Patents Assigned to NSK Ltd.
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Publication number: 20240165753Abstract: A method of manufacturing a ball screw device includes a nut unit preparation step, a screw shaft preparation step, and an assembly step. In the nut unit preparation step, a nut unit is prepared in which a circulation component, a ball, and a temporary shaft that prevents the ball from falling off are assembled to a nut provided with an inner peripheral track surface. In the screw shaft preparation step, a screw shaft provided with an outer peripheral track surface is prepared. In the assembly step, after the nut unit preparation step and the screw shaft preparation step, the temporary shaft of an arbitrary nut unit is replaced with an arbitrary screw shaft to manufacture the ball screw device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Wei XU, Takayuki YABE, Toshiaki SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20240167546Abstract: A table device includes a ball screw including a male screw member extending in an axial direction and a female screw member meshing with the male screw member and movable in the axial direction according to rotation of the male screw member, a slide device that movably supports the female screw member, and a fixing member to which the slide device is fixed. The fixing member includes a first wall section extending in a first direction and a second wall section extending in a second direction crossing the first direction in a cross section including an axis of the male screw member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventor: Kenichiro WADA
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Publication number: 20240167512Abstract: Provided are: an environment-friendly synthetic resin cage that uses a 100% biomass raw material and therefore aims for carbon neutrality while having performance as a bearing in a conventional process; and a rolling bearing incorporating said cage. A crown-type cage for holding a plurality of rolling elements incorporated between an inner ring and an outer ring is produced with a polyamide resin composition containing a 100% biomass-derived raw material with a reinforcing material contained therein, wherein the raw material is polyamide 410 and 10-40 wt % of the reinforcing material is contained therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventors: Taiki YOSHIMA, Yoshitaka NAGANUMA
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Publication number: 20240159623Abstract: A vibration diagnosis device is configured to diagnose vibration of a diagnosis target on the basis of an input signal from outside. The vibration diagnosis device includes a vibration sensor configured to detect the vibration of the diagnosis target, a filtering unit configured to extract a prescribed wavelength band from a waveform of a signal detected by the vibration sensor, and an arithmetic processing unit configured to apply a frequency analysis to the filtered waveform, which is obtained by the filtering unit, to generate spectral data. When, on the basis of the input signal, the arithmetic processing unit does not generate the spectral data, the arithmetic processing unit calculates at least one fundamental vibration statistic from the waveform of the signal detected by the vibration sensor and diagnoses the presence/absence of an abnormality of the diagnosis target.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2022Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventors: Yasushi MUTOH, Fumiko OHFUJI
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Publication number: 20240159276Abstract: A resolver integrated-type bearing device includes a bearing configured to rotatably support a rotating shaft with respect to a housing, a rotor attached to the rotating shaft, and a stator disposed radially outward of the rotor with a gap therebetween. A stator core of the stator is integrally attached to the bearing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2022Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventors: Satoshi KATTO, Yasuhiro IWANAGA
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Publication number: 20240158001Abstract: [Problem] An object of the present invention is to provide a control apparatus of a steering system for vehicles that precisely compensates an influence of the friction generated in the turning mechanism and enables a vehicle to respond properly.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2022Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventors: Takahiro TSUBAKI, Ryo MINAKI
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Patent number: 11982319Abstract: The torque transmission shaft has a shaft having a hollow tubular shape and a clamp. The shaft has a connecting portion integral with the shaft at one axial end portion, a slit extending in the axial direction in a portion on the other axial end side and opens on the other side in the axial direction, and a female serration on the inner circumferential surface of the other axial end portion. The clamp is separate from the shaft and has a non-continuous portion at one location in the circumferential direction, a pair of flange portions on both sides of the non-continuous portion, and a connecting portion connecting the pair of flange portions in the circumferential direction. The clamp is externally fitted and fixed to the other axial end portion of the shaft and reduces the diameter of the other axial end side portion of the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: NSK Ltd.Inventors: Seiichi Moriyama, Keisuke Nakao
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Patent number: 11982325Abstract: A distance between a rotation center of an input member and a contact portion between an input side engaging portion and an input side engaged portion in a second direction is set to be shorter than a distance between a rotation center of an output member and a contact portion between an output side engaging portion and an output side engaged portion in the second direction. In a locked or semi-locked state, a contact portion between the output side engaging portion and the output side engaged portion is located on the side closer to the rotation center of the output member in a first direction in relation to a virtual line connecting the rotation center of the output member and a contact portion between one pressing surface of the pair of pressing surfaces and the pressed surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Nagao Dohi, Shohei Kaneko
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Patent number: 11982340Abstract: A two-speed transmission includes: an input member; an output member; a rotating member; a first engaging device switching engagement between first and second friction plates to switch the input member and the rotating member to an integrally rotating state or a relatively rotating state; a second engaging device switching the rotating member to a rotatable or non-rotatable state; an elastic biasing means applying a force pressing the first and second friction plates; a pressing device releasing the pressing force; a first bearing between the elastic biasing means and the pressing device; a second bearing between the rotating member and the pressing device or the fixed portion; and a planetary speed reduction mechanism having a sun element connected to the input member or the rotating member, a carrier connected to one of the input member or the rotating member and the output member, and a ring element connected to the other.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Akihiro Yamamoto, Hirotaka Kishida
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Screw shaft and method for producing same, and electric position-adjusting device for steering wheel
Patent number: 11975755Abstract: Provided is a screw shaft in which shape accuracy of a male threaded portion is sufficiently secured. A screw shaft includes a large-diameter shaft portion, medium-diameter shaft portions and small-diameter shaft portions. The large-diameter shaft portion has a male threaded portion along its entire axial length on its outer peripheral surface. The medium-diameter shaft portions are arranged axially adjacent to the large-diameter shaft portion and have an outer diameter smaller than an outer diameter of the large-diameter shaft portion. The small-diameter shaft portions are axially arranged adjacent to the medium-diameter shaft portions on sides opposite to the large-diameter shaft portion, have an outer diameter smaller than the outer diameter of each of the medium-diameter shaft portions, and do not have rolling traces having a helical shape on their outer peripheral surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventor: Takeshi Saito -
Patent number: 11975771Abstract: A vehicle steering device includes a reaction force device, a drive device, a first ECU configured to control the reaction force device, a second ECU configured to control the drive device, a first rudder angle sensor and a second rudder angle sensor each configured to detect a steering angle of a wheel and output the detected steering angle to the second ECU, and a communication line that transmits at least one of steering angles of the wheel as detected values of the first rudder angle sensor and the second rudder angle sensor from the second ECU to the first ECU.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Sakiya Watanabe, Kenji Mori
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Publication number: 20240141871Abstract: A state monitoring apparatus for a mechanical apparatus including a rolling bearing includes: a first acquisition portion configured to acquire vibration information or sound information of the rolling bearing during rotation; a second acquisition portion configured to acquire a rotation speed of the rolling bearing during rotation; a derivation portion configured to derive, according to the rotation speed, a timing at which data is sampled from the vibration information or the sound information such that the number of times of sampling per rotation of the rolling bearing is a predetermined value; and a generation portion configured to generate, based on the timing derived by the derivation portion, monitoring data by sampling data from the vibration information or the sound information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventor: Kinji YUKAWA
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Publication number: 20240141954Abstract: A crown type cage for a ball bearing includes an annular main portion, a plurality of pillar portions protruding in an axial direction from the main portion at predetermined intervals in a peripheral direction, and a spherical pocket formed between the adjacent pillar portions and capable of holding balls. The pillar portion has a pair of claw portions of which tip end portions are spaced apart from each other, and a connection portion that connects the pair of claw portions. A bottom surface of the main portion is provided with a part protruding in the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventors: Masahito MATSUI, Takefumi KICHIKAWA, Haruhisa ASHIDA, Taketoshi CHIFU
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Publication number: 20240140525Abstract: In a detection method for detecting an end position of a mechanism portion of a turning device, detection of a limit position of a steering angle in a direction of a torque value is started when the torque value of the mechanism portion loaded by at least one of a drive force from an actuator and steering torque to the mechanism portion exceeds a first threshold. The limit position continues to be detected by storing a peak value of the steering angle in the mechanism portion as the limit position while the torque value of the mechanism portion is between the first threshold and a second threshold. The stored limit position is regarded as the end position indicated by the torque value when the torque value of the mechanism portion exceeds the second threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventors: Shoya MARUYAMA, Tetsuya KITAZUME
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Patent number: 11970205Abstract: A steering column device includes a friction plate having a long hole though which an adjusting rod is inserted and a mounting hole, and sandwiched at least one of a portion between one of inner-side surfaces of a pair of support plate portions and an outer-side surface of a column-side bracket of a steering column, and a portion between one of outer-side surfaces of the pair of support plate portions and one of inner-side surfaces of a pair of pressing portions. The steering column device includes a hook portion having a cantilever beam structure that is inserted through the mounting hole in the width direction, and the hook portion has a restricting projection for restricting movement in the width direction of the friction plate.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventor: Tatsuhiko Yamada
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Patent number: 11970204Abstract: A steering device includes a steering column for supporting a steering shaft coupled to a steering wheel; an upper bracket fixed to a vehicle body and supports the steering column; and two lower brackets independently fixed to the vehicle body on both sides of the steering column to support the steering column in such a manner that allows the steering column to sway in a vertical direction. The lower brackets each includes a fixed portion facing the vehicle body and disposed on an outside of the steering column in a vehicle width direction, a pivot portion facing the steering column and having an attachment hole into which a pin member for coupling the steering column to the lower bracket is inserted, and a pair of rib portions each connected to the fixed portion and the pivot portion by a bent portion shaped into a bent plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Sato, Tomohiro Ikuta, Suguru Sugishita, Hirotaka Shimizu
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Patent number: 11965556Abstract: A method for measuring indentation resistance includes: obtaining a first curve indicating a yield shear stress in a depth direction of a raceway surface of a material forming a rolling bearing in a state before the raceway surface is subjected to machining, a second curve indicating a static shear stress in the depth direction of the raceway surface in a state in which the raceway surface is subjected to the machining, and a third curve indicating a static shear stress in the depth direction of the raceway surface in a state in which rolling elements are in contact with the raceway surface and a static load is applied to the raceway surface; and obtaining a correlation between an area and an indentation depth of the raceway ring by defining a region surrounded by exceeding the first curve and the second curve and falling below the third curve as the area.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi Ito, Takahito Shimada, Masahide Natori, Hideyuki Hidaka, Hayato Ishigami, Hiroki Komata
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Patent number: 11965557Abstract: A rolling bearing includes an outer ring, an inner ring, a plurality of rolling bodies, and a seal member. An outer peripheral portion of the seal member is fixed by a retaining ring to a groove portion formed on an inner peripheral surface of the outer ring and an inner peripheral portion of the seal member is elastically deformable. The seal member includes an inclined portion. 1?Ts/Sct?10 is satisfied when Ts is a circumferential gap of the retaining ring at a time when the seal member and the retaining ring are attached to the groove portion of the outer ring and Sct is an axial thickness of a part of the seal member in contact with the retaining ring.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Takuya Oyama, Hironori Suzuki
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Patent number: 11965582Abstract: A worm reducer has: a housing having a wheel housing portion and a worm housing portion; a worm wheel; a worm, a support bearing having an inner ring externally fitted to the tip end portion of the worm and an outer ring; an elastic biasing means elastically biasing the outer ring toward the worm wheel side; and an elastic holding means elastically holding the outer ring from both sides in a direction orthogonal to a biasing direction by the elastic biasing means and to a center axis of the worm housing portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Ryou Oosawa, Satoshi Ishikuri, Haruhiko Kiyota, Souta Matsumoto, Toru Ishii, Hiroyuki Sugawara
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Patent number: 11964713Abstract: A vehicle steering device capable of stabilizing behavior of a vehicle when traveling backward. The device includes a reaction force device configured to apply steering reaction force to a wheel, a drive device configured to turn tires in accordance with steering of the wheel, and a control unit configured to control the reaction force device and the drive device. The control unit includes a turning ratio map unit configured to set a turning ratio gain in accordance with the vehicle speed of a vehicle, and a target turning angle generation unit configured to generate a target turning angle by multiplying the steering angle of the wheel by the turning ratio gain. The turning ratio gain at backward traveling of the vehicle is equal to or larger than the turning ratio gain at forward traveling of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Kenji Mori, Sakiya Watanabe