rotating seal member. A deformation member is disposed on the opening of the rotating seal member that has higher elasticity than the rotating seal member, which blocks the opening, and deforms based on the pressure in the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Tanida, Masaaki Yagi
  • Patent number: 10190689
    Abstract: A seal ring capable of stably reducing a rotational torque while preventing the leakage of sealed fluid. The seal ring includes: an abutment joint part (110) provided at one portion in a circumferential direction thereof; a plurality of dynamic pressure generation grooves (120) provided at intervals in the circumferential direction on a side of a sliding surface thereof sliding on a lateral wall surface of an annular groove; and foreign matter discharging grooves (130) that are provided between a region in which the plurality of dynamic pressure generation grooves (120) is arranged and the abutment joint part (110) in the circumferential direction on the side of the sliding surface sliding on the lateral wall surface, and that are capable of catching foreign matter intruding from the abutment joint part (110) and discharging the caught foreign matter to an outside of a sliding part between the seal ring and the lateral wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Yoshida, Fangman Xu, Nozomu Suzuki, Norimasa Hosonuma, Shigenobu Honda, Kenichi Yoshimura, Yohei Sakai, Shota Toma
  • Publication number: 20190025727
    Abstract: This conductive roll includes: at least one elastic layer 12 including primarily a conductive rubber body and provided along the outer periphery of a core 11; and a coating layer 14 provided along the outer periphery of the elastic layer 12. The conductive roll satisfies the following expressions: circumference Sm1?135 ?m and circumference Sm1<circumference Sm2 wherein circumference Sm1 represents an average interval Sm of irregularities along the circumferential direction of the elastic layer 12, and circumference Sm2 represents an average interval Sm of irregularities along the circumferential direction of the coating layer 14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicants: NOK CORPORATION, SYNZTEC CO., LTD., NOK KLUEBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kousuke OURA, Hiroshi OGURA, Masaki TAHARA
  • Patent number: 10184424
    Abstract: The invention provides a cylinder head gasket installed by being sandwiched between a cylinder block and a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine. The cylinder head gasket has bore holes each having a circular plane at positions which are lapped over a combustion chamber in said cylinder block, and surface pressure generation portions constructed by three-dimensional shapes surrounding said bore holes at positions which are lapped over partition walls between the combustion chamber in said cylinder block and a water jacket portion. The surface pressure generation portions are arranged at fixed positions in a thickness direction of said partition wall and are arranged closer to the combustion chamber side or the water jacket portion side than the fixed positions in the thickness direction of said partition wall partly on a circumference around the bore holes. Therefore, bore deformation can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Takeo Morimoto, Misaki Gushiken, Namieki Osawa
  • Publication number: 20190011872
    Abstract: A cleaning blade 1 includes an elastic body 11 that is a molded body of a rubber base material, and which has at least a surface treatment layer 12 in a portion of the elastic body 11, the portion coming into contact with an object to be contacted. The surface treatment layer 12 is formed by impregnating a surface portion of the elastic body 11 with a surface treatment liquid, which contains an isocyanate compound and an organic solvent, and curing the surface treatment liquid; the surface treatment layer 12 has an elastic modulus of 95 MPa or less; the elastic body 11 has an elastic modulus of from 20 MPa to 60 MPa (inclusive); and the difference between the elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer 12 and the elastic modulus of the elastic body 11 is 1 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicants: NOK CORPORATION, SYNZTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Syo KAWABATA, Kenji SASAKI, Yasushi SUGIYAMA, Hiroaki KANEDA, Natsumi KIMURA, Katsuya SHIMOTSUMA, Koji NISHIGUCHI, Shuji ABE, Hidetomo MUKAI