Abstract: To provide a nut that can suppress increase in the number of components. The nut according to the present disclosure includes a nut main body and a circulation component. The nut main body includes a housing part having a bow shape when viewed from an axial direction, a seat surface, a through hole, and a pair of side surfaces. The circulation component includes a circulation component main body, two arm parts extending toward both sides in a seat surface direction from the circulation component main body, ribs projecting from the respective two arm parts, and caulking parts obtained by caulking the ribs. Recessed parts that the caulking parts enter are disposed on the pair of side surfaces. A ball passage is disposed in the circulation component main body.

Abstract: A linear motion actuator has a ball screw device having a screw shaft, a nut, and a plurality of balls, a piston mounted on one end of the screw shaft, and a stroke limiting mechanism setting an operation starting point in time of the screw shaft toward a first direction pointed by the one end. The nut has one end face directed to the first direction and a protruding part protruding from the one end face.

Abstract: There is provided a toroidal continuously variable transmission capable of ensuring processability and conveyability of a power roller inner ring while reducing oil leakage from an inner end surface of the power roller inner ring and a decrease in rigidity of the power roller inner ring. A power roller 40 of the toroidal continuously variable transmission includes a power roller inner ring 50 sandwiched between both disks 1 and 2, a power roller outer ring 60 that is provided in a trunnion 35 and rotatably supports the power roller inner ring 50, and an inner ring hole 52 provided in the power roller inner ring 50 so as to extend in an axial direction of the power roller inner ring 50, in which an end surface hole 58 communicating with an inner ring hole 52 is provided in an inner end surface 54 of the power roller inner ring 50, and the end surface hole 58 is closed by a closing member 80 separate from the power roller inner ring 50.

Abstract: A notch communicating a pair of pockets adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction of pockets of a retainer is provided in a range from an end section on the axially one side to the axially intermediate section of each of pillar portions of the retainer for an angular contact ball bearing, the notch having a substantially rectangular opening shape as seen from the circumferential direction, and an inner surface of the notch having an outer diameter side flat surface portion arranged on the radially outer side from the center of a pocket and extending substantially linearly in the axial direction, an inner diameter side flat surface portion arranged on the radially inner side from the center and extending substantially linearly in the axial direction, and a back side flat surface portion arranged on the axially other side from the center and extending linearly in the radial direction.

Abstract: A steering shaft includes an inner shaft including first tooth parts, an outer shaft including second tooth parts, and a resin layer. The resin layer includes a plurality of thick film parts and at least four thin film parts. Each thick film part is disposed with a gap from one of the second tooth parts, and each thin film part contacts both one of the first tooth parts and one of the second tooth parts. At a section orthogonal to a central axis of the inner shaft, the thickness of each thin film part is smaller than the thickness of each thick film part.

Abstract: A laser welding apparatus (1) includes a laser welding head (5) configured to irradiate a workpiece (10) with laser light, a welding filler feeding mechanism (6) configured to supply a welding material to a position on which laser welding is performed, and a hollow structural moving mechanism (100) configured to move a welding unit (50) including the laser welding head and the welding filler feeding mechanism. The hollow structural moving mechanism has an insertion portion (3a) through which an optical cable (41) of the laser welding head and a wire material (62) of the welding filler feeding mechanism are inserted.

Abstract: To realize a method for manufacturing a hub unit bearing capable of increasing the processing efficiency of a staking portion. An axial inner end portion of a hub ring 22 is processed into a staking portion 26 by rotating a die 31 around a reference axis C in a state in which the die 31 having a rotation axis ? inclined with respect to the reference axis C is pressed against the axial inner end portion of the hub ring 22 under a condition that the hub ring 22 is disposed so that a center axis of the hub ring 22 is coaxial or parallel to the reference axis C and the hub ring 22 is supported to be radially movable.

Abstract: A centering tool includes: a shank portion having a shaft portion for attachment; a rotating member rotatably supported by the shank portion and having a pair of contacts disposed apart from each other in a direction orthogonal to an axis of the shank portion; and a displacement sensor provided integrally with the shank portion and detecting displacement in the direction orthogonal to the axis of the shank portion at an intermediate position between the pair of contacts, in which a circular workpiece is centered by being pushed toward a rotation center of a rotary table while each of the pair of contacts is caused to abut against a peripheral surface of the circular workpiece disposed on the rotary table.

Abstract: In an outer ring rotating rolling bearing, an inclined surface is formed on an outer peripheral surface of an inner ring and decreasing in diameter toward an axially outer side, a seal member includes an annular core metal and an annular elastic member fixed to the core metal, and an elastic member includes a neck portion extending from an inner peripheral edge portion of the core metal toward a radially inner side and a seal lip formed at a tip end portion of a neck portion and brought into contact with the inclined surface of the inner ring with a tightening margin. Here, T2?T1, where a width of the core metal is T1 and a thickness of the neck portion is T2.

Abstract: In a raceway surface of at least one of an inner ring and an outer ring, a region not affected by machining is set as a first region, and a region, which has (a) a machining amount of 0.03 or more, (b) an amount of residual austenite being 70% or more of an amount of retained austenite in the first region, and (c) a compressive residual stress being higher by 500 MPa or more than a compressive residual stress in the first region, is set as a second region.

Abstract: An actuator includes: a first motor including a first stator and a first rotor; a second motor and including a second stator and a second rotor; a shaft member penetrating through the first rotor and the second rotor, and including a first part protruding from the first rotor toward an opposite side to the second rotor and including a spline groove, and a second part protruding from the second rotor toward an opposite side to the first rotor and including a male screw portion; a spline outer cylinder engaging with the spline groove to guide the shaft member and configured to rotate together with the first rotor to enable the shaft member to rotate; and a nut member provided with a female screw portion engaging with the male screw portion of the shaft member, and configured to rotate together with the second rotor to enable the shaft member to move.

Abstract: A turning angle detecting device includes: a first storage unit configured to store a turning angle neutral point correction value being a difference between a median of the turning angles at respective limits in right and left steering and the turning angle in a straight traveling state; a second storage unit configured to store an initial position of a movable portion of an actuator of a wheel turning mechanism in the straight traveling state; a first turning angle calculating unit configured to calculate a first turning angle with respect to the median of the turning angles at the respective limits based on a detection value of a position of the movable portion; and a second turning angle calculating unit configured to calculate a second turning angle based on the detection value, the turning angle neutral point correction value, the initial position and the first turning angle.

Abstract: A steering column device includes a steering column; and a telescopic actuator. The steering column includes a first column member, a second column member assembled to the first column member in a manner of being displaceable relative to the first column member in an axial direction, and a low-friction sliding member disposed between the first column member and the second column member. The telescopic actuator includes a telescopic motor, and displaces the second column member in the axial direction with respect to the first column member by using the telescopic motor as a drive source.

Abstract: A magnetostrictive torque sensor includes detection coils formed around a magnetostrictive material made of chrome steel or chrome molybdenum steel, a magnetic ring configured to cover around the detection coils, and a drive unit for providing alternating current excitation to the detection coils at an excitation frequency of 50 kHz or more and 333 kHz or less. A torque applied to the magnetostrictive material is detected based on a change in inductance of the detection coils. The magnetic ring is configured by wrapping around the detection coils with an amorphous tape made of amorphous soft magnetic material in a tape shape. The thickness of the magnetic ring is 1.455 times or more as thick as a skin effect thickness of the magnetostrictive material and less than 1.000 mm.

Abstract: The rolling bearing of the present invention is lubricated with a lubricant composition which contains a fatty acid metal salt, a metal dithiocarbamate, a phosphorous-type additive, and a basic additive, and which has a total acid value of 3.7 mgKOH/g or more. The rolling bearing makes it possible to further improve anti-fretting performance, and to reduce a decrease in fretting resistance even when used under the circumstance that fluorine-type grease penetrates into the bearing using urea-type grease.

Abstract: A rotation locking device 4 has a locking gear 5; a reverse input blocking clutch having an input member 12 and an output member 13; and an engaging member 8, and switches between a first mode where an engaging claw portion 14 engages with an engaging concave portion 9 by the output member 13 rotating the engaging member 8 due to the input member 12 being rotationally driven, and rotation of the locking gear 5 is restricted, and a second mode where engagement between the engaging claw portion 14 and the engaging concave portion 9 is released and rotation of the locking gear 5 is allowed.

Abstract: A driving device includes a corrector, an actuator, and a position sensor. The actuator includes a nut connected to a movable part, a ball screw shaft onto which the nut is screwed, and a pulse motor that drives to rotate the ball screw shaft. The corrector includes a correction amount map in which a position correction amount for calibrating a predictable error is mapped for each position of the movable part. The corrector estimates an ideal movement position to which the movable part moves based on a command signal and refers to the correction amount map to calculate the position correction amount corresponding to a present position detected by the position sensor. The corrector generates a correction signal by correcting the command signal so as to reduce the difference between a corrected present position obtained by correcting the present position by the position correction amount and the ideal movement position.

Abstract: A plurality of press rolls (33) each having an inclined roll central axis (?) are used. Each of press rolls (33) and a hub ring (22z) are relatively rotated while pressing a roll processing surface portion (34) of each of the press rolls (33) against a plurality of locations of a tubular portion (25) of the hub ring (22z) in a circumferential direction to plastically deform the tubular portion (25).

Abstract: To provide a nut that can suppress increase in the number of components. The nut according to the present disclosure includes a nut main body and a circulation component. The nut main body includes a housing part having a bow shape when viewed from an axial direction, a seat surface, a through hole, and a pair of side surfaces. The circulation component includes a circulation component main body, two arm parts extending toward both sides in a seat surface direction from the circulation component main body, ribs projecting from the respective two arm parts, and caulking parts obtained by caulking the ribs. Recessed parts that the caulking parts enter are disposed on the pair of side surfaces. A ball passage is disposed in the circulation component main body.

Abstract: A turning control device includes a terminal position learning unit configured to learn a terminal position of the turning mechanism, based on a steered position of the turning mechanism detected by a position detection unit, a command value correction unit configured to, when a steered position detected by the position detecting unit is in a vicinity of a learned terminal position, correct a current command value for an actuator providing a turning mechanism with steering assist force, and a correction amount limiting unit configured to limit a correction amount of the current command value by the command value correction unit, based on a comparison result between the learned terminal position and a predetermined position and a comparison result between stroke length of the turning mechanism calculated from the learned terminal positions and a predetermined length.