Patents Assigned to NOK
  • Patent number: 9638329
    Abstract: In an engine rear seal installed to an engine rear portion having an end plate arranged in a motor exterior side of a housing, and a flywheel arranged in a motor exterior side of the end plate, the engine rear seal has an oil seal and a muddy water preventing seal. The muddy water preventing seal integrally has an attaching portion, and a seal lip directed to a diametrically outer side from the attaching portion and slidably coming into close contact with an end surface in the motor exterior side of the end plate. The seal lip has an inclined lip end back surface portion, and is structured such that a lip end comes into contact with the end surface at the low-speed rotating time and the lip end moves away from the end plate on the basis of an action of a centrifugal force at the high-speed rotating time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Yarimizu, Tomoaki Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9638324
    Abstract: The invention provides a sealing device constructed by combination of a slinger and a lip member, the sealing device being capable of improving a sealing performance, particularly a sealing performance against external dusts. In order to achieve the object, in a sealing device having a slinger which is installed to one member among relatively rotating two members, a lip member which is installed to the other member, and structured such that the slinger integrally has a tubular portion which is fitted to the one member and a flange portion which extends in a diametrical direction, and the lip member having an end face lip which slidably comes into close contact with the flange portion, a bent portion protruding in an axial direction toward the lip member is provided in the flange portion, and a labyrinth structure having a minute gap is provided between the bent portion and the lip member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsui, Shiho Sato
  • Publication number: 20170113719
    Abstract: In the damper device, when the large diameter portion does not apply an impact force on the flange portion, the elastic body is disposed in one of the housing and the cylindrical portion with a gap and when the large diameter portion applies the impact force on the flange portion, the elastic body is compressed by the restricting surface and the flange portion in an axial direction to be deformed into a state that the elastic body is brought into contact with all of the housing, the restricting surface, the cylindrical portion and the flange portion to be filled in the gap. The impact receiving member is restricted from a movement relative to the housing by the deformed elastic body when the end portion of the cylindrical portion is advanced into the relief portion and the impact receiving member keeps a non-contact state with the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, NOK CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya OHASHI, Yuki HANADA, Masahide NITANO
  • Publication number: 20170114901
    Abstract: The invention provides a sealing device 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: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi YAMANAKA, Norimasa HOSONUMA, Maiko KAWAMOTO, Fangman XU
  • Publication number: 20170113718
    Abstract: The damper device includes the shaft, the large diameter portion housing and the impact absorbing member. When the large diameter portion does not apply an impact force on the flange portion, the elastic body is disposed at one of the inner peripheral surface of the housing and the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion having a gap and when the large diameter portion applies the impact force on the flange portion, the elastic body is deformed in an axial direction to be deformed and is brought into contact with all of the inner peripheral surface of the housing, the restricting surface, the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion and the flange portion. The impact receiving member is restricted from a relative movement relative to the housing by the deformed elastic body and the impact receiving member keeps a non-contact state with the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicants: JTEKT CORPORATION, NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya OHASHI, Yuki HANADA
  • Patent number: 9618117
    Abstract: An oil seal has a lip seal member, a slinger and a dust cover. The slinger has a thread groove carrying out a pumping action toward a diametrically outer side. The dust cover achieves a dust shake-off action by a centrifugal force at the shaft rotating time, and a labyrinth seal action by forming a micro gap in relation to the lip seal member. The lip seal member has a main lip and a dust lip. The elastic dust lip has a first bellows portion receiving an atmospheric pressure by an inner surface and receiving an internal pressure between the lips by an outer surface, a second bellows portion receiving the atmospheric pressure by an outer surface and receiving the internal pressure between the lips by an inner surface, and a lip end. A pressure receiving area of the first bellows portion is greater than the second bellows portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventor: Takehiro Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20170097094
    Abstract: An object is to provide a backup ring manufacturable with an angle of a cut portion set to a standard cut angle even in the case of a product having a small diameter etc. due to dimensional limitation of a device used therewith, and is solved by a sealing device characterized in that a backup ring 1 is disposed in an annular gap 4 formed by disposing a sloped surface 20 on a member surface of one of two members, i.e.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: NOK Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki MONMA
  • Publication number: 20170089465
    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: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: NOK Corporation
    Inventor: Tokunori YANAGI
  • Publication number: 20170082200
    Abstract: A sliding member comprising a polyamide resin and 10 to 50 wt % of a fibrous filler selected from the group consisting of carbon fibers, aramid fibers, and whiskers, and having fine dents formed in a sliding surface thereof by dimpling using a laser; and a process for producing a sliding member comprising adding 10 to 50 wt % of a fibrous filler selected from the group consisting of carbon fibers, aramid fibers, and whiskers to a polyamide resin, and forming fine dents in a sliding surface of the sliding member by dimpling using a laser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Yuhei Tabuchi, Yoshiyuki ABE, Toshiyuki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20170074402
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a metal gasket which enables improvement of sealing properties by making sufficient compression of a full bead possible even if elastic coating is formed along the full bead. In the gasket (1) having a full bead (13), formed on a metal substrate (10), having a mountain-shaped protruding surface formed on one side in a thickness direction and a valley-shaped recessed surface formed on the other side in the thickness direction, elastic coating (20) is formed on the whole surface of the protruding surface of the full bead (13), and the elastic coating (20) is formed on the recessed surface of the full bead (13), except a slit-shaped elastic coating-free section (14) along a bottom section (13a) of the recessed surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Takeo MORIMOTO, Misaki GUSHIKEN
  • Patent number: 9593776
    Abstract: The invention provides a sealing device which can inhibit an external dust in an atmospheric side from intruding into a lip end, thereby inhibiting a sealing fluid leakage by trapped dust. In a sealing device inhibiting leakage of a sealing fluid in an inboard side to an atmospheric side, coming into contact with a shaft by a seal lip end and circumferentially having in an atmospheric side inclined surface of the seal lip with a plurality of screws exerting a pumping action to the sealing fluid, a three-dimensional shape for preventing the dust intrusion is provided between the screws so as to inhibit the external dust intrusion in the atmospheric side toward the lip end. The three-dimensional shape is constructed by a projection or a groove extending in a parallel direction to the lip end. The projection or the groove is connected to the screws longitudinally in both end portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Kamemura, Hiroki Matsui, Hideharu Hyakutake, Tomoaki Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9592617
    Abstract: The invention provides a processing method of a seal mounting groove in a metal plate, which can form the seal mounting groove with a small pressing pressure, whereby it is possible to respond to request for easily manufacturing and achieving a low cost, and can achieve a problem caused by a protruding phenomenon of a metal which plastically deforms going with formation of the seal mounting groove. In order to achieve the object, in a method of pressing a seal mounting groove by using a punch on a plane of a metal plate, a leading end portion of the punch is formed into an inclined surface shape which is inclined in a punch width direction, and the seal mounting groove which inclines in a groove width direction in its groove bottom portion and is formed into an inclined surface shape is formed by pressing while using the punch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Shotaro Koga, Masaki Sato
  • Patent number: 9586383
    Abstract: Provided is a rubber laminated resin composite comprising a polyamide-based resin molded product and rubber that is vulcanization bonded to the polyamide-based resin molded product; the polyamide-based resin molded product being molded from a polyamide-based resin that is blended with 0 to 70 wt. % of a filler based on the total amount of the filler and the polyamide-based resin, and that comprises an aliphatic amine compound having an amine equivalent of 950 or less in an amount of 0.045 mmol or more, preferably 0.050 to 2.0 mmol, more preferably 0.065 to 1.5 mmol, per g of the polyamide-based resin. The rubber laminated resin composite is produced by molding a polyamide-based resin that is blended or not blended with a filler, after the addition of an aliphatic amine compound thereto, and then vulcanization bonding of fluororubber or acrylic rubber to the obtained polyamide-based resin molded product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Aoyagi, Kiyofumi Fukasawa
  • Patent number: 9581244
    Abstract: Provided is a seal bead structure of a gasket capable of reducing the reactive force generated in a common bead portion provided between multiple through-holes and thereby capable of achieving a stable sealing function by means of aligning the compression property over the entire bead. In order to achieve this, two through-holes are provided in a row in the flat portion of a metal gasket, with one seal bead provided on the edge of one through-hole, the other seal bead provided on the edge of the other through-hole, and a common bead portion for the both seal beads provided in the intermediate position between the both through-holes, the common bead portion having a two-stage half bead shape in which the half beads are formed on two stage in the same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Anzai, Masaru Ito, Shinya Nakaoka, Isao Tanji
  • Patent number: 9577999
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, method, and machine readable medium are described for enhanced security during registration. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: receiving a request at a relying party to register an authenticator; sending a code from the user to the relying party through an authenticated out-of-band communication channel; and verifying the identity of the user using the code and responsively registering the authenticator in response to a positive verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: NOK NOK LABS, INC.
    Inventor: Rolf Lindemann
  • Publication number: 20170045840
    Abstract: An object is to provide a rubber member for coating a developing roll which is formed a uniform rough surface at a surface of the developing roll, does exert neither damage nor toner stress to the mating member or the toner while maintaining flexibility, is possible to secure a thickness which can sufficiently avoid the effect of the rubber, and can realize non-tackiness and low friction, which can be solved by a rubber member for coating a developing roll which is the rubber member for coating a developing roll obtained by coating a coating layer 13 component at around a developing roll having a rubber substrate layer 12 and curing the same, wherein the coating layer 13 component comprises a liquid binder which contains at least a polyol, an isocyanate compound and reactive silicone oil, silicone rubber particles 101 having a hardness (JIS K6253: 1997) by Durometer A (instantaneous) of 20 to 80 degree and a rubber particle size of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicants: NOK Corporation, Synztec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro HIGASHIRA, Atsushi IKEDA, Nozomu SUZUKI, Tomohiro KONDO, Shinobu KANZAKI, Goki INUKAI, Lei WANG, Huu Viet NGUYEN
  • Patent number: 9566767
    Abstract: A resin-rubber composite in which a low-pressure plasma-treated polyamide-based resin-molded product and a polyol-vulcanizable fluororubber composition that forms a fluororubber layer are directly bonded by vulcanization without interposing an adhesive. The low-pressure plasma treatment of the polyamide-based resin-molded product is performed in the presence of an inert gas, such as He gas, Ar gas, or N2 gas, at a pressure of 10 to 1,000 Pa. Here, an alkoxysilane compound is an optional component in the fluororubber composition, and the presence or absence of this compound does not affect the adhesion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Suzuki, Kiyofumi Fukasawa
  • Publication number: 20170037254
    Abstract: A rubber metal adhesive 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. The rubber metal adhesive 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: October 18, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Taichi KANO, Tomohiro KAISE
  • Publication number: 20170037811
    Abstract: A rubber-metal laminated gasket material comprising a metal plate and fluororubber or nitrile rubber laminated on the metal plate, wherein an amorphous carbon film having a nanoindentation hardness on a silicon wafer of 10 GPa or more and a film thickness of 200 nm or more is formed on a rubber layer outer surface of the rubber-metal laminated gasket material by a plasma CVD method that supplies a high-frequency power from a high-frequency power source using unsaturated hydrocarbon gas. The rubber-metal laminated gasket material reduces the wear and abrasion of the gasket material due to friction with the seal mating surface under high temperature use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko Koga, Akihiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9562609
    Abstract: The invention provides a plate-integrated gasket which can reduce a width necessary for installing seal members provided in a plurality of plates which are laminated on each other, and can achieve an improvement of productivity. In order to achieve this purpose, in the plate-integrated gasket, one plate and the other plate are laminated on each other, an outer peripheral surface of the one plate is fitted or loosely fitted to a stepped surface which is formed in the other plate, and a seal member made of an elastic material having a rubber-like elasticity is integrally formed astride both of the one plate and the other plate, and has a fixed portion filled in a seal fixing groove which is formed between the one plate and the other plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Shimazoe, Shigeru Watanabe