Patents Assigned to NOK Corporation
  • Publication number: 20150362074
    Abstract: Provided is a sealing device that is capable of exhibiting a sealing function even in a condition in which a fluid pressure is low while suppressing its sliding torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunari SEKI, Koji WATANABE
  • Patent number: 9206837
    Abstract: In an elastic ball joint dust cover structured such that a spherical head portion formed in one end of a ball stud is retained within a socket, a shaft in the other end of the ball stud is fastened to a knuckle, a large-diameter opening portion is fixed and retained to an outer peripheral surface of the socket, a small-diameter portion having a reinforcing ring embedded therein is retained to the shaft, the reinforcing ring is constructed by a tubular portion, and a flange portion extending from an end portion of the tubular portion toward the shaft, and is integrated with the small-diameter portion in such a manner that a side surface of the flange portion at a side of the knuckle and an inner peripheral surface of the flange portion facing a peripheral surface of the shaft are exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Ishimori, Noriaki Sato, Koji Kanagawa
  • Publication number: 20150343676
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a carbon plate-integrated gasket with which, when forming a carbon plate-integrated gasket using a cure-in-place gasket (CIPG), gaskets with a selected lip shape can be obtained with good precision without damage to the carbon plate and with good material yield while maintaining favorable material properties. For this purpose, in the method for manufacturing a carbon plate-integrated gasket having a lip-shaped section in which an uncured liquid rubber is applied on the surface of a carbon plate to produce an uncured seal protrusion and the seal protrusion is then compressed and cured between a forming mold and the carbon plate, a burr-collecting section for discharging excess seal protrusion rubber from the gasket-forming space is configured between the forming mold and the carbon plate so as to communicate with said forming space via a rubber-squeezing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro SHIMAZOE, Shigeru WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20150337893
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a dust cover for a ball joint which can suppress generation of a so-called mouth opening phenomenon in a small-diameter opening portion even under a low-temperature atmosphere, can effectively inhibit a seal performance from being lowered in the small-diameter opening portion and inhibit the sedimentation or the garbage from entering into a dust cover from an external portion, and has a good sealing performance. For this purpose, in a dust cover for a ball joint having a spherical head portion, a shaft, one end large-diameter opening portion, the other end small-diameter portion, and a film portion, concavo-concave engagement is formed between an inner peripheral surface of the rigid ring and an outer peripheral surface of a retainer having a cylindrical portion which is fitted and retained to an outer peripheral surface of the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuro HOSEN, Takayoshi IWASAKA
  • Patent number: 9196911
    Abstract: A gas diffusion layer-integrated gasket 1 includes a first gasket 12 which is integrally molded to a periphery of a first gas diffusion layer 11 and a second gasket 14 which is integrally molded to a periphery of a second gas diffusion layer 13, and a hinge part 15 which connects the first gasket 12 and second gasket 14 to each other. The first and second gas diffusion layers sandwich a membrane-electrode assembly 2 in which catalytic electrode layers are provided on both surfaces of an electrolytic membrane from both sides, wherein a seal protrusion 12c is formed on a surface which is in tight contact with the membrane-electrode assembly 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime Yui, Shigeru Watanabe, Kenichi Oba
  • Patent number: 9183484
    Abstract: The disclosure prevents, with improved reliability, an IC tag from being broken, while ensuring overall flexibility of the IC tag. The IC tag 100 is provided with a covering 140 made of an elastic material, which covers at least the side of the IC tag 100 on which an IC chip 130 is mounted and has a thickness that is larger in its portion 140a that covers a region about the IC chip 130 than in its portion 140b that covers a region outside the region about the IC chip 130. The covering 140 is configured in such a way that at least a part of a boundary of the portion 140a of the covering that covers the region about the IC chip 130 and the portion 140b of the covering that covers the region outside the region about the IC chip 130 has a curved shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko Nakano, Naohiro Fujisawa, Keiichi Miyajima, Kenji Minoshima
  • Publication number: 20150316151
    Abstract: To provide a scheme that, when making a prediction in multilayer coding, takes into account the quality of the image in each layer and can adaptively determine in want manner to refer to the image of which layer. Provided is an image processing device provided with a prediction control unit that, on the basis of an indicator dependent on the image quality of a first layer image and a second layer image, sets the weighting when including a first layer pixel and a second layer pixel for predicting a pixel in the second layer that is encoded or decoded referring to the first layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 9178226
    Abstract: A fuel cell sealing structure has a power generating body, and first and second separators arranged in both sides in a thickness direction of the power generating body. On a surface in one side in a thickness direction of the first separator, formed integrally first and second sealing protrusions respectively brought into close contact with an outer peripheral portion of the power generating body and the second separator in an outer peripheral side of the first sealing protrusion, and a short circuit prevention rib protruding in line with the first and second sealing protrusions by an electrically insulating rubber-like elastic material. On a surface in another side thereof, formed integrally a third sealing protrusion brought into close contact with a surface in an opposite side to the power generating body in the second separator, by the electrically insulating rubber-like elastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Masaka, Yoshihiro Kurano, Shinichiro Taguchi, Kenichi Kikuchi, Tetsuya Urakawa
  • Patent number: 9157530
    Abstract: The sealing device includes: an outer peripheral ring 2000 that is in contact with a side wall surface of an annular groove 4100 at a low pressure side (L), and slides with respect to an inner peripheral surface of a shaft hole in a housing 5000 through which a shaft 4000 is inserted. An inner peripheral ring 3000 made of a rubber-like elastic body that is in contact with an inner peripheral surface of the outer peripheral ring 2000 and a groove bottom surface of the annular groove 4100, respectively. The outer peripheral ring 2000 is formed on its outer peripheral surface with a concave portion 2220 which extends from an end of a high pressure side (H) to a position which does not arrive at an end of a low pressure side, so as to introduce fluid thereinto from the high pressure side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunari Seki, Koji Watanabe, Wataru Tokunaga, Yuki Takao, Fangman Xu, Hirotaka Mizuta, Keisuke Nakashima, Takuya Igawa, Yusuke Yoshida, Hideya Watanabe, Yosuke Kondo
  • Patent number: 9156985
    Abstract: A fluororubber composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a peroxide-crosslinkable tetrafluoroethylene-vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropene ternary copolymer rubber having a fluorine content of 64 wt. % or more, (A) 5 to 90 parts by weight of carbon black having a specific surface area of 5 to 20 m2/g, (B) 5 to 40 parts by weight of a fine bituminous powder, (C) at least one of 1 to 20 parts by weight of hydrophilicity-imparted talc and/or 1 to 30 parts by weight of hydrophilicity-imparted clay, and (D) 0.5 to 6 parts by weight of an organic peroxide; the fluororubber composition being used as a molding material for fuel oil sealing materials to be in contact with fuel oil. The fluororubber composition provides a sealing materials having excellent metal corrosion resistance, without compounding an acid acceptor comprising a metal oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Yamanaka, Kenichi Uchida
  • Patent number: 9156998
    Abstract: A coating agent, which comprises a cellulose derivative, an isocyanate group-containing 1,2-polybutadiene, a synthetic wax having a softening point of 100°-150° C., a fatty acid amide having a softening point of 60°-170° C., and graphite, can satisfy desired performances, when applied to rubbery elastomers, etc. such as prevention of sticking, adhesion and blocking, and improvement of abrasion resistance, and also can serve as a surface-treating agent for vulcanized rubber without peeling of coating films due to adhesion under high-temperature compression or friction-abrasion under high specific pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Higashira, Atsushi Yokota
  • Publication number: 20150285380
    Abstract: A slinger of an oil seal has a thread groove carrying out a pumping action toward a diametrically outer side in an external side end surface of a flange portion. A lip seal member has a main lip, a rubber-like elastic dust lip and a rubber-like elastic intermediate lip. The intermediate lip directs a lip end to a machine inner side, comes into close contact with the slinger over a whole periphery with the lip end, and has annular first projections and circumferentially partial second projections in a facing portion to the slinger. The first projection has a structure which makes dust hard to pass through to the lip end by forming a micro gap in relation to the slinger. The second projection has a structure which properly keeps the micro gap under generation of eccentricity in a rotary shaft by having a higher portion than the first projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takehiro Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20150274989
    Abstract: An object is to provide a metal surface treatment agent which can be coated by screen printing, and can be effectively used for metal surface treatment at the time of forming a rubber-metal complex excellent in water resistance and heat resistance, and the object can be solved by a metal surface treatment agent which comprises an organometallic compound, silica, magnesium silicate hydrate, and an organic solvent represented by the following general formula (I): R—O—(CH2)2OH??General formula (I) [wherein R represents an alkyl group having 3 or more carbon atoms or an aryl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Taichi Kano, Tomohiro Kaise
  • Publication number: 20150260290
    Abstract: In a sealing device sealing between relatively moving two members by being installed to an installation groove in one member and coming into close contact with the other member and a side wall of the installation groove, the sealing device has a seal ring including a diametrical portion in an end portion of a tubular portion, and coming into close contact with a side wall of the installation groove by an end surface of the diametrical portion and the other member by an outer peripheral surface of the tubular portion, a rigid support ring including positions respectively coming into contact with an inner peripheral surface of the tubular portion and the axially other end surface of the diametrical portion, and a spring means pressing the support ring and the seal ring. The support ring serves to support the tubular portion of the seal ring from an inner peripheral side thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Monma
  • Patent number: 9133938
    Abstract: A sealing device with a lip edge portion 2a and a sealing-space-opposite-side conical surface 2b whose diameter increases from the lip edge portion 2a toward a sealing space B opposite side is formed on an inner peripheral surface of a seal lip 2, and a first thread ridge 21 that obliquely extends in a given direction with respect to a circumferential direction, a second thread ridge 22 that obliquely extends in a direction opposite to the direction in which the first thread ridge 21 obliquely extends, and a circumferential ridge 23 that extends in the circumferential direction while intersecting the first thread ridge 21 and the second thread ridge 22 are formed on the sealing-space-opposite-side conical surface 2b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kokichi Hamamoto
  • Publication number: 20150252181
    Abstract: Disclosed is a coating agent composition comprising (A) a polytetrafluoroethylene resin emulsion, (B) an urethane resin emulsion, and (C) a hydrogenated NBR emulsion, and preferably further comprising (D) an acrylic resin emulsion and/or an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin emulsion. When this coating agent composition is used as a surface coating agent for general vulcanized rubber-molded products, evaluation of adhesion to rubber by an adhesion test is hardly impaired, and bleeding evaluation, evaluation of the flexibility of the coating agent by a bending test, and evaluation of the reduction in adhesion to rubber due to bloom from the rubber by a high-temperature and high-humidity test are all satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: NOK Corporation
    Inventor: Toshihiro Higashira
  • Publication number: 20150233331
    Abstract: A sealing device (100) includes a resinous sealing ring (110) and an elastomeric elastic ring (120) in an annular groove 210. The sealing ring (110) has a cylindrical surface portion (112a) making intimate contact with a groove bottom of the annular groove (210) and an inclined surface portion (112b) expanding in diameter toward the atmosphere side (A). The elastic ring (120) is disposed such that at least its portion is compressed between the inclined surface portion (112b) and the groove bottom of the annular groove (210) so as to press a portion of the sealing ring (110) on the atmosphere side (A) toward the outer peripheral side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hikaru Tadano, Yosuke Kondo, Hiroaki Monma
  • Patent number: 9103444
    Abstract: An acrylic rubber composition comprising 100 parts by weight of an ACM polymer, which contains monomers each having a carboxyl group(s) as crosslinking-site monomers, respectively, and 5 to 30 parts by weight of vein graphite or flake graphite. An acrylic rubber composition having 100 parts by weight of an ACM polymer, which contains monomers each having a carboxyl group(s) as crosslinking-site monomers, respectively, 5 to 30 parts by weight of vein graphite or flake graphite, and 0.5 to 1.5 parts by weight of a liquid paraffin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Sato, Ayako Niikura
  • Publication number: 20150217417
    Abstract: An explosion-proof valve installed to a hole portion of a pressure vessel and valve opening when the pressure within the pressure vessel goes beyond a predetermined value so as to release the pressure integrally has a tubular portion inserted to the hole portion, an outside flange portion provided in one end portion of the tubular portion and engaging with an opening peripheral edge portion outside the vessel in the hole portion, a locking projection provided in the other end portion of the tubular portion and engaging with an opening peripheral edge portion in side the vessel in the hole portion, and a membrane portion provided in an inner peripheral side of the tubular portion and rupturing due to the pressure at the valve opening time, and has such a shape that an outer diameter of the outside flange portion is made smaller than an outer diameter of the locking projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuji Takeshita
  • Patent number: D737415
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sato, Akira Morio, Daihachi Shojima