Patents Assigned to NOK
  • Patent number: 10711899
    Abstract: A seal device prevents sealing fluid on the inner-machine side from leaking to the outer-machine side between a housing and a rotating shaft inserted into a shaft hole on the housing. The seal lip is attached to the inner periphery of the shaft hole to slidingly contact the seal flange attached to the outer periphery of the rotating shaft. The thread groove, which exerts a fluid pumping action when the shaft is rotating, is provided on the seal flange so as to intersect with a lip end of the seal lip. The thread groove is formed so as to have a relatively small cross-sectional area in a sliding area in the seal flange that the seal lip comes in sliding contact with and have a relatively large cross-sectional area in an inner peripheral side area located on an inner peripheral side more than the sliding area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Komyo, Shinichi Ishibashi, Takehiro Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20200217419
    Abstract: A recessed part formed on a side surface includes a dynamic pressure part extending in the circumferential direction to converge on the side surface, and an introduction part extending from the dynamic pressure to open the dynamic pressure part toward the inner periphery side. One or two inner peripheral wall parts are provided for each of the recessed parts. The inner peripheral wall part is a portion defined on the inner periphery side of the corresponding recessed part by the dynamic pressure part and the introduction part. The inner peripheral wall part includes an inner peripheral wall surface. The inner peripheral wall surface extends toward the introduction part in the circumferential direction with inclining with respect to the side surface such that the inner peripheral wall surface is depressed from the side surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi SEKI, Hideya WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200216644
    Abstract: A hydrogenated NBR composition having 40 to 80 parts by weight of silica having a BET specific surface area of 40 to 100 m2/g, and 0.5 to 3 parts by weight of a silane coupling agent, based on 100 parts by weight of a hydrogenated NBR blend of 35 to 50 wt. % of medium- to high-nitrile-content hydrogenated NBR having an acrylonitrile content of 30 to 38%, and 65 to 50 wt. % of high-nitrile-content hydrogenated NBR having an acrylonitrile content of 40 to 46%. The hydrogenated NBR composition satisfies various characteristics required for product functions with respect to HFC134a/PAG oil and HFO1234yf/POE oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideyuki MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20200217418
    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: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke ABE, Hideyuki MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 10706132
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, method, and machine readable medium are described for adaptive authentication. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: an adaptive authentication module to receive a client request to perform a transaction which requires authentication; a risk engine to analyze first data related to a client to determine a risk value associated with the client; an assurance level gain analysis module to determine an assurance level required for allowing the client to complete the transaction and to determine an assurance level gain required to arrive at the assurance level based on the risk value; the adaptive authentication module to select one or more authentication techniques based at least in part on the indication of the assurance level gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: NOK NOK LABS, INC.
    Inventors: Rolf Lindemann, Davit Baghdasaryan
  • Patent number: 10683935
    Abstract: A sealing device provides sealing so as to prevent a sealed fluid in a machine inner side from leaking to a machine outer side between a housing and a rotating shaft which is inserted to a shaft hole provided in the housing. The sealing device has a seal flange which is installed to an outer periphery of the rotating shaft, and a seal lip which is installed to an inner periphery of the shaft hole of the housing and slidably comes into contact with the seal flange over an entire periphery. The sealing device includes a thread groove which exerts a fluid pumping action when the rotating shaft rotates. The thread groove is provided at a position which does not intersect a contact area where the seal lip slidably comes into contact with the seal flange over the entire periphery, thereby suppressing generation of static leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamanaka, Norimasa Hosonuma, Maiko Kawamoto, Fangman Xu
  • Patent number: 10677291
    Abstract: A sealing device including a sealing device main body 1 mounted on one of two members 101 that rotate relatively, and a seal flange mounted to the other of the two members 102. The sealing device main body 1 is provided with a structure provided with a seal lip 12 slidably connected to a seal flange 22, and a tube part 18 positioned further to the outer side than the seal lip 12. A labyrinth lip 15 is provided on the sealing device main body 1 positioned further to the outer side than the seal lip 12; and, the labyrinth lip 15 extends towards the radially opposite side to the tip end of the seal flange 22 facing the tube part 18 in a radial direction, as the tip end closely faces the seal flange 22 in an axial direction, and a labyrinth gap 3 is formed between the labyrinth lip 15 and the seal flange 22, and the tube part 18.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mari Senda
  • Patent number: 10670032
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya Aihara, Shinya Nakaoka, Isao Tanji
  • Patent number: 10663031
    Abstract: To provide a sealing structure with an annular pocket and a sealing apparatus that can efficiently reduce exposure of a seal lip of the sealing apparatus to foreign matter entering from the outside. In a sealing structure (1) with a torsional damper and an oil seal, a hub pocket (30) has an outer circumferential surface (31) in an annular shape centered about an axis x that extends along the axis x and is formed in an outer shell part (33) that is opposed to a shaft member on an outer periphery side, a dust discharging hole (36s) or a dust discharging groove (36sa) connected to the hub pocket (30) is formed in the outer shell part (33), and the dust discharging hole (36s) or the dust discharging groove (36sa) is inclined at a predetermined angle in such a manner that a discharge opening (36sout) is directed in an opposite direction to a rotational direction of the shaft member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Komyo, Yusuke Kamiya, Shinya Omoto, Toru Nakashima, Shota Toma
  • Patent number: 10663003
    Abstract: A sealing apparatus main body includes a reinforcing ring and an elastic material portion which is attached to the reinforcing ring and formed of an elastic material. The elastic material portion has a side lip formed so as to contact a slinger from the inside, a radial lip formed so as to contact the slinger from an outer periphery side, and an outer peripheral annular projection being an annular projection which is arranged on an outer periphery side of the side lip and protrudes to the outside. The slinger has a fitting portion and a flange portion extending from an outer end portion of the fitting portion to the outer periphery side. The elastic material portion forms a labyrinth seal between the outer peripheral annular projection and the side lip between the elastic material portion and the flange portion of the slinger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuya Kato
  • Patent number: 10648562
    Abstract: A rubber gasket is interposed between opposing two members in a state of being held in a fitting groove formed in one of two members, and includes a concave surface located in a central area in a width direction thereof and extending in a circumferential direction thereof, and seal beads located on both sides of the concave surface in the width direction thereof. The concave surface and the seal beads are formed in each of a surface of the rubber gasket facing a bottom surface of the fitting groove and a surface of the rubber gasket facing the other of two members. Assuming that a maximum depth of the concave surface is D, and a height between the seal beads facing the bottom surface of the fitting groove and the seal beads on an opposite side thereto is A, the expression D=0.025A˜0.075A (1) is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nan Yu
  • Publication number: 20200141493
    Abstract: A seal structure between an oil outlet formed in a first case and an oil inlet formed in a second case and having an end face facing an end face of the oil outlet with a clearance between the end faces, the seal structure including an annular first seal disposed in an increased-diameter hole, which is formed on an outlet side or an inlet side of an oil passage in one of the oil outlet and the oil inlet and has a larger diameter than the oil passage, such that the first seal contacts a step surface located at a boundary between the oil passage and the increased-diameter hole; and an annular second seal harder than the first seal and disposed in the increased-diameter hole such that the second seal contacts the first seal and the end face of the other of the oil outlet and the oil inlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke AKAFUJI, Kazuya KAWAMURA, Toru ARAKI, Shinji ONISHI, Yuji OTSUKA
  • Patent number: 10641396
    Abstract: A seal ring and a sealing structure that reduce the deviation of the central axis of the seal ring from the central axis of a shaft thereby preventing the seal ring from abutting against the tip end of a housing in the operation of inserting the shaft in the housing. The seal ring includes a thin part 100A provided in a range less than 180° with respect to a circumferential direction and a thick part 100B, which is configured to protrude inward in the radial direction from an inner peripheral surface of the thin part 100A, the thin part 100A has an abutment joint part 110, and the thick part 100B has, at respective ends of both side surfaces on an inner peripheral surface side thereof, a concave part 120 over an entire range thereof to form a gap between the ends of the both side surfaces and corner parts at both ends of a groove bottom of the annular groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazunari Seki
  • Patent number: 10641395
    Abstract: In a sealing apparatus, a lip tip portion of a seal lip of an elastic body part is defined by a sealing side surface and an atmospheric side surface, connected through a lip tip with each other. The lip tip portion includes a circumferential projection and a screw portion on the atmospheric side surface. The circumferential projection extends parallel to the lip tip. The screw portion includes a plurality of parallel screw projections and a plurality of bilge screw projections. The parallel screw projections are arranged at equal pitch intervals in parallel with each other between the lip tip and the circumferential projection. The bilge screw projections are arranged at equal pitch intervals in parallel with each other from the circumferential projection toward the atmospheric side. The bilge screw projections do not overlap the adjacent bilge screw projections in a direction of axis with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Miura
  • Patent number: 10634213
    Abstract: A sealing structure includes a hub, an outer-periphery-side mass body, an outer-periphery-side damper elastic body, an inner-periphery-side mass body, and an inner-periphery-side damper elastic body. The hub is attached to one end of a rotary shaft of an object to be attached. The oil seal includes a seal lip in an annular shape and a side lip in an annular shape and is oriented to the inner-periphery-side mass body, is attached in a through hole in the object to be attached, and hermetically seals a void between the hub and the object to be attached. The inner-periphery-side mass body forms at least a part of a pocket which is composed of a recessed portion in an annular shape, and the side lip forms a labyrinth seal which is composed of a gap in an annular shape between the side lip and the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Nakashima, Hiroyuki Uekusa
  • Patent number: 10633612
    Abstract: A lubricant composition includes a base oil and melamine cyanurate. The base oil includes a perfluoropolyether oil having a straight chain structure. The lubricant composition is for one of a resin-resin sliding section and a resin-metal sliding section. A melamine cyanurate content is within a range of 1-20% by mass with respect to a sum of the base oil and melamine cyanurate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: NOK Klueber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Shimura, Yoshihito Tani, Toshio Nitta
  • Patent number: 10637853
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, method, and machine readable medium are described for attesting an authenticator. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a processor to execute an app; and an authenticator to generate a first authentication key and to securely store the first authentication key, the authenticator to generate an attestation object usable by a relying party to confirm authenticity of the authenticator, the attestation object including a first component provided by the authenticator, a second component provided by the app, and a signature generated by the first authentication key over a combination of the first and second components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Nok Nok Labs, Inc.
    Inventor: Rolf Lindemann
  • Patent number: 10634254
    Abstract: A seal ring (100) makes contact with a low-pressure-side (L) side wall surface of an annular groove (510) and slides against an inner circumferential surface of a shaft hole of a housing (600) through which a shaft (500) is inserted. The seal ring includes a pair of recessed portions (130) extending in a circumferential direction on an outer surface, wherein a distance between a side surface on one side of a protruding portion (120) that is disposed between the pair of recessed portions (130) and a side surface on another side of the seal ring (100), and a distance between a side surface on another side of the protruding portion (120) and a side surface on one side of the seal ring (100) are set to be shorter than a distance between an inner circumferential surface of the seal ring and an outer circumferential surface of the protruding portion (120).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Watanabe, Kazunari Seki
  • Patent number: 10633608
    Abstract: A lubricant composition includes a perfluoropolyether as a base oil, a fluororesin as a thickener, and a polyol ester, a urea grease and a zinc dialkyldithiophosphate as additives, wherein a mass ratio of content of the perfluoropolyether to total content of the polyol ester and the urea grease ranges from 78/22 to 95/5, a mass ratio of content of the perfluoropolyether to content of the polyol ester ranges from 90/10 to 96.5/3.5, a mass ratio of content of the polyol ester to content of the urea grease ranges from 40/60 to 65/35, content of the fluororesin ranges from 15 mass % to 24 mass % based on a total amount of the lubricant composition, and content of the zinc dialkyldithiophosphate ranges from 0.5 mass % to 4 mass % based on the total amount of the lubricant composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignees: NOK KLUEBER CO., LTD., NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hishinuma, Keita Nakashi, Nobuaki Izawa, Miwa Komatsu
  • Patent number: 10625445
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a substrate-integrated gasket using screen printing. The method includes: a step for forming, on a surface of a substrate by means of screen printing, a coating layer of a paste for forming a gasket; and a step for hardening the coating layer by pressing, at a predetermined height, a coating layer correction member to the coating layer. The cross-sectional shape of the coating layer formed on the surface of the substrate is corrected by means of the coating layer correction member, and in such state, the coating layer hardens to be a gasket, thereby forming a gasket having a highly accurate cross-sectional shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime Yui, Tetsuya Urakawa, Kenichi Oba