Patents Assigned to NOK Corporation
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Publication number: 20100259014Abstract: To prevent muddy water intrusion into a sliding section (S1) of an oil seal lip (13), a sealing device (1) has an oil seal (10) mounted at an opening end (2a) of a housing (2) and a slinger (20) mounted axially outside the oil seal (10) on a rotating body (5), the oil seal (10) is formed from a rubber-like elastic material integrally with a metal reinforcement ring (11) and has the oil seal lip (13) slidably contacting with the outer peripheral surface of the rotating body (5) and a side lip (15) slidably contacting with the slinger (20), the reinforcement ring (11) has a sliding tube section (11b) radially outside a sliding section (S2) of the side lip (15), and a external seal lip (23) provided on a radially outer section (22a) of the slinger (20) slidably contacts with the outer peripheral surface of the sliding tube section (11b).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2008Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: NOK CORPORATIONInventor: Takehiro Nakagawa
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Patent number: 7810522Abstract: To prevent abnormal deformation of a bellows, an accumulator has a regulation mechanism for reducing a pressure difference generated when liquid sealed in a liquid chamber and charged gas are thermally expanded at a zero-down time, a seal plate is arranged in an inner peripheral side of a bellows floating end, an elastically deformable thin plate is bonded to the seal plate, an outer peripheral portion of the thin plate is bonded to the bellows floating end, the seal plate is away from a seal at a time of a steady operation, the seal plate contacts with the seal at a zero-down time, and the thin plate is elastically deformed to make liquid pressure balance with gas pressure while the seal plate being kept in contact with the seal when the liquid and gas are thermally expanded.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2010Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignees: NOK Corporation, Advics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinya Nakaoka, Kuniaki Miyake, Taisuke Yamada, Takeshi Watanabe, Tomonari Saito, Eiji Mizutani, Tomoo Ogura
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Patent number: 7806412Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a lip type end face sealing device 6 having excellent sealability to different kinds of liquids on the both sides in the axial direction and having excellent durability. A case 61 tight fitted to an inner peripheral face 2a of a housing 2 comprises case members 611 and 612. One pair of seal lips 62 and 63 is integrally fitted to inner peripheral flange parts 611b and 612b, positioned oppositely each other in the axial direction, and opened in a tapered shape. One pair of the seal lips 62 and 63 is slidably contacted with flange parts 64b and 65b of slingers 64 and 65 tight fitted to an outer periphery of a rotary shaft 3. Pressure in seal internal spaces S2 between the both seal lips 62 and 63 and the both slingers 64 and 65 is released through a vent hole 22 opened on the inner peripheral face 2a of the housing 2, an air hole 611c opened on the case 61, and between the case members 611 and 612.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2005Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: NOK CorporationInventors: Takehiro Nakagawa, Akihiro Sato, Tetsuo Tasaki, Hiromi Takahashi, Junya Hoshi, Hiroshi Okubo, Masahiro Anzai
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Publication number: 20100244388Abstract: To prevent entry of muddy water, a sealing device (1) has an oil seal (10) mounted in an opening end portion (2a) of a non-rotating housing (2) and a slinger (20) mounted on a rotating body (5), the oil seal (10) is integrally formed of a rubber-like elastic material on a metal reinforcement ring (11) and has the oil seal lip (13) slidably contacting with the rotating body (5), the reinforcement ring (11) has an outer diameter tube portion (11b) having no rubber-like elastic material and extending in the direction opposite to the opening end portion (2a) to surround the outer periphery of the slinger (20), and an outer seal lip (24) extending in the direction opposite to the opening end portion (2a) is mounted on a rim portion (23) of the slinger (20) to slidably contact with the inner peripheral surface of the outer diameter tube section (11b).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2008Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Takehiro Nakagawa, Akihiro Komyo
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Publication number: 20100240828Abstract: A silicone rubber composition, which comprises 100 parts by weight of vinyl group-introduced methylphenylvinyl-based silicone rubber obtained by copolymerization of dimethylsiloxane copolymerization units as the main component with 3-30 mol. % of methylphenylsiloxane copolymerization units, and 0.2-8 parts by weight of an organic peroxide, where introduction of vinyl groups into the silicone rubber can be attained generally by copolymerization of 0.1-5 mol. % of methylvinylsiloxane. When silica is used as a filler, it is desirable to use a surfactant for silica, and water together. Owing to distinguished low-temperature characteristics and blister resistance, the present silicone rubber composition can be used a suitable seal material for a high-pressure hydrogen gas storage tank, for example, to storage under 70 MPa, and particularly as suitable vulcanization-molding materials for O rings, packings, gaskets, oil seals, valves, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2007Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Sato, Masaya Otsuka, Masashi Kudo
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Patent number: 7799484Abstract: In order to provide a gasket which has a good handling property as a gasket used for a fuel battery or a gasket for an HDD, can be easily integrated with the other end mounting member even in the case that the other end mounting member such as a separator or the like is a material having low strength or a thin plate, and has good mounting workability, a gasket is having a sheet-shaped gasket mounting member provided with a sticking function on one face, and a gasket main body made of a rubber-type elastic member integrated with the sheet-shaped gasket mounting member, and the gasket is mounted to the other end mounting member on the basis of the sticking function of the sheet-shaped gasket mounting member.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2007Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: NOK CorporationInventors: Yuichi Kuroki, Kazuhisa Senda, Yoshihiro Kurano, Tomohiro Inoue
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Patent number: 7793944Abstract: In a sealing device (1) installed in an installation groove (4) provided in one member (2) of two members (2, 3) facing to each other so as to be brought into close contact with the other (3), the sealing device has a seal ring (11) and a backup ring (21) arranged in a low-pressure side (L) of the seal ring (11), the installation groove (4) has a slope bottom surface (4c), the backup ring (21) has a slope surface (21a). The sealing device (1) is to be made such that the seal ring (11) made of a rubber-like elastic body is prevented from being damaged by the backup ring (21) made of a hard material. In order to achieve this object, a second backup ring (31) is arranged between the seal ring (11) and the backup ring (21), and formed by a softer material than the backup ring (21).Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2005Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Nok CorporationInventor: Masaya Otuka
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Publication number: 20100225072Abstract: A seal ring whose abutment joint portion is opened is fitted into an annular gap while the abutment joint portion is substantially closed. The annular gap is formed between an inner circumferential surface of a hole portion provided in an outer circumferential jig and an outer circumferential surface of an inner circumferential jig disposed in the hole portion, and has a heating region and a cooling region. The seal ring is passed through the heating region and then passed through the cooling region in the annular gap. The outer circumferential jig and the inner circumferential jig are maintained at a constant temperature higher than a glass transition temperature of a resin material for the seal ring in the heating region, and maintained at a constant temperature lower than the glass transition temperature of the resin material for the seal ring in the cooling region.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2009Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Atsushi Fukushima, Toshiyuki Kido, Toshihiro Amano, Takahiro Saeki
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Patent number: 7789396Abstract: This invention provides an oil seal that can maintain an excellent friction reduction function over a long period of time, has excellent abrasion resistance, and further has excellent sealing properties. The oil seal comprises a seal lip (4) formed of a rubber-like elastic material comprising a lip edge part (9) and an air-side slope (8) and a sealing fluid-side slope (10) provided on both sides of the lip edge part (9). The air-side slope (8) has a coating film (14) on its surface. In the lip edge part (9) in its portion in contact with a shaft (13), a sealing fluid-side rubber part (2?) and an air-side coating film (14) are simultaneously brought into contact with the shaft (13). The coating film (14) is preferably formed of a coating agent comprising a fluororesin, a polyethylene resin, an isocyanate-modified polybutadiene resin, and a solvent.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2005Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: NOK CorporationInventors: Kazuki Takeno, Hideyuki Huruyama, Masayuki Tanida, Hiroki Matsui, Tatsuhiko Watanabe, Shinobu Munekata, Akira Yamaguchi, Hirotaka Mizuta, Kenichi Kunieda, Toshihiro Higashira
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Patent number: 7789210Abstract: To make it unnecessary to insert a plate spring as a separate part between a metal ring (2) and a mating member (11) to be coupled therewith such as a clutch plate, and reduce the number of parts and the assembly manhours, the sealing device (1) includes the metal ring (2) and seal sections (3) such as packings supported by the metal ring (2), and the metal ring (2) is provided with a intimate-contact region (4) for intimately contacting to the mating member (11) to be coupled, wherein the sealing device (1) is characterized in that the intimate-contact region (4) of the metal ring (2) is integrally formed with pawl-like intimate-contact sections (6) which are in the form of a pawl and which exert spring force on the mating member (11) to be coupled, and is used, for example, as a bonded piston seal (BPS) in an automatic transmission.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2005Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: NOK CorporationInventors: Yasunari Hamaya, Kiichiro Goto, Ken Yoshikawa, Shinji Nagasawa, Yoshiyuki Kanzaki, Yasushi Sugiyama, Hiroyuki Nikamoto
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Publication number: 20100222475Abstract: An aqueous surface-treating agent, which comprises a silicone oil aqueous emulsion, a polyurethane resin aqueous emulsion, and a silane compound represented by the following general formula (where R1 and R2 each are an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and n and m are 1?n?3 and m=3·n, respectively), and/or a hydrolyzate thereof, wherein 100 parts by weight or more of the polyurethane resin in terms of the weight of solid matters is used on the basis of 100 parts by weight in terms of nonvolatile matters of silicone oil, can prevent sticking of rubber seal materials such as O rings, etc. themselves or sticking to a metal, a resin, etc., and can reduce the friction of rubber or resin seal members at the time of sliding motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2008Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicants: NOK KLUBER CO., LTD., NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Tahara, Tetsuhiro Kitahara, Toshihiro Higashira, Yoshifumi Kojima
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Publication number: 20100212953Abstract: To eliminate rubber burr formation at the time of molding and to make sealing members to be surely integrated with the flexible wiring board, a sealing structure consists of housings to which the flexible wiring board is inserted, and sealing members integrally formed on the flexible wiring board to seal gaps between the housings and the flexible wiring board, the flexible wiring board consists of a base board made of an elastic material, a conductive printed wiring layer formed on the surface of the base board, and a cover film covering the surface of the printed wiring layer, and dummy printed wiring layers are arranged in regions where the sealing members are integrated with the flexible wiring board, so as to make a shape as if the printed wiring layer exists substantially over the entire base board in the width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2008Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Hayashi, Makoto Hora, Keiichi Miyajima
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Patent number: 7781508Abstract: A rubber composition, which comprises 100 parts by weight of an ethylene-alkyl acrylate copolymer rubber, 5-40 parts by weight of EPDM, 1-40 parts by weight of an ?-olefin oligomer, 0.5-4 parts by weight of an organic peroxide cross-linking agent, 0.5-4 parts by weight of an amine-based vulcanizing agent, and 300-1,000 parts by weight of magnetic powder. The rubber composition is a rubber composition filled a magnetic powder at a high packing density, where an ethylene-alkyl acrylate copolymer rubber having amine vulcanizable groups as a binder, and effectively usable in rubber-bonded sensor magnets, etc., without any foaming at the time of vulcanization molding and with distinguished processabilities such as mold releasability, etc.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2006Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: NOK CorporationInventors: Eiji Komiya, Shiro Hirose
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Publication number: 20100201078Abstract: A sealing device includes a side lip contacting with a surface angled to the axis. To optimize the cross sectional shape of the side lip, T1/T3 is set to not less than 0.5 and less than 0.8 and L2/L1 is set to 0.2 to 0.4, where the thickness of the lip end (5c) of the side lip (5) is T1, the thickness of the lip base (5a) is T3, the length of the lip end (5c) is L1, and the length of the lip base (5a) is L2. Further, in a sealing device which includes a side lip (5) contacting with a surface angled to the axis over its contact width, the maximum value of the surface pressure in the side lip (5) is set at the most leading end (5d) of the lip.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2007Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Kuzumaki, Yuichi Shuto, Yoshimi Imamoto
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Publication number: 20100200355Abstract: A seal structure provided in an inner mechanism of an automatic shift gear includes: a housing; a piston; a canceller; a return spring; an opponent member which is disposed opposite to a centrifugal canceller chamber in the canceller and forms an oil path between the opponent member and the canceller; an outer circumferential seal unit which is provided on an outer circumferential portion of the canceller and comes into contact with the piston to seal an operating oil supplied to the canceller chamber; and a second outer circumferential seal unit which is provided on the outer circumferential portion of the canceller and comes into contact with the opponent member to seal an operating oil flowing through the oil path, in which the second circumferential seal unit has an axial seal shape which comes into contact with an inner circumferential shape of a cylindrical shape provided on the opponent member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2010Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: NOK CorporationInventor: Tomoaki Nishimura
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Patent number: 7770599Abstract: To prevent plastic deformation of a bellows due to a pressure difference between inner and outer sides of the bellows in an outside gas type or inside gas type accumulator, a disc-like gasket is held in a floatable state to a surface close to a stay in a bellows cap by a gasket holder, so that, the disc-like gasket moves together with the bellows cap at a steady operation time, the disc-like gasket moves together with the bellows cap to contact with an end surface portion of the stay, thereby closing the liquid chamber at a zero-down time, and the bellow cap moves toward a position where liquid pressure and gas pressure balance while the disc-like gasket keeps contacting with the stay due to a difference of pressure receiving areas in both the surfaces when the liquid in the liquid chamber is thermally expanded at a zero-down time.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2009Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignees: NOK Corporation, Advics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Ota, Tatsuhiro Arikawa, Kuniaki Miyake, Kenji Sasaki, Shinya Nakaoka, Eiji Mizutani, Noriyuki Hosoi, Tomoo Ogura
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Patent number: 7772305Abstract: A hydrogenated NBR composition, which comprises 100 parts by weight of a hydrogenated NBR having an acrylonitrile content of 25-44% by weight and an iodine number of 32-65, or a blend of the hydrogenated NBRs themselves, 2-23 parts by weight of an ester-based plasticizer, and 0.5-10 parts by weight of an organic peroxide, and preferably further contains 0.5-10 parts by weight of a polyfunctional unsaturated compound, can give molding products having distinguished oil resistance and fuel oil resistance as well as distinguished heat resistance and cold resistance, and thus can be used as suitable molding materials for intake manifold gaskets of automobile engines.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2007Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: NOK CorporationInventor: Yoichi Moritani
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Publication number: 20100194059Abstract: To eliminate pins for specifying a vertical position of a metal fixture from a dust cover forming mold to suppress variation in product shape caused by wear of the pins, the ring-shaped metal fixture (1) is embedded in the dust cover (2) to fix the dust cover (2) at an installation position, inner diameter teeth (6) are formed integrally at one end in the axial direction of an outer diameter tube section (4) via a bend (5), the metal fixture (1) is embedded in the dust cover (2) so that one end (5a) in the axial direction of the bend (5) is set at axially the same position as one end face (2a) in the axial direction of the dust cover (2), and groove-like communication sections (8) radially penetrating the bent section (5) are formed in a radial shape at the one end (5a).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2007Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: NOK CorporationInventor: Hidekazu Niwa
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Publication number: 20100194054Abstract: A sealing device having a dust filter, in which sliding torque due to the dust filter is reduced with dust sealing performance of the dust filter maintained at a high level. The sealing device is provided with a seal lip (12) mounted to a non-rotating housing (200) and made to be in slidable close contact with a rotation-side member (2), and the sealing device is also provided with the dust filter (16) located closer to the atmosphere (A) than the seal lip (12) and having an inner diameter section (16a) which is made to be in slidable close contact with the outer peripheral surface of the rotation-side member (2). Cutouts (16b) are formed at predetermined circumferential intervals in the inner diameter section (16a) of the dust filter (16), and the deepest sections of the cutouts (16b) have an appropriate allowance for fastening to the outer peripheral surface of the rotation-side member (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2009Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: NOK CORPORATIONInventor: Takayuki Nishigaki
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Publication number: 20100193059Abstract: To restrain abnormal deformation of a bellows due to a pressure difference between the inside and outside thereof, an outside gas type accumulator includes a pressure difference regulation mechanism (21) having a movable plate (22) supported by a coil spring (23) on the oil port (4) side of a bellows cap (8), the plate (22) moves together with the cap (8) in a state of being supported by the spring (23), during normal operation, the plate (22) moves together with the cap (8) to be brought into contact with a seal (13) at zero-down time, and the plate (22) keeps contact with the seal (13) and the cap (8) moves to a position where liquid pressure and gas pressure balances while compressing the spring (23) when the liquid and the charged gas expand thermally.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2008Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicants: NOK CORPORATION, ADVICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinya Nakaoka, Kuniaki Miyake, Tomonari Saito, Hiroyuki Nikamoto, Eiji Mizutani, Tomoo Ogura